Join us for the fifth InnovateWork Virtual East Coast event on October 15th as HR, Talent, Tech and C-level pros come together to be educated, engaged, and inspired about innovating in our rapidly changing workplace.

The event is free to attend and, like the in-person summits we've hosted since 2017, we'll present inspiring and high-profile speakers followed by an interactive Q&A with attendees so get your questions ready!

Our online events regularly attract 100s of attendees and we're hoping this one will be just as popular! Please share on social media (#innovatework) to help us reach more professionals.

HR PASSION SERIES

A series of 9-minute talks to educate and inspire us.

Rajiv Kumar, M.D., President & Chief Medical Officer at Virgin Pulse

Rajiv Kumar M.D.

President & Chief Medical Officer

Virgin Pulse

 

Noel Webb, Senior Vice President, Head of Product Innovation at Alexander Mann Solutions

Noel Webb

Senior Vice President, Head of Product Innovation

Alexander Mann Solutions

Gillian Jose-Riz, Recruitment & Programs Manager at Ezra

Gillian Jose-Riz

 Recruitment & Programs Manager

Ezra

 

Jeremy Shaki

Jeremy Shaki

Co-Founder and CEO

Lighthouse Labs

 

 

INTERACTIVE Q&A

Questions for our speakers.

Laura Tatham

Laura Tatham

Engagement Lead at Flipp

Bill Banham

Bill Banham

Co-founder at InnovateWork and Editor at The HR Gazette

Rob Catalano

Rob Catalano

Co-founder

InnovateWork and WorkTango

 

This InnovateWork Webinar is Free for HR, Talent and Tech Pros!

Sign up today and join us on October 15th at 1 ET for the next #InnovateWork virtual event as HR, Talent, Tech and C-level pros come together to be educated, engaged, and inspired about innovating in our rapidly changing workplace.

Thanks to our Sponsors and Supporters!

The HR Gazette - Organizing Sponsor - Latest opinion, reviews and podcasts for pros interested in HR Technology, Talent, Performance, Learning, Leadership.

WorkTango - Organizing Sponsor - A platform to give employees a voice and companies actionable insight.

Lighthouse Labs - Empowering students, launching careers, and contributing to the growth of Canada’s tech industry.

Fiix - A cloud-based CMMS software that helps you to plan, track, and optimize maintenance with powerful integrations, reports, embedded AI tools, and more.

 

ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS AND PRESENTERS

Rajiv Kumar, M.D., Chief Medical Officer and President of Virgin Pulse Institute

Rajiv Kumar serves as Chief Medical Officer and President of Virgin Pulse Institute, which provides Virgin Pulse clients with cutting-edge Value-on-Investment (VOI) studies and promotes research on health, wellbeing and employee engagement. Dr. Rajiv Kumar’s responsibilities also include overseeing the Virgin Pulse Science Advisory Board and the organization’s analytics team.

Dr. Kumar joined Virgin Pulse in 2016, following the company’s acquisition of ShapeUp, an employee wellbeing company that he founded in 2006. As CEO of ShapeUp, he led the growth of the company from a two-person, dorm-room startup to a global company with over 100 employees, 800 customers, and 2 million participants around the world. During his time at ShapeUp, he pioneered new approaches to leveraging social connections to enhance employee health and wellbeing and co-authored several peer-reviewed studies on the relationship between social networks and healthy behavior.

Dr. Kumar earned his medical degree from the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and has focused his career on prevention, public health, and innovation in health care. He also received his Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics from Brown University.

Noel Webb, Senior Vice President, Head of Product Innovation at Alexander Mann Solutions

Noel is a veteran of business development and out-of-the-box thinking, Noel has been a leader in his roles over the years for several companies, including Karen HR, Bam Digital, Quikmint, SpeakFeel, and Agnition.

During his career as a technology leader, Noel has developed a passion for products and innovations and has been the driving force behind products such as: Karen AI, Quikmint, OOLYO, Tech & Design and TeamHQ. In addition, Noel has been a strategic advisor for high profile clients such as Torstar Digital, Syngenta, Toyota, IBM and helped them to build a product-driven approach to business.

Gillian Jose-Riz, Recruitment & Programs Manager at Ezra

From leading org. development for the Canadian office of a global non-profit at 20 years old, to scaling People Operations for start-ups as an early-joiner, Gillian has consistently found herself in new territory. This forced her to embrace rapid learning, resilience, and an entrepreneurial spirit in the face of uncertainty.

Her service orientation and passion for improvement enable her to scale organizations while furthering the wellbeing of the teams that make growth possible.

Jeremy Shaki, Co-Founder at Lighthouse Labs

Jeremy is a passionate advocate, and believer in educational reform.The opinion leader on changing communities to be technology leaders.

Prior to this initiative, Jeremy worked in New Business Development for Sugar Media. He holds a Bachelor's Degree from Concordia University in Political Science.

Laura Tatham, Engagement Lead at Flipp

Laura is an InnovateWork Toronto meetups host and Engagement Lead at Flipp. She is a human resources professional who develops and facilitates engagement programs to improve the employee life cycle! An avid cook, health enthusiast and studying to become a certified life coach on the side!

Bill Banham, Co-founder at InnovateWork

Bill Banham is Editor and Publisher at The HR Gazette magazine, Co-Founder of the InnovateWork event series for HR, Talent and Tech pros and President at Iceni Media Inc. He has 13+ years experience in B2B publishing and events. Bill’s previous roles include Editor at HRreview magazine and Marketing Manager at Sprigg, the performance management tech platform.

Rob Catalano, Co-founder at InnovateWork

Rob Catalano is passionate about helping companies succeed – by helping them focus on their employee experience. With his unique experience in HR Technology as a founding employee at Achievers, Rob co-founded WorkTango – software that helps give employees a voice and companies actionable insight. He has recently been named as a 2019 Top Global Employee Engagement Influencer, and is the Canadian Chairperson for The Enterprise Engagement Alliance, with a mandate to lead and help educate corporate, government and not-for-profit management on a formal process for implementing engagement across the enterprise community. He is an avid hockey and volleyball player, traveller, and in his own terms a ‘pointaholic’ – he collects loyalty points for everything and anything!

 

 

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ABOUT US

InnovateWork is a forum for HR professionals and business leaders looking to connect and learn best practices on how to improve employee happiness and workplace output.

This InnovateWork webinar is brought to you by The HR Gazette & WorkTango and supported by Gallagher and High Road Human Capital.