Managing Psychosocial Risk Conference Change and Transformation Summit
Keynote presenter Pauline Cox
If you lead health and safety, employee engagement, innovation, training and enterprise risk for your organisation, do not miss the opportunity to attend the capability connector Brightstar is running concurrently at The Intercontinental on 30 July.
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Managing Psychosocial Risk Conference
Held in Wellington for the first time this year, this conference focuses on how to address psychosocial risk in practice. Plus related topics including analysis of a range of critical psychosocial risks, successful approaches to identification and assessment of psychosocial hazards and delivery of effective mitigation interventions.
Across the conference programme in rapid upskilling format, 14 speakers share crucial insights to build leadership capability and capacity to manage psychosocial risk within teams and across organisations.
Specific practical levers for operational integration within strategic HR, enterprise risk and health and safety systems across complex sectors will be covered.
Keynote presenter Pauline Cox, NZ Post’s psychosocial risk lead, will illustrate that the way in which “mentally healthy” work is designed, led and experienced is what shapes mental wellbeing – rather than by any individual resilience.
Continuing and linking prior conference themes of Better Work By Design, Ms Cox’s operational experience – backed by an evidence-led approach – is gleaned from the framework for mentally healthy work within NZ Post’s psychosocial risk-management journey.
Her insight will be invaluable support for any attendee interested in how to move from a supportive wellbeing model to a structured psychosocial risk approach and the learnings from a household name employer like NZ Post.
The wealth of speakers other than Ms Cox includes registered clinical psychologists, wellbeing advisors, postgraduate and doctorate research fellows, performance leadership consultants, mental health workplace integration experts and delivery and engagement leads.
- With greater emphasis on psychosocial risk comes greater responsibility and accountability for workplace teams and individuals.
- Who is responsible for assessing success and maturity levels within an ever-changing workforce?
- People work differently now. Hybrid models, AI and technology, rapid change, traditional role-based structures and how these intersect continue to keep us awake at night – where to from here?
Panellists from leading large New Zealand organisations with central government ties – ACC, MSD, Centreport, Te Whatu Ora, Air New Zealand – will share learnings from their own professional experiences and shape discussion on how leaders, HR teams, managers, and health and wellbeing practitioners can achieve collective buy-in from interconnected teams.
For the agenda, full list of speakers and topics to be covered at Brightstar’s Managing Psychosocial Risk Conference, click here.
Change and Transformation Summit
Co-located at Intercontinental Wellington, this summit covers culture, strategy, engagement, capability and delivery, and aims to accelerate success by a workforce armed with knowledge of the complexities of change in an evolving business landscape.
It provides essential insights and strategies to navigate complex change initiatives, mitigate risks, and unlock performance improvements long-term.
Anyone looking to stay ahead of change in their complex sector is encouraged to attend. Executives, HR professionals, communications practitioners, business consultants and team leaders with a thirst for more strategic expertise are welcomed.
Eight speakers with major transformation projects under their belts will explore key strategies and techniques to navigate organisational change and drive lasting impact in one day of rapid upskilling.
Top line themes include:
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- Best use of evolving AI and technology tools to guide change in human connection and workplace behaviour, marking another step in digital transformation for many organisations investing intelligently in the future – think the lasting impacts of technology for hybrid working models, complexities of AI changing how people work
- Leadership learnings from change projects – being visible, realistic and clear in building trust within workplace culture
- Practical advice to manage levels of staff buy-in during transformation, how to avoid failure in change initiatives early in the journey and then measuring success at various levels based on human behaviour rather than operational process
- Building foundations of trust before embarking on projects of significant change – formulating clear messaging pathways from complex transformation, how to handle red herring moments, keeping change fresh
For the agenda, full speaker lineup including areas of expertise at Brightstar’s Change and Transformation Summit, click here.
Managing Psychosocial Risk Conference — Change and Transformation Summit
Brightstar — Thursday 30 July 2026
InterContinental Wellington
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