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We are delighted to announce that the fourth biannual International Meaningful Work Symposium will be hosted on 29th June 2021 by King's College London, following previous events in Oxford, Auckland and Amsterdam. In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this will be a virtual symposium and will take a different format compared with previous years. This one-day event brings together leading international academic and practitioner experts to debate where we go next in meaning and purpose.
Keynote speakers
- Professor Marjo Lips-Wiersma, AUT New Zealand
- Professor Christopher Michaelson, University of St Thomas, USA
- Sarah Moore, PwC Partner in People & Organisation and Chief People Officer for the Deals business
- Jonny Gifford, Senior Advisor for Organisational Behaviour, CIPD
- Dr Kamini Gupta, Lecturer in International Business & Comparative Management, King's College London
Schedule
10.00-10.15 Welcome and introductions, Katie Bailey
10.15-11.00 Marjo Lips-Wiersma, 'Meaning and Hope'
11.00-11.45 Christopher Michaelson, 'A Modern Moral Agenda for Meaningful Work'
11.45-11.50 Screen break
11.50-12.15 Panel discussion
12.15-13.00 Lunch and screen break
13.00-13.45 Sarah Moore, 'The Power of a Purposeful Organisation'
13.45-14.30 Jonny Gifford, 'Meaningful jobs in the UK: an occupational analysis'
14.30-14.45 Tea and screen break
14.45-15.30 Kamini Gupta, ‘How ‘purpose’ ambassadors can help champion social impact and avoid mission drift’
15.30-16.00 Panel discussion
16.00 Close
Keynote Speakers
Professor Marjo Lips-Wiersma: 'Meaning and Hope'
Professor Marjo Lips-Wiersma has done research into meaningful work since the early 1990s. Over the past 15 years, Marjo’s work has jumped off the page and is used in community, corporate and not-for-profit organisations.
She set up the Map of Meaning International. This charity organisation has certified practitioners around the world which help people to stand strong in their own meaning and transform society. At present her research focuses on the intersection of meaning, hope and sustainability.
Professor Christopher Michaelson: 'A Modern Moral Agenda for Meaningful Work'
Professor Christopher Michaelson is a professor in the department of Ethics and Business Law at the University of St. Thomas and is also affiliated with the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota and the Business and Society program at New York University.
For much of his academic career, he has kept a foot in practice, helping to launch a business ethics advisory practice with a Big Four firm and serving as its Strategy Officer to the World Economic Forum.
Sarah Moore, 'The Power of a Purposeful Organisation'
Sarah Moore is the PwC Partner in People & Organisation and Chief People Officer for the Deals business
Sarah has over 20 years of people consulting experience and advises global corporate and private equity clients on the people implications of transactions, restructuring and change. Her areas of expertise are people strategy, culture, pre / post deal integration and workforce transformation. As PwC Deals’ Chief People Officer, Sarah is also responsible for delivering on our firm-wide and Deals people strategy.
Jonny Gifford: 'Meaningful jobs in the UK: an occupational analysis'
Jonny Gifford is Senior Advisor for Organisational Behaviour at CIPD. Jonny’s work centres on linking academic research and HR practice, including through evidence reviews and the CIPD Applied Research Conference. He also runs an annual UK survey of job quality, the Good Work Index. His PhD currently centres on a systematic review on work autonomy.
Kamini Gupta: ‘How ‘purpose’ ambassadors can help champion social impact and avoid mission drift’
Dr Kamini Gupta is a Lecturer in International Business & Comparative Management, King's College London.
Dr Gupta’s research interests include social entrepreneurship, multiple goal pursuit and stakeholder management. She studies how organizations simultaneously pursue multiple and conflicting goals, focusing especially on the domain at the intersection of business and society.
Steering Committee
Katie Bailey, King’s College London
Marjo Lips-Wiersma, Auckland University of Technology
Evgenia Lysova, VU University Amsterdam
Adrian Madden, University of Greenwich
Christopher Michaelson, University of St Thomas
Ruth Yeoman, University of Oxford and King’s College London
At this event
Professor of Work and Employment
Lecturer in International Business & Comparative Management (ICBM)