How great organisations unlock the potential of their people.
As technology, AI and employee expectations continue to reshape the workplace, organisations are under increasing pressure to improve productivity while creating environments where people can thrive.
The Dublin People Power Summit 2027 will explore how leadership, culture, talent, skills and employee experience can work together to unlock greater performance and build organisations ready for the future.
We'll be exploring the recent legislation updates requiring employers' responsibilities on ethnicity gap and discuss if compliance alone is the answer to creating lasting change when it comes to race equity.
Moderator
Woosh Raza
Founder & Principal Consultant
Panellist
Annisha Taylor
Group Head Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Panellist
Nick Holmes
VP, Learning & Culture
Panellist
Taylor Mirkarimi
Group Diversity & Inclusion Lead
Most wellbeing strategies still treat employees as broad groups, not unique individuals and it’s costing organisations impact, budget, and credibility. In this session, Ian and George reveal how hyperpersonalisation and smart segmentation can transform global wellbeing strategies, improve outcomes, and meet people where they truly are. A clear, practical look at what personalised employee health can achieve at scale.
Speaker
Ian Molyneux
Senior Wellbeing Consultant UKIMEA
Speaker
George Kasparis
Senior Wellbeing Consultant UKIMEA
This session will look (briefly) at how digital has evolved and the impact on HR op models and looking ahead to the current AI revolution and impact on HR modelling
Speaker
Ele Morrissey
Executive Director of People
Speaker
Anthony Rafferty
Professor in Employment Studies
Most organisations say employee engagement is a priority, often they respond by adding more: more initiatives, more frameworks, more platforms and more measurement. The unintended result is often complexity, distraction and an HR agenda that feels busy rather than impactful.
This session opens with a deliberately challenging proposition: you could remove half of your HR activity and see engagement improve, particularly if the time and money were redirected towards customers instead.
Drawing on examples from award‑winning, highly successful organisations where Andrew has led the people agenda, this session frames engagement as an outcome, not an initiative. The strongest engagement is rarely created by programmes designed to engage employees, it emerges when people are able to do meaningful work that clearly improves customers’ lives, work that feels purposeful, focused and worth the effort.
The session explores how low cost, highly effective HR can be achieved by stripping out “occupational hobbies" and resisting the urge to add “just one more initiative.” It also shows how AI can act as a simplification tool, helping HR teams remove friction, improve wellbeing, reduce wasted effort and refocus leaders on what genuinely drives performance, pride and engagement.
Speaker
Dr Andrew Stephenson
Former CHRO, Equiniti
Most leaders don’t set out to be bad bosses - yet with 99.6% of people saying they’ve had one, and 80% of leaders admitting they’ve been one, something clearly isn’t working. This session goes beyond the statistics to explore why this problem exists and why traditional leadership development approaches often fail to resolve it, before hitting recalculate and resetting the route with the 3 A’s - Awareness, Acceptance, Action - a practical framework that helps leaders understand where they are, take ownership of their development needs, and take meaningful steps toward becoming the leaders their people need and they’re truly capable of being.
Speaker
Debra Corey
Chief Pat It Forward Officer
In a time of division, burnout, loneliness and increasing disconnection, this session explores why hope is not a soft idea — it is a practical leadership strategy. Closing the day on an uplifting but grounded note, this talk will challenge the idea that more noise, more content and more polarisation are the answer to today’s social and organisational fractures. Instead, it will argue that the real opportunity is to build spaces, systems and communities that help people feel seen, connected and part of something bigger than themselves.
At the heart of the session is The Orbit — a new platform designed around connection, community and meaningful participation. Rather than focusing on transactions or attention, The Orbit offers a model for how we can create genuine belonging, turn shared values into shared action, and make hope tangible in people’s everyday lives.
Audiences will leave with a renewed sense of possibility, a clearer understanding of why connection matters now more than ever, and practical ideas for how to build more hopeful, human-centred communities in their own work and leadership.
Speaker
Woosh Raza
Founder & Principal Consultant
