We're delighted to bring you Speak to the Human 2025, an in-person event full of energy, big ideas, and valuable connections.

Opportunity, risk and permission to fail

Through our 2025 theme, we'll be exploring how building trust helps organisations to minimise risk and maximise opportunity.

To adapt and survive, organisations need to understand how to balance opportunity and risk.

Innovation and progress depend on a willingness to try new things, to experiment and create. And that means embracing uncertainty and risk. We need to allow room to make mistakes and learn from them if we want to unlock new opportunities and get the best from people. ‘Permission to fail’ is an important part of healthy and successful workplace cultures.

But unchecked risk threatens reputation, relationships, safety, or even the future of the organisation. Permission to fail needs boundaries. That’s why we have rules – right?

Getting the balance right relies on trust. Trusting well-intentioned humans to balance opportunity with risk so they and the organisation can thrive. But how do we build and preserve that trust? How do we help leaders and managers feel safe to ‘let go’, and their people feel trusted to unlock opportunity and do their best work?

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Join our invited audience as we cover:

Perceptions of risk and trust within organisations.

How to find an effective balance of risk and opportunity.
Willingness to experiment and try new things is essential for progress. How do we give people ‘permission to fail’ safely?
Helping leaders create an environment of psychological safety, allowing colleagues to thrive and develop whilst protecting the wider group and organisation.
‘Reframing risk’ so the organisation can confidently pursue good opportunities.
How to build a culture where people understand risk, and feel trusted and empowered, while adopting positive, ethical and compliant behaviours.
What are the common actions and behaviours that build trust and effective risk management, and how can you promote them?

Who is the event for?

Leaders and practitioners working in change, engagement, culture, internal comms, L&D, HR, and any other business areas where there is a need to engage employees.
This will be relevant across sectors and for different types of organisations.

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Speak to the human 2025