The Great Squeeze: How to Support Line Managers (Q4 and Beyond)

Join us for an exclusive conversation with Dilan Gomih, workplace wellbeing expert and founder of Dilagence. Dilan has helped organisations like Google, LEGO, and Thrive Market transform wellbeing into a driver of performance. A Forbes contributor and Harvard guest lecturer, Dilan brings powerful insights on how leaders can build thriving, high-performing teams.

As 2025 closes, leaders face a “great squeeze”: mounting expectations, fewer resources, and rising emotional strain across organisations.

From the C-suite to the front line, managers are caught in the middle, responsible for results, communication, and culture, yet often the most stretched and least supported. It creates a vicious cycle. As time and capacity shrink, appreciation and engagement drop, further increasing pressure.

Inpulse’s latest engagement data shows growing fatigue and disconnection among middle managers. Meanwhile, the accelerating pace of change continues to redefine what effective leadership requires, making empathy, energy management, and clarity more critical than ever.

This conversation builds on ideas Dilan recently shared in Forbes, exploring how leaders can harness wellbeing as a performance strategy. She’ll expand on these insights, sharing what’s changed since publication and what HR leaders can do now.

What We’ll Cover

• The Drivers of the Great Squeeze: Understanding the forces creating unprecedented pressure on middle managers and why this matters now.
• The Implications: How this squeeze affects performance, wellbeing, engagement, and organisational culture over time.
• What Can Be Done: Practical strategies to help teams stay engaged, energised, and connected through high-pressure seasons.

Why Attend

This is a space for HR and People leaders to pause, reflect, and reset.

You’ll leave with:

• Evidence-backed insights from Inpulse’s engagement data and recent leadership research.
• Practical wellbeing and performance strategies from Dilan Gomih, a global expert in workplace wellbeing.
• Inspiration and actionable ideas to help your managers end 2025 strong, and start 2026 stronger.

About Dilan Gomih

Dilan Gomih is the Founder of Dilagence, a company focused on employee engagement and workplace wellbeing across high-performance industries. She has worked with clients including Google, Thrive Market, LEGO, and public institutions such as the New Jersey Court System.

Featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Business Insider, Dilan is a guest lecturer at Harvard Business School and a Forbes contributor. She was recently selected by the Stanford Center on Longevity as one of 20 global changemakers in workplace wellbeing and longevity innovation.

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(We’ll go beyond the article in this live discussion!)