Speak to the human 2025
Opportunity, risk and permission to fail
4th June 2025 Møller Institute, Cambridge
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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Theme and topics
Exploring the intertwined concepts of opportunity, risk and trust, topics will include:
- 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?
About the event
Full agenda and speaker information coming soon!
Registration will be from 8:30am, sessions from 9am, and the day will wrap up at 5pm.
We are building on very successful and vibrant events in the last three years. The 2025 event will again be a thought-provoking day combining big ideas, peer insights and sharing activities for an audience of business leaders and managers who want to explore ideas for helping employees and organisations to thrive.
Our participants include leaders in change, employee engagement, internal comms, risk, ethics, compliance, integrity, learning, operations, as well as a range of leadership positions.
For 2025, we will again have an invited audience of around 90 people, with plenty of time and space for questions, peer discussion and networking.
Speakers
We are excited to bring you a stellar line-up of speakers, including...
Andy Cave
Andy Cave is a world leading mountaineer, pioneering new routes in remote mountain ranges. He is now an accomplished speaker, PhD, an experienced coach to business leaders, and with two award-winning books to his name.
Andy’s expedition teams rely not only on skill but also on mindset, collaboration and leadership, with trust as the bedrock of successful operating in difficult environments. He translates these insights to help organisations build sustainable high-performance cultures.
Zelda Perkins
Zelda Perkins was the first woman to break an NDA in 2017, signed decades earlier, with Harvey Weinstein. She brought the systematic abuse of NDAs to the attention of the British Government and international press. She launched the global campaign Can’t Buy My Silence, and has had success in changes to legislative success in the UK, Ireland and Canada, as well as a huge re-evaluation by the legal sector around ethical practise and confidentiality. Zelda was named a Person of the Year by Time magazine in 2018, and awarded by UN Women UK. Her character was portrayed by Samantha Morton in the Universal Pictures feature “She Said”.
Speakers and agenda
“One of the best events I have been to.”
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“I feel energised and full of ideas and creativity. Huge thank you.”
Who is the event for?
- Leaders and practitioners working in L&D, internal comms, 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.
Drop us a note with any questions!... hello@acteoncommunication.com
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