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Latest Event
- Topic: The Future of Work: Connection, Collaboration, and Choice
- Speaker: Stephanie Merrifield, Chief People Officer at APFN
- Date: Thursday, 13th November 2025
- Time: 10am to 11am
- Location: Zoom (free to attend)
Event details
We’re delighted to welcome Stephanie Merrifield, Chief People Officer at APFN, to deliver our November HR Hub.
In this insightful and practical session, Stephanie will explore how HR leaders can create thriving, people-centred workplaces built on trust, collaboration, and flexibility. As hybrid models continue to evolve, she’ll share how forward-thinking organisations are reshaping culture and engagement to empower people to do their best work wherever they are.
Stephanie will also discuss how HR teams can balance organisational needs with individual choice, using connection, technology, and autonomy to drive performance and wellbeing in the modern workplace.
What you’ll learn:
- How to strengthen connection and trust across hybrid and remote teams.
- Practical ways to improve collaboration and creativity through technology.
- Why choice and flexibility are now central to engagement and retention.
There will be opportunities for Q&A during the session.
October's HR Hub: Behind the Smiles: The Hidden Mental Health Crisis in HR
Watch our October 2025 HR Hub, joined by Dr Jo Burrell from Ultimate Resilience
September's HR Hub: Employment Law Update from Kate Benefer at RWK Goodman
Watch our September 2025 HR Hub, joined by Kate Benefer from our partner RWK Goodman.
HR insights
Our guest speakers are experts in their field and are happy to share their experiences, professional advice, handy hints and checklists with us.
From our Knowledge Centre, you can access:
- Guest speaker blogs and videos.
- Quarterly employment law updates from our HR Hub partners at RWK Goodman.
- Results of our monthly polls.
Kate Allen
Executive Chair and Marketing Director, Allen Associates
Kate founded Allen Associates in 1998 with the aim of creating the type of recruitment agency that she would like to use herself as a client and a candidate. For more than two decades, Kate’s commitment to providing an outstanding service and added value has never wavered, enabling her to build a robust business and an enviable reputation in her home county of Oxfordshire and further afield.
Kate Benefer
Partner in the Employment team, RWK Goodman
Kate advises on all aspects of employment law including disciplinary, grievances and sickness management, redundancy and restructures, discrimination, tribunal claims and immigration issues. Kate has been described as “very switched on” (client feedback) and as a “confident and poised speaker” whose delivery is “on the money” (delegate feedback).
TestimonialI have to say (and I am not just saying this) it was one of the best webinars I have attended.
Get involved!
Please contact Kate Allen if you would like to:
- Speak at one of our Zoom HR Hubs
- Suggest a topic for a future presentation
- Write a guest blog
- Receive our HR Hub invitations, guest blogs, employment law updates and poll results
- Be introduced to someone you met at one of our HR Hubs
