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Lastest Event
You are warmly invited to join our next online HR Hub. The details are as follows:
- Topic: Behind the Smiles: The Hidden Mental Health Crisis in HR
- Speaker: Dr Jo Burrell, Clinical Psychologist and co-founder of Ultimate Resilience.
- Date: Thursday, 16th October
- Time: 10am to 11am
- Location: Zoom (free to attend)
Event details
We’re delighted to welcome Dr Jo Burrell, recognised as one of HR Magazine’s Most Influential Thinkers 2025, to deliver our October HR Hub.
This important session will reveal the findings of the 2025 HR Mental Wellbeing Survey, shining a light on stress, burnout and hidden challenges in the profession. Dr Burrell will share practical, evidence-based solutions that HR professionals can use to turn awareness into action and safeguard their own wellbeing.
What you’ll learn:
- The key findings of the 2025 HR Mental Wellbeing Survey
- The main causes of stress and burnout in HR roles
- Practical steps and solutions for improving resilience and wellbeing
There will be opportunities for Q&A during the session.
September's HR Hub: Employment Law Update from Kate Benefer at RWK Goodman
At our September 2025 HR Hub, joined by Kate Benefer from our partner RWK Goodman.
June's HR Hub: Employment Law Update from Kate Benefer at RWK GOodman
At our June 2025 HR Hub, hosted in partnership with RWK Goodman, we were joined by Kate Benefer for a quarterly Employment Law Update.
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.
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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
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