Agenda

 

We will kick off SHINE Summit 2021 with a fireside chat on organizational well-being between leading thinkers from Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.  This interdisciplinary conversation will bring a public policy, business, and population health lens to human flourishing within organizations – why it matters, how it relates to business performance, and what we’ve learned throughout the pandemic.  Discussion will center on bringing innovation into leadership and making room for caring cultures that are fair and respectful.

Iris Bohnet
Professor of Business and Government, Academic Dean, Harvard Kennedy School

Amy Edmondson
Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business

Eileen McNeely
Director, SHINE, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

RECEPTION

4:45 – 6:30 PM  

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November 9, 2021

NETWORKING BREAKFAST

8:00 - 9:00 AM

WELCOME REMARKS

9:00 - 9:15 AM

Eileen McNeely
Director, SHINE, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The SHINE research team will highlight key findings in their research and offer insight into how these learnings can be applied for social impact within organizations across industries.  Some of the themes the team will discuss include: the value of a caring organization, social belonginess in an isolated world, evolving job arrangements and mental health impacts during COVID, financial fragility and health and the implications of character strengths for health and performance.       

Eileen McNeely
Director, SHINE, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Piotr Białowolski
Research Associate, SHINE, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Heloisa Jardim
Research Manager, SHINE, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Dorota Weziak-Białowolska
 Research Scientist, SHINE, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health     

 

KEYNOTE
LEADING WITH DIGNITY

       10:40 – 11:10 AM           

The pandemic has highlighted the importance of social justice and equity for healthy organizations and civil society.  How does this translate to leadership behaviors and practices that foster respect and dignity?                    

Donna Hicks
Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

 

BREAK

 11:15 – 11:30 AM  
 

11:30 – 12:45 PM

This panel will focus on the human need for trust and why it is critical to factor trust into the business practices and cultures of organizations.  The panelists will explore how trust in institutions has been lost, how to regain trust and why it matters, as well as the ways business can use technology to build transparency and foster connections between buyers, suppliers, consumers, and communities.  Finally, they will examine trust at work and in our communities and what it means for individual, organizational and societal well-being.                      

Emma-Louise Aveling (moderator)
Research Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Lauren Taylor
Assistant Professor, New York University Grossman School of Medicine

Tomicah Tilleman        
Executive Director, Digital Impact and Governance Initiative at New America

Martin Whittaker
CEO, Just Capital
 

12:30 – 1:00 PM 

Shoshana Zuboff
Professor Emeritus, Harvard Business School

LUNCH

1:00 – 2:00 PM 

REIMAGINING THE FUTURE OF WORK & DESIGNING HUMANE EMPLOYMENT

The pandemic has highlighted how significantly workplaces, work arrangements and work relationships can change and how those changes can impact well-being and performance.  What have we learned about the meaning of place, remote work and social connection through work?  What are the key issues and trends we need to understand – demographics, reskilling workforces, unionization, gig work, automation, globalization?  What do workforces want and need?  These two sessions will be deep dives into how to create meaningful work and humane employment to better care for people, to manage talent, and to build more sustainable work arrangements that foster well-being.

Session I

2:00 – 3:15 PM

Laura Kubzansky (moderator)
Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Director of the Society and Health Laboratory and co-Director of the Center for Health and Happiness, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Lisa Berkman
Director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and Professor of Public Policy and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Joseph Fuller
Professor of Management Practice and Co-Lead, Managing the Future of Work, Harvard Business School

Zeynep Ton
Professor of the Practice, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Founder and President, Good Jobs Institute

 

BREAK

3:15 - 3:25 PM

Session II

3:30 - 4:45 PM

Matthew Duncan (moderator)
Head of Thought Leadership on the Future of Work, Microsoft

Erin Kelly
Professor of Work and Organization Studies and Co-Director, Institute for Work and Research,
MIT Sloan School of Management

Lisa Picard
CEO, EQ Office

Benjamin Sachs
Professor, and Co-Director Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School
 

Why is systems theory – seeing the whole landscape - more important than ever for innovation and problem solving in our increasingly complex and dynamic world?

4:50 – 5:20 PM

Peter Senge
Senior Lecturer, Leadership and Sustainability, MIT Sloan School of Management and Founding Chair,
Society of Organizational Learning and Founder, Academy for Systems Change

5:20 –5:30 PM

Eileen McNeely
Director, SHINE, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 

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November 10, 2021

NETWORKING BREAKFAST

8:00 - 9:00 AM

9:00 – 9:30 AM

Bob Chapman
Chairman & CEO, Barry-Wehmiller

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT FLOURISHING, COMPASSION AND HAPPINESS AT WORK

This discussion will explore new understandings of what human health and happiness truly mean, illuminate the differences between wellness, well-being and flourishing, and share how these are reflected in the context of work, organizational culture and sustainability.

9:35 – 10:50 AM

Danielle LeCourt (moderator)
Science and Education Journalist

Matthew Lee
Director of Empirical Research, Human Flourishing Program, Harvard University

Tyler VanderWeele
Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director, Human Flourishing Program, Harvard University

Ashley Whillans
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School        

 

How do we elevate corporate social responsibility to factor impacts on human health across the value chain?  How is flourishing manifested in sustainability strategy?  How can leaders “walk the talk” of caring for people?  These sessions will be deep dives into how to internalize cultures of well-being and social impact that consider complete flourishing, connecting the dots across the organization for a sustainable business strategy that puts people on the map.

Session I

10:55 – 12:10 PM

Darren White (moderator)
CEO, Aduro

Kimberly Almeida
Director, Worker Well-being, Levi Strauss Foundation

Luis Schwarz
Senior Finance Officer and Chair, Healthy Staff Group, World Bank

Virginia Tenpenny
Chief Global Social Impact Officer, Starbucks
 

BREAK

12:10 - 12:20 PM
 

Session II

12:20 - 1:20 PM

Caren Kenney (moderator)
CEO and Founder, Evolve Leadership

Whitney Eichinger
Managing Director, Culture and Engagement, Southwest Airlines

Christopher Reynolds (invited)
Chief Administrative Officer, Corporate Resources, Toyota Motor North America

 

1:55 – 2:25 PM

Regina Herzlinger
Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

 

2:30 – 3:00 PM

Ronald Heifetz
Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School

 

This panel will focus on how corporate leaders should be thinking about health after COVID and new strategies for advancing individual and organizational well-being.  Panelists will explore what companies can expect in terms of emerging and ongoing health concerns, new understandings of behavioral health, pivoting from wellness programs to healthy work, and the role of business in driving a culture of health and the impacts for public health.

3:00 – 4:15 PM  

Jennifer Bruno (moderator)
Vice President, Global Health Services, Johnson & Johnson

Alonzo Plough
Chief Science Officer and Vice President, Research-Evaluation-Learning, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Peter Lee
Global Medical Director, Amazon

Kyu Rhee
Senior Vice President, CVS Health and Chief Medical Officer, Aetna

 

Can focusing on human flourishing make a business more profitable?  How can business alleviate suffering and elevate joy in our lives while still delivering extraordinary performance?

4:20-4:50 PM

Raj Sisodia
Professor of Global Business and Whole Foods Market Research Scholar in Conscious Capitalism, Babson College.  Co-Founder and Co-Chairman Emeritus of Conscious Capitalism.

 

4:55 – 5:10 PM

Eileen McNeely
Director, SHINE, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health