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2026 wellbeing trends: what HR leaders need to anticipate now

Stay ahead of the curve with exclusive insights from the TELUS Mental Health Index. Paula Allen reveals the emerging trends reshaping workplace wellbeing and what they mean for your organisation. Understand how shifting employee expectations, rising stress levels, and evolving resilience patterns are redefining productivity—and learn how to future-proof your workforce strategy.

Index Insights – The latest mental health trends organisations must anticipate to stay competitive
HR Implications – Navigating shifting employee expectations and the growing influence of stress, resilience, and productivity
Future of Work – How evolving wellbeing patterns are reshaping talent expectations and workplace culture

The hard choices: what HR leaders are prioritising — and letting go

A candid conversation about judgement, focus and leadership courage in a rapidly shifting wellbeing landscape. This session explores the 2026 trends already influencing workforce expectations — and the tough calls HR leaders must make to stay ahead.

Proactive Design – Moving beyond reactive response to build wellbeing strategies fit for the future
Leadership Decisions – How HR leaders can separate signal from noise and act with clarity, confidence, and courage

Strategy Labs

In this highly interactive session, attendees work in small groups with a dedicated facilitator to co‑design practical, actionable solutions to four of today’s most pressing people's challenges. Each lab focuses on real‑world scenarios and equips participants with insights they can take back to their organisations immediately.

Empowering managers to lead through ambiguity and transition
Developing a culture of psychological safety and resilience
Building workplace equity through life‑stage support
Reaching the disconnected: Closing the workforce engagement gap

Human by design: how to adopt AI without losing what matters

AI is transforming how organisations reach, develop, and support their people But as capability accelerates, HR must balance innovation with strong governance to ensure every tool is ethical, transparent, secure and aligned to organisational values. In this session, you’ll hear from leading tech innovators and The TELUS Health CTO on how to evaluate people‑tech strategically, build trust, and adopt AI safely at scale.

Tech Landscape – How AI is reshaping learning, engagement, and wellbeing for diverse and hard‑to‑reach workforces
Governance & Trust – What HR must consider to ensure ethical, transparent, secure, value‑aligned adoption
Strategic Adoption – How to evaluate people‑tech, build trust, and scale AI safely across the organisation

The TELUS well-being blueprint: how a global brand’s well-being strategy creates healthier teams and stronger outcomes

In this conversation, Mohamed and Sandy will share how a comprehensive wellbeing strategy transforms organisational culture and drives measurable business outcomes. TELUS treats wellbeing as a strategic business imperative and has designed and implemented a global strategy that creates conditions for human sustainability, where people are healthier and more equipped to excel across every part of their lives.

The strategic vision: personalisation and integration – how TELUS built a flexible framework grounded in the knowledge that one-size-fits-all solutions fall short
Building a global foundation – how TELUS created shared language, developed leadership competencies and embedded well-being across its global team
From internal strategy to market impact – how TELUS' living lab partnership with TELUS Health provides real-world insights that can help shape workplace wellbeing for organisations everywhere

Experience wellbeing first-hand

TELUS Health invites you to a new kind of event – one where you don't just learn about wellbeing, you experience it.

A day filled with powerful keynotes, interactive panels, and hands-on workshops, you will gain practical insights and real-world strategies centred around three core pillars of wellbeing. Each session is focused and jargon-free, equipping you with actionable tools to create a resilient strategy and make an immediate impact.

With many immersive sessions and hours of high-energy networking, you’ll leave inspired, recharged, and ready to tackle your next challenges.