A Human Workplace Copenhagen

A Human Workplace is a growing global movement to make workplaces around the world more human. A psychologically safe, human-centered workplace has been shown to be the key to better employee productivity, engagement and business outcomes along with well-being. Join visiting founder of A Human Workplace Renee Smith to learn more about how to strengthen your own workplace culture.

Co-hosts of A Human Workplace Copenhagen are Christine Berkmann and Kristine Østensen.

What to expect at A Human Workplace

A Human Workplace community gathers to explore, learn, and encourage each other to better practice and advocate for a more loving, human workplace. The focus of A Human Workplace is to shift from fear-based to love-based leadership and teams where real value is delivered and improvement happens continually out of care for people.

Topic for this Gathering

At this gathering, participants will be introduced to A Human Workplace and explore "What makes a workplace human?" Reflect on the power of positive experiences of respect, trust, kindness, empathy, inclusion and appreciation. Take a deep dive to understand the value and importance of these in the workplace and discover how to create positive, effective human-centered workplaces.

The Way We Gather

This community is an open, safe, and welcoming space for all. The goal is for everyone to feel included in this conversation because we all have so much to learn from each other as humans. A Human Workplace gathering is characterized by relationships, reflection, dialogue, and active exploration. Don’t expect to be talked at but expect to talk with each other to discover and affirm what’s most important about being human together at work and beyond.

Register today to reserve your seat for this gathering.

Meet Renée Smith

Founder of A Human Workplace.

As the Founder of A Human Workplace, Renée Smith champions a more loving, humane, and safe workplace where everyone is welcome to bring their whole selves to work. She does this through primary research, writing, and speaking on Making Work More Human and hosting gatherings of A Human Workplace around the world.

Renée simultaneously serves at as Director of Workplace Transformation at Results Washington, in the Office of the Governor Jay Inslee, where she leads a statewide program to Make Government More Human, by applying human-centered principles and practices to state government workplace cultures. She spent nearly seventeen years leading OD, Change, and Lean Services in a state agency and providing organization development services to public, private, and non-profit organizations, always with creativity and keen attunement to people.

Smith is a sought after speaker and teacher, featured at conferences, annual meetings, and leadership gatherings across the US, Canada and in Spain, along with international conferences for the Lean Enterprise Institute, the Canadian Lean Summit, the Association for Manufacturing Excellence, and the Lean in the Public Sector Conference. She's also appeared on Gemba Academy, Leadership with Heart, Love in Action, and A Higher Purpose podcasts.

She earned a Master of Science in Organization Development from Pepperdine University. A mother of four and grandmother of three, she lives in Tacoma in a 105 year old Craftsman home and enjoys drawing for pleasure, cooking for friends and family, being near the water, and exploring cities around the world.

Read more about A Human Workplace

The event takes place at Sennheiser Communications.