BHSEA 2026 Awards and The Power of Story Telling

Join us for the 2026 BHSEA Annual Awards, Mike Wright's Quiz of the Year and Karen J Hewitt will be speaking at the event on the power of storytelling.

The Power of Storytelling for Health, Safety, Wellbeing and more.

Even change management experts find it hard to create large-scale transformation in organisations, where change fatigue is rife and your structure and systems in constant flux.  Even with a good long-term plan, you’ll often find parts of it redundant before you even begin. 

But what if you could create change with every single conversation you have around Health, Safety and Wellbeing, simply by packaging your message as a story instead of a PowerPoint slide?

What if that story was so impactful it started to circulate around the organisation, creating the Health, Safety and Wellbeing culture you are looking for?

What if that same story was the first thing on someone’s mind when they found themself in an unsafe situation, and it was your story that made them think twice?

And what if that story made your senior leadership team realise their role in Health, Safety and Wellbeing, and got them actively working on your strategy or transformation plan?

Storytelling is an underestimated and often dismissed tool for communicating for behavioural change, and with a simple structure for your story, you can plan to make an impact in minutes. 

Join Karen J. Hewitt, Director of Leaderlike, for this fun, interactive and practical session where you’ll learn why stories work, how you can weave them into your Health, Safety and Wellbeing role, and a simple 5 step structure that can turn the many stories you already have in your head into powerful tools for behavioural and cultural change.