Shaping the Human Experience of Work
Sydney - TBA
Melbourne - TBA
Event details:
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Audience: up 50 HR and talent leaders
Cost: $350 per person
Reshape how we see our role in the workplace. Ditch the red tape. Design with purpose. Deliver with impact.
Who’s It For?
People, Talent, and HR leaders who want to:
◆ Embrace new approaches, but feel stuck in the old ways of thinking
◆ Lead people work that’s grounded, adaptive, and deeply human
◆ Learn to work with your own shadow, thought patterns, and identities
◆ Start applying agile ways of working, co-design with users, and product thinking
Objective :
To help People and Talent leaders go beneath the surface of product thinking and tools, into the mindset shifts required to truly shape people experiences that actually help people do great work. This workshop helps PX leaders navigate the discomfort, complexity, and growth edges that come with co-creating people practices in fast-moving environments, so they can bring clarity, presence, and design leadership to their work.
Facilitator
Adam Axon
Director | Give a Damn
From my first interaction with traditional HR nearly 20 years ago I've been driven by a simple question: "Surely there must be a better way to do HR?"
I travelled the world in a quest for inspiration, looking in places you may not expect. Tedx conferences, elite sports teams, design thinking, to name just a few. I then had the good fortune to set up and scale People teams in global high-growth tech companies. These opportunities gave me a front-row seat to hyper-paced, disruptive, customer-obsessed product thinking, and I had a thought – What if the future of HR wasn't HR at all?
I began to apply lean product thinking to the way my teams designed impactful people solutions and something wonderful happened. We delivered solutions that actually helped people consistently do great work, while tangibly improving customer value and creating growth. I was hooked, and LeanPX was born!
I recently created Give a Damn to help founders and people teams of start-ups/scale-ups use LeanPX to intentionally rethink how they approach their people, so they can scale successfully without losing what makes their business special.
AGENDA
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Welcome | Brief introduction to the session’s goal - From Function to Practice
⚬ What is PX as a practice?
⚬ The shift from managing people to shaping conditions
⚬ Icebreaker: What’s a moment where you knew “HR as usual” wasn’t enough?
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM | Keynote: People Experience is a Mindset
⚬ The 8 mindset shifts of PX practice (self → service, control → co-creation, etc.)
⚬ Working with presence, not performance
⚬ What it means to take a design stance—inside yourself first
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM | Break
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM | Workshop 1: Map Your Mindset
⚬ Explore your values, triggers, and habitual postures in people work
⚬ What beliefs and postures anchor your work?
⚬ Reflect on your current PX mindset and where you're being invited to grow
⚬ Identify your next edge: what do you need to unlearn?
⚬ Begin mapping your PX Practice foundation: self-awareness, intention, and design stance
⚬ Share stories of stretch, resistance, and growth
12:45 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch & Table Talk
Prompt: What’s one practice, belief, or habit you’ve outgrown in your PX journey?
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Workshop 2: Working with your Shadow
⚬ Introduction to the concept of shadow in PX (ego, control, identity)
⚬ Small group mapping: where does fear show up in our work?
⚬ Practice: how to stay with discomfort, compost the old, and lead from wholeness
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM | Break
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Workshop 3: From Insight to Action
⚬ Apply product thinking principles to real people challenges
(e.g. onboarding, feedback, progression)
⚬ Reframe your idea as a testable product hypothesis
⚬ Identify user needs, business value, and clear outcomes
⚬ Design a low-fidelity prototype or MVP
⚬ Practice framing your idea for co-creation and feedback
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Wrap-Up: A Practice Worth Keeping
⚬ Commit to a shift: What will you stop doing, and what will you start embodying?
⚬ 30-day PX Practice reflection plan
⚬ Invitation to LeanPX Circle (community, reflection, support)
Takeaways for Attendees
⚬ PX Mindset Shifts summary card
⚬ Personal Practice Map
⚬ Shadow Work in PX prompt deck
⚬ 30-Day Practice in Action Plan
⚬ Ongoing access to the Give a Damn Circle
