Beyond Culture: Why relationships are the real retention strategy

Workplace relationships decide who advances, who stays and who burns out. On 11 November, Chapter 2 hosts a live panel for senior and talent leaders on why relationships are the real retention strategy We’ll cover how the relationship skills people use at home show up, or don’t, at work. We’ll look at what separates a healthy working relationship from a vague, half-defined one, and at the behaviours leaders can adopt to build real connection, not another mandatory culture initiative. Dr Michelle King is an organisational psychologist and bestselling author (My Workplace Is Killing Me, The Fix, How Work Works) whose clients include Amazon, Netflix and JPMorgan. She is Chapter 2’s newest board advisor and chair of the C2 Advisory. She’ll lead from the data: what these dynamics cost in turnover and performance, and what fixes them. Paul C. Brunson, broadcaster and relationship expert on Married at First Sight, Celebs Go Dating and Red Flag, brings a decade of conversations about what breaks a relationship and what repairs it. On the panel, he applies them to colleagues and managers, not couples.