SAN FRANCISCO and TORONTO, June 1,
2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Achievers, an industry-leading
provider of employee engagement solutions, today announced that
Neil Pasricha, New York Times best-selling author and positive
psychology researcher, will keynote at its annual conference, The
Achievers Customer Experience (ACE), held in Toronto, Canada on October 23–24, 2018. In his
session, "The Happiness Equation", Pasricha will focus on subtle
techniques to encourage employees to be their most powerful,
engaged, and productive selves.
Celebrating its ninth year, ACE brings together Achievers
customers and prospective customers, along with renowned guest
speakers, HR thought leaders, experts and academics—all focused on
improving the employee experience and driving engagement to achieve
desired business outcomes. The conference is dedicated to
inspiring, empowering and mobilizing business and HR leaders to
create and sustain a culture of engagement within their
organizations. Attendees will leave armed with fresh thinking and
best practices to optimize their employee recognition and feedback
programs, align company values with engagement initiatives, and
ultimately motivate their teams.
"This year's ACE theme is 'Inspire. Empower. Mobilize. A
Conference for Innovators', a nod to our trailblazing attendees
who are joining our conference as leaders in their industry, and
are steadfastly focused on driving positive change within their
organizations," said Vanessa
Brangwyn, Achievers chief customer officer. "I can't think
of a more appropriate and inspirational keynote speaker to kick off
our event than Neil Pasricha. Now
more than ever, companies are recognizing the limitless value of
their employees and the need to empower and listen to their people.
Neil's thought-provoking research illuminates a clear path forward
into workplaces where people show up inspired, do great work, and
leave with full minds and hearts."
As the Director of The Institute for Global Happiness,
Pasricha's work focuses on the relationship between happiness and
leadership in business. His work has been featured in hundreds of
media outlets including CNN, BBC, The Today Show, The Early Show,
The Oprah Winfrey Network, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company,
Fortune, and Forbes.
Additionally, the lineup of thought leadership speakers on the
ACE stage will include: Brian David
Johnson, futurist in residence at Arizona State University's Center for Science and
the Imagination, a professor in the School for the Future of
Innovation in Society and the director of the ASU Threatcasting
Lab; Bobi Seredich, co-founder of
the Southwest Institute for Emotional Intelligence; Peter Weng, chief business officer of Google's
Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute; Shane Green, world-renowned keynote speaker,
author and culture expert; and L. David
Kingsley, head of Global People & Places at
Mulesoft.
ACE will be held at the Delta Toronto Hotel beginning with its
eighth annual Achievers 50 Most Engaged Workplaces™ Awards Gala on
October 22nd. For additional details
regarding ACE 2018 sessions and early bird registration, visit
https://www.achievers.com/ace/, and follow the conversation about
ACE on Twitter at @Achievers and #AACE18.
About Achievers
The Achievers Employee Engagement
Platform combines an award-winning employee recognition and rewards
solution with an active listening interface to accelerate employee
engagement. Designed for today's workplace, Achievers' innovative
cloud-based platform can increase and align employee engagement to
business objectives and success. It empowers employees to recognize
and reward each other in real time and aligns employees with
company values and goals. Achievers connects with employees
directly. It's an always-on, open channel to hear and understand
what matters to the individual, and then it closes the loop,
delivering bite-sized, personalized actions for both employees and
managers, so everyone is empowered to impact engagement right away.
The Achievers platform inspires employee loyalty, engagement, and
performance. To learn more about Achievers, visit us at
www.achievers.com. Achievers is a subsidiary of Blackhawk Network
Holdings, Inc.
About Blackhawk Network
Blackhawk Network Holdings,
Inc. (NASDAQ: HAWK) is a global financial technology company and a
leader in connecting brands and people through branded value
solutions. Blackhawk platforms and
solutions enable the management of stored value products,
promotions and rewards programs in retail, ecommerce, financial
services and mobile wallets. Blackhawk's Hawk Commerce division offers
technology solutions to businesses and direct to consumers. The
Hawk Incentives division offers enterprise, SMB and reseller
partners an array of platforms and branded value products to incent
and reward consumers, employees and sales channels. Headquartered
in Pleasanton, Calif.,
Blackhawk operates in 26
countries. For more information, please visit blackhawknetwork.com,
hawkcommerce.com, hawkincentives.com or our product websites
GiftCards.com, giftcardmall.com, Cardpool.com, GiftCardLab.com and
OmniCard.com.
Media Contact:
Jennifer
Gronski
press@achievers.com
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