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Keynote speaker announced for the Veterinary Human Factors Conference 2025!

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Our fifth Veterinary Human Factors Conference is challenging veterinary professionals worldwide to take a regenerative and restorative approach to veterinary practice

 

The overarching theme of our 2025 conference is how to make veterinary work sustainable, creating teams that can reliably work at their best, feel positive about work, and feel supported and valued by their team.

 

The newly released programme has three streams, each tailored to a group of delegates:

 

Stream 1 – Introduction to Human Factors

 

In the first stream, VetLed founder and Training Director, Dan Tipney will be joined by guest speakers, including Emma Tallini, Becky Jones, Sara Jackson, and Crina Dragu, vets and nurses with long experience in this area in practice, education, referral, and first opinion. These Human Factors champions will help delegates understand how they can make a difference to the way they work using tools and techniques that are proven and established in human medicine and other safety-critical professions. The key aim of this stream is not just to help delegates understand what Human Factors is and why it is helpful in veterinary work, but to make sure that they leave with tools and practical tips to form an action plan that applies to their practice, organisation, or team. These tools don’t just improve patient safety, which is an obvious priority in our caregiving profession, but they also help vets, nurses, and other veterinary staff feel happier and more confident at work, working more efficiently and safely, and achieving better wellbeing.

 

Stream 2 – Knowing Me, Knowing You

 

I'll be co-hosting the second stream with passionate human behaviour expert and impact-maker Katie Ford, taking delegates on a journey to understand themselves as humans, acknowledge and accommodate their own needs and the needs of others, and work better as a team. It’s so common in the veterinary profession for us to put our heads down and get on with the job in hand, but a wider understanding of ourselves and others as humans can make work a much happier place to be. We'll be joined by Vet Empowered, Petra Agthe, VetYogi, Affinity Futures, and VetLed’s Jenny Guyat, who will each share their unique slant and perspective on an aspect of self-awareness, compassion, being curious, and team dynamics. Together, they’ll share the science behind how our brains and bodies work, how we develop and sustain relationships, and how this affects how we feel and work as a team – giving delegates the power to change their experience of work for the better, and not just for them, but for the whole team.

 

Stream 3 – Delving Deeper

 

The third stream will be hosted by VetLed Managing Director, Cat Auden, and a Chartered Psychologist, Ergonomist, and Human Factors Specialist. Stream three allows delegates who are already familiar with Human Factors concepts to think big, share ideas, and shape the veterinary profession. With short TED talks from Suzette Woodward, Elly Russell, and Emma Cathcart, each followed by Q and A sessions, the stream will be highly interactive, encouraging collaboration, thought, and innovation.



Amanda Joy Oates - Cultivating Restorative Cultures, "helping you find joy at work". Board Director of Restorative Justice Culture Foundation
Amanda Joy Oates - Cultivating Restorative Cultures, "helping you find joy at work". Board Director of Restorative Justice Culture Foundation

 

Keynote Speaker – Amanda Oates BA (hons), MSc Strategic HRD, C.C.I.P.D.

 

Restorative practice means better experiences for veterinary people, patients, practices, and the profession. The concept of restorative veterinary practice relies on establishing a restorative workplace culture, an area that the Veterinary Human Factors Conference 2025 Keynote Speaker, Amanda Oates is passionate about. Amanda was Chief People & Culture Officer and Deputy CEO at Mersey Care NHS Trust, and now runs her own HR consultancy around cultivating restorative cultures.

 

Previous conference feedback:

 

‘Really enjoyed the networking sessions, this was a great opportunity to share learnings, alongside the lectures which were great with a huge variety of content. Absolutely fantastic conference again, well done to the VetLed Team!’

2024 Delegate

 

‘I was absolutely blown away by the event. I’m 20 years qualified and never done any non-clinical CPD or really considered human factors. I recently had a period of burnout due to high workload, hormonal issues and lack of self-care. My practice manager booked me on the conference and I had low expectations. I have had multiple light bulb moments. I’m still working my way through the content but I’m so inspired by everyone that I think this could have unlocked a new passion in me.’

2024 Delegate


Here's what Cat Auden had to say about the conference:


“I’m so proud of how the VetLed conference uniquely addresses the critical intersection of clinical excellence with the science of how humans work. We seek to equip attendees with practical tools to enhance all angles of human performance and wellbeing ultimately resulting in better patient outcomes.

At VetLed, we know that investing in Human Factors training is the key to building sustainable, high-performing teams and delivering the best possible care to both animals and their owners. Every year I love witnessing delegates’ ‘lightbulb moments’ at the conference, as they discover eye-opening, fresh perspectives and practical strategies that genuinely transform the way they work back in their practices."— Dr Cat Auden MRCVS, Managing Director, VetLed

 

You can book a discovery call at https://vetled.co.uk/book-online or find out more about the conference at https://www.vetled.co.uk/conference

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