EMA Webinar: Building Safer, Stronger Workplaces This Pink Shirt Day

With Pink Shirt Day approaching it’s a great time to assess your workplace culture, and how it influences your people's motivation and wellbeing.

Join us for an expert webinar with EMA consultant Sarah Selwood, helping you to understand, prevent, and address workplace bullying and harassment. Sarah is an experienced workplace investigator and mediator, specialising in conflict resolution. She will share insights while covering topics including:

• Why managing bullying and harassment in your workplace is important
• Proactive strategies you can adopt to help prevent bullying and harassment arising in your workplace
• Understanding your obligations and how to respond when bullying or harassment issues arise
• A discussion on both informal and formal interventions

This webinar is ideal for all employers and leaders to take action on the issues that threaten workplace culture, engagement, and productivity, while creating an inclusive environment that helps people to support each other.

About this initiative: Pink Shirt Day on Friday, 16 May 2025 is the day Aotearoa comes together to take a stand against bullying. Practising kindness and inclusion is powerful and can help create a world where we can all feel safe and valued. By choosing compassion and standing up for each other, we can reduce bullying in Aotearoa and foster spaces where everyone feels they belong. Read more here: Home | Pink Shirt Day

About Sarah Selwood: Sarah is a specialist in managing workplace bullying and harassing type behaviour. Sarah is a qualified mediator (AMINZ) offering early intervention to help resolve conflict between employees or groups of employees before the situation escalates to bullying allegations. Sarah is a qualified and licensed workplace investigator (AWI) specialising in workplace investigations for behavioural and conduct-related issues. As an external investigator Sarah has been conducting investigations for eight years, involving entry level employees through to C-Suite.

A portion of the funds generated from this webinar will be donated to support the Mental Health Foundation.

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