Karen Arnold

Winning the Talent War: Culture, Engagement and Retention That Works

In today’s competitive healthcare workforce, retaining great staff is critical to maintaining continuity of care, reducing recruitment pressures, and supporting a positive practice culture. This session will explore practical strategies for podiatry and allied health businesses to strengthen the employee experience, identify retention risks early, and create workplaces where team members feel valued, engaged, and supported to thrive.

Attendees will leave with key learnings and practical tools to help improve staff retention and reduce the cost and disruption of unnecessary turnover including:

• An understanding of what keeps great staff engaged
• Practical strategies to strengthen workplace culture and create a team environment where staff feel valued, supported and motivated to stay

Staff retention tools including a HR Health Check and ‘stay interview’ approach
__________________________________________________________________________________

Karen Arnold

Karen Arnold is the founder of SprintHR and Managing Director of Effective Workplace Solutions, an award-winning HR and employment law advisory firm. With 25 years’ experience across law, HR and workplace relations, Karen helps business owners and leaders navigate compliance, employee management and complex people issues with confidence.

Known for her clear, practical and commercially focused approach, Karen cuts through the complexity of workplace obligations and turns them into straightforward, actionable steps. Through SprintHR, she is focused on making smart, compliant HR support more accessible for small businesses, without the jargon, overwhelm or unnecessary complication.