How firms can build a culture that attracts and retains talent
21 May 2025 | 1 pm NZT / 11 am AEST
Recruiting is hard. Keeping A+ players? Even harder.
When your team is stretched thin and budgets even thinner, how do you keep a team motivated, inspired, and excited to come to work each day?
Join an interactive and insightful discussion on 21 May 2025 at 11 am AEST / 1 pm NZT with Priya Bhana, former Director of People and Culture at PaperKite and 20+ year HR leader. Priya will talk about how teams can build moments that matter without needing big budgets and everything you need to do to get and keep an A+ team.
- How to create moments that matter – without needing big budgets.
- Interviewing, Hiring and Onboarding rituals to cultivate your culture.
- How to turn Performance Reviews into a celebration of performance.
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Meet the Speaker

Priya has over 20 years’ experience working in Wellington’s digital, design and creative industries. Her super-power is crafting engaging people-first experiences to help epic humans do their most meaningful work. Most recently, she’s been a guardian of a culture that people have boasted about – creating a fiercely loyal team and proud alumni. Priya looks to contribute to places where people give a sh*t about the mahi they do. Priya has a passion for people, their stories and what she can learn from them. She has been a Dairy owner’s daughter, an MC and a Wheel of Fortune Carry-over Champion; working in Aotearoa to Melbourne and back again.
Priya is consumed with the question: ‘how do we keep our people, attract ‘keepers’ and create ambassadors from our alumni?’. Join her as we hear about designing award-winning experiences, rituals and initiatives that put people first and how we can all create cultures of care, gratitude and wellbeing.
