Co-located with The Emergency Tech Show

People and Skills Stage

Protect The Protectors Stage

This year, The Emergency Services Show introduces the People & Skills Stage, a CPD-accredited platform focused on resilience, wellbeing, leadership, inclusion, and workforce retention across the emergency services. Featuring expert-led sessions and real-life insights to support the people powering our frontline response. 

 

FOCUSED CONTENT THEMES

Building a Resilient Workforce

Exploring strategies to strengthen personal and organisational resilience across the emergency services. Sessions will cover stress management, trauma-informed practice, team support systems, and the role of culture in navigating long-term pressure.

Wellbeing Beyond the Badge

Focusing on holistic approaches to mental health, physical wellness, and recovery. Topics include prevention over intervention, peer-to-peer support, access to services, and creating a sustainable wellbeing framework for frontline and support roles.

Leadership that Listens

Investigating what effective leadership looks like in high-pressure environments. From empowering new leaders to managing multi-agency teams, these sessions examine compassionate leadership, communication, decision-making under stress, and leading through change.

2025 Content Agenda

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17 Sep 2025
    People & Skills Stage
    Drawing on his own career in the military and working with emergency services in Northern Ireland, Jason Gillard will lead this practical panel focused on how to move from uniformed service to another …
    People & Skills Stage
    Asked to set up a fire service in the remote region of the Himalayas, John Aitchison didn’t hesitate and building on his years establishing Fire Aid Nepal, he was the right person for the job. Startin …
    People & Skills Stage
    Moving into the emergency services after a long career in the military would seem to be a daunting prospect, but for Fin Monahan and Claire Park they have both made a successful transition and now hav …
    People & Skills Stage
    A frontline insight into the findings of a staff centred project to identify, assess, better understand and effectively manage the root causes of work-related stress within the control room environmen …
    People & Skills Stage
    This session will explore our individual personal lived experience of disability, the Disability inclusion initiatives implemented by police and by ambulance respectively and the collaborative work we …
    People & Skills Stage
    Our communities are changing, but what remains the same is the public's expectation for policing to deliver a trusted and effective service that cuts crime and keeps people safe. Join this session fro …
    People & Skills Stage
    Join our insta fitness stars as they kick start your day with great actionable tips around eating healthy and fitting in exercise around a busy (and stressful) schedule.
18 Sep 2025
    People & Skills Stage
    Across major incidents from Grenfell to the Manchester Arena, public inquiries have exposed a consistent thread: well-intentioned leaders placed in critical positions without the tools, training, or r …
    People & Skills Stage
    With a new book focused on burnout and using case studies from the emergency services, Dr Richard Duggins is the perfect person to share his tips with the show this year. We are delighted that he is j …
    People & Skills Stage
    In this insightful panel, learn how to navigate cultural transformation in a session that goes beyond theory bringing the conversation back to those leading change on the ground. This session featurin …
    People & Skills Stage
    Changing behaviour is critical to so much of the prevention work going on across the emergency services. So, what works? At the NHS Blood and Transplant Service, they use behavioural insights to infor …
    People & Skills Stage
    In this short session to kick off day two of the show, Lucy shares the findings from her recent postgraduate research into bariatric evacuation and rescue during high impact events in London. With spe …