Penny Milner-Smyth | Director
South African Sugar Association

Penny Milner-Smyth, Director, South African Sugar Association

Penny integrates her extensive in-house HR experience in the building of engaging and ethical work environments with the latest learnings from the exciting speciality of social cognitive neuroscience. She shares the straight forward insights that emerge at the intersection of these fields, that are not only tried and tested, but easy to action. Penny is registered as a Master HR Practitioner with the SABPP and holds an MA in Research Psychology (Neuropsychology), making her uniquely suited to this topic. Having spent over two decades as a Human Resources Executive, Penny’s articles and presentations enjoy a strong following in the Southern African HR community.

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VIP Conference Day 1 @ 15:00

The Neuroscience of Employee Engagement

  •     The same brain in a rapidly changing workplace
  •     Key neuroscience insights made simple 
  •     The daily ‘derailers’ of optimum engagement at work  
  •     Latest findings on the core issue: gaining and maintaining attention 
  •     Engagement with the brain in mind – prerequisites for performance 

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