Industry News | 'You can't have recognition without people': Key learnings from Workhuman Live Forum 2025

Take work higher.

The three-word tagline for Wednesday’s Workhuman Live Forum^® 2025 was an emphatic call to action for the HR and people professionals in attendance.

Coming at a time of deep uncertainty and intensely felt change for nearly all businesses, the day was unifying one for all attendees who understood – thanks in part to the words of Professor Amy Edmonson, Harvard Business School Professor – that during such times, the “organisations that succeed are the organisations that learn.”

Aside from the power of bungkaka and some truly excellent cupcakes, here are three key takeaways we picked up from Wednesday's #WHL2025 at the London Hilton Hotel about how employers can take work higher through learning, recognition, and a human-centric focus.