Thank you for being part of our HR Meetup “The Future of Workplace Culture in Finland”

🎤Recording: HR Meetup 27.4.2026 - Introduction & Warm up(external link, opens in a new window)

Event host:
Lumi Tomperi(external link, opens in a new window), Founder of TA Café Helsinki(external link, opens in a new window), Co‑founder of HeRoHub HR Community, Leadership TA Partner at Wolt(external link, opens in a new window)

and Katja Savelcheva(external link, opens in a new window), Co‑founder of HeRoHub HR Community, Event Specialist at City of Espoo

🎤 Ludmila Lumi Tomperi(external link, opens in a new window), 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗔 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿 at 𝗪𝗼𝗹𝘁 and 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗔 𝗖𝗮𝗳𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶

Lumi Tomperi is the founder of TA Café, a speaker and facilitator, and currently a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner in a global, leadership-focused role. With over a decade of experience in talent acquisition, she brings a strong people-centered perspective to the future of work. Her background also includes career development, leadership coaching, and business coaching guided by ICF standards. 

Having lived and worked in international environments herself, Lumi brings both professional expertise and personal perspective to conversations around belonging, growth, and navigating change. 

Through TA Café and conferences like this one, she aims to create space for thoughtful dialogue, practical learning, and upskilling that helps people and communities grow with confidence.
 

🎤 Recording: Employee Self - Service Evolution: Building, Polishing and Powering HR with AI - Meri‑Tuuli Kokko(external link, opens in a new window)

Meri-Tuuli is a Senior P&O Manager at Zalando Finland Oy, specializing in employment lifecycle topics. During her tenure at Zalando, she has seen the evolution of the modern workplace, gaining insights into how organizational culture and people operations adapt during periods of growth and transformation. She is passionate about creating excellent employee experience and focuses on balancing operational excellence with a human-centric approach to HR.

🎤 Recording: The World Is on Fire — Your Workplace Doesn’t Have to Be - Salla Ibrahim from Laavu(external link, opens in a new window)

Uncertainty, pressure, and constant change are now part of everyday work, and many workplaces are operating in survival mode. In this workshop, we explore how this fight-or-flight-mode affects business success, and what can we do about it!

We have explored the role of individual psychology as well as leadership and culture in creating a sense of safety in an environment that seems to be burning. The session combined psychological insights, self-reflection, and practical actions. The goal was that you can start making small but meaningful changes in your own organisation right away.

🎤 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿: Salla Ibrahim(external link, opens in a new window), Co-Founder I Co-CEO I Laavu
Salla Ibrahim is a psychologist, coach, and co-founder of Laavu Performance. Together with her team, she works with leaders and teams to build the psychological capabilities needed for high performance in demanding environments.

With a background in organizational psychology and HR - as well as experience coaching business leaders and building a growth company herself - Salla brings a practical and grounded perspective to her work. She is known for her ability to translate complex psychological concepts into clear, actionable steps, while also engaging people in deeper self-reflection and personal growth.

🎤 Recording: Cultural Intelligence: The Key to Better Hiring, Stronger Teams, and Global Success - Renita Käsper(external link, opens in a new window)

In a global hiring and work environment, many challenges come from misinterpreting behaviour across cultures, not from lack of skills. This session explores Cultural Intelligence (CQ) as a critical capability for both effective hiring and building high-performing global teams. 🤝 

You’ll learn how to:
✨ Better understand cultural differences
✨ Avoid bias in hiring and people processes
✨ Strengthen collaboration within multicultural teams
✨ Unlock the full potential of multinational workforce and get better outcomes

🎤 Speaker : Renita Käsper(external link, opens in a new window), Head of Expansion at Teamdash
Renita Käsper has over 20 years of experience in talent management and recruitment and currently leads expansion at Teamdash, driving growth across Europe while helping organisations modernise hiring through AI-powered, human-centric approaches. 
She is also a certified Cultural Intelligence (CQ) facilitator, executive leadership coach, and community builder, as well as a recognised speaker and trainer, known for bringing together TA leaders and shaping conversations around leadership, cultural intelligence, and the future of work.

 

🎤Recording: Simplifying Leadership… Well, at Least Attempting To - Shaun Rudden from TalentOps Lab(external link, opens in a new window)

In the talk "𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗳𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽... 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹, 𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼," on HR Meetup 27.4.2026 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝘂𝗻 𝗥𝘂𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗻 talked ethrough how he’s learned to simplify his leadership style, through the harsh lessons learned when leading global teams. He’ll also share some practical tips to take away.

🎤 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿: Shaun Rudden(external link, opens in a new window), Talent Leader & Founder I TalentOps Lab
Shaun is a Talent Leader and the founder of TalentOps Lab. Prior to this, he spent six years at Wolt, where he led a global Talent Acquisition team, while also building out Talent Management processes, and Leadership Development initiatives.

His work is grounded in pragmatism and simplicity, and designed around how organisations operate in practice. He's a Certified ScrumMaster and is currently training towards his ICF coaching certification.

🎤Recording: Designing Workplace Culture for a Multilingual Future - Melissa Arni-Hardén from City of Espoo(external link, opens in a new window)

✨ Melissa Arni-Hardén, Customer Relations Manager at the City of Espoo, shared on HR Meetup 27.4.2026 how organizations can move from rigid language requirements to true language fluidity without compromising quality, safety, or customer experience. 

🎤 In this keynote, she has shared about: 
☑️ Why multilingualism is becoming a core competence for organizations 
☑️ How international talent is reshaping the Finnish labour market 
☑️ What language‑supported recruitment looks like in practice
☑️ Key learnings from the award‑winning Language‑Supported Recruitment pilot with OP Uusimaa (🏆 Rekrygaala 2025 – Recruitment Initiative of the Year) 
☑️ The strategic role HR plays in inclusion, integration, and employer branding 

💡 Expect practical examples, employer cases, and concrete takeaways for HR and people leaders building future‑ready workplaces.

 🦸‍♀️ Melissa Arni-Hardén works as Customer Relations Manager for the Economic Development Unit at City of Espoo. She leads a team of international professionals who develop and provide services that support employers in attracting and retaining talent. She has worked for over 15 years in the Finnish talent attraction & retention ecosystem and has also experience from promotion of exports and foreign direct investments. With an educational background in humanities, languages are a special passion for her. 

🧠 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 & 𝗔𝗜 — 𝗪𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀 𝗜𝘀 𝗜𝘁 𝗔𝗻𝘆𝘄𝗮𝘆?
In a world of constant notifications, AI tools, and endless distractions, who’s really in charge of your focus? (Hint: it might not be you.) In this workshop, we’ll think like a tiger to tackle this all-too-common dilemma 🐅

You’ll get a practical introduction to neuroscience, habits, and the learning curve and then explore how a “tiger mindset” can be applied to personal development, focus, and performance in modern work life, especially in the age of AI.

🎤 𝗛𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 Mark Hayton(external link, opens in a new window), 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 & 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 | 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀 𝗧𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗿

Mark brings to the stage a deep expertise in organisational change, transformation and workforce enablement. His perspective is based on experience of people and leadership practices from his global experience with Nokia and Wolt, where he is work centered around brain-centric working cultures. Mark is a firm believer in robust data, meaningful facilitation, and that people don't always think as much as they think, they think.
 

✨AI is taking over the transactional side of HR: data, analysis, automation, and predictable processes.

But during organizational change, the most important work is still deeply human. It lives in what remains unsaid, unwritten, and unshared: emotions, power relations, trust, resistance, informal alliances, hidden fears, and the subtle dynamics that shape real behavior inside teams and organizations.

These are the areas where change efforts often succeed or fail.

This workshop focuses on exactly that space.

🦸‍♀️ Host: Natasha Pokidko(external link, opens in a new window), HR & Change Management Professional, Executive Coach (ICF/EMCC), and Daniil Pokidko(external link, opens in a new window), Facilitator at Hopscotch Canvas Ab

It helps HR professionals strengthen their ability to notice, understand, and work with the human side of change that no dashboard, survey, or AI tool can fully capture on its own.

As AI reshapes industries, one question becomes critical: 
What makes a leader truly valuable when technology can do so much?
Join our interactive workshop where we explore how to lead effectively in a world driven by AI - by strengthening the one thing technology can’t replace: your human edge.

What we’ll cover: 
☑️ What leadership means today - beyond titles and authority 
☑️ The balance between hard skills and soft skills 
☑️ A practical self-management framework for modern leaders 
☑️ Guided self-diagnosis and peer discussions 
☑️ Hands-on group work to analyze your team or business

✨ Expect real insights, honest reflection, and actionable tools you can apply immediately.
Format: Interactive workshop with discussions and group exercises 
🎯 Ideal for: Leaders, managers, and professionals navigating change
Step into the future of leadership - and discover what sets you apart.

💖 Let's warmly welcome the workshop facilitators - co-founders of Helsinki HR Community:

🦸‍♀️ Elizaveta Rusakova(external link, opens in a new window) 
Head of Global HR Operations & Strategic HR Architect | Global Tech Scale-ups 
✔️10+ years of leading People Operations and building data-driven systems within global tech scale-ups
✔️Designing scalable People Ops and HR Tech infrastructure for high-growth, globally distributed teams
✔️Partnering with business leaders as a strategic advisor on People Systems and AI integration to empower resilient, high-performing cultures and human-centric leadership
✔️Co-Founder of the Helsinki HR Community

🦸‍♀️ Lena Belozerova(external link, opens in a new window)
Head of People & Culture | Verda (AI Hyperscaler)
✔️15+ years in HR, Talent & Leadership Development
✔️Building teams and culture in a fast-scaling AI company
✔️Leadership coach for managers navigating rapid growth and change
✔️Founder of the English-speaking HR Community in Helsinki