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The theme of this session is Digital Wellness in the Workplace: helping employees regain focus, energy, and presence despite constant digital distractions.
The session explores how poor digital habits like doomscrolling, constant app switching, and unmanaged smartphone use quietly drain productivity, engagement, and well-being.
This session will help HR and L&D leaders recognise and address digital overwhelm as both a wellness challenge and a performance lever.
Drawing from emerging digital wellness research, this session offers attendees the most up-to-date insights on how technology habits affect focus, engagement, and workplace culture while acknowledging the ongoing debate in this rapidly evolving field. Participants will gain practical, evidence-informed strategies to:
- Identify when poor digital habits may be eroding focus, engagement, and team effectiveness.
- Evaluate how organizational norms and communication practices contribute to digital overload.
- Lead by example modeling digital balance as a core element of leadership effectiveness and employee well-being.
Competency Framework: Coaching; Facilitation
Session Theme and Target Audience: Future ways of working
Speaker: Riz Vazir
Riz Vazir is the founder and CEO of Scroll By Choice building upon over 20 years of leadership in organizational change and transformation at Microsoft, City of Bellevue and Aon. A Prosci-certified Change Management Practitioner and Kellogg MBA, Riz has worked with organizations such as Mercer Island School District, MindTude, Microsoft, KCLS and students from organizations such as Meta, Stripe, Caterpillar and more - build digital wellness that strengthens focus, performance, and connection in an AI-driven world. He lives in Bellevue, WA with his wife and son, who inspires his work.
Event Access: The link to access this event can be found in the Additional Information section of the Registration Confirmation and Reminder emails. If you do not receive these emails, please check your spam or junk folders. You will be able to log in from 10:45am, ready for the webinar to begin at 11am.
Host: Lower North Island
Event eligibility: This event is open to NZATD members, affiliates and non-members.
Registering for this event:
- Prices exclude GST.
- Members can register for this event by logging in using their member login details.
- Affiliates: (HRNZ, AITD, CDANZ, FLANZ, ICF, NZOQ, PSANZ, TechCommNZ) can attend at member rates. When registering, follow the non-member registration process and use the 'Online Affiliate' promo code to access the member rate. Contact your affiliate administrator for this code.
Cancellations and Attendance:
- Please give 48 hours notice of cancellation.
- Once registered, you will be expected to pay regardless of attendance.
- Substitutions permitted if transferred to someone holding the same
- ticket type e.g. member. Non-members are not permitted to attend in place of a member.
