OD in the NHS 2026: Meet the exhibitors
At OD in the NHS 2026 we're happy to host a number of exhibitors who can support OD professionals and their organisations to be their best while navigating change. Find more details below.
Event sponsor
Affina Organisation Development
As an HR, OD or People leader, you’re working amid continuing pressures across team dynamics, leadership, wellbeing, culture and system-wide change — and that’s exactly where Affina can help.
Affina is the national specialist in team-based working across the NHS and wider care systems. We offer everything you need to strengthen team effectiveness, from simple diagnostics to award winning team development and system-level coaching.
You’ll be working with approaches grounded in the research of our Advisory Consultant, Professor Michael West, and leading academic partners. Every intervention is evidence-based and proven to improve how teams think, behave and perform.
Having supported thousands of teams across acute, primary care, neighbourhood health, mental health and social care, our breadth and depth of experience are unmatched.
And because we start with your goals and vision, we help you choose the right route to better outcomes — with measurable impact at team, organisational or system level. Let’s talk teams.
Email: info@affinaod.com
Website: www.affinaod.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/affina-od
Event partners
A Kind Life
We create kinder cultures at pace and at scale and have supported 75+ NHS organisations.
Because kindness in healthcare is proven to improve staff engagement, team productivity and patient outcomes.
Culture:
We transform culture with bespoke programmes.
High impact workshops, practical resources and engaging e-learning to co-create and sustain positive change.
Leadership:
We equip leaders at every level to role model kindness.
Proven approaches to inspire, manage, coach, appraise, and give and receive feedback effectively.
Belonging:
We create kinder cultures where everyone can thrive.
Address racism, sexual harassment and discrimination with proactive programmes to prevent harm before it happens.
Resolution:
We work to radically reduce and resolve bullying.
An end-to-end pathway and practical resources to tackle bullying through team culture, kind feedback and restorative processes.
Improvement:
We democratise improvement to involve everyone.
A unifying approach which empowers people, from ideas generation to execution and review, to drive lasting change.
Email: hello@akind.life
Website: akind.life
LinkedIn: uk.linkedin.com/company/a-kind-life
Totara
Purpose-built for the NHS, Totara’s cost-effective LMS takes the pain out of audit and compliance reporting, cuts manual workarounds, and helps get your staff front line-ready, faster.
Automated workflows, flexible integrations, and purpose-built add-ons efficiently deliver personalised learning at scale.
Cut the cost of compliance
Be CQC audit ready Motivate, develop and retain your staff Say goodbye to manual workarounds and embrace automated workflows that fully integrate into the NHS ecosystem.
Be CQC audit ready
With reporting tailored to NHS needs, stay on top of ad-hoc audit requests, and demonstrate your compliance status at the drop of a hat.
Motivate, develop and retain your staff
Show your staff you care as much as they do, with clear career development pathways, wellness monitoring, appraisals and more.
Email: john.mccann@totara.com
Website: totara.com
Kaleidoscope Health and Care
Hello, we're Kaleidoscope, an award-winning not-for-profit consultancy - we specialise in bringing people, teams and organisations together to improve health and care. And we’re on a mission to develop a world of work which is kinder, more connected, more joyful, and therefore more effective.
Our approach is based on a deep understanding of change that really works. We specifically focus on how three factors are shaped for effective development:
- Strategic – clarifying purpose and direction.
- Operational – organising the work and how it’s done.
- Cultural – building environments where people thrive.
From vision and values development to leadership programmes, high-performing teams to culture change, we'll meet you where you are to create solutions that will work in your context. And we won’t promise you 'transformation tomorrow' but we will enable 'change today'.
So, please come say hello. We promise a warm welcome, a passion for organisational development and stories of change that works.
Email: hello@kscopehealth.org.uk
Team Engagement & Development (TED)
TED is a powerful team diagnostic and toolkit with resources that are designed to enable both OD Practicioners and team leaders to have structured and meaningful conversations with their team.
The tool enables team leaders to explore what it feels like to work in their team and helps identify improvements that would make the biggest difference to team performance and engagement.
TED is designed to empower; providing team members with a voice whilst simultaneously building the capability of team leaders to have the conversations that matter the most to their team.
Developed internally by Lancashire Teaching Hospitals in 2016, it was initially designed in response to the NHS Staff Survey results and increasing requests of the Organisational Development Team to support individual team development interventions.
By enabling and building the capability of team leaders to take ownership of their own team development, it has allowed OD to focus on more holistic, strategic-level improvements to deliver whole organisation performance enhancements.
Email: tedsupport@lthtr.nhs.uk
Website: tedtool.co.uk
Enact Solutions
Enact are specialists in workplace behaviours, using drama-based learning with professional actors and subject matter experts to deliver powerful and transformative learning experiences.
Through experiential learning we enable safe skills practice to embed and sustain learning.
Neuroscience explains why our approach is so effective. Professional actors simulate high-stakes, emotionally authentic scenarios that mirror real workplace challenges.
These experiences activate multiple memory systems and emotional centres in the brain, for deeper learning and stronger retention. As Dan Heath puts it: “people see something, that makes them feel something that gives them the fuel to change".
Email: info@enactsolutions.com
Website: enactsolutions.com
Talking Health Leadership
Talking Health Leadership (THL) is a CPD‑recognised development programme created specifically for mid‑level NHS managers (Bands 6–8b) across clinical and non‑clinical roles. Now in its sixth year, the programme has supported leaders from over 40 NHS organisations, providing a trusted space to explore what effective leadership means in today’s NHS.
The THL programme provides virtual sessions with an in‑person conference, led by experienced NHS leaders who share honest and practical insights. Alongside this, speakers from outside the NHS bring their own leadership perspectives, while remaining closely connected to NHS reality. The programme is accessible and inclusive, with an emphasis on the leadership skills required in todays NHS: such as kindness, psychological safety, wellbeing and resilience.
THL works well as a stand‑alone leadership offer for NHS organisations, while also complementing existing in‑house programmes. Designed for busy professionals, it is highly interactive and focused on peer learning, reflection and connection— supporting the next generation of NHS leaders to lead well, now and into the future.
Email: info@talkingleadership.uk
Website: talkingleadership.co.uk
NHS Employers: Do OD
The NHS Employers Do OD team supports OD colleagues in the NHS to be better OD practitioners and make a positive impact on patient care. We ensure the ambitions and actions of the NHS People Plan are at the heart of our work. We take a systems approach to our work, clearly demonstrating our values of curiosity, creativity, courage and co-production in all we do.
We're looking forward to meeting colleagues at the conference and hearing about your organisation's OD practice, so please do say hello on the day.
Email: do.od@nhsemployers.org
Web page: nhsemployers.org/do-od
