Top Innovation Fixations in 2025 - Restorative Practice in Culture
Every year, we meet, hear from or read about the people, projects and organisations quietly reinventing how the social housing sector - and the wider world - thinks, builds, connects and serves.
This list celebrates not the predictable or the polished, but just some of the people and organisations we've seen trying something new, even when there isn’t a blueprint.
From robot baristas and restorative practice in HR to AI-driven stock surveys and modular multi-storey buildings, these are some of our favourites from the last year.
What's up next in this year's list? It's Aster Group UK, showing us that cultural change doesn’t have to mean another HR policy or strategy.
Instead, it borrowed from the criminal justice world, adopting restorative practice to transform how people work together and ultimately, its culture.
Restorative practice focuses on dialogue and accountability, rather than directives and discipline. It’s about talking through problems, issues and conflicts, understanding different perspectives, and finding a way forward together.
Aster’s People and Culture Director, Lyndsay Nickerson, led the charge; making Aster the first housing organisation in the UK to take this human-first approach to conflict resolution and in turn, culture transformation.
Learn more about how it works in practice by listening to our DINCast, with Lyndsay and our people and culture lead, Helena Moore, here: https://lnkd.in/eRpYCXR8
