Princess Catherine delivered her first public speech in two years at the Future Workforce Summit, marking her return to in-person engagements since her cancer diagnosis became public in March 2024. Speaking to UK business leaders, she urged employers to support healthy family lives, saying “time and tenderness” are as vital as productivity. After her address, she met with attendees including football manager Gareth Southgate.
00:00Time. Remember this. The time is now. It's always now. In a world that we design. That by nurturing early, we build stronger foundations for later.
00:30Good morning, everybody, and thank you very much for being here today. I hope you'll find it interesting and insightful. I'm certainly looking forward to it. We've got some fantastic speakers, so thank you to all of you for your time, support and commitment.
00:45Love is the first and most essential bond, but it's also the invisible threat, woven with time, attention and tenderness, through consistent nurturing relationships, which creates the grounded and meaningful environments around a child.
01:02It is this texture, the weave of love, which forms a child's emotional world and becomes the foundation, the very fabric of resilience and belonging.
01:13Every one of you interacts with your own environment, a home, a family, a business, a workforce, a community. These are the ecosystems that you, yourselves, help to weave.
01:32Imagine a world where each of these environments were built on valuing time and tenderness just as much as productivity and success.
01:45Thank you for being part of this. Hello.
01:46It's so nice to see you again. Good to see you. Hi, how are you? Good, thank you very much. Hello, how are you?
02:04Thank you. Thank you. I'm so grateful for your time and for being part of this. We're happy to be here.
02:10This is some of the relationships that have obviously been going on. Well, leaders too. It's important.
02:13That's why businesses are aware of it. But they don't necessarily have to go on perfect things.
02:29Time. Remember this. The time is now. It's always now. In a world that we design.
02:37designed that by nurturing early we build stronger foundations for later
02:50good morning everybody and thank you very much for being here today i hope you'll find it interesting
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