Co-founder & CEO at LACE Partners
Co-founder and CEO of LACE Partners, an HR consultancy specialising in HR transformation, tech selection and tech adoption. An HR transformation specialist and global programme director with 25years’ experience in some of the world’s largest and most successful management consultancies.
He is accomplished in delivering complex business change and HR projects for global cross-industry clients for all aspects of HR, including HR systems (Fusion and Workday). Experience operating at a senior level in client organisations, to shape and deliver significant business change programs.
Current and former clients include Credit Suisse, Lafarge Holcim, Barclays, M&S, Coke CCE, Carnival, EasyJet and YOOX Net-a-Porter
A Fellow of the CIPD, active member of the court of HR Professionals and former Partner at both Accenture and Deloitte with a very successful track record of delivery, implementation and selection.
Chief Product Officer at 10x Psychology
Oliver is the Chief Product Officer at 10x Psychology. Within his role, he skilfully applies people analytics techniques to psychometric data and products. His specialist areas of interest are in predictive hire, values fit and leadership evaluation and development.
Oliver is a thought leader in the application of data analytics within HR, and has extensive analytics, people and change management experience from holding senior HR leadership roles across the private and public sectors.
A triple graduate, he was initially educated at Reading University (BSc Statistics and MSc Biometrics) and later at Portsmouth University (MSc Human Resources). Oliver’s high-end numerical skills, award winning solutions and private sector experience fuelled his rapid advancement through sequential operational leadership roles and into the highest levels of HR Management.
Founder at Stockton Heath Consulting
Transformational leader with over 20 years of experience operating at Board and C Suite level. An innovative and pragmatic people-focused leader who has built teams and delivered in senior roles across sectors - including, financial services, education, law, outsourcing and defense.
International track record of maintaining relationships and achieving results with supply chain and client business leaders in the US, Canada, Europe, India, Australia, South Africa. Leadership of £multi-million business transformation programs from pre-bid strategy through to execution and benefits realisation, i.e. from soup to nuts.
Business improvement specialist – track record of running multi-million change contracts with results. Experienced in Digital Transformation, BPR, workflow, Lean, Service Management
Deputy Leader at the Liberal Democrats
Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, Shadow Cabinet member for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy & Liberal Democrat candidate for Kingston & Surbiton
Ed has served as a Member of Parliament for Kingston and Surbiton from 1997 to 2015, and from June 2017 until the dissolution of Parliament in November 2019. Ed is currently the Liberal Democrat candidate for Kingston and Surbiton.
An economist by training, Ed was a business consultant before he was elected for the first time in 1997. It was his concerns about the environment that first got him politically active. During the coalition government, Ed served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, before he was promoted to Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2012-2015.
Ed says his proudest achievement as an MP was to have led the policy to secure a massive increase in renewable power in the UK which quadrupled under the Coalition government and put the UK on track to beat the 30% target by 2020. He has also championed several local campaigns including saving the A&E and maternity units at Kingston Hospital from closure, delivering additional primary school places in Kingston and securing millions to invest in a reformed Post Office network.
Ed was elected to be Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats in September 2019. He is the Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and Shadow Cabinet member for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
NED at the University of Exeter & Trustee at National Union of Students (UK)
Jo Binding is a strategy consultant who works with companies and charities to help them define and deliver ambitious growth plans or make changes where things aren't working.
She spent many years working in fast-growth organisations in the media and digital sectors including at Sky, News International, BT Sport, Discovery and Man City FC. More recently she has advised a variety of companies on strategy development, digital transformation, restructuring and consumer-led product development processes.
She is a Non-Executive Director and Trustee for Exeter University, the National Union of Students and Chair of Trustees for The Student View; a small but growing charity working with schools and journalists to educate young people about fake news and the power of journalism.
Managing Director, Global Head of Talent Acquisition Strategy & Programs at Citigroup
Syreeta Brown is a Managing Director at Citigroup working in HR and heads up Citi’s Global Recruitment Strategy & Programs function. Syreeta leads a team which covers recruitment processes and systems / technical infrastructure, social media and recruitment marketing, as well as managing the program office for all Global Recruitment programmes. Syreeta also has responsibility, partnering with key stakeholders across the Global Talent, Brand, Corporate Communications teams and Regional Heads of Recruitment and business stakeholders, to define Citi’s strategy for sourcing talent and developing the Employee Value Proposition as part of Citi’s core recruitment process. Syreeta joined Citi in November 2010 as EMEA Regional Head of Recruitment - a role she held for 3 years before assuming the Global Recruitment Strategy remit.
Prior to joining Citi, Syreeta was an HR Director at British Telecom Group PLC, having joined as a graduate in 1998. She rapidly advanced her career over 12 years working across various businesses in a number of roles. Syreeta holds a BA (Hons) English Literature from Goldsmiths College, University of London, Masters in Human Resources from University of Westminster, and an Executive Masters in HR Leadership from Rutgers. Syreeta sits on the ‘Panel of Influential Women’ run by the Advanced Boardroom Excellence Group, which is focused on the development of senior executives. Syreeta was recently recognised for 20 years of service to Human Resources by the CIPD. Syreeta is a Board trustee for the Access all Areas Theatre – a theatre company for learning disabled artists based in Hackney.
Syreeta was named Financial Services Leader of the year at the 2018 Black British Business Awards.
CEO at The Cure Parkinson's Trust
Will was appointed CEO in 2017, working with and alongside deputy CEO Helen Matthews. Prior to that, he served as a Trustee of the charity and Chair of our Governance & Risk Committee from 2015.
Will has been a supporter of the charity since its inception in 2005, although his involvement dates back to 2002. He was Chair of the charity fundraising committee supporting Tom Isaacs' 4500 mile charity walk (Coastin’) which resulted in the foundation of CPT.
Will works with Helen and CPT’s Director of Research & Development, Dr Richard Wyse, to drive the Trust’s research programme. He leads our fundraising and communications teams to support that research, manages all staff and is responsible to our Trustee Board for the governance, efficiency and strategy of the charity.
Will is a solicitor by profession, having been a partner of City firm Simmons & Simmons and intellectual property specialists Marks & Clerk during his 28-year career. He retired from partnership in 2018, but remains active for Marks & Clerk as its Senior Counsel and as a consultant in several areas of IP law.
Head of Organisational Development at HCA Healthcare UK
Barbara is the employee engagement lead for HCA Healthcare UK, a division of HCA (Hospital Corporation of America), the world’s largest private hospital group, with over 28 million patient encounters each year. In her role Barbara is a member of the Executive Council for Employee Engagement for HCA Healthcare globally, designing the survey strategy and implementation for 270,000 colleagues in the UK and America. In addition to employee engagement, Barbara is also responsible for colleague communication, leadership capability development and talent management at HCA UK. This remit brings together her passions for building the confidence, capability and engagement of colleagues and leaders, and linking colleague performance and engagement to the delivery of exceptional care to the patients that HCA serve. Prior to HCA UK Barbara held a number of operational and HR roles in national retail organisations.
former Chief Executive of BHA
After being one of the first people to ever graduate with a degree in Hotel Management, Bob spent the first 5 years of his career working in the car industry and looking after food services for Ford, Chrysler, British Leyland and their 60k-200k employees. He then moved to Gardner Merchant where, for the next 25 years, he saw the growth of the company to their management buyout in 1994 and their expansion to 19 countries around the world. Since then, he has been appointed chief executive of the British Hospitality Association (BHA), Chairman of the Tourism Alliance and Chairman of Hospitality Action. He also received an OBE for his services to the tourism and hospitality industry.
Founder at Muru Leadership
Leading through uncertainty – applying one rule and three questions
Facing an unprecedented level of change where the pace and complexity is unlike anything we’ve seen, it’s no wonder leaders are experiencing ever increasing pressure and anxiety. As the expectations on leaders intensifies, we have to equip them to lead more effectively through uncertainty.
How do we do this? We help them build greater courage and conviction in their own leadership. We help them let go of outdated definitions of what it means to be a leader and create a new path for showing leadership. And we do this through applying one rule and three questions.
About Muru Leadership
Founded by Rob Cross, Muru Leadership challenges the norm by bringing to life a new philosophy for unlocking human potential. In today’s age of acceleration, the classic definitions of being a leader are no longer working. They restrict people’s development, holding them in a place of confusion about their identity and role. Through applying the Muru philosophy of one rule and three questions, those in leadership roles build greater confidence and conviction in their own leadership. This enables them to better unlock their own and their team’s potential, as they lead through uncertainty.
Find out more via www.muruleadership.com
Co-Founder at Too Good To Go
Jamie Crummie trained as a lawyer before pursuing his mission of fighting food waste. He is the co-founder of Too Good To Go: the world’s largest marketplace for surplus food.
The free app connects retailers who have unsold food available with local consumers who purchase, collect and enjoy their surplus food. Too Good To Go is now active in 10 countries (and counting!) with over 13 million Waste Warriors who have rescued over 15 million meals collectively from 22,000 food businesses.
In the UK, over 550,000 meals have been saved to date.
Chief People Officer (ExCo) at Sage
Amanda became Chief People Officer in September 2018, a role she started on an interim basis in October 2017. She joined Sage in March 2015 to lead first the people transformation across Sage Functions and then latterly as Executive Vice President People Business Partners - leading the regional and functional generalist people teams across all of Sage locations.
Amanda has eighteen years of HR experience across a number of global FTSE organisations, including manufacturing, engineering and projects businesses where she focused on supporting executive leaders to drive change and transformation. During her career to date, Amanda has built extensive experience across North America, Latin America, Asia and Europe. She has led in all aspects of Human Resources but specifically in M&A, growth in new geographies and working across cultures and matrix organisations. Amanda has also specialised in talent development to executive level.
Passionate about developing talent and leadership and creating truly inclusive organisations which promote diversity, Amanda has a Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Warwick and postgraduate qualifications in Human Resources Management.
Chief Human Resources Officer at the BBC
Valerie has worked in HR for 35 years across a variety of sectors and countries. She is currently Chief HR Officer for the BBC and has been in this role since 2014. She is a member of the BBC Executive and is responsible for the design and implementation of the BBC’s HR and Internal Communications strategy.
Prior to joining the BBC in 2014, Valerie was Group HR Director at support services organisation Amey, with responsibility for the HR, Marketing/Communications and Health, Safety and Sustainability strategy for 20,000 employees. During this time she led the people integration of 10,000 employees from acquired company Enterprise into Amey.
She previously held the role of Group HR Director for Steria, based in Paris with global responsibility for 20,000 employees. She joined Steria in 2007 as a result of the acquisition of Xansa by Steria and was responsible for the people merger of the two organisations. She had worked at Xansa for 10 years, initially on a part-time basis while bringing up a young family, and then moving to become Group HR Director in 2004. In addition to leading the HR function, she developed a new HR Outsourcing service line for the organisation from India.
Her earlier career was spent initially at Selfridges as a Personnel Manager and then working at EDS (now Hewlett Packard), which she joined while living in the Netherlands. She spent four years there, initially heading up European Recruitment and then becoming HR Director for Northern Europe. She transferred to the UK with the organisation as head of European Compensation and Benefits before becoming UK HR Director.
Valerie is a Fellow of the CIPD and has a B. Com. degree from Birmingham University. She speaks regularly at conferences and mentors many HR professionals and students including through the University of Birmingham’s alumni programme. She is also an adviser to board committees at the Donmar Warehouse theatre and has been a Court member for the Guild of HR professionals.
Vice President, EMEA at Twitter
Bruce Daisley is the EMEA Vice President of Twitter and best-selling author of The Joy of Work. He joined the company in 2012 having previously run YouTube UK at Google. He has also worked at Emap/Bauer and Capital Radio.
Bruce runs the Apple #1 Business Chart topping podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat on work culture. Bruce's book The Joy of Work has been a smash hit, it was the Sunday Times number 1 business bestseller in spring 2019, the Financial Times made it Book of the Month.
Founder & CEO at Temporall
In his 10 years at Google, Thomas led the UK&I Cloud business as Country Manager, then became Director of Northern, Eastern & Central Europe, before leading the Global Partnerships team.
During this time Thomas was intrigued by the culture of the organisation and began to investigate and subsequently define what high-performance culture really meant, and how to measure it. He has a passion for helping organisations use technology to drive cultural change and develop a sustainable strategy for future success.
Having founded Temporall, Thomas now helps organisations develop culture as a strategic lever for transformation. Positioning culture as a strategy leads to an increase in performance and supports successful digital transformation.
He took his own enterprise cloud product from concept to go-live in 12 months and united a world-class team to create a digital native organisation that is continually transforming – successfully. Thomas is an expert in the business use of machine learning, digital technologies, leadership and the complexities of operating in multiple markets in times of unprecedented change.
Thomas and the Temporall team are now supporting progressive business leaders in understanding how to capture quantitative, qualitative and ‘network activity’ signals from employees that positively impact the bottom line. He strongly believes that every organisation is unique and has the power to choose their own destiny. He has a humanistic approach to life and work.
Thomas is a highly regarded keynote speaker and has had articles published on FastCo and Medium and he featured in the Financial Times series “Meet the Career Changers”. He is an accredited executive coach and has sat on the Technology Advisory Board for one of the UK’s leading banks. Thomas is on the Advisory of the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT), and a Board member at TCES Group.
MD at Rhino Consulting
Andrew was previously Group Head of HR, Retail Banking & Wealth Management at HSBC. Having joined in 2008 as the Head of HR UK Bank, Andrew has developed and deployed Global change initiatives which have had a significant positive impact on the culture and values of the business.
Andrew Fox has a proven track record of delivering change growth in complex, global organisations. He is a passionate, practical and highly commercial HR professional – combining theory and strategic implementation to enhance business performance and enable people development.
Life Philosophy “The heart of the leader is manifested through service to others.
In his spare time, Andrew is a Martial Arts enthusiast and enjoys reading, watching movies and riding his Harley. He is also actively involved in the charity Fight for Peace.
Group CEO at Elements Talent Consultancy
Daniel Goldstein is the founder and CEO of Elements Talent Consultancy. He founded the business in 2009 and first piloted the concept of Embedded Talent Consultancy 6 years later.
He is a passionate advocate of the true value of excellent talent acquisition professionals and is on a mission to change perceptions of an industry which has traditionally been characterised by low standards and a consequent lack of trust.
About Elements
Elements are the pioneers of Embedded Talent Consultancy.
They built the model around their very first embedded partners: Spotify and Atlassian. Driven by a conviction that the traditional, transactional dynamic served nobody well, they created something entirely different.
Focusing on the transformative impact of effective collaboration, they work alongside their partners as trusted consultants. Advising from the inside, their people go deeper, inspiring truly meaningful change.
The success of their approach has meant that they’ve grown quickly, doubling their headcount in each of the last 4 years. Over the same period, they’ve become a trusted partner for brands like iZettle, Booking.com, King & Just Eat, building a bespoke team of embedded consultants for each engagement.
Today, Elements is present worldwide, with offices in Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne, Singapore and Stockholm, as well as London. Further offices are planned for Amsterdam, New York and Austin in 2020 and beyond.
A.I Consulting Leader at IBM Talent Management Solutions
Nigel consults about analytical approaches to human resource management, including the use of artificial intelligence in the talent acquisition process. He has published many scientific articles on HR analytics and is currently co-editing a special issue of the Human Resource Management Journal on analytics and machine learning in Human Resources. He was awarded an IBM Eminence and Excellence award for work integrating machine learning and behavioural science in HR. He has written many articles for the popular press on HR analytics, including for Harvard Business Review. He is co-author the best selling HR analytics book The Power of People: Learn how successful organizations use workforce analytics to improve business performance (Pearson FT).
NED and Chair of RemCo, CIPD
Yetunde Hofmann is a Non-Executive Director on the global board of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and is a member of their Audit Committee and Nominations Committee.
In 2018 She became the CIPD champion for the Middle East. An internationally accredited Integral Development Coach she is Managing Director of Synchrony Development Consulting which partners with organisations in the development and execution of change strategy, diversity and inclusion and the alignment of their people and organisation behind the way forward. She had a successful career as an HR Leader in FTSE 100 global companies including Imperial Brands, Unilever, Allied Domecq and Northern Foods. Her tenets are Love, Leadership and Results. A TEDx Speaker, Conference Chair and Speaker, Yetunde sits on the boards of a number of organisations such as Treatt PLC, The Education Development Trust (EDT) where she also Chairs their Remuneration Committee and Tomorrow's Company. She is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Reading's Henley Business School and is Founder of The Enjoyable Life Series - a Community Organisation designed to help men and women in all walks of life live their lives more enjoyably. In 2018 she was named one of the top 100 women in the UK to watch by the Cranfield University Female FTSE Board Report.
Her twitter handles are: @Yetundeh and @ENJLifeseries
Director of Strategic Programmes at Thales UK
Ben is the Director of Strategic Programmes at Thales, a large engineering company which operates primarily in the Aerospace, Defence, Security and Transportation sectors. Ben is currently expanding the use of Agile techniques to improve programme delivery. He recently led the Smart Working cultural change programme to empower teams to work whenever, wherever and however is most beneficial for our customers.
Ben started his career at Accenture, managing complex HR, learning and change programmes for FTSE 100 businesses in the consumer goods, pharmaceutical and defence industries. Ben’s previous role was to lead the Business Change team at Thales, with a particular focus on technology change including cloud computing, connectivity, mobility solutions and social media.
Head of PLM Devops at Ericsson
Maria has been a leader within the Swedish Telecom vendor Ericsson for the last fourteen years. For most of those years heading up the development of software products for telecom core systems. A year and a half ago she moved into sales and service delivery of the Ericsson core system portfolio as Head of Telcom Core & Cloud, Digital Services.
During her professional career, the Telecom industry and the company has been through major changes. The common denominator for change, planned or unplanned, is that it deflects focus from defined business targets. Maria has developed a special interest in how to lead people and organizations to deliver everyday results, even while bigger changes are ongoing.
Prior to her employment with Ericsson, Maria worked as a consultant for AU-System, Teleca and Capgemini.
Director of Business Transformation at Royal Mail
A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, the Chartered Global Management Accountants, and the Association for Project Management, Ian was educated at Coventry University, Manchester Business School and Oxford Saïd Business School.
A business leader who has spent a significant part of his career in the areas of strategic planning, transformational change and corporate governance. In recent times, Ian led an award-winning transformation programme - one of the largest and most complex investments of its kind in UK industry, impacting on over 140,000 people across Royal Mail’s UK operation and enabling the 2013 IPO. Ian also operated as Chief of Staff between 2014 and 2018 - acting as confidante, critical-friend and trusted advisor to Royal Mail’s UK CEO.
In his current role as Director of Business Transformation for the UK division of Royal Mail, Ian leads a professional portfolio, programme and project management resource enabling technological, infrastructure, process and method changes across the UK.
Ian also acts in an advisory capacity to Career Ready, CASS Business School and The Romero Academy in Coventry. Until recently, Ian was the non-executive chairman of National Design Consultancy 2000 Ltd – a UK based company providing building engineering services to the public and private sectors. Ian is also a Trustee for the Rowland Hill Fund - a not-for-profit organisation providing financial support to current and past employees of Royal Mail and The Post Office.
Founding CTO at Purplebricks
Founding CTO of Purplebricks worked with small and medium-sized businesses, government/EU and multinational corporations along with multiple startups. I believe in transparency, automation AI and aggregation.
While I love technology, it's people who make the difference. Motivated people tend to create and use the cool technologies that impact our daily lives.
NED & Consultant on HR, D&I and Change
Martin is a Non- Executive Director for the Office of the Independent Adjudicator and a Non- Executive Director at an NHS Trust where he is also Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee. He is Chairman of the Advisory Board for PushFar the career progression company and is owner and founder of Martin Kirke Career Coaching. He is a Mentor with the Prince’s Trust and an International Coaching Federation qualified executive coach. He is also a Professional Mentor for the Guild of HR Professionals and the Diversity and Inclusion Adviser for Macmillan Cancer Support.
Martin is a conference speaker and writer on many aspects of HR, work, careers and change. Martin is a member of the CIPD Policy Forum which advises the government on the world of work.
Martin was Group HR Director at the Post Office reporting to the Chief Executive and a member of the Executive Board. He played a major role in the transformation of the Post Office to a growing and profitable business after 16 years of losses. At the same time, customer satisfaction and employee engagement increased. The teams’ achievements were recognised by the Prime Minister.
Martin has previously held HR Director and Change Director roles at Dow Chemical, Ericsson, Serco Transport and BP including international roles based in Sweden and the USA. At BP he was HR Global Operations Director for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.
He had a key role for the 2012 Olympics in London working at Transport for London as HR Delivery Director. After this, he was asked to work for No.10/ Cabinet Office on change programmes.
Martin also spent five years outside HR, as a business director with full P&L responsibility and a successful record of business growth.
Martin is a Fellow of the RSA and CIPD and has a first degree in Behavioural Science and a master’s degree in HR Management from Cardiff University
Managing Director at Transform for Value
Suzie Lewis is Founder and Managing Director of Transform for Value, and has extensive experience in driving international transformation projects, and in preparing business leaders and employees for change. Suzie is about connecting people, their potential, collective intelligence and equipping organisations to get the best out of individuals and teams. During 18 years working in the aeronautical industry for Airbus, she has led both flagship projects and teams large and small in culture change, leadership, digital transformation, Agile, diversity and inclusion, talent management and recruitment.
RPA/AI/Finance Transformation at Generation GFO
A Big Four-qualified Chartered Accountant with 15 years of finance leadership experience in driving transformation at blue-chip organisations in both consulting and industry. Proven success in developing and executing strategic change programs to increase growth and profitability. Broad finance experience in FP&A, financial control and financial strategy, including:
Global HR Director at Bibby Financial Services
Paul has over 30 years of experience across all the HR disciplines with a proven track record of delivering a commercial, business-focused people agenda at a PLC, global and geographic regional level across a diverse range of sectors; Chemicals, Energy and Utility, Beverages/Spirits and Wine, Technology and Telecommunications, Travel and Leisure, Financial and Professional Services, Publishing.
Passionate about the role and value HR can bring in driving business performance and transformation, Paul is clear in his message; “unless HR thinks, acts and engages like a business, we do not deserve a place at the table.
Married with two sons, Paul loves to travel and is a passionate supporter of rugby at all levels. If the two can be combined, so much the better!
Director of Artificial Intelligence at PWC
Rob works with partners across academia, government, technology vendors, start-ups, and other key stakeholders, in order to drive innovation within the Firm and develop new services for clients. He is an evangelist for responsible technology and promotes awareness of the growing ethical agenda relating to AI. He is an advisory board member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on AI, an adviser to The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, a TEDx speaker, and a Fellow of The RSA. Rob is particularly focused upon the issues and policies relating to the impact of automation on the workforce, the future skills agenda, and ensuring that the benefits to be delivered by AI are equitably spread across society.
Co-Founder at Gather
Lindsey is the co-founder of Gather, applying location intelligence to the global sanitation crisis. She leads Gather’s programmes, including a recent innovation in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. Working with government, private companies and the non-profit sector, Gather is using data to get toilets to 350,000 people in low-income communities in the city.
A trained geographer and fledgeling geek, Lindsey previously worked with Restless Development to empower young people across the world. Alongside her work with Gather, Lindsey sits on the board of trustees for the United Nations Association (UK) and the steering community for Women in Geospatial. She frequently speaks on the potential of collaboration, data for good and diversity. Lindsey has been named as one of Forbes’ 30 Social Entrepreneurs Under 30, MIT's 35 Innovators Under 35 and an Ashoka Changemaker.
EMEA Head of Talent and Global Performance Management Leader at FIS
Kehinde Oluwo is the EMEA Head of Talent Management for FIS, a global financial technology company. She is responsible for leading the design, development and implementation of a leading-edge Performance Management approach for all 50,000 of FIS employees globally.
Prior to her current role, Kehinde was a Strategy and Change Consultant with over 15 years experience within the Financial Services sector. The hallmark of her career has been the delivery of strategic people change initially as a Consultant with IBM and in-house within large global organizations including HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, Barclays Wealth. She combines her broad business knowledge and commercial acumen to ensure that the potential of people are maximized and central to delivering business results.
Kehinde completed a Masters in Organizational Behaviour at Birkbeck, University of London, a Bachelor of Economics at the University of Durham and is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development (MCIPD).
UK Operations Director at Change Management Institute
Ket is a certified Change Practitioner with over 15 years of hands-on experience leading change and transformation activities. Having led several large-scale transformations, driven through M&A, he has a vast array of expertise cutting cross all business disciplines and activities with particular specialisms in Data Analytics, Business Operations design (back office and client) and Digital and Technology Transformation.
Ket is also the UK Director of Operations and London Chapter Lead of the Change Management Institute. The role brings cutting-edge thought leadership on topics such as Design Thinking, Neuroscience, Benefits Management, Master Data Management and Nudge Theory as well as many other emerging capabilities to enable change professionals to develop networks for greater individual and organisational capability. It also ensures that the Change Management Institute continue to grow to support affiliates in our local chapters and brings consistency and commonality to the offering across the UK.
HR Director, EMEA & HR Transformation at Cyient
Keith is an experienced HR Director who has spent over 18 years collaborating with leaders and teams transforming global organizations.
At Cyient, he is currently responsible for leading the drive of the implementation of their people technology, D&I and employee communication strategies as part of his role collaborating with the executive leadership team in the execution of the Company cultural transformation.
Keith’s leadership brand is focused on creating energy, insight, future insights and a passion for creating high-performance cultures through great people.
His brand is underpinned by some simple values that have followed him throughout his career. These values still ring true today:
Married with a 4-year-old daughter and future HR professional :), Keith is a keen scuba diver, cyclist and photographer…but not fantastic at any of them.
Group HR Director at Wilson James Group
Sam is accountable for the group wide People Strategy which incorporates the Security, Construction Logistics and Aviation divisions within the Wilson James Group.
Prior to Wilson James, Sam held several HRD roles across the public and private sector. Her experience has seen her lead significant people and technology transformations including deployment of cloud based people solutions, using technology to enable mobile and flexible working and supporting integrated learning for complex partnerships.
Prior to working in HR, Sam had a successful career in recruitment, working at board level in both the UK and Australia. Here she delivered a range of solutions including RPO for large blue chip organisations where technology transformation enabled improved service delivery and organisational efficiency.
Head of Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging at The Telegraph
Asif is Head of Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging for The Telegraph. Delivering the strategic plan to drive a co-ordinated approach across the business to focus both investment and intent on the broader inclusion agenda. He is a Multi-Award Winning Diversity and Inclusion expert with a proven track record in achieving operational and strategic targets, managing quality, performance, risk and change through promoting equal opportunities and diverse cultures.
He is a passionate and inspirational leader with the ability to empower individuals and create a truly inclusive environment for all. Asif is key in implementing D&I activities and programmes as well as connecting with stakeholders at all levels to build strong and influential relationships with business leaders and influencers. Asif acts as a role model, providing governance across the business on D&I and cultural change and is committed to creating a strong sense of belonging for all.
Asif has received a number of accolades for his professional and volunteering work that include the Mosaic (Prince’s Trust) Award for mentoring and NAMP Multi Faith Award, Police Officer of the Year Award, European, the Civil Servant of the Year Award, the prestigious Asian Professional Award and the highly commended Head of Diversity Award at the European Diversity Awards. Asif was honoured last year in the Queen’s birthday honours list with an MBE for his services to Policing and the Communities and is a member of the HR Guild and is a Freeman of the City.
He is currently the Chair of the London Hate Crime Board, an Ambassador for Remembering Srebrenica, Member of the APPG (All Party Parliamentary Group) on Hate Crime, Special Advisory to the charity Penny Appeal, a trainer for the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and a Special Sergeant with the City of London Police.
Chairman and Founder, 10x Psychology
BA (Hons), MPhil, PhD, HonDrSc, HonFBPsS, C.Psychol, FBPsS, CSci, AcademicFCIPD, FInstSM, FRSA, FIoD
Peter Saville is arguably the best known, most successful and highly acclaimed Psychologist within the Business Psychology Profession. The British Psychological Society (BPS) have stated, “Peter Saville established Britain as a centre for Psychometric testing and is responsible for cementing the notion of fair and objective assessment in Human Resources across the world. As a skilled psychometrician and visionary leader, Peter Saville has made a significant impact on professional psychology in the UK and beyond. The widespread use of his tests by major companies and public bodies is testament to the influence of Peter Saville’s remarkable ideas.”
With a usage of some 50 million of his measures of ability, personality, motivation and talent annually, Peter has been described as “One of the most influential Psychologists of our time”. He founded SHL in 1977 where he developed the Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ) and the first commercial Big 5 Personality measure. He floated SHL group on the main London stock exchange in 1997. In 1998 Peter was listed in the ‘Top 100’ Entrepreneurs by Enterprise Magazine and in 1999 was cited as one of Britain’s Top Ten Psychologists, the only Occupational Psychologist included. In 2001 Peter’s portrait hung in the National Portrait Gallery after being presented with the British Psychology Society Centenary Award for Distinguished Contributions to Professional Psychology. Peter then went on to found Saville Consulting (now Saville Assessment), where he developed the Saville Wave questionnaire. The company was acquired by Willis Towers Watson in 2015. Already a Fellow, in 2012 Peter received the highest BPS award, Honorary Fellowship, in recognition of his work in “Flying the flag for Britain for objective assessment” and “Creating the global gold standard for psychometric tests”. Peter has written over 200 publications and spoken in over 60 countries worldwide. Peter was Professor of Psychology at Queen’s University, Belfast and is currently Professor of Leadership Studies at Kingston University, London.
Global Senior Team Lead - Technology Talent Acquisition at Zalando
Manjuri globally leads the technology talent acquisition team for Europe’s Leading e-commerce platform, Zalando SE. She possesses international experience in Tech business Partnering and Talent Acquisition for mid to large organizations such as Accenture and has worked and lived in India, Czech Republic and Germany. Being an avid traveller, she also wears the hats of a speaker, mentor and a blogger.
Founder & CEO at Beam
Founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneur Alex Stephany, Beam is the world’s first platform to crowdfund employment training for homeless people and support them into skilled work for the long term. Since launching, Beam’s supporters have funded training opportunities for more than 130 homeless men and women in London. Funded by the Mayor of London, Nesta and some of the world's top tech entrepreneurs, Beam has already won a number of awards for its work including first prize in the London Homelessness Awards, and Best Use of Technology in the Homeless Sector, and Hottest Tech for Good Startup in Europe at The Europas.
Global Chief Technology Officer at MediaCom
Nadine Thomson leads international, technology change programmes in her executive career. She had worked across multi-channel Retail, Media, Leisure and Financial Services. Nadine has recently worked as Digital Advisor for News UK, Group CTO for Conde Nast International (Vogue, GQ) and Technology Director for Vue Cinema.
She has 10 years non-executive experience on the boards of Host UK and Cinema For All and has seen the value, skills and strategic perspective that a non-exec role can bring to an Exec career.
VP, Product Development at Ascential
James is an experienced digital leader who has spent over 15 years transforming businesses, defining vision and strategy for new products, platforms and services, and recruiting and forming teams to design, build and operate these services for millions of customers. He is currently VP, Product Development at Ascential, the specialist, global information company that enables smart decision-making for business.
He is also the Founder of The Digital Discovery Group, helping people and companies achieve their full potential by focusing on the needs of their customers, colleagues and suppliers and has previously led digital, design and strategy teams at CPA Global, Tesco PLC, Government Digital Service and the BBC. James has a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from The University of Birmingham and lives in Warwickshire with his wife and three children.
Chief Operating Officer at Domestic & General
I am Group HR Director at Domestic & General (D&G), a world-class service organisation which provides 16 million customers in 14 countries with peace of mind. HR has an integral part to play in driving fundamental change in people and culture and we have made incredible progress. Since joining D&G in 2016, we have refocused our strategic priorities, pledged to live our values and put the customer at the heart of everything we do.
I have transformed HR into a critically important business partner, leading a revolutionary change programme that drives and motivates our workforce, optimises performance and attracts and retains the best talent.
With almost two decades in HR, I pride myself on maximising resource potential to create modern, scalable HR solutions that achieve efficiencies, as well as organisational and cultural change. Prior to D&G, I spent eight years at HSBC where, as Head of HR UK, I led large multidisciplinary teams across a highly successful, progressive people agenda.
Shadow Foreign Secretary at The Liberal Democrats
A solicitor by profession, Chuka studied English Law and French Law at the University of Manchester and then practiced employment law for just under a decade in the City and central London.
Following his election to Parliament, in June 2010 he was elected to serve on the Treasury Select Committee and in October 2010 was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Ed Miliband, Leader of the Labour Party. In May 2011, Chuka became Shadow Minister for Small Business in Labour’s Shadow Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) team, and in October 2011 was promoted to lead that team and join the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills. Chuka held this post until September 2015 when he left the Shadow Cabinet by mutual agreement with Jeremy Corbyn.
In February 2019, he resigned the Labour whip to sit as an Independent MP due to Labour’s failure to provide opposition to Brexit and the culture of antisemitism and bullying it had developed.
Chuka is one of leading people of the People’s Vote campaign, Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on EU Relations and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Social Integration.
He is seen as a leading figure on the centre-left of British politics and writes a weekly column for the Independent.
Founder at tweek
Group Head of Recruitment at Sainsbury's
Sainsbury’s Group Head of Recruitment, Jon Warwick, oversees over 70,000 hires a year across multiple brands in one of the UK’s best-known retailers.
Inclusion is something that is truly baked-in to everything we do at Sainsbury’s and having worked in a number of other organisations it was clear how authentic and appreciated by all colleagues the approach was. However, it was soon obvious that doing the right thing was not always enough, and our recruitment processes and decisions were still having an adverse impact and blocking our progress. This talk looks at how we have started to unlock potential and make even more inclusive hiring decisions, including some of the trails, mistakes, learnings and changes we have made along the way’
CEO at Big Bear Partners
With deep, proven experience in the Consulting, Investment Banking and Technology sectors – working for multi-national Fortune 100 brands for 18 years in NYC, then hyper-growth technology companies for 14 years in the UK, I bring a distinctly holistic, operational and highly commercial skill set that reinvents HR as an internal management consultancy – focused on preparing organisations for optimal capability in the Digital Age.
I’m a successful and effective change and transformation thought leader who helps business leaders and their organisations exponentially accelerate their goals and targets by exploring the potential of their workforce who make it happen. After 20+ years of HR and operational leadership experience, I’ve learned that the more attractive, seamless and frictionless an operating environment is, and the more you personalise the employee journey – the more likely you will attract the best people, who will commit, stay and deliver exponential outcomes. This includes ensuring leadership & management excellence, adaptive structures, agile and cross-functional ways of working, listening, supporting potential and building trusted and collaborative teams who believe in your purpose & mission.
Employers and contracts have included Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, EDS/HP, Peoplesoft/Oracle, Novartis Pharmaceutical, MessageLabs/Symantec, SpinVox/Nuance, Skype/MSFT, Kantar/WPP, MetaPack, and a host of micro-projects with similar fast-growth SMEs seeking to corner their market by achieving an ‘unfair advantage’ through enlightened talent strategy.
NED at Department for Transport
A Board Executive in the Digital and Technology sector for 30 years.
In addition to her corporate career, Tracy was the Director of GBSLEP responsible for Stimulating Innovation in the West Midlands, sat on the Smart City Commission, Birmingham Science City Board and championed the Digital Leaders West Midlands programme. A Governor at Birmingham City University, a Board Advisor at Innovation Birmingham and the West Midlands Digital Advisory Board.
She is a Non-Executive Director at the Department for Transport, sits on the Future of Mobility Advisory Board. She is Executive Chair at Curium Solutions and advises scale up businesses.
Global Director of People Development at Farfetch
Kim joined Farfetch, the online luxury fashion platform, in 2018 as Global Director of People Development. She previously spent 11.5 years at Google multiple divisions including Learning & Development, and most recently the Cloud team, where she was Global Practice Head for Customer Change and Culture.
She is an expert in change management, the psychology and neuroscience of change, digital transformation, organisational culture, leadership, innovation and high performing teams.
She has had articles published in The Economist and Forbes and is a regular guest lecturer at London Business School and Imperial College London.
Executive Director at The Emergent Organisation Ltd
Steeped in the Humanities, Emer is a psychologist with an MSc in the psychology of Change. For more than 20 years she has led technology and business-based organisational design and effectiveness programmes from a people change and business readiness perspective.
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Under her ‘Leading Beyond Empiricism’ research and practice programme Emer has developed and delivered experiential leadership programmes to help individuals, teams and organisations learn to perform in disruptive and uncertain environments. Her focus is on creative methods, energy and accessing inner wisdom.
Over the past 7 years Emer has facilitated several senior leadership development programmes for Windsor Leadership (WL), a 25-year-old charity focused on developing leaders across all sectors to extend their leadership practice to society at large. She sits on their Chair and Facilitator Executive to support and guide priority projects to enable WL to live their purpose.
She has just published ‘Time to Think about Creative Collaboration’ in the AMED Organisations and People Research Journal (Autumn 2019)
Emer is married to Chris and lives just outside London with their three children and Tibetan Terrier. She is a regular dog walker, runner, duathlete and part time fundraiser for the Royal Marsden. She completed the 2019 Ride London 100 mile bike ride this August.
Director at Leadership Forces
Roderic Yapp is a specialist leadership consultant and accredited coach. He supports major business transformations by improving the capability of leaders so that they can execute the transformation strategy.
Roderic is an International Coaching Federation professionally accredited coach who has specialist experience in developing people in sectors where ‘leadership failure’ usually results in death or critical injury.
He has significant experience in leadership development, major business transformations and operational excellence with companies such as Deloitte, Fidelity, HSBC, the John Lewis Group, Jaguar Land Rover, Urenco and the NHS.
Global Internal Communications Director
Nicole navigates senior leaders through organisational disruption. She helps clearly articulate the platform for change, vision and strategy. Also supporting leaders to connect, engage and simultaneously deliver difficult messages during challenging times.
With over 20 years of experience supporting the leaders and functions of many world-leading brands, Nicole has deep, practical insight and advice around delivering impactful change communications programs. This includes strategy, restructures, acquisitions/mergers/divestitures, site openings and closures, new ways of working and digital projects.
Transformation Director at Gunbury Limited
Adam has over 30 years’ experience delivering business and technology transformation through strategy, innovation, digital, business process design and restructure, major technology-enabled programme delivery and turnaround, continuous improvement and behavioural change. Much of his recent experience has been in the professional and financial services sectors, often in complex global organisations, where change adoption and stakeholder management are the key to success.
He has spent the last five years delivering innovation and transformation to global law firms, including business strategy implementation, digital strategy and technology innovation, introduction and adoption of new ways of working including legal technology, legal project management, knowledge management, resourcing and a legal service centre, data analytics.
Previously worked across insurance, banking, asset management and payments, delivering large, complex organisational and technology driven change and transformation.
Currently an independent consultant to the legal, professional and financial service sectors whilst seeking interim or permanent opportunities.
Senior Manager at OrgVue
Rafael has built a career in helping organisations prepare for disruption over the last 10 years. With an especial focus on commercial strategy, transformation and organisation design, he’s a vocal proponent of the empowered employee and community in work life.
At Concentra, Rafael coaches HR leaders in building capability in strategic planning that better serves the changing needs of business. Previous consulting work includes HR technology deployment, multi-year cost-savings programs, and creation of new people analytics metrics. He brings a strong global perspective through his work in North America, Europe, and Asia.
Deputy Dean, CBASS & Professor of Organisational Transformation Change at Brunel Business School
Ashley Braganza is Deputy Dean, CBASS and Professor of Organisational Transformation Change at Brunel Business School. His research interests encompass artificial intelligence, big data, change management, strategy implementation, process and knowledge management, and transformation enabled information systems. He has published over 100 papers in prestigious academic and practitioner journals, and books. He is the Founder and Chair of the British Academy of Management Special Interest Group in Transformation, Change and Development. He has carried out over 50 consultancy assignments with large global organisations.
Head of Organisational Development at HCA Healthcare UK
Barbara is the employee engagement lead for HCA Healthcare UK, a division of HCA (Hospital Corporation of America), the world’s largest private hospital group, with over 28 million patient encounters each year. In her role Barbara is a member of the Executive Council for Employee Engagement for HCA Healthcare globally, designing the survey strategy and implementation for 270,000 colleagues in the UK and America. In addition to employee engagement, Barbara is also responsible for colleague communication, leadership capability development and talent management at HCA UK. This remit brings together her passions for building the confidence, capability and engagement of colleagues and leaders, and linking colleague performance and engagement to the delivery of exceptional care to the patients that HCA serve. Prior to HCA UK Barbara held a number of operational and HR roles in national retail organisations.
Diversity & Inclusion Specialist at Revolut
She’s worked extensively with leaders facing uncertainty. As lead for Tech Nation’s Upscale programme, Sinead worked shoulder to shoulder with the founders and senior leaders of the UK’s fastest-growing tech companies - providing support on culture, talent, expansion and fundraising. During her tenure she built out a diversity and inclusion offering for UK startups and scaleups, as well as for Tech Nation internally. Prior to this, Sinead launched ActiveLab, the world’s first global launchpad for physical activity startups.
Founder at TFB Consulting
Tom is the founder of TFB Consulting and is a specialist in digital transformation, digital culture and leadership development with a particular focus on Emotional Intelligence and innovation for 21st Century organizations.
Tom advises governments, corporates and start-ups on successful digital transformation, creates international learning programmes and is an active speaker and avid lover of emerging technologies. Tom has a Master’s in HR with a career that started in Accenture driving global business transformation for large corporates such as Barclays Bank, British Gas and 20th Century Fox. He was Global Head of L&D for Colt Technology Services, consulted in Talent and Organization Performance for Accenture and held the post of Senior Advisor in the Cabinet Office, British Government, for Digital and Technology Skill.
