Speakers (50)
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Christopher McLaverty
VP Global Leadership Development and Learning
BP
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Christopher is currently Vice President Leadership Development and Learning, based in London. He joined BP in May 2005 as VP HR Corporate and Functions and up to September 2008 was responsible for HR covering the 12,000 staff centralized into functions, regions and the corporate centre, plus HR for BP Shipping. His human resources career began in the food company HJ Heinz and continued in the drinks business with Guinness/Diageo. He held a vari ...more
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Tom Stewart
Leading Management Author & Thinker
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Stewart most recently served as editor and managing director of Harvard Business Review, and is a best-selling author, an authority on intellectual capital and knowledge management, and an influential thought leader on global management issues and ideas. During Stewart’s six years with Harvard Business Review, the magazine was a two-time finalist for general excellence in the National Magazine Awards, and received an “Eddie” in ...more
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Harvey Francis
Executive Vice President, Human Resources
Skanska
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Harvey Francis, Chartered FCIPD, joined Skanska in October 2007 in the role of HR Director with responsibility for the company’s Infrastructure businesses, whilst at the same time, taking on the role of Director of HR Operations and Support Services of the UK holding company, Skanska UK Plc. In September 2008, Harvey was promoted to the UK Executive Management Team in the role of Executive Vice President of Skanska UK taking overall respons ...more
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David Taylor
Founder
The Naked Leader
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David has 25 years real business and leadership experience; he now works with world – class leaders and organisations from all over the world. His clients range from Fortune 100 companies to leading entrepreneurs, his events from Leaders in Dubai to The Comedy Store in London and his television from changing lives in The Salon (Channel 4), teams in Working Wonders (ITV) to companies in The Naked Office (Virgin1). David is the author of the ...more
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Nigel Newman
Director of Learning and Development
Edward de Bono Foundation UK
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Andrew Woolnough
Director , Benefits Management
Jelf Employee Benefits
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After working in the Benefits Industry for over 12 years, Andrew is the Director of Benefits Management within the Jelf Group covering Online and flexible benefits and all capabilities surrounding, advising many internal and external organisations of a successful sustained long term employee reward strategies from base camp to summit. As the Jelf Group has over 18,000 corporate clients, Andrew is in the enviable position of being able to oversee ...more
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Steve Foster
Manager, Business Consulting
Northgate Arinso
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Steve Foster is Manager, UK Business Consultancy at NorthgateArinso. He has an extensive Human Resources management background, gained in a variety of HR line practitioner roles. As a consultant, he has worked with a wide range of major clients, helping them transform their HR operations. His specialist areas are HR business process improvement, e-HRM planning and implementation, business case development, outsourcing and change management. He ...more
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Alix Pearson
Associate Director
fdf
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Alix Pearson has been working in fields of work-based learning and corporate and vocational education for 17 years. She has significant experience in curriculum design for work-based learning at undergraduate and post-graduate levels. Building on her work with employers and employed learners, she led one of the prototype Foundation degree projects in 2001. As corporate programmes manager at Sunderland Business School, Alix worked with a wide ra ...more
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Tim Taylor
Head of Reward and Recognition
TUI Travel UK & Ireland
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Nicholas J Higgins
Founder and Chief Executive
VaLUENTiS
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Prof. Nigel Lightfoot
Chief Advisor
Health Protection Agency
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Professor Nigel Lightfoot CBE is Chief Advisor on Emergency Preparedness at the Health Protection Agency, and leads on pandemic influenza, emerging health threats and emergency response and international working in these areas. He was trained as a consultant medical microbiologist. He served in the Public Health Laboratory Service from 1982-2002 when he was appointed to the Department of Health as Head of CBRN training and scenario development ...more
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Jeffrey Berk
Chief Operating Officer
KnowledgeAdvisors
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Jeffrey is Chief Operating Officer for KnowledgeAdvisors. KnowledgeAdvisors is a human capital analytics solutions and technology firm that helps organizations measure, communicate and improve the impact of their people by better managing processes through reliable metrics. Berk works closely with clients to implement the Metrics that Matter technology and devise appropriate human capital measurement strategies and tools. Berk has consulted wi ...more
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Richard Pearson
Managing Director
ResourceBank
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Richard is the founder and Managing Director of ResourceBank and remains active as a consultant, focusing on senior executive management in a wide variety of cross-functional roles. Richard is a graduate in Manufacturing Studies, and spent eight years with Mars Inc. working in Production Management, Engineering and Sales before being appointed Divisional Sales Manager. He left Mars to become Sales & Marketing Director of a medium sized dair ...more
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Julian Birkinshaw
Professor of Strategic and International Management; Senior Fellow, Advanced Institute of Management Research; Deputy Dean (Programmes)
London Business School
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Julian Birkinshaw is Professor of Strategic and International Management at the London Business School, and the Deputy Dean for Programmes. He is co-founder of the Management Lab (MLab), a Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management Research (UK), and a Fellow of the Academy of International Business. Professor Birkinshaw's main area of expertise is the strategy and management of multinational corporations, and on such specific issues as corp ...more
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Chester Elton
Author/Vice President of Performance Recognition
O.C Tanner
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Chester Elton is co-author of several successful leadership books including The Carrot Principle and The 24-Carrot Manager, both New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers. Elton's books have been translated into over 20 languages and have sold over half a million copies worldwide. Chester is the senior vice president of the Carrot Culture Group with the O.C. Tanner Recognition Company. He serves as a recognition consultant to Fortune 100 ...more
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Misty Reich
Vice President of Human Resources UK and Ireland
KFC
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Misty has transformed KFC’s hiring practices, significantly increasing the proportion of employees hired directly by the company, rather than through recruitment agencies. She has also been responsible for using technology to improve the recruitment process, and one of her most important achievements has been the introduction an online recruitment system. This will allow managers to select the best candidates, as well as making the applicat ...more
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Paul Kennedy
HR Director
New Balance
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Hugh Hood
HR Director
BT Wholesale
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Elin Pinnell
Partner
Capital Law LLP
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Elin is an employment law specialist with many years’ experience of both employment litigation and strategic advice. Most of her clients are employers. Elin is a trained mediator and is a fervent believer in resolving disputes quickly, cost effectively and where appropriate confidentially. A significant proportion of Elin’s work involves training, both internally within client companies and externally via joint ventures with organisat ...more
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Ed Sweeney
Chairman
Acas
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Ed was appointed as the Chair of Acas following 7 years as the Deputy General Secretary of Amicus. Acas aims to improve organisations and working life through better employment relations. Provide up-to-date information, independent advice, high quality training and working with employers and employees to solve problems and improve performance. At the 2010 conference Ed will share insights into the latest employee relations codes and current Acas ...more
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Phill Brown
Service Director
NorthgateArinso
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Phill Brown has over 15 years experience in the Recruitment Process Outsourcing industry. With an educational background in psychology and IT , Phill joined Lansdowne where, working with some of the UK’s most innovative employers, he developed early web based recruitment strategies in the mid 1990’s. Phill went on to design, develop and implement many highly successful online and offline recruitment processes for organisations such ...more
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Martin Tiplady
Director of HR
Metropolitan Police Service
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Martin Tiplady was appointed director of human resources of the Metropolitan Police Service in December 2001. Prior to that, he was group head of human resources (The Berkeley Group plc 1999 – 2001), director of human resources (Westminster Health Care Holdings Plc 1995 – 1999) and director of personnel (The Housing Corporation 1987 – 1995). Martin Tiplady has a Diploma in Management Studies. He was educated in Chelmsford, Es ...more
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Liz Cook
HR Director
Sega
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Liz has a varied career with broad experience gained in both the private and public sectors in a variety of management roles. In the earlier part of Liz’s career she focussed on change management and organisational development projects in the Banking, IT and Insurance sectors. Following a career break to raise her children, Liz decided to focus on a career specialising in HR as this was an area of particular interest. During a period of ...more
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Clare Mitchell
NHS Lorenzo Delivery Director
CFH
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Clare is currently NHS Lorenzo Delivery Director within the Department of Health’s Informatics Directorate. She leads a high performing NHS team in driving forward the system delivery by a global supplier and NHS organisations in their accompanying business change across three fifths of England. She has spent the last six years as a senior director leading a number of Information Technology Programmes that have changed the way the NHS condu ...more
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Jonathan Ferrar
Director of Human Resources, UK and Ireland
IBM
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Thore Vestergaard
Prepaid Solutions EMEA
Citi
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Recently voted 'Most Influential Person in Prepaid - outside the US' by Paybefore, Thore Vestergaard joined Citi in 2005 and is responsible for the overall success of Citi prepaid cards in the EMEA market. Previously he was responsible for delivering commercial card payment solutions to large corporate and government entities within Europe and beyond. Before joining the bank, he worked for Visa International for 12 years where he was responsible ...more
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Glen McCoy
Creative Director
Carpe World
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Over three decades Glen McCoy has coached thousands of individuals and groups to new levels of achievement. He has international consulting experience in almost every major industry and has worked with some of the world’s largest brands. Glen is the founding partner and Creative Director of Carpe World Coaching International and was one of the first to bring executive telephone coaching to the UK. Glen’s desire to take telephone coach ...more
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Heidi Ashley-Hacker
Founder / Principal Coach
AHA Executive Coaching
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Tobin Coles
Director Flexible Benefits and Marketing
Lorica
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Marc Weedon
Senior Director, Human Resources, Europe, Middle East & Africa
Polycom
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Fernando Garcia Ferreiro
Head of HRM development unit
European Commission
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Fernando heads the Commission's HRM development unit, which is steering the transformation process of the Commission's HR function from administrative-compliance role towards a more results and customer oriented role. He is currently leading actions towards the strategic alignment of HR in the Commission, the professionalisation of the HR function and the improvement of people management capabilities within the organisation. His main strength is ...more
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Michele Owens
Head of Organisational Development
Olympic Delivery Authority
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Kate Griffiths- Lambeth
Director of Human Resources
White & Case LLP
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A lawyer by initial training, Kate is the Director of Human Resources for leading international law firm White & Case LLP, based in London. Kate is responsible for all aspects of HR and related matters. Whilst at Lloyds TSB Kate undertook a number of senior roles, including Head of HR for Cards, Consumer Lending and finally Head of Talent, Resourcing and Management Information. Wishing to return to a fast-paced, entrepreneurial and develop ...more
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Damian Nolan
Director
DAESIGN
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An expert in Talent Management, over the past 15 years Damian has constantly innovated in the application of technology solutions to evolving HR challenges. Having begun his career with Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising, Damian became European CIO of Heidrick & Struggles, a leading international executive search firm. In 2000, he co-founded i-GRasp, a specialist provider of internet-based recruitment management solutions. Having grown from st ...more
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Peter Howes
Chief Executive Officer
InfoHRM
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Peter Howes has over 30 years of experience in Human Resource Management with a focus on workforce planning, reporting and analytics. He has worked as a practitioner, academic, and consultant over this period. Peter is the Chief Executive Officer of Infohrm, a global consulting firm which he founded in 1982. Peter is based in the Infohrm European office in central London and predominantly works for clients in Europe and North America. His reputa ...more
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Chantal Free
Practice Leader, Human Capital Group
Towers Watson
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Christoffer Ellehuus
Practice Lead Europe
Corporate Leadership Council
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Christoffer Ellehuus is the Practice Lead of the Corporate Leadership Council in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). In his role, Christoffer directs all the Council’s product development and operations related to clients in EMEA. Prior to his current role, Christoffer was the Practice Manager of the Corporate Leadership Council in Washington D.C. directing all the Council’s major strategic research initiatives on topics like: ...more
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Charlie Johnston
UK HR Director
Cisco Systems
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Dr. Jan Stiles
Director of Executive Education
Warwick Business School
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Jan is Executive Director of the Executive Education Department at Warwick Business School. She has worked as a Company Director and as a client director and senior facult member in the field of strategic management and leadership for 17 years. In her current role Jan is responsible for the strategic leadership of the business, managing the Executive Education team and developing and delivering a portfolio of tailored and open programmes. Jan ...more
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Steve Sampson
Director
My Rewards Company
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Richard Bartlett
Head of Direct Distribution
Personal Accounts Delivery Authority
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Richard has over 18 years experience in the financial services industry and is a member of the Personal Finance Society and the Chartered Insurance Institute. As well as the Financial Planning Certificate, Richard has CII qualifications in mortgage advice, equity release, investment and financial services supervision and management. Richard has specialist experience in worksite marketing and employee communications with large employers and produc ...more
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Katherine Graham
Managing Director
CMP Resolutions
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Katherine has worked in the field of dispute resolution for over 15 years’ as a mediator and trainer. She has mediated on the BBC Learning Zone and has given keynote speeches on conflict management and mediation for The MOD’s Equal Opportunities Conference, Women in Business Annual conference and “Getting Beyond Conflict”, a national conference on workplace dispute resolution. Katherine joined CMP Resolutions (formerly Con ...more
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Danny Kalman
HR Director Europe
Panasonic
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Danny Kalman is HRD Director for Panasonic Europe and has recently been appointed as Director for Global Talent which will run con-currently with his role in Europe. Based in the UK, Danny sits on the main board of Panasonic Europe and is actively involved in the overall business strategy which helps him to ensure the HR strategy is aligned correctly. He has been responsible for developing systems and processes to standardise HR across all Pana ...more
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Richard Lowther
VP HR
TomTom
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Richard joined Symbian in January 2007 as Global Head of HR and moved to Nokia when Symbian was fully acquired by Nokia in December 2008. In his role at Symbian, Richard was responsible for all aspects of HR. Prior to joining Symbian, Richard held senior roles at Dell and Oracle with both in-country and international responsibilities. Richard is now the VP of HR at TomTom.
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Ravi Chand
Head of Equality & Diversity Dictorate
Home Office
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Ravi is a senior civil servant working for the Home Office and its Agencies. As a member of the Human Resources Executive Team and the Diversity Strategy Programme Board, he has responsibility for the delivery of the Department’s strategy on Diversity, both in relation to the Department’s people and the delivery of its services to the wider public. Prior to his current role Ravi was involved in executive appointments within the priv ...more
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Diane Tomlinson
HR Director Organisation Effectiveness Britain & Ireland
Cadbury's
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Robin Hancock
HR Director, Europe
eBay
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Clinton Wingrove
EVP Principal Consultant
Pilat
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Clinton Wingrove is the EVP and Principal Consultant at Pilat HR Solutions, a recognized thought and market leader of talent management and provider of highly tailored solutions. Clinton’s personal passion is working with organizations to improve individual, unit and enterprise performance through the holistic design of processes, metrics and supporting IT - which when combined, enable individuals to realize their true potential. He has wo ...more
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