Alessandro Storer is an award-winning Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Culture change expert, with 15 years of experience across multiple countries and sectors. He is also a charity Trustee, an LGBTQI+ human rights activist and community organiser.

As Head of Change Management, Programs, Analytics and Insights for Amazon EMEA Stores Talent Acquisition I lead a team of best in class subject matter experts in; program management, business analysis, business intelligence and data science.

We enable EMEA Stores TA success through; Insight driven change programs, Recruiting process improvements, Role and process standardization, Business, people and process analytics, Cost optimization, Global offshoring solutions, Organizational design and capacity planning, Candidate experience improvements, Gen AI product development and Recruiting technology partnerships.

With over 25 years’ experience in employment law, Andrew supports employers in managing their complex employment issues including employment tribunals, complicated executive severances, discrimination law, TUPE and many other challenges. He have a national reputation as a speaker and trainer.

Aneta believes in the power of people to grow, adapt, and shape their own path. This belief guides her work as Head of Attraction, Learning & Development at HypoVereinsbank – UniCredit Germany, a role she has held since July 2024, where she leads strategic initiatives that strengthen the bank’s learning culture, talent development practices, and future skills agenda.

With a career of almost two decades across the UniCredit Group in Germany, Austria, Italy and Central and Eastern Europe, Aneta has held global, regional, and local People & Culture leadership roles, building expertise in talent and leadership development, change management, and strategic HR transformation.

She holds a Master’s Degree in Banking and Entrepreneurship and in Italian Language and Literature, complemented by a Diploma in Executive Coaching - an academic and professional combination that provides a solid foundation in both human centered development and business transformation. Aneta brings energy, curiosity, and a reflective mindset to her work. She is passionate about supporting managers and employees in taking development into their own hands - encouraging ownership, confidence, and continuous learning as key drivers of personal and organizational growth.

Ashley Portlock is a Vice President of Human Resources at Allegion. He is a high performing leader with experience in senior, international Human Resources roles across multiple industries. Proven record of delivering world-class HR solutions for business performance and financial results.

Charlie Hart (Ausome Charlie) is a professional speaker, neurodiversity inclusion specialist, HR Analyst, and Evolving HR provider with over 20 years’ experience in HR and EDI. Recognised as a thought leader in neurodiversity inclusion and creating a culture of psychological safety and belonging, Charlie works alongside her Gen Z eldest to gain insight into the expectations of the workforce of the future. In addition to her keynotes and 'lunch and learn' sessions, she has chaired panels for Neurodiversity Celebration Week events and more, and is known for facilitating balanced, insightful, and engaging discussions.

Charlotte Johnson, Regional Vice President EMEA, Pebl Charlotte Johnson is Vice President for EMEA at Pebl, leading go-to-market strategy and growth across international markets. With over 10 years in leadership, she has scaled high-performing teams and guided organisations through complex transformations. Passionate about combining commercial focus with empathetic leadership, Charlotte brings a candid perspective on building accountable, resilient cultures in times of change.

Clemens Siegfanz leads strategic P&C projects at SAP SE in Walldorf, focusing on restructurings, reorganizations, and workforce transformation. During the first half of his 26-year tenure at SAP, he worked in product- and development-related areas, concentrating on solution, partner, and integration management, before moving to HR Merger & Acquisitions in 2012. Over the past four years, he has been working in Organizational Design & New Work with the focus on cross-functional HR re-organization projects and programs. With the responsibility for Technology, Platforms & Workflows, he leads also the configuration, the implementation and the rollout of the Ingentis org.manager.

Fiona is Chief People Officer for NHS Scotland, working with collaboratively with our 22 Health Boards, Scottish Government and the wider health and care system on our people agenda and priorities, to support our colleagues and enable transformation of our services, for the benefit of our population.

Prior to taking up this role in May 2023, Fiona was Director of People & Culture at NHS Highland, driving the leadership, governance and culture transformation following the Sturrock report.

She joined the NHS after 20 years working in a range of people, change and leadership roles in the Financial Services and Pharmaceutical R&D sectors, and is passionate about systems leadership, encouraging challenge, valuing difference, promoting kindness and respect and putting people, not processes first. Fiona is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and has a degree in HR from the University of Stirling.

Genna is an HR change leader specialising in engagement, culture and organisational development. A commercially focused and results-driven people leader, she has extensive experience creating and embedding strategic HR initiatives that enable high-performance cultures and deliver measurable business outcomes.

Her work spans large-scale transformation, organisational design, reward, employee relations and strategic workforce planning. Known for her solution-oriented approach, she partners with leaders to translate business strategy into meaningful people practices that improve engagement and overall business performance. Passionate about unlocking potential at every level of an organisation, Genna brings practical, real-world insight into what it takes to build cultures where people feel valued, connected and motivated to succeed.

HR Most Influential Practitioner 2024, HR Director. Having worked in HR for 30 years, I'm currently HR Director, Culture & Belonging at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), where I lead the creation of an environment that is psychologically safe and deeply human. I work at all three levels of intervention – Self, Team and Enterprise. Over the past 3 years my work has included the development of JLR's Purpose and behavioural code which we're embedding into the organisation through innovative and impactful cultural interventions. My work also includes individual and team coaching at Board level.

With over 15 years of experience in the global employment and payroll space, Givanny Madsen specialises in go-to-market strategy, revenue growth, and cross-functional execution. Working across EMEA and APAC, she drives market expansion and measurable business impact within the Employer of Record (EoR) and global payroll landscape.

Throughout her career, Givanny has played a key role in accelerating growth within high-growth international organisations, translating sales strategy into scalable execution. This was most evident at Shield GEO, where she was the first sales hire and, working closely with the co-founder, built the sales function, defined the sales strategy, grew and mentored the sales team, and drove sustained revenue growth. Her impact supported Shield GEO’s scale and maturity, contributing to its successful acquisition by Velocity Global (now Pebl).

She has since held senior & leadership roles across sales, customer success, and business development, partnering closely with founders and cross-functional teams to deliver compliant, scalable global employment solutions. Givanny holds a BCom (Hons) in Business Management and Marketing and is passionate about helping organisations expand internationally with clarity, confidence, and lasting impact.

Gosia Syta has been figuring out the unspoken rules of professional life since she moved to the UK from Poland. Now she helps others do the same, faster.

As the founder of Walk Your Talk, she works with global organisations including Aviva, UBS, Dentons, BP, and The Guardian. Her leadership communication training, rooted in behavioural science, adult learning principles, and over a decade of corporate experience, helps technically brilliant professionals speak up, step up, and move into more senior roles.

What drives the work: every HR priority, from talent retention to leadership pipeline to engagement, depends on how well people communicate. Communication isn't a soft skill. It's business infrastructure.

Increasingly, that work includes bringing AI into communication development: strengthening how professionals influence in high-stakes moments, improving communication quality at scale, and designing learning programmes that stick.

Ian is the Director of People and Culture at Housing 21overseeing all aspects of people management including reward, payroll, pensions, employee benefits, HR systems and executive remuneration. Having started his career in finance before moving specifically in to reward Ian has a background in both the public and private sector having previously worked for Moy Park, Mars, Prudential, Lincolnshire County Council and the University of Lincoln. A firm believer and champion in the importance of reward strategy as a driver for change and in supporting organisational success, Ian has previously overseen teams that have been acknowledged for their achievements at awards for their innovative work including winning the 2021 and 2022 Employee Benefits Grand Prix award. Ian is the current board member of the Education Competencies Consortium who focus on ensuring fair and equal pay through role evaluation and reward frameworks. Ian has also been a recipient of the Pay and Benefits Career Accomplishment Award and was also the Employee Benefits Reward Professional of the Year in 2019. Ian also regularly contributes to professional publications and conferences within the sector providing insights into the future of work.

Isha is a commercially minded HR leader with experience in music-tech, higher education, private healthcare and professional services. In her current role as Global VP of Total Rewards at SoundCloud, Isha oversees Total Rewards, Learning & Development, Performance Management, Employee Engagement and People Analytics across the company's locations in UK, US and Germany. She is passionate about creating holistic, data driven reward frameworks particularly through the lens of authenticity and organisational culture.

Jo Carlin is a Board-level HR and transformation leader with over twenty years’ experience shaping people’s strategy and organisational change across the UK and Europe, with broader leadership exposure across EMEA. Her career spans Manufacturing, Hospitality, FMCG, Life Sciences, BPO, and Renewables. She currently serves as a Non-Executive Director within the higher education sector, alongside previous governance roles in sport.

At executive and board level, Jo has led large-scale transformation, acquisition and integration programmes, operating model redesign and culture shifts delivering measurable commercial impact. Her work focuses on how organisational culture influences risk, performance, and strategic delivery in organisations navigating digital acceleration and complex change.

A qualified Executive Coach with master’s degrees in Psychological Science and Business, Jo combines behavioural insight with commercial pragmatism to help organisations align culture with strategy under pressure.

For two decades, Jon has been helping companies uncover who they are, so they can achieve more. His specialism is in uniting brand and culture with a clear, powerful story that unlocks a more meaningful experience for both colleagues and customers. A Cambridge graduate, exec coach, therapist and change consultant, Jon’s multi-award-winning approach is practical and emotionally connected. He has spent the last 10 years agency-side, working with icons like British Airways, Bank of America and Swissport. 

Julian Stodd is a researcher, writer, artist, and explorer, who has authored twenty one books exploring aspects of leadership, learning, culture, and change, in the context of the Social Age. He was awarded the Colin Cordor award for Services to Learning by the LPI in 2016 and sits as a Special Advisor to the World Health Organisation on Social Learning. A pioneering theorist on Social Learning, his work on Social Leadership has been adopted across a broad range of complex global organisations. He is also the founder of Sea Salt Learning, a global consulting organisation, working with clients such as Apple, Novartis, Zurich, BAE and Toyota, supporting strategic planning and capability building.

Kevin is the Chief People Officer of First Bus – a division of FirstGroup. First Bus is a FTSE 250 Company and is one of the UK’s largest bus operators with 14,000 employees. In his time at First Bus, Kevin has kicked off a transformational people strategy, which will put colleagues and customers first. As part of this, People Centricity, at bottom-up change process, has started to roll-out across the business, driving a more human culture across First Bus where colleague behaviours are fully aligned to our purpose of ‘your journey is our everything’ and the First Bus values – or ‘Our Way’. Kevin has also introduced a step change on Diversity and Inclusion including the company-wide introduction of inclusion networks and a ‘Celebrating our Differences’ development programme for all managers. Quarterly employee engagement surveys are an integral part of ensuring that First Bus listens to its people and becomes a great place to work.

Kevin has been an entrepreneur, a CEO and HRD of a FTSE 100 company, he brings a wide range of skills and experience from each of these roles to assist the organisations he works with. He specialises in businesses that want to scale up or transform. Kevin has long been recognised as an award-winning business leader. He has worked with many leadership teams to maximise their performance by developing both unique customer offerings and differentiated people strategies which provide sustainable competitive advantage. His passion is creating great cultures where people want to give their best every day.

As a TEDx speaker, Kevin is an experienced communicator who informs, inspires and engages his audiences. He has spoken at large conferences but is as comfortable with smaller more intimate round tables or leadership events. His areas of specialism include global labour markets, competitive people strategy, how to create high performing cultures and What great leaders do to create superior performance.

With a background in teaching and thirteen years’ experience in the online education space, Madeleine is a specialist in the professional education sector. She currently leads the University of Cambridge Online's award-winning learning design team, with a proven track record of designing and delivering transformative learning experiences.

Madeleine plays a pivotal role in shaping innovative, learner-centred education solutions that align with the university’s reputation for excellence, combining rigorous academic standards with practical, real-world application, ensuring that professionals acquire the skills and knowledge needed to excel in today’s fast-evolving landscape. She holds an MA in digital education, FHEA and CMALT status.

Mark Hendy is Chief HR Officer at Siderise, a global leader in passive fire and acoustic solutions. A seasoned C Suite people leader with more than two decades of experience across some of the UK’s largest and most complex organisations, Mark began his career as an HR apprentice in the steel industry before progressing through senior roles in mining, healthcare, aerospace and construction products.

His career spans the full breadth of strategic HR leadership, including organisational development, employee relations, mergers and acquisitions, leadership capability and culture transformation. Known for his pragmatic, people centred approach, Mark has built a reputation for helping organisations strengthen performance by developing authentic leaders who can thrive in complexity.

A Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and a Fellow of the Center for Evidence-Based Management, he was named in the inaugural CIPD HR30 list in 2025, recognising his contribution to the HR profession.

Matt is a passionate and creative business mentor and executive coach, highly experienced in initiating and leading business transformation and change. He has specific experience in building high performing teams that have delivered both effective organisational change and digital change. He has credible large-scale experience across Europe, Scandinavia and the Americas and has also lived and worked in the Asia Pacific region. Prior to founding his own business, he led and grew numerous consulting teams - first in the ‘delivery of complex transformational change’ and secondly in ‘strategic change and organisational transformation’. He is extremely experienced in both working alongside and in challenging c-suite leaders.

Having worked in both the UK and internationally with a wide variety of global brands, Matt uses his creative background, combined with his finely honed business skills and intuition to provide coaching and mentoring at all levels within an organisation. He is especially adept at working with both established seasoned executives and also with rising / future talent, helping them to understand areas for improvement and has a strong track record developing entry level staff into high performers and into leadership roles.

Matt is an extremely experienced facilitator, able to work with the most challenging teams and individuals both in a group setting and on a one-to-one basis. He has an extremely strong track record of building excellent client relationships and in leaving organisations and teams in a better place than when he arrived. He has a history of being asked to step into complex team environments - and on more than one occasion, into a failing team environment – with the ask of getting the team back on track and delivering effectively together. Turning team cohesion and performance around is something Matt both relishes and thrives-on. He holds a level 5 Executive coaching certificate with the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) and currently maintains a client portfolio that spans the UK, North America and Asia.

Matt’s client record not only includes some of the leading global brands but regularly leads him to work with industry leading companies. In recent years he has led strategic change (including coaching and development of senior leaders) in the UKs largest M&E firm, the number one waste management company in the UK, the second largest events company in the UK, the number one social housing company in the UK as well helped see successful turnaround and transformation of companies listed on NASDAQ as well as companies listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE).

Natalie is an accomplished HR and inclusion leader with almost 10 years of experience in the housing sector. A passionate advocate for unpaid carers - shaped by her own experience caring for her mother since age nine Natalie shares her expertise through talks and case studies within her sector and beyond supporting organisations like Microsoft, Mars, and Save the Children. Her work has been recognised by Investors in People, Working Families, Reward Gateway and this year Natalie has won a series of awards including Inspirational Woman of the Year by WISH, Housing Association Woman of the Future by Inside Housing and has been ranked the 4th Most Influential HR Practitioner by HR Magazine. Known for her authenticity, resilience, and impact, Natalie continues to champion inclusion and wellbeing for all - ensuring everyone reaches their full potential.

Nebel has a progressive approach to HR with an emphasis on delivering real business value and impact. Having spent a career supporting the people agenda within a spectrum of industries and various organisations including; River Island, Virgin and Roche, a global pharmaceutical organisation; and most recently Chief People Office at Reward Gateway. Nebel has experienced extensive business change and growth. Using modern HR practices to implement fresh ideas on; workplace culture, performance management, Agile working principles, using evidence based practice and tech led approaches has resulted in achieving multiple HR industry awards as well as being recognised on the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to work for list. Nebel featured on HR Magazines Most Influential HR Practitioners list in 2021, 2022 and 2023. In addition, Nebel has a people committee advisory role with Macmillan Cancer Support as a Non-Executive Director. Nebel has demonstrated real success in helping business leaders to understand the benefits of moving away from traditional HR tactics to build workplace cultures in which people flourish and businesses thrive.

Nic Bennett is a Global People Business Partner at SUSE. With over 20 years of experience across various HR disciplines, Nic acts as a trusted partner to executive and senior leadership teams, specializing in navigating complex change. She leverages expert facilitation, coaching, and deep listening to build cultures of high performance, collaboration, and connection that provide human resilience in a digital world.

Perry Timms is the Founder and Chief Energy Officer of PTHR - a niche consultancy, with the mission to create better business for a better world.

Perry is a Chartered member of the CIPD and a Fellow of the RSA. He is a 5x member of HR Magazine’s HR Most Influential list, making the top 10 in 2018, 2019 & 2021 and ranked Number 1 Most Influential Thinker in HR for 2022. In 2023, Perry was inducted into the HR Most Influential Hall of Fame.

In March 2024, Perry was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award from WorldBlu for his contribution to self-managed, democratic, freedom-centred systems of work. In May 2024, he was named People & Culture Global Icon by the People & Culture Association. Since 2021, Perry has also been listed on the Inspiring Workplaces Global Engagement 101 list.

He is an international speaker and two-time TEDx speaker and an award-winning writer on the future of work, HR, and learning. He is also a certified Semco Style Institute Expert in Self-Managed systems of work. His 2017 book Transformational HR was named one of the Top 100 Business Strategy books of all time and published as a second edition in July 2021. His second book - The Energized Workplace - was published in August 2020 and was shortlisted for the UK Business Book of the Year 2021. In 2025, Perry will publish The HR Operating Model: Designing a People Function that Supports the Workforce and the Business.

Perry is an Adjunct Professor at Hult International Business School and Ashridge Management School and a visiting fellow at Cranfield School of Management and Sheffield Hallam University. He is a LinkedIn Learning instructor and a member of the European Organisation Design Forum, the People and Culture Association, and the OD Academy.

PTHR is an official member/supporter of the Agile Business Consortium. PTHR is in its 13th year of operating, is a Certified BCorporation, a 5x Gold-Standard 4-day Working Week organisation, a 5x accredited Living Wage employer and a 4x Climate-Positive enterprise. PTHR was ranked in the Top 50 EMEA Inspiring Workplaces, a WorldBlu certified Freedom-Centred Organisation and a Top 5, 2024, Silver Award-winning company in Flexa’s verified flexible workplaces.

Sam leads Bupa's BGIUK People Technology teams, supporting 23,000 employees across 12 countries. With over a decade of experience in various HR roles for large-scale organizations, Sam now specializes in HR technology.

Steve Jenkins, with over 18 years’ experience within the HR Technology arena, leads the Ingentis business across the UK and Ireland as well as the Middle Eastern region. His experience covers the areas of Recruiting, Contingent Workforce Management, Talent Management, Workforce Planning and HR Analytics solutions. More recently, Steve has dedicated his energies to the field of dynamic Org Charting solutions. Empowering organisations to gain a deeper visualisation of their most important asset – their people, which in turn enables the business to become more nimble with transformation projects, dealing with rapidly changing scenarios and building more agile organisations to deal with the future challenges that will face businesses in the years to come.

Tracy Plant is the People and Culture Director at CIS Security, where she has been a driving force behind the organisation’s people strategy since joining in 2000. A Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, Tracy has played a pivotal role in shaping a progressive and inclusive culture within the security sector.

Over her tenure, Tracy has spearheaded a range of impactful initiatives, including the successful implementation of apprenticeship programmes across HR, IT, Payroll, Intelligence, and Frontline Security, attracting and developing young talent across the industry.

Tracy currently serves as a director on both the City Security Council People Board and EDI Board, where her leadership has helped deliver nationally recognised Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) outcomes, including the introduction of frontline staff recognition awards and wellbeing programmes. Her contributions have been recognised with two 2025 OSPAs awards for outstanding achievement in EDI.

She has also served as Director of the Industry Skills Board (2022–2024), leading strategic efforts to address skills gaps and launching a dedicated academy for the security profession.

Tracy’s commitment extends beyond CIS Security through her roles as a Member of the SIA Business Strategy Group, Chair of the CIS Citizenship Forum, and Leader of the CIS Health, Safety and Wellbeing Strategy Team. She is also an Association Member and Grant-Making Committee Member for the Hospital Saturday Fund Charity, and a Director of the CIS Citizenship Trust, which donates £100,000 annually to community initiatives.

Tracy brings over three decades of strategic HR leadership and a deep commitment to equity, wellbeing, and professional development in the security industry.

Zoe Cullingworth is an Organisational Development Partner at the BBC. As a licenced career coach, senior talent management practitioner and chartered member of the CIPD, Zoe leverages her expertise to create career development initiatives that align individual aspirations with organisational strategy.