Having held various Regional HR Head positions at telecom sector, Burak now is leading talent management, talent acquisition and people analytics units throughout Europe and Latin America at Ericsson. Mostly experienced in transforming organizations, Burak believes in scientific, simple and business focused approaches in Human Resources.
Mandeep Bajwa joined Gett as Chief People Officer in May 2021, with responsibility for Gett’s talent and global expansion from a people perspective. Prior to Gett, Mandeep was part of WeWork’s HR leadership for the EMEA region and also acted as HR Leader for CloudKitchens in EMEA. Her focus and passion are to provide forward-thinking solutions for the many positive challenges that come with a scaling business.
After fifteen years in front-line sales, Kate moved into what was then called Capability Development since which time she’s never looked back. Kate has worked in industries as varied as oil and gas and food manufacturing, she’s worked for herself and now, leads the Enablement function for Getty Images, an organisation that, relatively speaking, is still in its infancy. Kate feels lucky to work for a company whose goal is to move the world through the images we produce and to be surrounded by people who are experts in their field.
Her team is responsible for the end-to-end development of their sellers; from onboarding, through Sales skills and Sales leadership training to Product, Process, and Systems. They are less instructors than “suggesters” and facilitators. “Suggester” of different ways of doing the habitual that inspires these already skilled adult learners to tweak or change their behaviour and facilitator of simplification, removing barriers that get in the way people doing their best work
Cath is an international, business focused HR Leader with a proven track record of delivery in a variety of global, matrix organisations. She is passionate about bringing a real commercial focus to the people agenda and leading organisations and teams through transformational change. Cath has recently joined MAG (Airports Group) as their Chief People Officer.
Cath joined Avon in May 2016 as Vice President HR, Global Commercial Business. Avon is the company that for 130 years has stood for beauty, innovation, optimism and, above all, for empowering women. Avon has a diverse product portfolio sold through six million independent Avon Beauty Entrepreneurs worldwide.
Prior to joining Avon, Cath worked for one of the world’s leading cereal and snacks companies Kellogg’s where she spent over ten years in both European and North America roles. She was VP, HR European Markets, and led the reorganisation of the European business following the acquisition of Pringles. Prior to this she was VP, Global Talent and led the creation and execution of the first global employer brand, vision and purpose.
Cath also spent over ten years with Barclays Plc, a British multinational banking and financial services company, prior to becoming a successful external Human Resources Consultant specialising in organisational design, cultural change and Strategic Talent Management and Leadership Development.
Cath has a BSc(Hons) in Psychology and is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and an alumni of Executive Programmes at Harvard and INSEAD Business Schools.
Aga Bajer is the founder and CEO of Aga Bajer Culture Strategy, a boutique consultancy helping global organizations codify, activate and evolve their culture and make work synonymous with fun, meaning, and belonging.
Aga is a passionate community builder. She founded a thriving, first-of-its-kind global community for culture leaders called CultureBrained™ where members learn how to navigate the complexities of cultivating thriving company cultures in this brave new world of remote and hybrid work.
She is also the author of Building and Sustaining a Coaching Culture, and the creator and host of one of the most popular podcasts on organizational culture, the CultureLab. She’s currently working on her second book, A CultureBrained Leader.
Aga grew up in communist Poland and lived in twelve cities and five different countries. After spending the past 10 years in Italy, Aga has recently moved to Athens in Greece with her husband Nassos and their adorable french bulldog, Ollie. Her early career aspirations included becoming a pirate, an explorer, a healer, and a writer — and she feels lucky to tap into all of these personas in her work as a culture strategist .In her spare time, Aga learns Argentinean tango and sailing.
Kirsten Buck is Chief Impact & Sustainability Officer at PTHR – a growing consultancy in progressive HR/OD and the next stage of business evolution, and a certified B Corporation organisation.
With a background in business development and strategy, helping to shape L&D and executive education programmes, Kirsten has now been with PTHR for three years. Her role focuses on the impact PTHR’s work has beyond financial return and ensuring PTHR remain conscious citizens committed to sustainability.
Kirsten’s specialisms and interests lie in:
Kirsten is a proud Fellow of the RSA, member of the EODF, and an avid writer. Kirsten also made chapter contributions to Perry Timms’ second book, “The Energized Workplace”, and co-authored Cranfield School of Management’s Progressive Organisation Design modules.
Outside of work, Kirsten is proud to be mum to a two year old son.
Mervyn Dinnen is a researcher, analyst, influencer and author on HR, Talent and WorkTech trends. Based in London, UK, he partners with HR and Recruitment technology businesses to create thought leadership reports that document the emerging trends impacting the hiring, retention, development and engagement of talent. For the last three years has been recognised as a Top 100 Global Influencer in HR Technology, and has also been identified as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Talent & HR Professionals in the UK for 2022. His second book, Digital Talent, is being published in March 2022.
Gemma is an experienced HR professional, a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, Fellow of the HEA and a regular speaker and writer on a variety of HR topics including employee engagement, flexible working and wellbeing. Gemma is the author of ‘Flexible Working’ published by Kogan Page as well as a range of e-books about HR and wellbeing. Her next book, ‘How to Work Remotely’ will be published in 2022.
Gemma is a lecturer in the Business School at Liverpool John Moores University where she teaches employment law and professional development skills. She also runs her own business, The Work Consultancy where she focuses on policy development, flexible and hybrid working and wellbeing.
You can find Gemma on Twitter @HR_Gem and her blog at www.hrgemblog.com
Richard Doherty is Senior Director, Solution Marketing at Workday with EMEA-wide responsibilities for Workday’s HCM applications.
Prior to joining Workday, Richard was part of a team that pioneered cloud-based recruiting and talent management solutions in Europe. Joining Jobpartners as one of the first employees in 2000, Richard held a number of positions across professional services, sales and marketing, helping Jobpartners grow into one of the market leaders in Europe. In 2011 Jobpartners was acquired by Taleo, the cloud recruiting and talent management leader at the time. Richard subsequently spent time at Taleo and Oracle as HCM Strategy Director before joining Workday 7 years ago.
Richard holds a degree in Economics from the London School of Economics.
Vlatka has been one of the top Most Influential HR Thinkers in the world since 2015, an international award-winning thought leader, an activist for humanising management, and an author of a ground-breaking book ‘The Management Shift – How to Harness the Power of People and Transform Your Organization for Sustainable Success’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), which was listed by Forbes as one of the top eight business books in 2014. Driven by her passion and purpose to make this world a better place, she is creating a global impact with her work, helping thousands of leaders and organisations worldwide to shift to a higher level of performance and profit whilst creating more engaging, purposeful and happier workplaces that do well by doing good.
She is a Professor of Leadership and Management at Hult Ashridge Executive Education, and former: Visiting Professor in the Department of Organizational Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London, Visiting Faculty at Cass Business School – City University of London, Visiting Faculty at the University of the Arts London, Adjunct Faculty at London Business School, a consultant for Said Business School, and Professor of Business and Management at the University of Westminster. She is an Honorary President at the Academy of Executive Coaching. She is also a global faculty member of FT/IE Headspring Executive Education and a Global Thought Leader at ICG Group. She is also a founder and Chief Executive Officer of Management Shift Solutions Limited, providing leading edge services for individual and organisational transformation. She received a PhD in Information Systems at the London School of Economics, as well as a BSc (Hon) in Economics and an MSc in Information Systems from the University of Zagreb. She was voted one of the Most Influential HR Thinkers in the world since 2015 by HR Magazine and has won the Croatian Woman of Influence Award as well as an Honorary Award from the Leadership Awards in 2016.
Vlatka is the winner of the CMI Management Articles of the Year Award 2015 and the winner of the Axiom Business Books Award (silver medal in the ‘Leadership’ category). She has been nominated for the Thinkers50 list and ‘Ideas to practice’ Award. Her book has been shortlisted for the CMI Management Book of the Year Award and it has been nominated for the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. Her latest book ‘Humane Capital – How to Create a Management Shift to Transform Performance and Profit’ (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018) has been chosen as one of the top 5 business books in 2018 by HR Magazine and the Foreword was written by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
David is Head of Talent Acquisition and Employer Branding for Workhuman®, the world’s fastest-growing integrated Social Recognition® platform. Based out of Ireland, David has been intimately involved in recruitment for the global technology and leadership sector for almost 20 years. He has been an adviser to many successful scaling organisations on their talent strategies and the evolution and impact of culture in the modern workplace. David is also a co-founder of Dublin Tech Talks – a fast growing tech community in Ireland with a mission to provide a platform to give people and brands a voice!
Ian is an advocate for the crucial role that people play in helping companies thrive. His career has focused on enabling people, teams and companies to perform at their best. For the last 15 years Ian has been helping leaders elevate their HR strategies and programs through the effective use of people analytics. At Visier Ian led the development of our market leading solution and is now focused on the overall strategy for the people analytics business.
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