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Juliette Alban Metcalfe, MSc, MPOD, CPsychol
Chief Executive, Real World Group
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Juliette is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and CEO of Real World Group (a University of Leeds spin-out company). She has helped establish Real World Group’s assessments of Engaging Transformational Leadership, based on uniquely proven research involving tens of thousands of people globally. She consults up to Board level with organisations worldwide. Juliette has authored a number of articles in practitioner and peer-reviewed journals, as well as book chapters on leadership, team working and diversity & inclusion. She is currently undertaking a doctorate exploring effective leadership of hybrid teams.
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Psychological Safety
Day 2 – Thursday 28th April, 2.00pm – 3.00pm
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Rob Briner
Professor or Organizational Psychology, Queen Mary, University of London Scientific Director, Center for Evidence-Based Management
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Rob is Professor of Organizational Psychology at Queen Mary, University of London and also Scientific Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Management (www.cebma.org). His research has focused on several topics including well-being, emotions, stress, ethnicity, the psychological contract, absence from work, motivation, work-nonwork and everyday work behaviour. Beyond academic research Rob helps practitioners and organizations make better use of evidence, including research evidence, in decision-making as well as encouraging academics to make research more accessible. He has written for and presented to practitioners on many aspects of HR and organizational psychology and is now involved in many initiatives aimed at developing and promoting evidence-based practice. He has received several awards for his work in this area including the British Psychological Society Division of Occupational Psychology Academic Contribution to Practice Award in 2014 and topped HR Magazine’s Most Influential Thinker list in 2016.
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Let’s Talk: Transformation
Day 3 – Friday 29th April, 9.30am – 10.20am
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Lee Chambers
Psychologist and Wellbeing Consultant and founder of Essentialise Workplace Wellbeing
Lee Chambers is a business psychologist and founder of Essentialise Workplace Wellbeing. After a diverse career, spanning a range of sectors from corporate finance to local government and building a video game business, he launched Essentialise in 2020. They support organisations in building wellbeing and inclusion strategies, and deliver bespoke interventions and workshops.
Chambers is also the Director of Wellbeing Lancashire, a body that works to reduce health inequalities and connect wellbeing strategy to the region’s economic and industrial strategy. He has won a number of awards for this work, including the Great British Entrepreneur of the Year for Service Industries in 2021 and was featured in the Top 50 BAME Entrepreneurs Under 50 in 2020. His first book, the Millennials Guide to Wellbeing, will be published later this year, and he can often be found speaking on wellbeing, gender equity and neurodiversity.
https://www.essentialise.co.uk
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Wellbeing Foundation
Day 2 – Thursday 28th April, 12.00pm – 12.45pm
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Peter Cheese
Chief Executive, CIPD
Peter is the CEO of the CIPD, the professional body for HR and People Development. Since January 2019, he has been co-chair of The Flexible Working Task Force, a partnership across government departments, business groups, trade unions and charities, to increase the uptake of flexible working. He is also Chair of Engage for Success and the What Works Centre for Wellbeing.
Peter writes and speaks widely on the development of HR, the future of work, and the key issues of leadership, culture and organisation, people and skills. In 2021, his book ‘The New World of Work’ was published, exploring the many factors shaping work, workplaces, workforces and our working lives, and the principles around which we can build a future that is good for people, for business and for societies.
Prior to joining the CIPD in 2012 Peter was Chair of the Institute of Leadership and Management, an Executive Fellow at London Business School, and held a number of Board level roles. He had a long career in consulting at Accenture working with organisations around the world, and in his last seven years there was Global Managing Director for the firm’s human capital and organisation consulting practice.
He is a Fellow of the CIPD, a Fellow of AHRI (the Australian HR Institute), the Royal Society of Arts, and the Academy of Social Sciences. He’s also a Companion of the Institute of Leadership and Management, the Chartered Management Institute, and the British Academy of Management. He holds honorary doctorates from Bath University, Kingston University and Birmingham City University.
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The World of Work
Day 3 – Friday 29th April, 11.45am – 12.30pm
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Tom Haak
Director of the HR Trend Institute
Tom Haak is the director of the HR Trend Institute.
The HR Trend Institute follows, detects and encourages trends. In the people and organisation domain and in related areas. Where possible, the institute is also a trend setter. Tom is also the chief curator of The Museum of HR and since the beginning of 2020 he is distinguished visiting professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey, one of the leading business schools in Mexico. Tom is considered to be one of the leading global HR thought leaders.
Tom has an extensive experience in HR Management in multinational companies. He worked in senior HR positions at Arcadis, Aon, KPMG and Philips Electronics.
Tom has a keen interest in innovative HR, HR tech and how organisations can benefit from trend shifts. LinkedIn: http://goo.gl/u0GnoU
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HR Future Trends – Identifying key HR trends for the next few years
Day 1 – Wednesday 27th April, 3.00pm – 3.45pm
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Professor Damian Hughes
International Speaker and Best Selling Author
Professor Damian Hughes is an international speaker and bestselling author who combines his practical and academic background within sport, organisational development and change psychology, to help organisations and teams to create a high performing culture.
He is the author of eight best-selling business books, including Liquid Thinking, Liquid Leadership, How to Change Absolutely Anything, How to Think Like Sir Alex Ferguson, The Five STEPS to a Winning Mindset and The Barcelona Way: Unlocking the DNA of a Winning Culture. These have been translated into ten languages. He has also been nominated for the 2007 William Hill Sports book of the year award for Peerless, his biography of boxing great Sugar Ray Robinson. In 2009, he co-authored a critically acclaimed biography of boxing legend, Thomas Hearns in Hitman: the Thomas Hearns Story. In 2013, his latest biography, Marvelous Marvin Hagler became the UK’s best selling sports biography.
Damian was appointed as a Professor of Organisational Psychology and Change for Manchester Metropolitan University in September 2010.
He is the co-host of The High Performance Podcast, an acclaimed series of interviews with elite performers from business, sport and the arts, exploring the psychology behind sustained high performance.
He is currently serving as a member of the coaching team for Scotland Rugby Union and Canberra Raiders.
Professor Damian Hughes’ innovative and exciting approach has been praised by Sir Richard Branson, Muhammad Ali, Sir Terry Leahy, Sir Roger Bannister, Tiger Woods, Jonny Wilkinson and Sir Alex Ferguson.
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Keynote – Creating a High Performance Culture
Day 2 – Thursday 28th April, 10.00am – 10.45am
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Victor Korang
Cloud Apps Executive, Oracle
Since graduating from university with a 1st Class degree in Business and Marketing Victor has carved an exciting career for himself in sales before embarking on a career at Oracle. Taking advantage of his passion for sports, football in particular, he has combined his competitive nature and people skills to close business across multiple industries such as Direct Marketing, Investments and Payroll. Joining Oracle through the GenO program Victor is helping retail and industrial manufacturing companies achieve transformational change through HCM software and is loving every minute of it.
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Let’s Talk: Digital –’The Power of Story-telling in Business Transformation
Day 2 – Thursday 28th April, 12.00am – 12.45pm
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Brigid Lury
Business Development Director, Oracle
Brigid Lury is the Business Development Director at Oracle, she lives in Manchester with her family and has worked in the software industry for over 20 years
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Let’s Talk: Digital –’The Power of Story-telling in Business Transformation
Day 2 – Thursday 28th April, 12.00am – 12.45pm
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Nichola Mann
Corporate Manager – Human Resources, Brentwood
Borough Council
Nichola is currently the Corporate Manager – Human Resources at Brentwood Borough Council. She started her HR career on a youth trainee apprenticeship scheme at the London Borough of Newham, where she took on a number of different HR roles, moving on to Basildon Borough Council and then taking up her most recent position in April 2020. She has worked within the public sector for 28 years leading on a range of area Since then she has held a range of roles areas including Operational Services, Workforce Change and Business Partnering. Nichola now manages a very small HR team leading on a number of corporate and cross organisational projects. Having been a winner this year she is now really excited to join our judging panel and cannot wait to see the talent in our sector.
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Let’s Talk: Fringe Sessions – PPMA Gold Award Winners
Day 3 – Friday 29th April, 9.30am – 10.20am
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Professor Martin Reeves
Chief Executive, Coventry City Council
Martin has been Chief Executive of Coventry City Council since April 2009. He was also the Chief Executive of the West Midlands Combined Authority from March 2016 to September 2017. He had previously been with Bedfordshire County Council for three and a half years as Assistant Chief Executive and Chief Executive.
Martin has held senior leadership roles in a District and an outer London Borough and was Programme Director for WorkSmart; Westminster City Council’s flagship transformation programme.
Martin spent much of his early career as a lecturer and researcher, and has a PhD in applied economics.
He is a Professor (University Advisory Panel) at Coventry University; is the first Honorary President of LARIA (Local Authorities Research and Intelligence Association) and on the board of the Centre for Cities.
He has been President of SOLACE (Society of Local Authority Chief Executives) and is currently its national spokesperson on local government finance and future funding.
He is the Local Government Association (LGA) National Procurement Champion.
He is on the King’s Fund General Advisory Council and Chairs the Net Zero Health and Care Committee.
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Challenging the role of HR/OD in organisations
Day 2 – Thursday 28th April, 11.15am – 12.00pm
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Tristan Moakes
Strategy Director, Penna
As Strategy Director at Penna, Tristan’s role is to help organisations understand talent attraction problems and find ways to solve them. With 15 years’ experience working in employer brand marketing, he has worked companies from a wide range of sectors in the UK and globally. Starting out as a developer and with an MSc in IT, his main interest has always been the impact of technology on work and society.
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Workforce of 2030
Day 3 – Friday 29th April, 09.30am – 10.20am
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Tom Pickup
Special Project Lead for Race Equality, London Councils
Tom is the Special Project Lead for Race Equality at London Councils. His role is centred around managing the London local government Tackling Racial Inequality programme, which is focused on supporting boroughs and developing regional action, and driving organisational change.
Prior to this he has had a variety of strategic and policy roles in local government which included work on disproportionality in the criminal justice system and London’s recovery from the pandemic.
Tom is also the co-author of “Young British African and Caribbean Men Achieving Educational Success: Disrupting Deficit Discourses about Black Male Achievement” which examines the political, cultural and structural factors that shape the educational journey of young Black men in the British education system.
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Tackling Racial Inequality
Day 3 – Friday 29th April, 11.00am – 11.45am
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Jacqueline Ryan
HCM Account Director, Oracle
Over the past 10 years Jacqueline has worked extensively with HR and Senior Stakeholders, helping them to leverage technology to improve Culture, Values, Employee Experience and Retention, and to achieve Sustainability goals. Prior to working with Technology and HR, Jacqueline studied in the Arts, and worked in the Film Production industry.
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Let’s Talk: Digital –’The Power of Story-telling in Business Transformation
Day 2 – Thursday 28th April, 12.00pm – 12.45pm
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Cheryl Samuels
Deputy Director of Workforce Transformation for the London Region at NHS England and NHS Improvement,
Cheryl Samuels is the Deputy Director of Workforce Transformation for the London Region at NHS England and NHS Improvement, overseeing the key priorities for delivery of the transformation roadmap for London, as we seek to attract, recruit and retain a diverse workforce. She has 20 years professional experience, over 10 years at senior management level. Cheryl has played leading roles in addressing key workforce challenges; continuous improvement in core HR services, and leading large scale transformation organisational development programmes which embed culture change and inclusivity.
She is currently spearheading a high profile social movement with HPMA for change amongst the HR & OD profession under the banner #InclusiveHR. The movement is gaining momentum across the regions with action being taken to facilitate a more inclusive HR profession that is able to led with credibility.
Prior to taking up her current role, she was the National Health and Wellbeing Lead at NHS England and NHS Improvement, with responsibilities for improving the health and wellbeing of 1.3M staff across the NHS. During this time she led key components of the successful psychological wellbeing programme during COVID and curated, negotiated and released a number of interventions to support NHS staff. The resources, interventions, offers and support were accessed over 700,000 times. This work was recognised as part of the overall Health and Wellbeing Programme, by the Personnel Today Awards and Occupational Health and Wellbeing Awards 2020.
In 2014 she successfully established the Deputy Directors of HR Network, which she continues to chair. The body of some 80 plus active members, which represents over 40% of London NHS Trusts. Cheryl is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) and is a regular thought leader invited to speak at national CIPD conferences.
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#InclusiveHR
Day 2 – Thursday 28th April, 3.30pm – 4.40pm
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Brad Sinclair
Finance Director, Opus People Solutions
Brad has extensive knowledge in Business and Finance, joining Opus from public practice where he acted for a variety of businesses of all sizes, across a number of industries. With experience in Business Advisory, Auditing and Financial Management, Brad heads up the Finance function for Opus focusing his time on strategic planning, financial control, management information, statutory compliance and overall efficiency to ensure the business is performing to its capabilities to maximise its opportunities, and mitigate risks.
Brad trained with a Top 10 National Firm of Chartered Accountants and is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA).
In his spare time, Brad is kept on his toes by his young children and when he can enjoys attending music concerts and playing/watching football.
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Let’s Talk: Transformation – Award winning transformation programme
Day 2 – Thursday 28th April, 12.00pm – 12.45pm
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Rob Stephenson
Founding Formster & CEO, Form Score and founder of the InsideOut LeaderBoard
Rob Stephenson is an international keynote speaker, campaigner and wellbeing consultant who is on a mission to help create happier, healthier and higher performing workplaces. He experiences bipolar disorder personally.
Rob is the founder of InsideOut, a social enterprise with the mission of smashing the stigma of mental ill-health in the workplace by showcasing senior leader role models with lived experiences of mental ill-health. This is done by virtue of a published annual list – The InsideOut LeaderBoard. As a consultant, Rob works with Boards and senior leadership teams on the design and implementation of an integrated wellbeing strategy.
Rob is the CEO of FormScore, a revolutionary technology start up helping people to monitor their mental health using a score out of ten with a mobile app to help friends, family and colleagues support each other.
Rob is co-founder of the InsideOut Awards and G24, the world’s first global 24-hour mental health summit. In his keynote talks, Rob inspires audiences to think differently about mental health and wellbeing.
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Focus on Mental Wellbeing
Day 1 – Wednesday 27th April, 4.30pm – 5.15pm
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Ian Thomas
Chief Executive, Royal London Borough of Kingston upon Thames
Ian Thomas is CEO of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. Since his appointment in December 2018 the council has been on a significant journey of transformation. A successful past year for the council includes an impressive response to COVID-19, resulting in the authority being shortlisted for three MJ Awards including Council of the Year, with commendations in a further two categories, and being announced the winners of the award for Senior Leadership Team of the Year 2021, all thanks to the very important part staff across the council, as well as partners played in that achievement.
Ian was CEO of Lewisham, and prior to this, the Strategic Director of Rotherham Borough Council’s Children and Young People’s Services (DCS), responsible for
transformation of the service from Inadequate (bottom 6%) to Good with outstanding features (top 16%) within three years. Prior to this he was DCS and Deputy CEO at Derbyshire County Council.
He has 35 years’ experience in the public, voluntary and private sectors, holds a MA in ‘Developing Professional Practice’ and is a Masters-level qualified Executive Coach and Mentor.
In the New Year’s Honours 2019 he was made a Commander of the British Empire.
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Leadership and team collaboration during the last 24 months
Day 1 – Wednesday 27th April, 3.45pm – 4.30pm
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Racheal Tyler
Development Director, HPMA London Academy
Rachael has been in the role of Development Director for the Healthcare People Management Association (HPMA) London Academy for five years. The HPMA is an independent charity providing personal and professional development for HR and OD staff working in the NHS. In her time as Development Director, Rachael has worked closely with the Academy team and member organisations to develop an exciting and holistic development programme for workforce professionals. Under her leadership the Academy has gone from strength to strength and now has 58 members across London and the South East.
Rachael is passionate about improving talent management processes for the HR and OD profession supporting member organisations to identify and develop our talented future workforce leaders. She has established a number of successful aspirant leadership programmes, one of which was shortlisted for a CIPD award.
Prior to her current role Rachael has worked in HR in the NHS since 1988 working in generalist and specialist roles. She spend 13 year as a HR Director working for working as a Workforce Director Mental Health, Community and Primary Care Trust organisations.
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#InclusiveHR
Day 2 – Thursday 28th April, 3.30pm – 4.40pm
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Graeme White
Everton Football Club’s Stadium Announcer
Graeme is a recognizable voice to football fans, especially on Merseyside. As Everton Football Club’s Stadium Announcer.
As a freelance radio presenter, Graeme has worked for several radio stations across the North West. Presenting shows on Radio City, Radio City Talk and Chester’s Dee Radio.
As a voice over artist, he has voiced work for absolute radio and ITV.
If you are keen runner. Graeme hosts several major running events in the North of England. Events such as The Rock n Roll Marathon in Liverpool, Leeds Abbey Dash and the world famous Santa Dash in Liverpool. In July, Graeme will be hosting his first Iron Man in Bolton.
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PPMA Awards Evening and Annual Gala Dinner
Day 2 – Thursday 28th April, 8.00pm – till late
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Steve Whitehead
Director of Human Resources & Organisational Development, London Borough of Hounslow
Steve started his career in the Arts and Libraries directorate at Kent County Council, but was very quickly seconded to Unison as a full-time trade union officer, and was one of the youngest branch secretaries in the UK. This work ignited his enthusiasm for good industrial relations as well as the desire to make, through his career, the employee experience the very best it can be.
In 2000, after some years working for the movement, Steve started his career in the people management and development profession. Since embarking on this journey, Steve has held a number of head of service and Director positions within local government and the world of people and organisational development. In 2012 he joined Citizens Advice, the national charity, as an executive director, and was responsible for People and Equality. After over six years in the voluntary sector, Steve was keen to resume his local government career, and joined Hounslow as an interim Director in August 2019, ahead of his permanent appointment in November of that same year.
Steve is an industrial relations specialist, and is an expert in pay equality. Since 2003 the organisational development brief has featured in his service portfolio, and it has been his true passion ever since. He is an award-winning thought leader in culture and workforce transformation, and has authored contributions to published books and studies.
Steve has a Master of Science degree in Human Resources and Organisational Development, is an accredited MBTI practitioner, and is a Chartered Fellow of his professional institute.
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Let’s Talk: Transformation
Day 2 – Thursday 28th April, 12.00pm – 12.45pm
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