Speakers
The company you’ll keep on stage
Fearne Cotton
Mental Health Advocate, Best-Selling Author, Broadcaster, and Founder and Creator of the Happy Place Brand
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton is a mental health advocate, best-selling author, broadcaster, and founder and creator of the Happy Place brand. She has evolved the brand into a podcast, festival, publishing, and mobile app space. She is passionate about making self-care inclusive, relatable, and straightforward, and has encouraged and demystified conversations around mental health.
Starting out on children’s television at just fifteen, Fearne graduated to mainstream TV with Top of the Pops, where she went on to become the shows last regular presenter. She has been part of Comic Relief and Children In Need, guest presented The One Show, and was on the hosting team for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Fearne is also the author of a number of bestselling self-help books including Happy, Calm, Quiet, Speak Your Truth and Bigger Than Us. She has written books on healthy eating such as Cook Happy, Cook Healthy, Cook. Eat. Love and Happy Vegan.
Alex Scott MBE
Former professional footballer, pundit and presenter
BBC Sport and Sky Sports
The former Arsenal Captain and England Centurion is a well-regarded pundit for BBC and Sky Sports, a regular on BBC’s Match of the Day as well as fronting ambassadorial campaigns with Nike, Barclays and Cadbury’s. Alex signed with Arsenal at age 8 and stayed with the team for most of her career. Alex helped the club achieve a domestic double of the FA Women’s Cup and the FA Women’s Premier League. She was also a key figure in the historic quadruple season for Arsenal in which they won all their trophy competitions. This became the obvious prelude to Alex’s captaincy for the club in the 2014/15 season. While playing for England Alex had the opportunity to travel all over the world playing the game she loves. Retiring from international football in 2017, though not before representing Great Britain in the Olympics. Alex ended up the second most capped England player with 140 appearances. Since her retirement in 2018, Alex has begun a successful broadcasting career and has quickly become renown for her insights into the game and sharp punditry skills. Alex is a steady part of BBC Sport’s football broadcasting team and has become a regular face for Sky Sports football coverage, even providing courtside coverage of the NBA in January of this year. Alex made history last August as the first female Sky Pundit on a Sky Sports’ Super Sunday and made waves as a fresh addition to the BBC World Cup
Commentary line up. Alex has been involved in co-presenting Match of the Day Kickabout most Saturday mornings as well as forming part of the presenting team for The Women’s Football Show on Sunday evenings. She also took to writing a weekly women’s football column in the Morning Star and is a regular face on Premier League Productions’ Fan Zones. Away from the world of football, Alex took part in and won Bear Grylls: Mission Survivor and the Sports Relief Strictly Come Dancing special in 2018. Along with her achievements in broadcast, Alex has undertaken some exciting commercial and ambassadorial opportunities. In 2018, Alex began her partnership with Cadbury’s alongside Jamie Redknapp and Ian Wright, which is to continue into this year. She has also begun an ambassadorial role with Nike and is continuing her relationship with Barclays as a key spokeswoman for their move into the world of Alongside this, Alex is an ambassador for Arsenal Football Club. Alex is also heavily involved in charitable projects, working with Premier League Communities and launching the Sky Ocean Rescue and Premier League Plastic Pollution Challenge. She also opened The Alex Scott Academy in 2012 in partnership with Kingston College and Puma, the first of its kind for women in the UK. Alex wanted to create an academy system that not only focused on training but also focused on working towards qualifications, providing players with an unrivalled calibre of training, skill development and match play all while promoting excellence in the class room as well.
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Laura Haskins
Chief People Officer
CitNow Group
Laura Haskins is Chief People Officer for the market leading automotive software provider, CitNOW Group. With a career spanning over 16 years in human resources, Laura has built a reputation as a strategic and commercial leader who is committed to driving people-focused initiatives that align with the company’s vision, and growth objectives. Throughout her career, Laura has successfully led a number of cultural initiatives that drive employee retention and engagement and works passionately to ensure that every individual has the tools, support, and opportunity to make a difference.
Lindsay Jones
Chief People Officer
Delta Capita
Lindsay Jones is Chief People Officer at Delta Capita Group, where she has spent the last five years helping a fast-growing financial services business navigate serious change, scaling the business without losing sight of the humans at the centre of it.
With 19 years of experience across HR, executive coaching and talent leadership, Lindsay is a close partner to CEOs and leadership teams. She is known for her candour, her values-led approach and her genuine belief that high-performing organisations are built when people come first. An ICF-accredited coach, she brings both commercial rigour and deep human understanding to every room she's in.
Francesca Woodhouse
Managing Director - UK Workplace Advisory
Edelman
Francesca is Edelman ‘s UK Workplace Advisory Lead. She has worked across the entire communications spectrum in a career spanning two decades but has developed specialisms in change communications and culture transformation work.
Passionate about supporting people in a positive way through change, Francesca has advised some of the world's largest businesses on major digital transformations, team restructures, employer brand and diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging to name but a few.
Francesca’s background is varied, which she believes helps in her work to bring people together, provide compelling workplace and employee experiences and solving complex situations for some of the world’s biggest businesses.
Francesca is a dual national and speaks French, German and Italian.
Matt Hudson
Chief People Officer
Popeyes Louisiana Chicken UK
Matt is Chief People Officer at Popeyes Louisiana Chicken UK, a role he assumed in 2023 as the brand entered a rapid growth phase under TDR Capital ownership. He leads the people strategy across the UK business, supporting expansion from 17 to over 70 sites in under two years, with plans to reach 150 by the end of 2026 and 250 by 2030. His remit includes talent acquisition, leadership development, reward, employee engagement and cultural transformation.
Prior to joining Popeyes, Matt spent five years at Wagamama, where he served as People Director and Director of Talent and People Operations. Earlier in his career, Matt held senior HR roles at Travelodge, AWE, and npower, with experience spanning hospitality, defence and energy sectors.
Matt holds a BA (Hons) degree in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations from the University of Kent and is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD.
Jill Scott
Women's Euro 2022 Champion, Queen of the Jungle & Soccer Aid Captain
One of England's most decorated players, Jill Scott is one of the few Lionesses to have surpassed 150 caps. After featuring at nine major tournaments, she got a winners' medal as part of the team who won EURO 2022 on home soil. An infectious character off the pitch, and a player for the big occasion on it, the influential midfielder stepped up to the plate whenever her country needed her most. Her England career was punctuated with some key strikes – the winner against Netherlands in the EURO 2009 semi-final, the equaliser against Belgium in EURO 2017 qualifying, and the finish in the 3-0 win over Wales which sealed England’s place at France 2019. Jill began her career with her hometown Sunderland, before spending seven years at Everton and then joining City in 2013. She later had loan spells back at Everton and Aston Villa. She won her hundredth cap against Australia in 2015, before clocking up another fifty over the following six seasons. When Jill started the 3-0 win over Cameroon at France 2019, it was her eighteenth appearance at a World Cup final, the most of any England player in history. Jill retired from football as the second-highest capped player. During her time in the game, she won every domestic honour, including the Women's Super League title with City, and four women's FA Cups. Jill was voted FA Players' Player of the Year, FA International Player of the Year, and was appointed an MBE for services to women's football. She also entered the jungle and was crowned the winner of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.
Damini Onifade
Head of Reward
OVO
A results-oriented Head of Reward with a deep-seated passion for leveraging the power of pay, diversity, and inclusion to fuel meaningful organisational change. With Head of Reward experience across OVO, Virgin Atlantic, Channel 4, Deliveroo, and Acas, I bring extensive experience in implementing impactful reward strategies. I am a strong advocate for fairness and equity and am dedicated to building the infrastructure needed to address pay gaps and ensure equal pay within workplaces.
Nimai Swaroop
Group Head of Employer Brand
Coca-Cola HBC
A thought leader in his field, Nimai has held various leadership positions in large organisations bringing global experience having worked in People & Culture over the last 20 years. During this time, he has lead Employer Branding, Talent Acquisition, Culture, DEI in addition to wider people transformation programs winning numerous industry awards.
Currently Nimai leads Employer Branding for Coca Cola HBC and prior to this he was at Philip Morris since 2018 leading employer branding and cultural transformation across the group. Previous to that Nimai worked at Diageo where he led global talent acquisition having moved from the British Army where he also led talent acquisition and employer branding for the Army. Before that, Nimai worked for the Royal Bank of Scotland leading employer branding and diversity. Nimai started out in the TA and employer branding space in 2005 with Shell where he led employer branding for the group. In his early career, Nimai worked in numerous commercial and marketing roles for Centrica Plc.
Carly Stanley
Chief People Officer
JCDecaux
Carly is the Chief People Officer at JCDecaux UK Ltd, leading the company's people strategy, culture, and talent agenda. Since joining JCDecaux UK Ltd in 2017 as Head of People - Business Partnering and Operations, she has rapidly ascended through the ranks, becoming People Director within a year and now holding the Chief People Officer role. A relentless advocate for diversity, inclusion, and a thriving workplace culture, Carly is driven by a deep commitment to empowering colleagues. She champions bold strategies that elevate employee engagement, well-being, and professional growth, ensuring that people remain at the heart of the company's success.
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Day 1 — The Here & Now
Headliners open the Main Stage at 09:00, the six topic stages open in the same cycle with a senior brand on each. From then on the building runs on the 20/20 pulse, every stage releases at the same moment, so the hall surges twelve times before the Summit Party at 17:00. Your pre-arranged meetings sit inside those windows. Partner-hosted roundtables and focus groups run through the afternoon, the C-Suite Mezzanine runs its own programme upstairs.
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Day 2 — The Future Of Work
The Leaders’ Breakfast opens the day for director-level and above, hosted by a
partner. Headliners open the Main Stage again at 09:00, the morning carries the heaviest content, the afternoon turns to shorter formats, speed networking and the Demo Arena. Every Day 2 sponsored session completes before 14:00, so nobody speaks to an emptying room. Close at 16:00, after ten floor windows and the meetings buyers deliberately saved until they’d seen everything.
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What to expect
Twenty-two floor surges. A dedicated Demo Arena. A gated C-suite floor. A meetings lounge with a concierge team. And 1,868 people scanned into sessions in 2026 — an average of 4.7 each
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Headline
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Diamond
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Platinum
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Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
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Advisory board
The people who keep us honest
Jo Moffatt
Partnerships & Strategy Director
Engage for Success
Jo has been a volunteer with the Engage for Success movement since its launch. As Partnerships & Strategy Director she sits on the Advisory Board and co-hosts the weekly Engage for Success radio show, interviewing guests from across the engagement world. The EFS agenda is absolutely aligned with Jo’s vision ‘to make workplaces better places to be’. As passionate about brands and their power to move people as she is about employee engagement and its vital role in delivering a high performing organisation, Jo put the disciplines together as founder of a leading creative consultancy, leveraging the creative and insight led approach of the advertising world to engage employees inside organisations. Jo becomes almost evangelical about the power a well-positioned and consistently delivered brand has as a catalyst for employee engagement and business success - creating cultures that make workplaces work, for employees as well as shareholders and stakeholders.
Jennifer Sproul
Chief Executive
IoIC
Jennifer Sproul is the Chief Executive of the Institute of Internal Communication (IoIC), the only professional body solely dedicated to internal communication. She leads IoIC's efforts in setting standards and advancing the profession through qualifications, career development, thought leadership, and best practices.
A passionate advocate for the value of internal communication, Jennifer is a regular speaker and co-hosts the podcast ‘The Future of Internal Communication’.
Anaïs Nebel
Advisory Board Member
Engage Employee
Anaïs Nebel is a Business Strategist, International Speaker, and Founder of The Confidence Agency, redefining confidence as a core pillar of high-performing cultures.
With a background in workplace culture and engagement at global brands such as The Body Shop and Estée Lauder Companies, she helps organisations embed confidence as a strategic lever for connection, engagement and productivity. She also sits on the Advisory Board for Engage Employee, championing confidence as the missing link in organisational performance.
My website: https://www.theconfidenceagency.co.uk
Charlotte Dahl
Managing Director
7 Seas Culture Consultancy
Charlotte is Managing Director of 7 Seas - The Culture Consultancy.
At 7 Seas we see culture as ecosystem. We work with you to nurture that ecosystem, so your people thrive, your culture stays healthy, and your strategy succeeds. We help leaders engage and inspire, lead through change, and link strategy to everyone’s daily reality.
We combine expertise in culture, change, communications, and leadership with an impact-led, creative approach that engages people and delivers results.
Our clients span complex, diverse organisations including global financial services, to healthcare, via automotive, energy and some globally recognised brands. We work with them in long standing partnerships on foundations of mutual trust. It’s then that the magic happens.
We swim against the tide, challenge your thinking, and leave a positive indelible mark on you, your people, and your business.
In addition to her day job, Charlotte also hosts a podcast with Lorna Leeson - The Deep C Dive, presents and hosts conferences and writes about culture, communications, change and leadership.
Sarah Hood
Global Head of Engagement
Bupa
Sarah has worked at Bupa for over 21 years, with a background in customer service and operations management in both healthcare provision and funding, before making the switch to HR in 2015. Sarah now leads Bupa’s engagement strategy and vision, and the delivery of a global listening program connecting all employees. Bupa employs 85,000 people in a mixture of healthcare provision and healthcare funding businesses around the world.
Dawn Moore
Group People and Communications Director
Murphy
Dawn is Group Director of People and Communications for Murphy, overseeing the People and Communications strategy and activities for all of Murphy operations across the UK, Ireland and North America. Dawn has 30 years of professional experience and is also an experienced non-executive director, having held roles in the public, private and third sectors.
Dawn has received numerous awards over the last 5 years for her work on culture change, people strategy, learning and development and diversity and inclusion – work which has made a tangible difference to the organisations she has worked for and which others have learned from. In 2024, Murphy won numerous awards for its People strategy, including the CIPD’s Best Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Initiative and the Investors in People Award for Learning and Development.
Outside of work Dawn enjoys time with her two young daughters and mentoring aspiring executives from a variety of backgrounds to help them achieve their potential.
Cathy Brown
Head of Economic Justice
Barrow Cadbury Trust
Cathy (she/her) works with people and organisations to create inclusive, healthy and more productive workplaces that work for everyone.
A renowned leader, speaker and communicator, Cathy blends curiosity and empathy with deep cross-sector experience. She prides herself on helping people move out of stressful situations to create human-focused workplace cultures where compassion and connectedness – and people – are encouraged and valued.
Cathy has led organisations across a range of industries including Engage for Success (the UK’s movement for Employee Engagement), and has helped to transform many more through her work as Capability Brown, and most recently at Management Geek.
Cathy carries her personal experience of neurodivergence into the solutions she co-creates with her clients, through conversations, commitment and curiosity - helping them to manage themselves and their teams in ways that work for everyone.
Kaylee Darkins
Chief People & Communications Officer
OAK Global
An accomplished HR leader with a proven track record in driving business results through people strategies. Has gained extensive experience in multiple sectors and large global, matrix organisations. With a proven ability to align HR initiatives with business objectives to drive growth, enhance employee engagement, and foster a high-performance culture in complex and fast-paced environments. Adept at leading transformative organisational changes and developing global talent strategies.
Has a deep understanding of HR practices, including; talent management, organisational design and effectiveness, HR technology integration, leadership development, business and cultural transformation. Known for driving diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives while championing employee wellness and career development across diverse geographies.
A trusted advisor to the CEO, Leadership team and the Board. A member of the global HR Leadership team, and multiple executive committees, including the UK executive committee and the governance committee.
A results orientated, strategic thinker, with the ability to flex into operational focus. Has strong interpersonal skills, high self-awareness, and the ability to motivate and influence teams. Adaptable to the ever-changing business landscape, ensuring the organisation's human resources are positioned to drive success.
Joyce Idoniboye
Chief People Officer
Oxfam
Joyce Idoniboye is a seasoned HR professional with a diverse industry background in the field. She has held leadership roles in a variety of organisations including Oxfam where she is currently Chief People Officer, DDB part of the Omnicom Group, CBRE, HarperCollins Publishers, Pearson International, News UK, and Charles Russell LLP. In these roles, Joyce has been responsible for driving the people and culture agenda, employee engagement, talent management and organisational design and development.
Outside of work Joyce enjoys time spent with friends and family, travel, keeping fit especially Spin, watching basketball and roller skating.
Annisha Taylor
Head of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Ofcom
Annisha is a pioneering culture and change strategist with a career spanning 15+ years across the public, private and voluntary sectors. She brings a wealth of experience in embedding equity and fairness into large, complex organisations. With leadership roles at the BBC, Ofcom, and the John Lewis Partnership, she helps shape inclusive behaviours and systems that work across media, regulatory, retail and community spaces.
Annisha’s approach is grounded in collaboration, accountability and real-world impact. Whether supporting teams, advising boards, or working with grassroots organisations, she helps businesses move beyond statements and into sustainable, sector-wide change. Outside of her professional roles, Annisha is a dedicated community leader, trustee and advocate for inclusive education, culture and business.