Employee Wellbeing Conference

Jo has been a volunteer with the Engage for Success movement since its launch.  As Strategy Director she sits on the Core Team and co-hosts the weekly Engage for Success radio show. EFS radio draws guests from across the engagement world with interesting stories to share. The Engage for Success agenda is absolutely aligned with Jo’s vision ‘to make workplaces better places to be’. Jo’s ‘day job’ is MD and founder of Woodreed, a specialist ad agency who use the tools, techniques, creativity and insight of the advertising world to engage employees inside organisations. Jo is passionate about brands and their power to move people.  She is equally passionate about employee engagement and its vital role in delivering a high performing organisation. Put the two together and she becomes almost evangelical about the power a well-positioned and consistently delivered brand has as a catalyst for employee engagement and business success.

Tony has over 25 years’ experience as an HR director, primarily in the NHS. This included roles at the Health Protection Agency, the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust and the Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust, where he also led on communications and facilities. He joined CIPD in late 2018 from Public Health England where he was its first HR Director and latterly its Chief Adviser on Diversity and Inclusion and Staff Wellbeing. Tony works with colleagues and CIPD branches to help embed proactive diversity and inclusion, employee wellbeing and employee engagement activity across all employment sectors. Tony, who is a Chartered Fellow of CIPD, is also a member of Professor Sir Cary Cooper’s National Forum for Health and Wellbeing at Work, a trustee at the Royal Society for Public Health, a member of the Council for Work and Health and is a regular speaker at employment conferences across the UK and Europe.

Paula was appointed to HR Director in January 2013. She has worked at Heathrow for 13 years, most recently as HR Director for our Airports Division and Support Services and previously as programme lead for Heathrow's Winter Resilience. Paula has a strong record of engaging staff to successfully put in place organisational change and improvement.

Nicholas is an award-winning internal communicator with over a dozen years’ experience in the comms/engagement/employee experience space, both in the UK and in the Middle East. Nicholas is a Fellow of the Institute of Internal Communications (IoIC), and a committee member of both Engage for Success, and IoIC London. His mantra is to ‘keep the complex, simple’ and he believes that the employee experience should have parity with the customer experience. He is also the co-founder of the Employee Experience Opportunity.

As Head of Mental Health and Wellbeing at Acas, Abigail works with employers to develop pragmatic strategies to improve mental health and wellbeing in the workplace. With over 25 years’ experience in mental health, Abigail brings a unique perspective combining insights from her early career as a psychotherapist with her current advisory role, working with global brands and key stakeholders. Abigail recently developed a new framework for tackling the causes and consequences of poor mental health, focusing on the different roles employers, managers and individuals can play. Before joining Acas, Abigail worked as Research and Project Manager developing and delivering large scale health and wellbeing projects; prior to this Abigail managed the counselling and mental health service at Coventry University.

Civil Service Employee Policy provides a centre of expertise and expert partnering for Civil Service organisations, working and advising across the broad range of HR policy areas and issues - from pay and reward to career frameworks to performance management, and beyond. As Director, I have overall accountability for all workforce and workplan issues - ensuring we continue to provide an effective and valued service and that we remain an attractive, enjoyable and supportive place to to work.

Visionary leader of Safety, Health, Wellbeing, Sustainability, Environment and Quality. High performing specialist with an outstanding career of rapid progression gained within global organisations and household names in engineering, construction and waste management. An internationally regarded subject matter expert who naturally builds top quality, productive relationships and has a well-established network of high profile clients, industry enforcers and experts, media contacts, unions and key stakeholders throughout the UK and Europe. A Chartered Director, business strategist and director of change management with a record of significant success in driving behavioural and cultural change across several thousand employees and multiple facilities. Mentor and coach to senior management teams to produce unprecedented results in a climate of resistance, with low levels of staff attrition throughout entire career. Extensive experience of working alongside senior leadership teams from the Group Board down supporting and reporting to them on a range of safety, health, wellbeing, sustainability, environment and quality and corporate social responsibility (CSR) aspects; equipped with an acute understanding of their business critical integration with profitable operations. Employed over the last twenty years by dynamic, progressive organisations with a global presence this has enabled me to gain experience both in terms of breadth and depth with listed organisations that are global leaders in engineering, construction, environmental and logistic services working in high risk environments.

Tina has worked for Molson Coors Brewing Company in a Reward capacity for 10 years, previously coming from an HR Business Partner background within the pub and leisure industries. Whilst Tina’s responsibilities are widespread across compensation and benefits, in the last couple of years she’s also been working on embedding a strong wellbeing culture into Molson Coors. Tina is passionate about increasing employee engagement through creating a culture where employees can be their true self at work and be the best they can be, and how wellbeing can contribute to this for all of Molson Coors’ diverse workforce. Tina is particularly passionate about supporting positive mental health, and is trained as a Mental Health First Aider, as well as being part of driving the Champion network of 50 (and growing!) Mental Health Champions across Molson Coors.

Julian Hitch is a globally renowned Master of Wing Tsun, author, public speaker and coach, based in London. As Director of Wellbeing for Leon Restaurants, he helped create an innovative and far-reaching programme throughout the company, supporting everything from staff happiness to increased profitability. His book Winning not Fighting, co-written with co-founder of Leon, John Vincent, shows how companies and individuals can integrate this into their own business culture and life. Julian has integrated the tenets of Wing Tsun into his own life and work as an entrepreneur; over the last 20 years he has been helping individuals and organisations transform personally and professionally. Aside from his business and wellbeing consultancy, Julian has co-founded the Conscious Coach and runs an organic Christmas tree farm in Bromley.

Ross is an experienced People and Communication Manager with an impressive track record for implementing new engagement initiatives boasting industry leading results. Ross was instrumental in LV= winning Best Employee Engagement Strategy at the 2016 UK Customer Satisfaction Awards and now leads Engagement activities for a diverse 3500 General Insurance workforce. His influence in shaping and embedding a people centric consciousness within the GI Claims arena in particular saw him recognised in the Young Achiever category at a number of industry awards. Ross is an advocate for engagement being operationally led and believes it to be critical to fully understanding context, root cause and future engagement risks.

I am: - Currently employed at the Open Data Institute - An FCIPD 'People' (HR) practioner with over 20 years experience in a wide range of HR roles, and across a range of sectors including retail, publishing, telecoms and the not-for-profit sector. - An experienced Learning and Organisational Development specialist with an excellent track-record for developing individuals and improving organisational results - A competent and professional recruiter with experience of in-house recruiting from devising job descriptions, interviewing and developing assessment centres, through to auditing recruitment practices. - An event host and/ speaker in HR, wellbeing, IC, engagement, image and confidence fields. - A passionate, dynamic and competent CMB trained Personal stylist/Image consultant. My AIMS are: - to help people understand and reach their potential - to make people look and feel great, and understand the connection between the inner and outer self - to help people express themselves SPECIALITIES: Personal development. Leadership & Management. Learning & Development. Organisational Development. Internal communications. Employee engagement. Recruitment. Personal brand and image consulting.

A passion for e’one to feel inclusive and bring their whole selves to their work / home life.

Helen is the Founder of Unique & Inclusive Wellbeing, an experienced provider of training and consultancy in leadership, team building, and employee engagement, with the primary objective of improving the health and the wellbeing of the workplace. Helen combines her lived experience of mental ill health, alongside her many years in leadership positions and training in psychology and counselling, which gives her a unique perspective in leadership, teams and creating cultures where employees thrive. Helen is on a crusade to drive lasting change in business, placing health and wellbeing at the forefront of employee experience, to not only deliver successful and high performing organisations but to be a catalyst in creating environments that better support those who struggle with their health and which prevent poor mental health in the workplace.

Chris leads a team in Microsoft Customer Services and Support leading on employee experience - with focus on the key pillars of culture and environment. The team are at the forefront of transformation in support; leveraging employee engagement, work health balance and work place design for customer success.

More than 20 years of experience in pharmaceuticals, financial services and healthcare, Malcolm’s leadership career has focused on driving disruptive approaches that transform services and empower patients to take responsibility for their health. A specialist in innovation and business development, Malcolm has overseen transformation within NHS, hospice and private healthcare services. Malcom completed his MBA at London Business School.  On graduation, he joined the pharmaceutical industry working in manufacturing, sales, marketing and finance both in the UK and abroad where he held a Country Manager post in the Middle East. He was a founding director of Saigei Ltd, a management consultancy, where his focus was on working with NHS organisations. While with Saigei he became a Non-Executive Director of TCN Ltd, a Primary Care Services delivery business. He later became Executive Director with responsibility for Strategy and Business Performance in May 2007. TCN was sold in March 2010 and he returned his consulting company, Health Connect Ltd. Looking for an opportunity to broaden experience and understanding into risk management and health funding, he was asked to develop a business case for Bupa International’s scale up in China. This led on to being appointed as Head of Market Development for Bupa International undertaking insurance partner implementations in Kenya, Nigeria, UAE and a number of other markets in Europe and Asia. Leaving Bupa in early 2015 to return to more entrepreneurial opportunities, he joined Reframe as Chief Executive in July 2015 to lead development of the business as a challenger and disrupter of healthcare services.

Takashi Sato is the Managing Director of Unipos - the fastest growing HR feedback and recognition software. He began his career at adidas in Europe, where he soon rose to the position of Project Manager of Global Strategy, working on company-wide restructuring projects. After setting up his own company, Takashi joined HelloFresh, one of Berlin’s fastest growing startups, taking charge of country expansions and business development. He is passionate about sustainability, technology and the power of recognition and purpose on an organisational level.

Sammy Rubin is the founder and CEO of yulife, a start-up that provides life insurance, wellbeing and rewards in one simple app to help you live your best life. He originally built Policy Portfolio plc, the first market maker in traded endowments in the UK, and led the flotation of the company on the full London Stock Exchange. He then went on to become the founding CEO of Pruprotect (now known as VitalityLife) which was the first life insurance company in the UK to reward healthy living. Sammy holds a degree in computer science from Imperial College London. He is married with three children and is a wannabe yogi.

Katherine has spent the last 17 years across a number of roles with Heathrow Airport. She was part of the leadership team on the ground breaking construction of Terminal 2. Katherine later took on the role of Head of Health and Safety for Heathrow, however, a personal tragedy ignited her passion to focus on transforming the health and wellbeing agenda, to really make a difference. She is uniquely placed in using her people engagement and programme management skills to now creating an innovative and sustainable Health and Wellbeing Strategy. As a Health and Wellbeing newcomer she has been recognised by Business in the Community (BITC) as one to watch in the future.

Natalie is an action driven Engagement and Inclusion Manager with broad experience in delivering numerous Human Resources projects across a number of sectors and industries. Her focus is on working with a wide range of colleagues to develop realistic and transformative initiatives that drive and shape an engaged, inclusive workplace environment.

Chetna is a certified executive coach, part time in-house employment lawyer and speaker. As Co-founder and CEO of Being Lawyers, Chetna has collaborated with The Law Society of England and Wales to hold wellbeing conferences and has spoken at events including the Junior Lawyers Division Annual Conference, Women Economic Forum and the Health and Wellbeing at Work Conference. Chetna is passionate about human potential and has been working with organisations and professionals since 2013 to access elevated levels of wellbeing, performance and leadership. She trains and coaches professionals on a new understanding of the mind to help them increase their mental clarity and engagement so that they can fulfill their potential.