James Caldecott is the UK Head of Sales at Winningtemp. He joined the business in early 2021 and has experience heading up sales functions across a wide range of technology businesses. At Winningtemp, James and his team focus on growing the UK market by educating businesses on immediate issues such as ensuring mental health, stress and overall wellbeing is monitored proactively, all within a safe environment. Positive and negative trends are all triggered by real time data and this is essential to creating strong high spirited workplaces. Outside of work James is on his third attempt of training for the London Marathon in October, that’s if it goes ahead…

For the past 19 years, Ruxandra Ciulu has been both an academic and a practitioner, taking the best from both worlds. She is passionate about working with people and supporting them to generate impact and make a difference. Since 2015, she has been the HR Manager of Expert Network, a Romanian SME in the field of IT part of Belgium’s Wildstream Group. For the past 6 years, Ruxandra has been developing from scratch Expert Network’s HR processes and has actively supported major change processes at company level. The company has created its turnaround strategy to redefine its business model for more sustainable growth and international expansion, change in customer type and extended added value. This was also reflected into HR processes, which were completely re-evaluated and positioned for sustainable growth. On the academic side, Ruxandra is based in Romania and has international experience teaching in other European countries and taking part in international projects. She also coordinates two programs with international exposure at her home university. Ruxandra holds a bachelor in Management, a Master of Arts in HR and a PhD in strategy.

As an organizational psychologist, Olivier's always been fascinated by what exactly makes an organization tick. What is it that's driving people to do what they do. Starting his career in the People & Organizational consulting department at PwC, he quickly made the shift to the start-up world for a more dynamic and hands-on perspective into the corporate world. Joining Intuo, now Unit4 Talent Management, as part of the commercial team, it quickly became apparent that a need to understand the client and his/her's context could and should be the main focus of his working day. As Unit4 Talent Management's value advisor, his job is to look for the value and impact Unit4 can drive through their solutions and understanding of our current and future clients' needs.

Thomas Turner currently works as a Programme Support Officer within the Digital Readiness Team at The Northern Care Alliance NHS Group. Currently Thomas supports with development, adoption and training of new digital platforms within the NHS with the long-term aim of improving the digital skills of staff to ensure the NHS has a workforce that is ready for the future and one that embrace’s new technologies and change. Although relatively new in this post, Thomas has over 12 years of experience within the NHS, mainly working in the clinical skills and simulation team, where he has primarily focused on using technology and high fidelity simulation to better improve clinical training for staff.

Accomplished sales and marketing leader with a history of record-breaking results through the development of high-performing teams in organizations ranging from start-up to multi-billion-dollar enterprises. Skilled in building new and profitable distribution channels for technology, SaaS, and business intelligence. Deep international experience in establishing and growing global markets, including EMEA, APAC, and LATAM. Adept at sales organizational design, strategy, and structure. Line management experience includes full P&L responsibility for business units ranging in size from $40M to $500M. Trusted advisor to CEO, Board of Directors, and other members of executive management teams.

Steve Tonks leads sales, account, and partner management for WorkForce Software across EMEA. Steve has a diverse background in business process optimisation, enterprise resource planning, supply chain, general business operations, sales, service and customer experience management. Prior to joining WorkForce Software, he held leadership roles at Soprano Design, Steelwedge Software, and Syncron. Steve earned a BA in Business Studies & Marketing from the University of Hertfordshire.

Joe Ross is a proven product management executive who has lead product teams in the delivery of innovative and commercially successful technology products and services for the past 25 years, including 10 years at McKesson Corporation. In the most recent stop of his career journey, Joe is fostering a culture of innovation at WorkForce Software while developing their Product Management Team and practices to support a fast-growing and global enterprise SaaS business.

Jon Maddison is Achievers’ EMEA Managing Director, with responsibility for heading the team and the services that we provide to customers across the region. Jon has more than a decade’s experience of leading successful Software-as-a-Service businesses in key leadership roles in prominent software organisations including NGA HR, SmartFocus, Lyris Inc and Epsilon. Jon holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Surrey and an M.B.A. with distinction from the University of Bath, UK. Outside of work, Jon spends his valuable spare team with his young family and keeping active through cycling.

As an experienced and enthusiastic Diversity and Inclusion professional I am passionate about creating an inclusive workplace environment for all. My years of experience as a strategic business partner in diversity and inclusion along with my solid HR background have given me an invaluable insight into the challenges people face in the workplace and the drive to want to improve it. I have excellent communication skills and an adaptable management style to influence and motivate others.

Jimmy Moe is an expert video at Pitchy, a SaaS online video editing solution that allows professionals to create their corporate videos in a completely autonomous and personalised way.

Michael is a chartered Occupational Psychologist and a qualified coach, but he started life working in various operational roles in the aviation industry. Michael has spent more than a decade working with organisations across the globe including Virgin Atlantic, Deutsche Post DHL, HSBC, IHG Group, Woolworths Group and the Walt Disney Company - improving employee experience and engagement.

Heena Shafiq is the Senior Digital Oranisational Development Practitioner at NHS Northern Care Alliance, she has been working there since September 2019

Karla is the Health & Wellbeing Manager at Philips, a leading health technology company focused on improving lives through meaningful innovation. Her mission for wellbeing at Philips is to create a culture that embraces different ideas, appreciates individual purpose and empowers people to be the best version of themselves. Karla brings to this role twelve years experience in sales & marketing for a global leader in the medical device industry. Her background is in exercise science with further qualifications in Physiotherapy and Clinical Pilates. At Philips she combines her experience as a healthcare professional with project and change management skills to deliver numerous holistic programs, recently focussing on challenging stigmas surrounding mental health and menopause.

Giulia Cherbavaz is the Media Manager at ConvaTec, she has been working there for the last 3 years!

Aundrea Dahl is part of the Talent and Organizational Development Team at Zoom. She is focused on empowering leaders to become the best versions of themselves through constant learning. At Zoom, we know that it takes great leaders to create great teams. Developing our talent and ensuring they are happy and engaged every day coming to work is our biggest priority. Aundrea has made her career about helping companies and leaders prioritize the development of their talent and to improve the effectiveness of their teams in order to achieve their business goals. She has worked in Talent Acquisition, Human Resources and now in Learning & Development and Organizational Development. Her experience has spanned across industries of retail, healthcare and technology and she recently graduated with her Master's in Leadership and Organizational Development from the University of Denver.

Brian James Flores is a Talent and Organizational Development Consultant at Zoom Video Communications and former Senior Training Manager, Learning and Development at Performics, where he led onboarding and ongoing training initiatives. Brian discovered his love for talent development in his early career during his tenure with Apple Inc., where he honed his skill in facilitating learning experiences. While at Apple, he completed his Masters in Education in Human Resource Development from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In addition to learning design, Brian enjoys visual design and spends his extra time ensuring his learning assets look clean, simple, and modern.

My career has spanned fifteen years and during this time I've been fortunate enough to work in a global capacity across EMEA, the USA and APAC. I’m a 1st class honours degree holder in Business Management and Marketing, and I am currently working towards a masters in HRM part time. Hyper growth tech companies are my sweet spot. I get immense satisfaction building high performing teams from scratch, scaling, coaching others and delivering talent programs that help enrich a company.

For over 12 years, Alex has helped coach and train our clients’ managers and internal trainers/facilitators on how to use simple skills and habits combined with our software to increase results, improve engagement and build leadership skills. Alex has a passion for helping individuals and teams make work easier, reduce stress and increase collaboration while reaching company goals. As an experienced trainer, she demonstrates flexibility to address the group’s top priorities and concerns while using energy and humour to keep them focused and productive. Alex is always excited to work with client trainers and facilitators, enabling them to feel confident and prepared to sustain the desired culture from within. She is skilled at providing managers with proven best practices that work for varied leadership styles, helping them create the environment for a more engaged workforce. Last, but not least, she is proud of how these same techniques work to support the smart, dedicated team at Reward Gateway. While not at work, Alex loves to fight a losing battle with her gardens, discover new restaurants with her husband and learn from and play with her kids.