FUTURE OF WORK CONFERENCE

The Brewery, London – Wednesday 9th October 2024

Transforming workplace culture in a digital age

600+ ATTENDEES

30+ PRESENTATIONS

ONE-DAY EVENT

ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS

Key facts

ONE-DAY EVENT

30 Exclusive Presentations

ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS

CASE STUDIES, INTERVIEWS & PANEL DISCUSSIONS

600+ ATTENDEES

1-2-1 MEETINGS

WHAT TO EXPECT

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The Future of Employee Engagement

This stream will look at how organisations need to ensure that people thrive regardless of their physical location. With advancements in technology, the modern workplace has undergone a significant transformation in recent years. Now more than ever, it is imperative to provide a future-proof work environment that offers enriching experiences.

Personalised Employee Experiences

Join this stream to delve deeper into how personalising employee experiences ensure individual recognition, align goals with personal aspirations, and provide optimal work conditions and tailored training programs. Personalised experiences strengthen relationships and collaboration, enable proactive problem-solving, and ensure alignment with organisational goals.

Internal Communications

This stream will demonstrate what it takes to implement an internal communications strategy that meets the needs of the modern employee. More so now than ever before, effective internal communications strategies play a pivotal role in ensuring a productive and engaged workforce. This translates into a more positive work environment, where employees are motivated to perform at their best and contribute to the success of the organisation.

Advanced Analytics and AI

Join this stream to learn how to utilise advanced analytics and AI to enhance employee engagement by providing data-driven insights, personalising experiences, and improving decision-making. AI tools offer real-time feedback, automate tasks, and optimise workflows, boosting productivity and job satisfaction. They also support wellbeing through health monitoring and stress detection.

Wellbeing Programmes

Join this stream to explore how wellbeing programmes are crucial for enhancing employee engagement by improving physical and mental health. They create a positive work environment, increase job satisfaction, and help in talent attraction and retention. By promoting holistic wellbeing, including physical, mental, emotional, and financial health, these programmes make employees feel valued and supported.

Continuous Feedback and Communication

Join this stream as we explore how continuous feedback and communication are crucial for employee engagement as they enhance performance, motivation, and development by providing real-time feedback and support. Continuous communication increases employee involvement, promotes transparency, and encourages innovation.

Career Pathing and Mobility

Join this stream to explore how career pathing and mobility assists in providing clear growth opportunities and enhance job satisfaction. Offering career progression attracts top talent and enhances organisational agility by optimising talent utilisation. These practices empower employees to take ownership of their careers and drive innovation through cross-functional collaboration.

Designing Modern Employee Experiences

Join this stream to learn how leading organisations are designing modern employee experiences. Driving productivity, engagement and employee performance are key indicators that your employee experiences are truly providing value.

Purpose-Driven Work

Join this stream to learn how purpose-driven work is increasingly important in the workplace and how it boosts employee motivation, engagement, and satisfaction. When employees understand and align with an organisation’s mission and values, they are more committed and productive. This leads to higher morale, better teamwork, and a stronger company culture, ultimately driving business success and ensuring long-term growth.

Creating a Unified Workplace Culture

Join this stream to discover how, by cultivating a unified workplace culture, you can ultimately drive productivity and innovation to new heights. Creating a unified workplace culture not only boosts employee engagement but also fosters a sense of belonging and collaboration among team members. When employees feel a strong connection to the company's values, mission, and goals, they are more motivated to contribute their best efforts and actively participate in the growth and success of the organisation.

Workplace & Workforce Transformation

Head to this stream and explore how, by embracing change, you can build a future-ready strategy that propels your organisation towards success. Reimaging traditional practices and strategies embraces an environment that builds innovation, collaboration and growth.

The Evolution of New Workplace Technologies

Join this stream for tools, tips and strategies to assist your organisation in implementing technology to future-proof your employee engagement strategies. Whilst technology is only one component of the employee experience, savvy development of technology can make a huge difference to employee engagement and more now than ever in the modern workplace.

Main Stage

The main stage will delve into every aspect of employee engagement. We will showcase examples of excellence and explore the latest research, best practices and industry trends to help you cultivate an engaged and motivated workforce. Join us to gain valuable insights and practical tools to allow your workforce to thrive.

Organisational culture

This stage will explore the significance of workplace culture in improving employee engagement. A workplace’s culture provides employees with a sense of identification and belonging and is key in improving employee collaboration, attracting and retaining talent, driving performance, adapting to change, and improving customer satisfaction. Join us to learn how to build and sustain a thriving organisational culture.

Communication & collaboration

This stage will explore the significance of effective internal communications strategies in enhancing collaboration, boosting productivity, and improving employee engagement as a whole. You’ll leave feeling inspired to build and maintain effective communication and collaboration within your organisation.

Digital workplace

On this stage, we will explore the significance of embracing technology within your employee engagement strategies. Connecting employees regardless of their location is a key challenge faced by employee engagement leaders, with the rise in remote working and global workforces. This stage will showcase the latest workplace innovations with a spotlight on those organisations who have implemented new technologies and are thriving as a result.

Suzy Jearum

Coca-Cola European Partners Associate Director of Employee Experience

I am dedicated to providing exceptional digital experiences for my colleagues. I enjoy engaging with employees, understanding what matters to them during their entire employment lifecycle. I implement changes and enhancements that affect those moments that matter.

Since 2018, I've contributed to the People & Culture digital transformation at Coca-Cola by introducing new global Hire to Retire processes and digital tools. My current focus is talent and learning technology and the opportunities that will unlock for our 42,000 employees.

Chalene Hanson

Burberry Global HR Director

Chalene is a Global HR Director at Burberry, leading the people agenda for Marketing & Communications. Having initially joined Burberry to deliver the global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategy, she has succeeded in a number of roles charged with embedding inclusion within the people experience through recognition, wellbeing and engagement initiatives. Chalene is a certified project manager and practised HR professional, with extensive experience in the UK, Germany and the US across talent acquisition, engagement, reward, organisational change management, board effectiveness and leadership development programmes. She is also an accredited workplace coach and passionate about creating spaces for individuals to be seen and heard for the benefit of organisations and society.

Nick Hollis

Burger King UK Head of Engagement

Nick is Head of Engagement at BKUK, Burger King’s master franchise. He looks after various elements of their EVP including employee benefits, employee recognition, internal communications and branding, feedback surveys and people insights. Over his last 5 years at Burger King, he’s led the launch of multiple platforms from ATS’s, to Benefits and Engagement platforms, and helped to improve people processes for the benefit of BK’s restaurant teams and the business.

Paul Finn

Amazon Head of Employee Experience Amazon Grocery Logistics - North America & Europe

As a Senior Operations Manager at Amazon, I lead one third of the online sub-same day grocery operations in the UK, overseeing over 500 associates and 18 managers. I have over 8 years of experience in operations and project management at Amazon, where I have delivered complex and customer-impacting projects across Europe.

My core competencies include operational analysis, strategic leadership, analytical skills, and people management. I have successfully launched Fresh and AMXL sites in the UK, France, and Italy, creating value for customers and stakeholders, and optimizing operations and processes. I have also built and led high-performing teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence. My mission is to solve challenging problems, develop and inspire people, and drive growth and efficiency for Amazon's online grocery and large and bulky operations.

Catherine Rennie

Mastercard, Cyber & Intelligence Director Internal Communications

With over 30 years in the Internal Communications and Engagement space, Catherine is a skilled & experienced strategic thinker, operating at a senior level in Employee Engagement & M&A both in the public and private sector; balancing strategic thinking with tactical delivery.

Previously responsible for an award-winning Employee Engagement Strategy obtaining the status of the 'Sunday Times Best companies to work' for in the UK.

Experienced in strategy development, leadership, crisis & transformation communications.

A keen volunteer and support to Oxfordshire and Berkshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and more latterly, BEAT (a national charity supporting those experience Eating Disorders).

Imogen Dooley

BMW Employee Engagement Strategy Manager

In 2023, BMW Group UK took the decision to create a new position for the organisation. Following a strategic review, it was identified that there was a clear requirement to develop the current position of employee engagement with the UK business for the German car manufacturer.

Immie Dooley was selected as the individual to take on this new position. Joined with a strong background in experiential marketing and a well-known advocate for internal communications and activity, the launch of a new role has required Immie to establish the status of the position and the importance of the work at both a C-Suite level and the wider workforce.

Now just over a year into the role and the Employee Engagement has included presenting at company town-halls, individual team meetings and board meetings. The introduction of an internal analysis tools has allowed the business to establish a baseline from which to develop actions plans and identify areas, which has formed a key element of the Voice of our People initiative.

Looking forward within her role, Immie will be focusing on bringing people together, whether virtually or physically, to improve engagement and an environment of active listening and action.

Steve Clarke

Virgin Atlantic People Communications Lead

Steve leads a team of communications professionals responsible for people engagement and culture, content development and storytelling, and communication channels at Virgin Atlantic. Steve spearheaded Virgin Atlantic’s launch of Workplace by Meta, and has radically evolved the approach to people communications to focus on mobile first, audio-visual storytelling.

Ilaria Galfredi

Air France Project Lead and Engagement Partner

I am an accomplished manager with a robust history at Air France KLM.

My tenure includes roles as Training Officer, Customer Experience Leader, and currently as Business Support and Development Manager since 2021.

I am expert in training, coaching, quality and internal communication, and I have been leading projects that enhance continuous improvement and employee well-being. I am adept at creating inclusive work environments and implementing innovative work guidelines.

My expertise in training, knowledge management and customer feedback analysis underscore my commitment to excellence in customer service.

Jini Amarasekara

Air France Communicaiton Business Partner

I am an experienced communications manager with over 20 years' experience of internal and external communications in both agency and in-house settings. Creative, collaorative, with a solution-focussed, can-do attitude, I am a people person who works well with others as well as on my own to deliver communications projects on time and within budget.

I have excellent project and programme management skills, am organised in my approach, and work quickly and efficiently while paying attention to detail. My strong writing ability brings dry copy to life, and coupled with a sound knowledge of editing and proofing documents and publications, I can deliver clean, crisp and effective content for a range of communications.

I am confident in working with and challenging, where necessary, senior management, and have had line management responsibility for staff within the team, other departments (matrix management) and agency contracts (third party individuals and full service PR, marketing and design agencies).

Valeria Winkworth

EY Director, People Consulting

Dr. Valeria Winkworth is a recognised change leader with a passion for driving human-centred transformation to create a working world of equitable opportunities open to all. A Doctor in Medicinal Chemistry by background, Valeria has been a STEM professional throughout her career, working closely with Executive Directors from leading global corporations across a spectrum of industries, including pharmaceuticals, infrastructure, and utilities.

Her work focuses on technology-led business transformations and workplace of the future strategies, with expertise in Change Leadership and Organisational Design.

A lead-author of multiple high-impact scientific papers and thought leadership pieces and a dynamic and passionate presenter, Dr. Winkworth has attended numerous international conferences and has been a featured guest on a variety of podcasts, where she’s shared her experience in delivering successful end-to-end large scale transformations.

Sarah Hood

Bupa Global Head of Engagement

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.

Richard Bold

Bupa Global Head of People Strategy & Programmes

Over 20 years’ experience in HR, corporate governance, policy and risk management in financial services, healthcare, contact centre and services sector. At Bupa involved in leading strategic people planning, transformation and other governance related activities in a thriving and dynamic operating environment.

Alyssa Jaffer

Deliveroo Senior Global Communications Manager

Alyssa (a-lee-sa) Jaffer is a writing and communications expert, with two degrees in media and journalism and years of professional experience in content marketing. She is the Senior Global Communications Manager for the international rider fleet at Deliveroo, a global online food tech company with £6.9 billion gross transaction value. Alyssa is passionate about gender equity, learning and development and she actively advocates to support marginalised communities in the workplace. She earned the 2024 Golden Wings Award in the category 'Not all heroes wear crêpes' for her contributions towards fostering diversity and growth at Deliveroo.

Alongside her full time role, Alyssa is a freelance journalist, covering women's careers, health, lifestyle and travel for publications like Stylist Magazine, Business Insider and AllBright Post. She also writes copy for small businesses spanning the luxury jewellery, wellness, higher education, femtech and interior design sectors. Check out her full body of work at alyssajaffer.com.

Christina Lewis

Bolt Head of Global Operations and Engagement

Chrissie leads Global Operations at Bolt and has a decade of experience leading teams in fast-growth start-ups, including as an early-stage team member at Deliveroo. Passionate about Gender Equity and people-orientated leadership, Chrissie previously led the Gender Equity ERG at Deliveroo, spearheading the first woman-focused mentoring scheme, as well as introducing Accelerate, Deliveroo's programme for high-potential women. Chrissie was recently featured as a 'Women to Watch' in Tourism, Hospitality and Lesuire by WIHTL.

Sophie Allington

Ocado Group Head of People Operational Excellence

Sophie began her HR career in People Operations, going on to gain experience in Talent Acquisition, specialising in employment contracts, contractor management, data protection, and compliance. After a number of years in the public sector, she joined Ocado in 2021 to lead various Talent Acquisitions teams across the business. In 2023, she transitioned to the Group People Operations, initially serving as the People Product Manager, before being promoted to Head of People Operational Excellence.

In her current role, Sophie leads a team of systems and Product specialists, focused on optimising HR processes, generating innovative product solutions, and ensuring operational efficiency. Passionate about process improvement, risk, and compliance, Sophie leads large-scale change initiatives, including new market expansions, system implementations, acquisitions and mergers and multi-disciplinary projects, as well as overseeing governance, fraud controls and audit.

Sophie also chairs the Parents & Carers Association at Ocado Group and is dedicated to enhancing the experience of working families in the workplace.

Daphne Henderson-Figueroa

Grosvenor Internal Communications Manager

Daphne has worked in marketing and communications for 12 years, with experience across charity, government, and private sectors. Specialising in people engagement for the past seven years, she has managed internal communications for audiences of small teams up to large organisations of 100,000. She is currently the Internal Communications Manager at Grosvenor, an international organisation whose 500+ staff predominantly work in the company’s UK property business in London. In this role, Daphne leads strategic campaigns, produces events and creates impactful content that help shape Grosvenor’s unique culture. Daphne is passionate about producing creative, simple, and human-centred communications, always seeking fun and innovative ways to connect with people.

Melissa Woodhead

EY Communications & Engagement Leader

Throughout her 25-year career, Mel has worked with BT and Big Four firms EY and Deloitte, along with start-ups in the UK and France. Her roles have included leading group-wide communications and extensive experience as a strategic business partner, advising senior stakeholders on strategy and change.

Mel's passion for employee engagement and experience includes that of her own team-members. Managing remotely dispersed teams has become the norm in recent years, and she has overcome geographic obstacles, fostering collaborative and fun working cultures through innovative approaches. For Mel, the true value of communications and engagement is seen through impact. The Strong when we belong campaign she worked on amplified colleague stories, promoted social connection and increased the sense of belonging of 18,000 employees. Achieving this sort of positive change through comms and engagement is incredibly rewarding, and Mel looks forward to many more opportunities to make a difference in these transformative times.

Rebecca Bainbridge

YouGov Head of Internal Communications and Employer Branding

Rebecca is an internal communications leader with experience in large and mid-sized, rapid growth businesses where M&A, change management and organisational redesign have been key areas of focus. As Head of Internal Communications and Employer Branding at YouGov, over five years she built a global team from scratch, advising on change communications across several transformation projects at a time of vast growth for the company. This includes the largest M&A the company has ever seen, the first CEO transition and the launch of a brand-new digital workplace. Prior to YouGov, Rebecca has a wealth of experience working in IC across professional services, legal and real estate sectors.

Carol Smith

AllPoints Fibre Employee Experience Director

A strategic HR leader with over 20 years’ experience, dedicated to transforming organisations through exceptional employee experiences. I am passionate about creating inclusive environments where employees feel empowered, valued and engaged, driving both personal and organisational success.

In my current role, I have been involved scaling a company from 34 to 500 employee in just two years, while ensuring employee wellbeing and engagement remained central to the growth. Supported the successful merger of four sister companies in 2023, implementing innovative people strategies, and prioritising the employee experience at every level. APFN introduced a new performance management process that focuses more on quality conversations and regular feedback which has started to cultivate a culture of continuous development and recognition.

I have been fortunate to build employee experience at APFN driving key initiatives which established diversity and inclusion networks, building proactive wellbeing strategies, creating mental health champions and a set of new values to connect the four different companies with a common set of behaviours and belonging. These efforts have led to us being a finalist at the 2024 Engaged Awards for vision and values.

Stella Gavinho

Entain Group Head of Wellbeing

I am a global Head of Wellbeing with a decade of experience developing and delivering wellbeing strategies in the workplace. I have worked in international markets across Europe, Asia, Australia, and America.

It’s my personal mission to bring more wellbeing and engagement into the business so that people can flourish and achieve their full potential, as well as be healthier and happier. I believe that if you take good care of your employees, they will take good care of customers and the business will thrive.

I’m passionate about finding creative ways to solve tough challenges, I approach challenges with open mind and empathy - whether it’s tackling obesity in Saudi Arabia, delivering resilience programme to call centres in the UK or implementing a global mental health training for over 3,000 managers.

I have a strong sense of purpose and a deep commitment to making things happen, the core values that I’m guided by are authenticity, perseverance, and optimism.

Catherine Morris

Home Office Deputy Director, Group Head of Internal Communications

Catherine’s career as an experienced comms practitioner spans the private, not-for-profit and public sectors in a range of business development, marketing, research and communication roles. After working for a human rights charity, she joined the Civil Service working as an internal strategic consultant for the Cabinet Office on a range of integrated comms strategies and campaigns. These included stakeholder engagement, market research, branding and organisational change to drive better outcomes. She then moved to the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) where her team won awards from the CIPR and Institute for Government for a transformational change programme.

Currently working as Group Head of Internal Communications, Engagement and Change at the Home Office, Catherine is responsible for senior leadership engagement, oversight of an internal comms Community of Practice reaching out to 50K colleagues, and for delivering cross-departmental campaigns focused on behavioural change.

Jonathan Bunn

MetLife Head of Communications and Sustainability, EMEA

A former award-winning journalist and broadly-experienced senior Corporate Affairs professional with international (Asia, EMEA & US) experience at a Fortune 50 and two FTSE25 plcs. Successful track record of communicating challenging and complex issues both internally and externally. A key strategic communications adviser to senior management, with regional and global leadership team experience.

Leading and developing Sustainability strategy across 23 EMEA markets including carbon footprint and net zero transition pathway analysis, stakeholder engagement and reporting.

Jenny Bloxham

Marie Curie UK Head of Internal Communications & Engagement

Communications professional, combining business acumen with a strong understanding of the NGO and charity sector both in the UK and overseas. Skilled leader, project manager, writer and linguist with creative ideas aplenty. Proactive team player and initiative taker with a passion for child rights, development and addressing inequality.

Graham Bowditch

NHS Blood and Transplant Engagement Lead

Graham is originally from Nova Scotia, Canada where he obtained his postgraduate Master in Public Administration – since moving to the UK Graham has become a CIPD accredited member and worked in roles in Strategy and Organisational Development. Graham recently moved into the newly created Employee Engagement and Experience function as part of its Leadership, Performance and Culture team at NHS Blood and Transplant.

Rachel Lees

Money Plus Head of Recruitment, Learning and Development

With a background of over 10 years in people leadership in technology, retail, communications and financial services, Rachel currently leads the Talent and Learning & Development functions at MoneyPlus. A true advocate for employee engagement and experience, and an enthusiast for driving organisational performance through people and culture, Rachel aims to knit together key people elements to foster an open, consistent and inclusive environment were people feel empowered to thrive.

Siobhan Corria

Versus Arthritis Head of Culture

As Head of Culture at versus Arthritis, I manage diversity and inclusion, safeguarding and wellbeing, learning and development and employee engagement and internal communications. I have over ten years of working as a senior manage in the charity sector and I have previous experience of politics and working in children’s services as a Youth Offending Team Officer and a Social Worker.

In my current role, I developed the charity’s first diversity and inclusion strategy, established a Community Involvement Network and more recently led a review of safeguarding, developed our approach to wellbeing and our approach to employee engagement and internal communications.

I am Mum to two adult children and my miniature dachshund, Archie. In my spare time I enjoy keeping fit and spending time with m family.

Lee Coleman

Arriva Head of Communications and Engagement

Lee heads up the communications and engagement team at Arriva UK Bus – a leading passenger transport operator with more than 13,000 employees – where he leads the charge for connecting and empowering the company’s workforce through strategic communications and internal storytelling.

Josh Novelle

Convatec Global Head People Solutions & Experience

Josh Novelle is an internationally recognized specialist in People Experience, providing more than ten years of award-winning corporate experiences to employees. During his career he has worked in both in house (Banking,Big4, Oil and Gas and Retail) and on the supplier side, while today he holds the role of Global Head People Solutions and Experience at Convatec. His passion is to take HR and talent to the next level, taking into account the wider experience of employees, ensuring rich experiences that are accessible to all, but with a clear connection to the real business goals and profitability of the company

Kim England

Pearson Vice President, Digital Employee Experience and Community Engagement

I thrive on connecting with people, discovering new perspectives through curiosity, and exploring the world; I am an avid traveller. As a self-proclaimed tech geek, I’m passionate about harnessing technology to create exceptional employee experiences, combining the art of storytelling with the power of advocacy.

I firmly believe that learning and communities have the potential to drive transformative change in the complicated world we live in. In my role at Pearson, I get to combine both, fostering engagement to drive high performance and building a strong sense of pride in the Pearson brand. With a tenacious can-do attitude, I'm deeply committed to supporting others and leading with passion, striving to inspire and motivate those around me.

Sophie Theen

Paydock Chief People Officer

As a female founder or entrepreneur, you probably know and understand that the process of founding a business or start-up takes a lot of energy and time. It also requires solid skills, such as people management, a reliable network, resilience, and healthy time management to make it successfully through this process.

As a founders' coach, I empower women who feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or running on empty in order to recover or find their inner creative leader and full potential. I can help you liberate your joy to be the powerful change you want and desire.

As a woman, I have always had to learn to overcome challenges that come my way. When I arrived as an early migrant to Australia, I had to embrace my differences and turn them into positives. I thought differently, so I brought innovative ideas and was determined to succeed via a non-traditional route. Studying engineering, and working in a male-dominant industry, built my resilience and taught me how to navigate these adversities and challenges.

Vidhi Thakker

VML Global Senior Manager, Talent & Organisational Development

Vidhi is a talent development leader, with over a decade of experiences working in employee experience design, change management, performance management, and leadership development. She has held roles at Deloitte, KNOLSKAPE, and AIESEC working on data-powered people-related business transformation projects. She has worked across industries, including BFSI, Marketing, Aviation, & Hospitality in India, New Zealand, US, UK and countries across Asia Pacific. As a graduate of the Social-Organizational Psychology program from Columbia University, and the product of a large Indian joint family, she is very passionate about the learning and insights that emerge in team and group settings. At VML, Vidhi had designed, launched, and manages VML’s career development process, is engaged in group coaching work with VML managers and early career talent, and is a co-lead of the organization’s UK employee resource group for the LGBTQIA+ community.

Clare Fenech

Eurail Chief People Officer

Clare is an internationally experienced HR professional with a diverse background in various human resources roles. Her expertise includes leading employees through periods of change, and significantly improving engagement by focusing on personalising key touchpoints within the employee journey. Clare is skilled in developing and implementing policies that address individual needs, ensuring inclusivity and flexibility. She is committed to fostering employee development and motivation through a proactive and tailored approach

When she joined Eurail in 2017, Clare brought an exceptional level of dedication, passion, and expertise to the company, striving to create workspaces that empower employees to reach their full potential while aligning their goals with the broader customer-centric objectives of the organisation.

Brian Ranson

Cuckoo Head of Internal Communications and Engagement

Brian Ranson is a highly experienced communications professional, currently serving as Head of Internal Communications and Engagement at Cuckoo. With an Internal Communications career spanning leadership roles at Jurassic Fibre, Virgin Media O2 and Zurich Insurance, he specialises in crafting human led, targeted internal communication campaigns that deliver emotional outcomes and drive positive engagement.

Brian’s recent achievements include securing market leading eNPS scores at Cuckoo by developing and launching a series of values based content and platforms, all securing a place at the 2024 Engage Awards finals for ‘Vision and Values’ and ‘Best Employee Engagement Team’.

Jen Draper

Work Networks Director of Strategy

Jen has worked at Work Networks since May 2021. Before that she was a Communications Manager at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and worked for a few years at Global Brands Limited.

Joao Martires

YunoJuno COO

Joao Martires is the Chief Operating Officer at YunoJuno, leading global expansion. Joao has vast experience in leading tech companies’ growth and expansion with previous leadership positions held at Adevinta and Mercari.

Kaz Hassan

Unily Employee Experience Industry Lead

Having spent the last six years immersed in the employee experience space, Unily's own Kaz Hassan has a reputation for being ahead of the latest trends and best-practices on everything from digital transformation to internal communications. Over the course of his career he has worked in varied roles, from change management at Arriva to rolling out more than 20 intranets as a consultant at Unily. Kaz joined Unily in 2018 and is now a regular speaker at industry events, including presenting regional Masterclasses and conferences around the world.

Harry Harvey

Klaxoon Sales Director

Harry is a SaaS expert with over 7 years of experience in the UK technology market. His main passion? Helping teams work better, together. His mission is to empower teams to work differently, collaborate effectively, and achieve more. During his session, he will be exploring how organisations can use Human-Centric work models to boost employee experience, retain talent, and drive performance.

Harry has a track record of supporting business-wide digital innovation projects that put people at the heart of the solution. He’s delivered solutions to a range of industries including Central Government, Utilities, and AEC. He currently leads the team in the UK, Nordics, and APAC markets for Klaxoon, the all-in-one collaboration platform. Harry works with teams worldwide to provide solutions that make business easy (and accessible) for everyone, increase productivity and drive positive outcomes.

Lucy Payne

Oak Engage Head of Sales

Lucy is a driven and accomplished sales leader with over a decade of experience in account management, business development and brand strategy. As Head of Sales at Oak Engage, Lucy drives the development and execution of key strategies achieving measurable results. With a background in top companies like ASOS and Not On The High Street, Lucy excels in negotiation, commercial awareness and customer success. She is passionate about using technology to enhance employee engagement and internal communications.

Grant McNulty

Axonify Account Director, Europe

The frontline workforce is undergoing one of the most significant transformations in history. As the future of work for this essential group reaches a pivotal moment, leaders across all sectors are faced with critical decisions to keep their teams stable, engaged, and inspired.

With over 30 years of experience collaborating with some of the world’s most iconic global brands, Grant has led multinational teams at the forefront of Digital Transformation in Retail, Consumer Packaged Goods, and Telecommunications. As a pioneer in the shift towards e-commerce and personalisation, Grant has helped organisations harness the power of AI to deliver hyper-personalised communications and experiences.

Grant has also been instrumental in driving technological adoption, particularly as organisations embrace Cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) models to enhance their digital capabilities. He has championed the move towards shared services operating models, enabling organisations to achieve significant efficiency gains through automation and the strategic use of offshore intellectual talent.

Today, Grant is with Axonify, a company leading the charge in mobile-first personalisation for the frontline workforce. Axonify partners with organisations worldwide that are committed to embracing the future—a future shaped by mobile technology, AI-driven enablement, and seamless integration within the flow of work. Through his work with Axonify, Grant shares the stories of these forward-thinking organisations, highlighting the journeys they’ve embarked on, the lessons they’ve learned, and the impactful outcomes they’ve achieved.

Matt Burney

Indeed Senior Strategic Advisor

With over two decades of experience in the Talent space, Matt is a recognized expert in attraction, planning, and retention strategies, having worked with some of the world's largest companies and brands. Over the last seven years, their focus has shifted towards unraveling the impact of AI, data, economics, and analytics in recruiting, earning them recognition as a subject matter expert. Matt's mission centers on transforming complex data into Meaningful, Interpretable, and Actionable insights, facilitating effective communication across all levels of organizations through data storytelling.

A firm advocate for the transformative potential of recruitment and resourcing, Matt believes these practices can make or break a business. They have shared their insights at renowned industry events, including Recfest, Futureworks, World Employer Branding Day, and many others, and their expertise has been featured in both niche and mainstream media platforms.

Kufa Matiya

FutureMatch Founder and CEO

Kufa Matiya is the visionary Founder and CEO of FutureMatch, bringing over 25 years of experience in talent acquisition and lifecycle management. With a deep passion for early career recruitment, Kufa has spent over a decade working with schools, colleges, and universities to bridge the gap between education and employment. As a second-time founder, he successfully scaled a career tech startup and has a proven track record in recruitment outsourcing and high-volume hiring for large enterprises. His expertise in leveraging data, AI, and innovative recruitment solutions makes him a leader in transforming the early career hiring landscape.

Ben Elder

Simpplr Regional Vice President of EMEA

With over 18 years of industry experience with companies including Meta, Symantec and Ingram Micro, Ben Elder is Regional Vice President of EMEA at Simpplr, the #1 modern intranet for enterprise globally, recognised as a leader by both Gartner and Forrester. In leading Simpplr's EMEA operations, Ben leads a diverse team that builds relationships with small to large firms across multiple industries to enable and accelerate the adoption of a solution that helps build a connected workplace. As a Forbes Council Member, Ben contributes insights into sales, internal comms, and technology trends, reinforcing his commitment to thought leadership in these domains. Ben also serves as a mentor to startup technology leaders and emerging talent within the SaaS industry. Ben holds a bachelor’s degree in criminology from the University of Lincoln, and lives in the Bedfordshire countryside.

Ian Molyneux

Personify Health Employee Wellbeing Consultant

Ian is an experienced Employee Wellbeing Consultant at Personify Health and has supported some of the largest global organisations to leverage technology and shape their future wellbeing strategies. He believes in creating a personalised employee wellbeing experience which speaks specifically to the unique wants and needs of a workforce which leads to healthier employees and a healthier bottom line for businesses.

In addition to helping his clients deliver impact, Ian has spoken at events including Masterclasses and Mad World Summits. He is hugely passionate about social connection and how it can help to improve mental wellbeing in the workplace.

Kelly Pretty

Personify Health Wellbeing Consultant

Kelly is a passionate Wellbeing Consultant committed to helping organisations deliver impactful and meaningful wellbeing and engagement solutions for their people. 

In addition to helping her clients deliver impact, Kelly has led group meditations and spoken on stages around the world including The Best You Expo, The Mindful Living Show and the People Power Summit. She is hugely passionate about mindfulness and meditation and how it can help to improve mental wellbeing in the workplace.

She cares about creating work environments where individuals feel safe and supported to thrive and be their best, authentic selves.

Samantha Andrews

Workvivo by Zoom Manager, Customer Success EMEA

Samantha started her career at Workvivo - by Zoom, as a Customer Success Manager from May 2022 - August 2023, since then she has successfully grown in her role to become a senior member of the team.

Jo Moffatt

Engage for Success Strategy Director

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.

Charlotte Dahl

Woodreed Creative Planning Director

Charlotte is a director at specialist advertising agency Woodreed. She's an accomplished speaker, writer and facilitator, with a unique view on employee engagement and internal communications, having spent equal parts of her career in consumer, then employee communications. Having worked for clients spanning every industry sector, including Marks & Spencer, The National Lottery, Volkswagen Group, Jaguar Land Rover, Guinness World Records and the NHS, she brings the rigour of consumer marketing into internal communications. She is passionate about raising the profile, standards and effectiveness of internal communication, believing employees AND customers deserve the same reverence, effort and creativity in communication. Appearing on stages at home and abroad, she's talked for senior leadership summits and in-house teams as well as for the CIPD, Institute of Internal Communications, Engage for Success and at ABTA's travel convention in Malta. She's a regular chair for Engage Business Media's events and delivers training for the IoIC.

Jo Dodds

Engage for Success Co-Strategy Director

As co-Strategy Director of Engage for Success, Jo is focused on spreading the word about employee engagement and shining a light on good practise, inspiring people and workplaces to thrive. She also co-hosts the long running weekly Engage for Success radio podcast talking all things employee engagement with a wide range of guests from all over the world. Her corporate background is in regional and national HR and training roles within large retail and leisure organisations. She started her own business in 2005 and has since worked with people and organisations to take advantage of the digital and social media opportunities to create engagement with customers, employees and other stakeholders.

Nicholas Brice

Soul Corporations CEO

Nicholas Brice is our Guest Editor and CEO of Soul Corporations®. He is seasoned managing consultant, speaker coach and masterclass facilitator. He has helped deliver human-centred development and culture change programmes to achieve customer and employee experience KPI outcomes for major brands including British Airways, American Express, Unipart, Toyota, Wickes, Brighton and Hove Albion FC, Tottenham Hotspur FC, Progress IT, Servier Pharmaceuticals. He is a triple winner of National Training Journal Gold Awards, a winner of Engage Media Award for Best Customer and Employee Engagement Programme and four times finalist.

Cathy Brown

Handley Studios Ltd. Co-Founder

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.

Registration opens at 8:15am
BADGES will be printed on arrival
Sessions begin at 9am and run until 5pm
Breakout Stages are first-come-first-serve and open from 1:40pm-3pm
Focus Groups & Cinema Sesssions are from 11am-12pm.
Lunch & Refreshments throughout the day are included
Networking Drinks are from 5pm-6:30pm at The Refinery Citypoint

09:00-09:10 Opening Remarks

Our Event Host Jo Moffatt will kick-start a day jam-packed with learning insights from world-class organisations.

Speaker:

Jo Moffatt

Engage for Success
Strategy Director

FUTURE OF WORK CONFERENCE

The Brewery, London – Wednesday 9th October 2024

Transforming workplace culture in a digital age

unleashing the potential of the workforce

Key facts

ONE-DAY EVENT

30 Exclusive Presentations

ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS

CASE STUDIES, INTERVIEWS & PANEL DISCUSSIONS

600+ ATTENDEES

1-2-1 MEETINGS

WHAT TO EXPECT

TOPIC STREAMS

Content Stages

Suzy Jearum

Chalene Hanson

Nick Hollis

Paul Finn

Catherine Rennie

Imogen Dooley

Steve Clarke

Ilaria Galfredi

Jini Amarasekara

Valeria Winkworth

Sarah Hood

Richard Bold

Alyssa Jaffer

Christina Lewis

Sophie Allington

Daphne Henderson-Figueroa

Melissa Woodhead

Rebecca Bainbridge

Carol Smith

Stella Gavinho

Catherine Morris

Jonathan Bunn

Jenny Bloxham

Graham Bowditch

Rachel Lees

Siobhan Corria

Lee Coleman

Josh Novelle

Kim England

Sophie Theen

Vidhi Thakker

Clare Fenech

Brian Ranson

Jen Draper

Joao Martires

Kaz Hassan

Harry Harvey

Lucy Payne

Grant McNulty

Matt Burney

Kufa Matiya

Ben Elder

Ian Molyneux

Kelly Pretty

Samantha Andrews

Jo Moffatt

Charlotte Dahl

Jo Dodds

Nicholas Brice

Cathy Brown

Key Details

Registration opens at 8:15am

BADGES will be printed on arrival

Sessions begin at 9am and run until 5pm

Breakout Stages are first-come-first-serve and open from 1:40pm-3pm

Focus Groups & Cinema Sesssions are from 11am-12pm.

Lunch & Refreshments throughout the day are included

Networking Drinks are from 5pm-6:30pm at The Refinery Citypoint

Speaker:

Jo Moffatt