Kylie Green,
Global SVP of Sales at Reward Gateway
How HR innovators are driving cultural change with inspiring engagement strategies
For over 20 years, Kylie has been working with leading companies to help move the needle on their employee engagement. As Reward Gateway’s SVP of Global Sales, Kylie is passionate about working with HR leaders to achieve their business objectives, particularly in the areas of change, engagement, recognition, attraction and retention. She is a frequent speaker at HR industry events on employee engagement and cultural change.

Bruce Daisley,
Former EMEA of Twitter and host of podcast "Eat Sleep Work Repeat"
It's time to be a Changemaker:
How we're going to fix work when no one's looking 
As the host of the “Eat, Sleep, Work, Repeat” podcast, Bruce Daisley interviews psychologists, neuroscientists and workplace experts to understand how we can improve our jobs. The former VP EMEA at Twitter recently stepped away from his job to focus on new ventures and passions. Last year, Bruce wrote “The Joy of Work,” which focusses on how to “fix” your work culture and fall in love with your job with 30 seemingly simple changes. Bruce is a world leader in building award-winning, market-beating teams. He gets excited about work culture, laughing and most frequently pop music.

Sevil Rahimova,
Head of Product at Reward Gateway
How we can impact HR History together
Sevil is a multidisciplinary Product and Design Lead for Reward Gateway, with over 7 years of experience in managing talented design and product people. Sevil truly enjoys leading complex projects from concept to completion and loves building strong teams that deliver consistently innovative work. Her mission is to solve user pains by responding to their needs with intuitive and smart products, that at their best are almost transparent. She believes that exceptional products allow the user to have a seamless and unobtrusive experience

Margaret Heffernan,
Bestselling author
Beyond Measure
Margaret has led 5 different businesses in the U.S. and U.K. All but one has been media companies. She now writes, speaks and blogs about business leadership, management, innovation, and creativity. Margaret also teaches at several business schools in the US and UK and sits on the boards of three organisations. 

She has now published five books: The Naked Truth: A Working Woman's Manifesto about Business and What Really Matters, How She Does It and Willful Blindness, which was a finalist for the FT Best Business Book award. In 2014, A Bigger Prize was published. Her most recent book is Beyond Measure.

Debra Corey,
DebCo LTD
Bringing your values out to play
Debra brings 30 years of experience in HR, with senior-level roles at Fortune 500 companies like Gap, Quintiles and Merlin Entertainment. An expert in global reward and employee communication, her teams have won numerous awards for their innovative approaches. Debra is also a three-time best-selling HR author, with “Build It,” “Bringing Your Values Out to Play” and “Effective HR Communication”.

Marcus Lamont,
NAHL Group
Are mission, purpose and values just smoke and mirrors?
Marcus joined NAHL as Group HR Director in July 2016. During his time with the Group, Marcus delivered improvements to talent development, embedding the Group’s culture and values and enhancing recruitment processes, with a significant focus on establishing an aligned approach across all divisions. Passionate about staff engagement and recognition, Marcus recently delivered Gold Standard Investors in People status for the Personal Injury division, as well as ensured its inclusion for the first time in the Sunday Times Top 100 Best Small Companies to work for.

Jonathan Mercer and Benedict Gautrey, 
Great Place to Work
Creating a Great Place to Work for all: 
The truth behind rewards & recognition 
Jonathan Mercer is a seasoned HR Professional, having worked with Great Place to Work® UK for the past 2 years. He has experience working with organisations of various sizes from around the world, covering everything from ‘Hire to Retire’. Jonathan’s main passion is to create award-winning benefits programmes that meet not just employee’s needs, but those of the business.

Benedict is Managing Director at Great Place to Work® UK. With a background in Occupational Psychology, Ben is passionate about helping organisations create truly great workplaces for all employees. An interesting side fact: he once shared a stage with The Rolling Stones.

Alexandra Powell, 
Reward Gateway,
Connecting and engaging the modern workforce 
with strategic employee recognition
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.

Doug Butler & Catrin Lewis,
Reward Gateway
How leadership can engage and connect with their people through strategic communication
As CEO of Reward Gateway, Doug is charged with leading a talented team of professionals driving an innovative and high growth technology and service business focused on employee engagement. Having spent much of his 30 year plus career in operational and financial roles outside of the HR industry, Doug's time at Reward Gateway has cemented his belief in and advocacy for the strategic value of communicating with, empowering, recognising, rewarding and engaging your workforce.

Cat helps more than 1,800 of the world’s leading companies, in 23 countries, to attract, engage, and retain their best people with an employee engagement platform that brings employee benefits, discounts, and perks, reward and recognition, employee wellbeing and employee communications into one unified hub. Catrin is fanatical about Technology, obsessed with experience, driven by happiness, understanding and engagement. Catrin leads Reward Gateway people strategy by dialling up engagement through data analysis and action. She heads up their internal communication strategy with a stream of constant, varied and engaging content. She likes to do things differently and she always does her best to ensure the audience has the best experience possible.

Tunde Banjoko OBE with Geoffrey Williams, Wendy Lyons
How to be open and honest about diversity and inclusion in the workplace
Tunde Banjoko OBE is Chief Executive and Founder of Making The Leap, an inspirational youth & social mobility charity that makes a positive impact for thousands of young people every year. In 2017, he founded the UK Social Mobility Awards, an initiative with the ambition to make the advancement of social mobility a key part of how organisations are run in this country. He has an MSc in Urban Regeneration from UCL, was awarded an OBE in the 2008 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, is Chair of an education charity that supports children in Africa, and is a Trustee of a multi-academy schools trust and of a prominent arts charity. Tunde acts as a consultant to organisations on improving race equality in the workplace, is trained as an executive coach and hosts a podcast on addressing socio-economic disadvantage (The Social Mobility Podcast, http://www.socialmobility.fm).

Debra Corey, KP Snacks, Atos, Welcome Break
PANEL: Evolving employee benefits for a modern workforce Debra Corey, KP Snacks, Atos, Welcome Break
Rukaiya joined KP Snacks in 2014, shortly after its acquisition by the Intersnack Group. She help support KP’s journey in developing its identity as a new company and establishing its now award-winning culture. 

As the Corporate Communications Manager for KP Snacks, Jessica has seven years’ internal communications experience, with expertise including employee engagement, driving cultural change and bringing strategy and business values to life through compelling communications. 

Christine has worked with Atos for 15 years in a range of HR roles, including employee engagement. She is currently the Head of Reward and International Mobility, responsible for the reward and recognition strategy. 

Glenn Grayson,
Missguided
Making the ordinary extraordinary: 
Creative ways to communicate your benefits
Glenn has a passion for engaging, motivating and developing individuals and teams through creative communication solutions – making the ordinary extraordinary! With a wealth of experience in retail management and learning & development, he creates memorable moments that surprise, amaze and inspire colleagues during their everyday working life, whilst working towards business objectives. Since joining Missguided in July 2017, his main focus is to develop an engagement strategy in line with the people proposition to support recruiting, retaining and developing the best talent.

Meghanne Hughes,
Trayport
Navigating the new world of dynamic working and employee wellbeing
13 years of experience in Workplace and Event Management has taught Meghanne that people are unique and complex, and this is what drives her every day. Born and bred in South Africa, Meghanne moved to the UK in 2009 and has worked at fintech company Trayport for the last eight years. A problem-solver by nature and a true ‘people person’, Meghanne’s always looking for ways to challenge the status quo in order to ensure people at Trayport feel valued and engaged.

Stephen Philpott, 
Tower Hamlet Homes
Redefining the work-life divide to improve mental wellbeing
Winner of two 2018 Engagement Excellence Awards for creative and strategic communications, Steve Phillpott is the Head of People Services at Tower Hamlets Homes, which manages over 21,000 homes on behalf of Tower Hamlets Council and is the UK Housing Awards 2019 “Landlord of the Year”. Having joined Tower Hamlets Homes in 2017, Steve set about creating a standout internal employer brand and developing levels of staff engagement, resulting in a 15% increase in employee satisfaction and a sustained 68% drop in the volume of sickness due to mental ill-health in the organisation.