Global Speakers

Anita has over 20 years’ experience in the financial industry across different roles from Relationship Manager,  Equity Trader to Learning Expert.  She is an experienced learning and training expert.  Broad knowledge in all phases of the training cycle and a deep understanding of soft skills training needs,  especially when it comes to sales and communication topics.  

Interactive Roundtable Series: The Keys to Building a Learning Culture

Topic: Building a Strong and Differentiated Employee Experience Brand and Learning Culture

Topic:  How Design Thinking Can Create an Integrated and Compelling Employee Experience Journey

Topic: The power of employee resource groups to ignite change & foster engagement

Tanya leads on workforce planning in one of the leading NHS trusts’ in England and Wales, rated ‘Outstanding’ twice by the Care Quality Commission. A key priority for the organisation is improving the experience of their 6000 staff who provide community health and mental health services to a population of 1 million.

Tanya has a wealth of HR experience spanning over 20 years across a number of senior roles within mainly public sector organisations in health, further education and local government, as well as the private sector within leisure, retail and management consultancy. She has lectured on undergraduate HR programmes, and has specialised in Employee Relations. She is passionate about employee wellbeing, diversity and inclusion.

Topic: How Employee Insights can Generate Better Employee Experience

Topic: Schindler’s Women in Leadership Program

Topic: Aviva’s Case Study: Bringing the Power of Personalization to Improve Employee Experience

Topic: Building a Strong & Differentiated Employee Experience Brand

Topic: Vodafone – Designing & Deliverying EXX For a Diverse Workforce

Topic: Using People Analytics to Design, Measure, and Evaluate the Employee Experience

Agata Shen have over 14 years of experience in HR accumulated across seven European markets.  Currently, as the HR Director at Avon Cosmetics Poland, She is responsible for all HR activities, which includes: recruitment, development and engagement of our employees, as well as HR business partnering, and strategic workforce planning.  She has in-depth experience in creating and managing HR teams and actively supporting business turnarounds.  She loves her job ,HR and the possibilities that her role creates for her, and how she can directly or indirectly affect the development of the business.

Topic:  How Authentic Leadership Can Improved Employee Experience

Sarah has extensive international experience in the area of HR and Talent Management. In her current role at Trina Solar, a leading solar energy company with global presence, Sarah is responsible for the HR function across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland she oversees 12 countries. Some of her current key projects include, Talent Management, Recruitment Optimization, Organizational development and M&A integration. Sarah holds a Master Degree in Strategic HR Management from SDA Bocconi and an Executive MBA from IE (Instituto Empresa).

Opening Keynote Address: What Successful Companies Do Differently in Employee Experience

Topic: How Merck Group Uses New Technologies to Simplify HR Processes & Improve Employee Experience

Topic: Investing in Key Touchpoints where Employee Experience has the Greatest Impact

Mike leads Communications for GE Digital’s Commercial organisation globally, and leads GE Digital’s media, conference and employee engagement activities in Europe.

Mike has 15 years of experience in international PR, Communications and Marketing roles in the energy, rail and tech sectors, specifically in the UK, France, Switzerland and Australia. He has lead projects across Europe, Asia Pacific, North America and South Africa. He is experienced in managing corporate reputation by working closely with leadership and employee groups in the context of significant organizational change.

In his role at GE Digital, he is responsible for telling GE’s customer stories – including brands as diverse as Intel, Volvo, P&G, Subaru, ArcelorMittal and more. In previous roles Mike has worked closely with large infrastructure projects including HS2, Hinkley Point C and Crossrail.

Topic: The Future of Employee Experience, Digital Economy & the New Realities of Work

High-energy Kellogg MBA professional with strong work ethics and an early career experience in C-suite sales/investment banking & corporate finance. In 2009 changed career path to develop, engage and retain talent within GE. Magali now have over eight year of experience in change management, commercial learning & development as well as Executive Coaching, linking the commercial L&D strategy to the business and market outcomes.

At the very beginning of 2016, she joined the Workplace Experience Team at GE, focusing on Employees Experience and Culture change using the workplace transformation to new ways of working.

She have a strong ability to work in teams, with various culture and think critically in a demanding environment. Articulate communicator both verbally and written, capable of moving assignments forward with minimal supervision. Particularly effective in building long-term relationships, engaging key stakeholders, generating consensus as well as change management.
Magali is now embracing a new and extremely exciting journey as Global Head of Employee Experience for PMI, supporting their transformation via an Employee-Centric mindset.

Topic: PMI case study – How to bring to life the employee experience, from pain points to action. Specific focus on the onboarding journey