Adam Grant has been Wharton’s top-rated professor for seven straight years

Karen Shepperson joined Ofsted in 2010 as head of HR, becoming HR director in 2013 and director of people and operations in 2016

Mortimer has headed up NHS Employers, the employers’ organisation for the English NHS, since November 2014

?With an annual operating budget of more than £1.3 billion and employing 18,500 people, the City of Edinburgh Council delivers more than 700 public services to the people who live, work, study in or...

Emma Rose has been the HR director for Kerry Foods since January 2016

Rachel Botsman is a leading expert and author on trust in the modern world

?Foulkes has experience in the NHS, in the acute and mental health sectors

Nugent is director of HR and OD at the Financial Ombudsman Service

Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge is a 'scholar-educator-practitioner' in the field of organisation development

?Deborah Lee joined Compass as its first group engagement director in August of this year

Ann Pickering joined O2 (Telefónica UK) in 2004, was appointed to the UK board as HR director in 2008, and appointed CHRO and chief of staff in January 2018

?The range of sectors Melanie Steel has worked for is wide, and as such she epitomises the value a multi-sector HR professional can bring