Practitioners

Helena Feltham, people director, B&Q

Helena Feltham is currently the people director for B&Q where she has continued to lead significant people change and transformation

Helen Giles, executive director of people and governance, St Mungo’s and MD, Real People

Helen Giles is executive director of people and governance for St Mungo’s and MD of Real People, an HR consultancy

Valerie Hughes-D’Aeth, Group HR director, BBC

Hughes-D'Aeth has worked in HR roles for more than 30 years across a variety of sectors and countries

People

Geoff Lloyd, chief human resources officer, Meggitt

Having spent nine years at Serco as group HRD Geoff Lloyd moved to British aerospace company Meggitt during 2018 to be chief human resources officer

Mandy Coalter, Director of people, United Learning

Coalter has previously worked in senior HR roles in local government, the NHS, the voluntary sector and with schools

Matt Elliott, People director, Virgin Money

Matt Elliott joined Virgin Money in 2011 as people director, leading the HR work required to acquire and integrate Northern Rock

Althea Loderick, Strategic director of resources, Brent Council

Althea Loderick is the strategic director for resources at Brent Council, where she has oversight of finance, property and FM, HR and OD, ICT and digital services, legal services and procurement,...

Kerry Smith, director of people and organisational development, British Heart Foundation

Kerry Smith joined the British Heart Foundation (BHF) in October 2013 from the Royal Horticultural Society

Diana Breeze, group HR director, Bunzl

Breeze became group HRD at Bunzl at the beginning of this year

Helen Webb, chief people and services officer, Co-op

Helen was appointed as Co-op’s Chief People and Services Officer in April 2017.

Martyn Dicker, Former director of people and learning, The Prince's Trust

Dicker was the director of people and learning at the UK’s largest youth charity until August 2018