Melanie Steel, owner, People Change Expertise

?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

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Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge, founder, Quality & Equality

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

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Caroline Nugent, HR director, Financial Ombudsman Service

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

Ann Pickering, HR director, O2 (Telefónica UK)

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

Deborah Lee, group engagement director, Compass Group

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

Alison Rumsey, chief HR officer, Associated British Ports

?Alison Rumsey joined Associated British Ports (ABP) as chief HR officer in July 2019

Stephen Pierce, deputy managing director and chief HR officer, Hitachi Europe

?Stephen Pierce is deputy managing director and chief HR officer of Hitachi Europe, part of a Japanese company with a vision of creating ‘a better society through technology'

Simon Fanshawe, co-founder, Stonewall

Fanshawe has spent decades improving opportunities for LGBT+ people, and calling out where bias and discrimination still exists

Helen Giles, executive director of people and governance, St Mungo’s Broadway

?Since Giles joined the senior team of St Mungo’s in 2014 following a large-scale merger she has led a major programme of integration and process and cultural transformation

Karen Beaven, founder, The HR Entrepreneurs Network

Karen Beaven started her career training as a horse riding instructor, has played bass in a band, then moved into retail and then found her calling in HR

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David Frost, group organisational development director, Total Produce

Frost's career started in automotive manufacturing after he graduated with a degree in manufacturing engineering