Charles Handy was the recipient of the first Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.

Dave Ulrich was voted the Most Influential Thinker of the Decade at HR Most Influential 2015. He studies how organisations build capabilities of leadership, speed, learning, accountability and talent...

Will Hutton, recipient of the award in 2013, is the Principal of Hertford College, Oxford University. He is also the chair of the Big Innovation Centre at The Work Foundation.

Paul Kearns is a founding member of the Maturity Institute and director of HR consultancy PWL, which he established in 1991. Kearns graduated in economics and economic history and entered the HR field...

Patrick Wright is Thomas C. Vandiver Bicentennial Chair in the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina and the founder and director of the Center for Executive Succession....

Previously a lecturer in psychology at Pembroke College, Oxford, Adrian Furnham has been professor of psychology at University College London since 1992.

Alison Rumsey, Network Rail’s head of HR, infrastructure projects, has more than 20 years’ strategic HR experience in the financial services and public sectors.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett is the founder and CEO of the Center for Talent Innovation, and the founder of Hewlett Consulting Partners LLC. The co-director of the Women's Leadership Program at the Columbia...

Shlomo Ben-Hur is an organisational psychologist and a professor of leadership and organisational behaviour. He has 25 years’ corporate experience within senior executive positions at multinational...

Janette Durbin joined the Department for Education in 2012.

Lynda Gratton is professor of management practice at London Business School where she teaches an elective to MBA students on the future of work.

Beaven joined River Island as HRD in 2012 and has led a significant HR transformation programme