People

Fiona Evans, HR director, Zoological Society of London (ZSL)

Fiona Evans is HRD at ZSL and won HR Director of the Year in 2017 at the HR Excellence Awards as well as scooping the Gold award, Best HR team, and a high commendation in the Best learning and...

Thomas Heier, people director, EVP people and international, Wagamama

Heier joined Wagamama in Autumn 2017. Before that he spent 15 years in various HR and ops roles and has worked across a number of multi-site hospitality and leisure businesses, including Travelodge...

Paul Taylor-Pitt, assistant director of organisational development, NHS Employers

?Paul Taylor-Pitt began his career as a care worker in a residential home for people with HIV-related brain impairment

People

Mandy Coalter, former director of people, United Learning

?From 2012 to 2019 Coalter was director of people at United Learning, responsible for HR, talent management, leadership development, marketing and communications

Jane Falconer, chief human resources officer, ISG

Jane Falconer is ISG’s chief human resources officer, joining ISG in March 2017. She was appointed to the statutory board in January 2019

Patrick Wright, Thomas C Vandiver bicentennial chair and professor, University of South Carolina

Patrick Wright is Thomas C. Vandiver bicentennial chair in the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina (USC), and the founder and director of the Center for Executive...

Corinne Mills, director people and OD, Alzheimer's Society

?Corinne Mills joined Alzheimer’s Society in 2018 as director of people and organisational development and a member of the executive leadership team

Danny Harmer, chief people officer, Metro Bank

?Harmer is the chief people officer for Metro Bank, Britain’s first new high-street bank in more than 100 years

Jim Devine, group HR director, Spirax-Sarco Engineering

Practitioners

Jim Devine joined Spirax-Sarco Engineering as group HR director in 2016

Sharon Ashcroft, HR director, TrustFord

?During her 14 years at TrustFord Sharon Ashcroft has played a crucial role in building a positive culture; one that rewards, nurtures and inspires 3,200 employees

Norman Pickavance, CEO, Tomorrow’s Company

?Previously HR director at Dell, Marconi and then Morrison’s, Pickavance now heads up independent, not-for-profit think-tank Tomorrow’s Company

People

Ben Bengougam, senior vice president HR, EMEA, Hilton Worldwide

Bengougam is responsible for leading HR across EMEA, which includes more than 50,000 team members in 60 countries