Adam started his career in employee benefits management with the John Lewis Partnership. Then, following several years managing the benefits offering at Magic Circle law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Adam moved in to the financial services sector with J.P. Morgan, focussing on employee benefits and Wellness in EMEA. During his time there, he won Best Communications Strategy for a large employer and was highly commended for Best Benefits Strategy. Adam took up the role of senior benefits consultant (UK & ROI) at Bank of America in early 2018 and has been creating a more technology focussed and cohesive benefits communication strategy for the bank. Over the past couple of years he has gone on to win Best Benefits to Support Working Carers and Best Benefits to Support Work Life Balance at the EB Awards. Adam is a regular speaker for various benefit companies and publications and has also been a columnist for EB Magazine.

Andi is currently People Director at The Grand Brighton, recent winner of the Cateys 2019 “Best Employer in Hospitality” award. Now in her 15th year at the iconic Brighton hotel, Andi is responsible for driving the hotel’s positive people culture and is at the forefront of developing employee engagement and retention initiatives. From progressing the hotel’s future leaders through academy training programmes to implementing company perk platforms, Andi is passionate about creating an environment for continual development and recognition among The Grand team. Prior to joining The Grand Brighton as Deputy General Manager, Andi’s career in hospitality involved Operations Manager positions at Marriott International across the UK.

Beth Ridgewell is Reward Manager at Imperial Brands plc, a multinational FMCG and a member of the FTSE100. Beth has led the delivery of many successful projects across Reward, Pensions and Benefits. She is passionate about demonstrating the bottom-line impact of effective benefit campaigns, and in 2019 she was the winner of the Employee Benefits Rising Star Award for her work in building the ‘business case for recognition’ in a large energy utility.

Dr Janice Johnson is an academic with HR industry experience as well as Branch Chair (Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes) for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). She champions the progression and development of not just HR students and practitioners but additionally local businesses and schools. Janice was recently awarded the CIPD’s highest accolade and level of membership, Chartered Companion.

As Assistant Professor and senior lead in the Post-Graduate Strategy Unit at Coventry University, she is charged with creating innovative and inclusive cross-faculty programmes for post-graduate students with a focus on dual-accreditation, professional development and employability. As Branch Chair, Janice runs a distributed leadership model offering 31 immersive and developmental CPD sessions annually for 2,800 members. She has successfully created a sustainable Strategic Heads of HR Forum in the region, discussing and debating topical and new HR: issues, thinking and research including sharing her own research into EDI in UK Universities. Janice promotes skill-based volunteering and professional citizenship through working closely with local schools and being a Trustee for a local charity.

The British Council (the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities) is on an exciting journey as it embraces new ways of working to become an organisation that is fit for the future. As the Employee Engagement and Experience Lead, I help the organisation to understand the links between productivity, engagement and effectiveness, and how this underpins delivery of our corporate plan. I’ve developed our global employee survey strategy to help create a culture of ongoing feedback and improvement. I want to make sure that every employee has a positive and fulfilling experience during their career at the British Council. To help achieve this, I’m using our employee survey to better understand the experiences colleagues have and using their feedback to make improvements. This contributes to making the British Council a great place to work and has tangible and measurable business benefits for the organisation.

Ian is the Head of Reward at the University of Lincoln overseeing all aspects of reward including payroll, pensions, employee benefits, HR systems and executive remuneration. Having started his career in finance before moving specifically in to pay and benefits Ian has a background in both the public and private sector having previously worked for Moy Park, Mars, Prudential and Lincolnshire County Council.

A firm believer and champion in the importance of reward strategy as a driver for change and in supporting organisational success, Ian has previously overseen teams that have been acknowledged for their achievements at awards for their innovative work including winning the 2018 Best Voluntary Benefits.

Ian is the current Chair of the Northern Universities Reward Group and a board member of the Education Competencies Consortium.

In 2014 Ian was chosen as the winner of the Pay and Benefits Career Accomplishment Award and also regularly contributes to professional publications.

Jo Fairweather heads up Reward & Wellbeing at OVO. She has 16 years experience’ across a variety of senior people management roles, initially at M&S as a HR business partner and then in people policy, before specialising in reward. Joining OVO 4 years ago, Jo leads on all areas of their reward & wellbeing strategy. OVO’s people proposition is built around ensuring that work at OVO isn’t just ‘work’ - that people feel proud and happy to work there, and building an impressive and engaging total reward offering has all been central to that.

Dr Judith Grant has over 15 years of experience in public, community and corporate health roles working with organisations and individuals to understand both personal and organisational health and wellbeing. As Director of Health and Wellbeing at Mace Group Judith is responsible for strategic delivery of wellbeing, occupational hygiene and occupational health across the international construction and consultancy organisation. Prior to joining Mace Judith managed Occupational Health and Wellbeing across Royal Mail Group’s 140,000 employees. With a PhD in Occupational Health Psychology and Management, Judith is focused on combining health research with business outcomes to create sustainable organisational wellbeing programmes that not only support employees but deliver organisational results. Judith is a trustee of the Men’s Health Forum, a charity focused on addressing inequalities in men’s health, in addition to being a trustee of the Mace Foundation. Judith is Chair of Women in Health and Safety a UK group of nearly 2000 female, and male, H&S professionals aiming to support women progress their careers in a typically male dominated occupation.

Julia Clement is Head of Reward at Skyscanner, a global travel search site supporting over 100 million people searching for travel each month. Her role spans across 11 offices in 8 countries and the Reward Team at Skyscanner is instrumental in ensuring that people are at the heart of Skyscanner’s ongoing success. Julia has around 20 years of experience in reward, primarily in high-growth technology companies.

Laura is a reward and benefits professional. She is passionate about transforming the reward schemes at Baker McKenzie with a particular focus on remuneration packages, benefit schemes and employee wellbeing. The uptake and engagement in benefits has significantly increased following innovative promotions and targeted communications to showcase the wide range of benefits available. Laura is wholeheartedly committed to delivering a diverse and progressive range of services with the focus of providing a comprehensive range that supports employees' wellbeing in their busy professional lives and additionally supports and advances the firm's strategy.

Liz has worked for leading international and SME professional service firms in accountancy, law and investment banking for more than 25 years, both as a finance professional and HR professional and for the last 10 years as HR Director and a board member. Liz has a personal and professional interest in developing employer policies to improve the gender balance around caring roles and responsibilities and the positive impact change in this area will have on the careers and home lives for all.

Louise’s team is responsible for all of Tesco’s benefits, reward and pension communications. She joined the company in 2001 and started her career in PR and later as internal communications manager. Since then she has had different communication and project roles including leading Tesco’s colleague benefits team. She has considerable experience in pensions and benefits, with a particular focus on communication strategy, creation and implementation. She was awarded ‘Best Pensions Communications’ at the Employee Benefits Awards in 2018.

Marianne is the Reward & Benefits Manager at Costa Coffee. Prior to Costa, Marianne looked after Reward for Homebase where she implemented a variety of initiatives. Marianne was also Head of Reward for Reed Specialist Recruitment where she implemented numerous new benefits and incentives and won the award for “Most Motivational Benefits” at the Employee Benefits Awards in 2019.

My career in reward and pensions has lead me to some interesting companies and interesting and exciting projects. I am passionate about communicating well and clearly to our employees so that they can fully understand the benefits provided for them by their employer.

Nikki Roche has been working within HR for 19 years, the last 14 of which have been at Siemens. Joining Siemens in Policy, she moved into the Reward Team 12 years ago. In her current role, she has responsibilities for Reward topics Globally and acts as strategic benefits consultant to the North West Europe region, and leads and participates in Global projects. Passionate about innovation and the continuous improvement of Reward to better meet the needs of employees and the business, Nikki relentlessly challenges the status quo to achieve better outcomes.

Paul has over 20 years experience in compensation and benefits holding domestic and international roles within the financial services and logistics sectors. He joined Travis Perkins in 2013 where he is Reward & HR Analytics Director.

During her 19 years in the Royal Air Force, leaving in 2018 as a Wing Commander, Sarah completed a variety of roles in the Personnel sphere, including project and programme management and latterly as Diversity and Inclusion sponsor. Alongside other awards, Sarah was recognised in the New Year’s Honours List 2016 with an MBE for her contributions to Diversity and Inclusion. Sarah is passionate about addressing under-representation and has committed to leading a positive change in culture, working with organisations at a global level to focus on the challenges and delivering sustainable change.

Tina joined the Gamesys board as Director of People in 2014. Prior to this she was the Director of Diversity and Inclusion for Vodafone Group. During her career at Vodafone she headed up the Global sales team for Europe for six years and prior to that worked on the development of new media and content services, developing leading propositions on content rating and access controls, to help create a more appropriate mobile internet environment for younger users. Prior to joining Vodafone, Tina was CRM Director of Avis Europe.

Tom is the Group Benefits Manager for BNP Paribas. Having joined the investment bank in 2009 he is now responsible for the group’s multi-award winning benefits offering across ten separate businesses, comprising 9,000 staff in the UK. He also has responsibility for mental health & wellbeing and received both the inaugural REBA Employee Wellbeing Vanguard award and the Employee Benefits Professional of the Year award.