


L&D LEADERS EVENT SERIES
2022 Confirmed Speakers

Morgan Bone
Head Of Corporate Affairs -
VIRGIN MONEY

Ewen MacPherson
Group Chief People Officer -
HAVAS UK

Alastair Procter
SVP, Strategic HR Operations -
INTERPUBLIC GROUP (IPG)

Nicola Wood
MD HR - Performance, Reward & Recognition Transformation -
STANDARD CHARTERED BANK

Katie Lloyd
Global Head of Culture & Organisational Development -
THE LEGO GROUP

Jamie Broadley
Group Head of Health & Wellbeing -
SERCO

Charlotte Eaton
Chief People Officer -
OVO

Magali Demierre
Global Head of Employee Experience -
PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL

Sarah Kaiser
Head of Employee Experience -
FIDELITY INTERNATIONAL

Joe Ryle
Campaign Director -
4 DAY WEEK CAMPAIGN


Paul Bennun
VP Employee Experience -
DAZN GROUP

Nicholas Wardle
Head of Employee Experience, Brand Experiences
BRAND EXPERIENCES

Morven McLean
Head of Global Leadership Development -
ARLA FOODS

Ioanna Pappa
Group Head of Leadership Development -
MERLIN ENTERTAINMENTS

Kirstie Loveridge
Executive Vice President, People & Culture -
AEG EUROPE

Chris Norbury
Chief People Officer -
E.ON UK

Emma Brock
Global Head of Leadership Effectiveness -
GROUPM

Ash Thomas
Head of Talent & Leadership Development -
BRITISH HEART FOUNDATION

Eben Halford
Partner and Organisational Design Consultant -
BELIMINAL

Manish Amriwala
Global IT Director for Infrastructure & Operations
OCI

Dan Hutchinson
Vice President - HR UK & Ireland -
SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC

Richard Serio
Account Executive -
HOWSPACE

Giralda Chiverton
Region Lead -
HOWSPACE

Sam Fletcher
Head of Talent Intelligence -
PAYPAL

Julie Asselin
Head of Marketing -
365TALENTS

Jennifer Sproul
Chief Executive -
INSTITUTE OF INTERNAL COMMUNICATION

Emma Parry
Head of Changing world of Work Group -
CRANFIELD SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

Susan Quain
Digital Employee Experience Director -
FIDELITY INTERNATIONAL

Jacquiline McCreadie
Director, Global Workplace Experience -
FINASTRA

Ciaran Moloney
VP Enterprise Solutions -
GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Lucy Standing
Founder -
BRAVE STARTS
09:00am
Chairs Opening Remarks
09:15am
Panel: Elevating the role of CLOs as business strategic partners
Organizations today are placing a disproportionate focus on capability development, at an individual, departmental, and pan-organisation level. Business and HR leaders are looking at L&D as the differentiator to drive competitive advantage, with the CLO expected to take centre stage on the organisational achievement journey and spearhead a game-changing learning vision. From this panel, learn how you could present, monitor and measure the business case for a learning revolution.
09:55am
Presentation: Using L&D opportunities to build your employer brand
- How to deliver learner engagement through self-directed learning
- Support learners to control their own development at their own pace
- Help L&D to create and support a self-directed learning culture
- Use social and collaborative learning approaches to grow overall employee learning engagement
10:25am
Presentation: Are you doing enough to build and strengthen your company culture with L&D?
- How to curate great learning content to create communities of learners
- Ensure the support DE&I goals through L&D
- Understanding how to adjust to our new remote world
10:55am
Morning Break and Networking
11:25am
Discussion Groups 1A & 1B
Discussion Group 1A
How to prove your impact as a strategic business partner
Discussion Group 1B
How to celebrate diversity through multicultural training
12:10pm
Discussion Groups 2A & 2B
Discussion Group 2A
Upscaling manager training to drive growth
Discussion Group 2B
Presentation: Finding tools for today’s problems in L&D
12:50pm
Lunch & Networking
1:50pm
Panel: Delivering closer connections through hybrid and remote working
- Understanding the learning challenge of flexible hybrid work
- The importance of mentoring
- How to build closer relationships between different departments and scopes.
- Cultivate communication through solving shared challenges
- How to best measure hybrid and remote working
2:30pm
Presentation: Connecting skills, capabilities, and career paths to maximize talent retention
- Develop innovative mechanisms to attract and retain talent
- Rethink organisational paradigms to propose a greater sense of purpose
- Create multi-dimensional career paths for high potential employees
- Engage high potential employees in individual career planning and skills development
3:00pm
Presentation: Leadership Development in the face of uncertainty
- How leadership training addresses emerging challenges and how to build resilience in the new normal
- How best to retrain employees to bridge gaps and bolster confidence
- How to create a culture of learning through sustainable leadership development training
- The tools you need to effectively train the next generation of leaders for your organization
3:30pm
Afternoon Break
4:00pm
Presentation: Building a culture of compliance in fast-moving organizations
- The role of technology and automation in ensuring that your compliance training requirements are met
- How to scale compliance training programs and regularly track employee performance
4:30pm
Panel: From 2023 to future-ready
Many lessons have emerged or been underscored during the past couple years, but one of the biggest is that change is the only constant – and rather than fear it, we must embrace it in order to thrive. But how can organizations prepare for an uncertain future and ensure their people are positioned for success, health and happiness in 2023 and beyond?
5:10pm
End of Day One
09:15am
Chairs Opening Remarks
09:30am
Presentation: Measuring training effectiveness in a digital world
- Discuss learning measurement strategies being utilized in the programs
- Identify quick start opportunities to measure effectiveness
- Discuss how measurement can be used to drive culture and business performance
10:00am
CLO Panel: Upskilling & reskilling - what’s the ROI?
Metrics and data are paramount in helping organizations gain a deeper understanding of the impact of their L&D programs. As businesses are placing increased emphasis on upskilling and reskilling their workforce for the future of work, what should they be measuring to ensure their initiatives are having the desired impact on skill gaps?
10:40am
Presentation: How to skilfully incorporate gamification into your Learning & Development programs
- Different types of learners and what motivates them
- How to choose game mechanics that are the best fit for learners
- Design considerations when incorporating game mechanics into course
- The best tools that can be used for specific game mechanics
- Ideas and best practices to make your course as engaging as possible
- How to engage learners with the motivational aspects of a leaderboard or trophy case
11:10am
Morning Break and Networking
11:40am
Panel: How are emerging L&D technologies reinterpreting traditional methods of learning?
- Advantages of utilising technology to connect instructors and learners remotely and flexibly across time zones
- How is technology such as webinars and shared screens currently impacting corporate learning and development? How might they influence remote and peer-group learning in the future?
- Can, or will, technology training ever fully replace human presence?
12:20pm
Presentation: Building scalable employee onboarding in 2023
- Understanding the key benefits of an effective onboarding process
- How to create an extraordinary onboarding plan
- The benefits and challenges to virtual onboarding vs in person on boarding
- How to establish clear onboarding metrics
12:50pm
Presentation: Bridging the gap between Coaching and Learning
- How to align your coaching and learning goals
- How to leverage your existing learning strategy in coaching sessions
- How to get coaches more on board with completing learning themselves
- Why you should include coaching in the learning design
1:20pm
Lunch & Networking
2:20pm
Panel: Ensuring effective Learning Engagement
- When introducing a new learning process, how do you engage with and persuade staff to participate in something which is potentially very new for them?
- Assessing the best corporate learning management systems on the market - is it better to buy off the shelf or develop your own bespoke system?
- Rather than actively pushing learning onto staff, what is the best way to motivate and inspire employees and incentivise their conscious and active development?
3:00pm
Presentation: Why and how to link Learning with performance: The next disruption after LXP
- How performance-based learning is the key to sustainable growth
- What performance metrics matter and where to get them
- How to integrate performance tech with learning tech
- How to decide the success of your learning material
- How to eliminate useless initiatives—even if they look fancy
3:30pm
Presentation: To the Metaverse and beyond: An Immersive Learning adventure For L&D leaders and professionals
- Defining metaverse characteristics and tools
- The different types of reality
- Metaverse facts and myths
- The difference between immersive learning inside and outside the metaverse
- Use cases, benefits, and applications of immersive learning
- The benefits of immersive learning
- The basics of immersive technology, hardware, and the spectrum of immersion
4:00pm