Anne Morrison

Pearson College London’s Governing Body (former BAFTA chair, former BBC Academy Director)

Chair

Anne Morrison is Chair of Pearson College London’s Governing Body and is a senior media executive, coach and keynote speaker. She is Creative Director of Factual Programmes at Nevision, a London-based independent production company, where she has recently executive produced several feature documentaries, including The Missing Children for ITV’s Exposure strand. 
She was Chair of BAFTA from 2014 to 2016, the second woman to hold the position in the organisation’s history. She is a member of the Communication and Engagement Committee for the British Academy and of the Annual Review Panel for BBC-branded magazines at BBC Studios. Previously she was a Governor of the University of the Arts London, Chair of Creative Skillset’s TV Committee, a Trustee of the Charleston Trust and a board member of Women in Film and TV.
She is a frequent speaker internationally on issues such as diversity, employability, and creativity and has her own coaching practice. Throughout her career, she has been committed to the development of new talent. Until 2014 she was Director of the BBC Academy, the BBC’s centre for training, which she launched in 2009.
In her television career, having worked as a producer/director, she held senior management positions for 20 years at the BBC, and was responsible for hundreds of hours of factual television including many award-winning programmes.
Anne was educated in Belfast and Churchill College, Cambridge.

Jeff Turner

Facebook

International Director of Learning and Development

Jeff has been working in the Learning and Development arena for the past 20 years. During this time he has worked with Lloyds Bank, Bank of Ireland, AOL, O2 and has been running the EMEA Learning and Development function in Facebook for the past 4 years. Jeff has a Masters Degree in Performance Management from Leicester University and is a qualified coach with the ICF. Jeff who is originally from the UK and now living in Ireland, is married to Helen with a son in university and 2 daughters. In his spare time Jeff enjoys playing golf.

Barbara Wright-Avlitis

The Wright Work Place

Managing Director

The  WrightWorkPlace   helps   organisations   around   the   world   build   pro-resilient, healthy companies.
Barbara holds a Master of Sciences (MSc) Degree, with  Distinction,  from  the University of Liverpool, UK, in Global Human Resources.
She worked for 20 years with 3M Company, in the U.S., Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East, and Asia where she progressed throughout the organisation in sales, sales learning, and Human Resources Development. Her experience also includes serving as General Manager of HR and Global Head of Leadership Development,   as well as Global Head of Leadership and Change with ING Group (Banking and Insurance)    in    Amsterdam.    After    ING,    Barbara    became    the    Global    Head    of Leadership Development for Novartis Pharmaceuticals in Basel, Switzerland.
Barbara brings, to the HR Bootcamp, an extensive experience in organisational change and leadership transformation on a global scale. She has influenced business leaders in more than 32 countries, over the past 30+ years, to strengthen their personal, team, and organisational effectiveness through strategic learning.
Barbara has also involved some of her colleagues, from around the world, to join us on Bootcamp day to bring their own content on various aspects of wellbeing from the perspective of HR leaders, team leaders and employees. Together, we will make the day about real-life issues we are all facing, not only on hypothetical cases.

Xavier Molinié

Dell

Former Executive Director-EMEA

David Bannister

New Look

Former HR Director

Maria O’Donoghue

Hertz

Director, Global Learning And Development

Tim Wells

Britvic Soft Drinks

Former Group Global Mobility Senior Manager

Matthias Besserer

NVIDIA

HR Director EMEA

Bernhard Ehret

Vestas Wind Systems A/S

VP Global HR Operations

Matanat Babayeva

Azerfon/Nar Mobile

Director Human Resources

Sébastien Terral

Hertz International

Director of Learning and Organizational Culture

Diaa Mohamed

HP

Vice President HR Global Services

Diaa Mohamed is Vice President and General Manager of HR Global Services in HP. In this role, he is responsible for the development and delivery of HR services for over 300,000 employees worldwide. In addition, he manages the strategic “Bureaucracy Buster” program for HP which aims to make HP processes easier for both employees and customers. Diaa has most recently served as a Vice President of HR in Growth Markets which consists of 72 countries from around the world. Prior to joining HP in 2010, Diaa served as a Vice President of Human Resources for Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia at British Petroleum (BP) and as Regional Director of Human Resources for the Middle East and Africa regions for Motorola.