Luigi Maria Fierro

ING Group

Global Head of HR Strategy and Transformation

Luigi Maria Fierro joined ING Group in 2015 and he is currently Head of ING HR strategy and transformation, leading HR’s future strategic agenda and the implementation of the new HR operating model globally. During his journey in ING, as Head of Performance Management space, he has redesigned the Group’s new performance management framework and had ensured its full implementation with a transformation program covering 55.000 employees. Prior to join ING Luigi Maria has been working for 10 years in McKinsey and Co. serving several of the leading financial institutions in Europe, Middle East and North Africa. Thanks to this experience Luigi Maria has developed an extensive experience on the financial institutions sector that is combining HR business and strategic perspectives

Sean Royal

Hyatt Hotels

Director of HR Cluster Operations and Area Director of Human Resources

An Australian who has been living in the UAE for over 4 years, Sean Royal is the Director of HR Cluster Operations and Area Director of Human Resources for Hyatt Hotels in Dubai. With almost 30 years of direct experience within the Hospitality Industry, Sean has worked within a number of iconic cafés, bars, restaurants and hotels within the Melbourne market. In addition to direct Industry experience, Sean has worked within the Hotel Management Education sector before migrating into the realm of event catering for Delaware North (Australia) with oversight for the Human Resources of major hallmark events, including the Australian Open and Australian Football League (AFL) seasons. Sean joined Hyatt International - Asia Pacific in 2002, heading up the HR and Learning function for both Grand and Park Hyatt Melbourne, in addition to assuming oversight for Industrial Relations and union negotiations for Hyatt Hotels in Australia. Sean holds a Master of Business in Industrial Relations and Human Resources Management from Victoria University in Melbourne. He lives in Dubai with his wife & two daughters.

Ravi Singh

Bluefin Consultancy

Founder And General Manager

Ravi Singh was the head of talent relations at The One, a retail company that has five years in a row won the top 10 Great Place to Work award, top employer for women and in 2013 top employer for Millennial. This year the One won the top 5 companies to work for in Asia. Ravi’s main focus in the company was Strategic Planning and Implementation of Business Plans from HR perspective, developing operational and Training structures and talent growth for the business. Other functions included, Policy writing, Payroll, Government Affairs, Talent Development, Creating Workplace initiatives and working closely with Operations in providing systems support. He is an expert in Change Management, Creator of Great Workplaces, Business Paradigms and Builder of Competitive Edge through the utilization of human capital to drive organizational performance at micro and macro levels.

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.

Ramakrishna Movva, Phd.

Chrysalis Consulting Solutions

Founder & CEO

Ramki performed various HR leadership roles in a career spanning over three decades. He last held the Executive VP & Head of Strategic HR and Organizational Capabilities position at Emirates NBD. INSEAD Business School published a case study on the HR transformation he facilitated at Emirates NBD. Previously, he worked with PwC and Unilever. He recently founded Chrysalis Consulting Solutions that provides consulting, coaching, learning, and advisory services in organizational and leadership development.

Ramki had the opportunity to conceive and execute organizational culture change initiatives and design new-age practices relating to leadership development, performance management, high potential talent, and succession programs. Besides, he trained and coached senior leaders and high-performing teams from diverse cultures to help them be at their best. 

He has a doctoral degree from California Institute of Integral Studies, USA, a postgraduate diploma in Occupational Psychology from the University of Surrey, UK, and a Master’s degree in HR from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India. In addition, he is an International Coach Federation certified leadership and team coach. 
Ramki lives with his family in Dubai. He replenishes his inner self through long walks, mindfulness practices, music, and gardening.

Sergio de la Calle

Telefonica Universitas

Programme Director& Faculty

Comic artist by vocation, Sociologist by accident, HR expert by profession. I’m also a bit masochist as I have been working in HR for twenty years. A bit of recruiting & on-boarding, a bit of Direction by objectives & performance, a bit of Compensation, a lot of Engagement & culture change programmes and many HR platforms implementated. Currently pretty excited in the position of Programme Director& Faculty at Universitas, the leadership corporate University of Telefónica.

Predrag Jovanović

Atria Grupa

Senior Partner

Predrag is a senior partner at Atria Group. His role in the company is international business development. In addition, he is a mentor, trainer and coach with extensive international experience. As a trainer and coach Predrag works with companies and individuals around the world (Serbia, Czech Republic, Portugal, Germany, Poland, India, Singapore, Brazil, Qatar, Austria, Bulgaria etc.). His areas of expertise are: coaching, NLP, leadership development, eective communication, sales and presentation skills. He has had the opportunity to lead several large projects in the area of leadership development and change in corporate culture, as well as number of dierent training and coaching programs. So far he has more than 1.000 days of training and more than 2.000 hours of coaching. Before he became a professional trainer and coach, Predrag had spent ten years in various sales positions. He worked as a sales representative of US-based “Arrow Electronics” for Serbia and Montenegro, sales engineer for company “Vita Elko” and regional sales manager in the Japanese company “Omron Electronics” for South East Europe. Predrag graduated electrical engineering at the Department of Physical Electronics at Faculty of Electrical Engineering. The structure, resistance and flexibility are the most important characteristics of his work. Some of his titles are: NLP Master Trainer (IN NLP), NLP Fellow Member Trainer (IANLP), Master Coach Trainer (ICI), Professional Certified Coach (PCC) – ICF (International Coach Federation) (since 2010), ICF Mentor Coach, PCM Certified Trainer, Persona Global Master Consultant.

Ofelia Nieto

Allfunds

Corporate HR Manager

Ofelia Nieto is a Corporate HR Manager at Allfunds, one of the world's leading wealthtech companies. Previously she has been working for a decade at Beiersdorf Holding. As a Human Resources Generalist, she was in charge for managing on a day to day basis, business policies, procedures, and programs such as training and development, organizational development, internal communication, and employment. Her main specialties are talent attraction and development. She has been a part of a number of International projects run by Beiersdorf, particularly concerning a huge project on change management.