Monica Navascues

Bradken

V.P. HRBP Americas region

Few human resource leaders offer the diverse skill set of Monica Navascues. She is a people and culture wizard and a global talent strategist with a passion for social diversity. In addition to her CHRL designation, her MBA in International Business (Spain) and Bachelors degree in Organizational Development (Peru), Monica has over 20 years experience across multiple industries with global interests. She has a strong record of achievement in developing and leading effective change management and transformation initiatives. Monica has particular expertise in developing and executing human resource strategy in support of business growth. She has proven her ability to positively impact businesses as they transition and consults on talent and change management, leadership, organizational development strategies, as well as on mergers and acquisitions. Over the course of her career, she built a reputation for being a trusted advisor with the ability to coach and build relationships with both internal and external stakeholders. 
Monica is passionately committed to helping others thrive in the complex work environment of today’s world, and helps new Canadians succeed in their careers. She volunteers with Tried and HRPA by mentoring individuals in search of their dream career in Canada.

Azad Navaz

BMW AG

Head of Qualification, Training & Retail HR

Azad Navaz is the Head of Qualification, Training & Retail HR at BMW AGMW for Africa and the Eastern European Region. His overall responsibilities include employee Attraction, Selection, Development, Retention in the BMW Group Retail Network in 36 countries across the region with a strong focus on Recruitment and People Management Culture. 
In his previous role in BMW Azad was the Training Manager for the Asia Pacific Region responsible for identifying training needs, developing training content and training delivery for the whole region. Azad is also the recipient of The Prince Philip Medal awarded to an engineer of any nationality who has made an exceptional contribution to engineering as a whole through practice, management or education. 
 

Stephanie Fastre

Netflix

Learning and Organisational Development, EMEA

Stephanie has over 22 years of psychology, people and organisational development experience, firstly in a professional acting career, followed by over a decade in Google’s Learning and Development organisation, where she helped build and sustain effective cultures of learning, innovation, creativity, and community via extensive teaching, advising, and coaching to all levels of employees. 
 
Her strengths lie in working with executives and leaders on achieving their business goals by developing their people capabilities, by focusing on their organisational design and approaches, on people management, innovation and creativity. Stephanie is well-known for developing unique solutions, including Google’s acclaimed globally scaled community of learning: "g2g" Googler-to-Googler peer-to-peer learning platform, Google's global "Manager Communities" platform for manager development, for Google team development and CSI:Lab, one of Google’s flagship innovation and creativity learning programs. 
 
Stephanie has also worked at McKinsey, Columbia University, Alcorn McBride, and QVC (you might have seen her on the occasional show ;)) More recently, she joined Netflix’s Learning and Organizational Development team.
 
Stephanie is a trained professional actor, business mentor and executive coach. Outside of work, Stephanie is from Belgium but was brought up in the USA, Germany, France, and the UK. Today, Stephanie has three sons and one daughter, who teach her lessons like she never imagined - thankfully, she is an insatiable, incredibly curious, lifelong learner.

Cody Martin

Johnson & Johnson

Director of Talent Acquisition – Global Head of Talent Access Intelligence

Global HR Leader with 20 years of experience partnering with business leaders, designing talent solutions and leading people analytics and compensation initiatives. I approach my work through collaborative problem solving; seeking the optimal solution for the individual and the organization. I am driven to learn and improve how people work and build conditions to unlock talent.

Kat Zacharia

JP Morgan Chase & Co.

Head of Organizational Effectiveness, Consumer and Community Bank

Kat Zacharia is the Global HRBP head for Legal supporting the General Counsel and the department of attorneys across all lines of business. Previously, she was the Head of Senior Team Effectiveness leading a global team to support senior leadership teams across the firm in their development into high performing and value creating teams. In her role, she also delivered executive development programs serving the top 1000 leaders at the firm. 

Prior to joining JP Morgan in 2018, Kat worked at Korn Ferry Hay Group, where she was a Client Partner, helping global clients in Healthcare, Media and Entertainment, Technology and Non-Profit with executive and organizational development.  A social cultural anthropologist, she brings with her deep experience in culture transformation, organizational assessment, high-performing teams and diversity, equity and inclusion. She embeds storytelling in everything she designs and delivers. 

Kat holds an M.B.A from Tulane University and Master of Arts, in Social Anthropology from York University in Toronto. She did her doctoral studies in Education, Culture and Society at the University of Pennsylvania before she made a career pivot and moved into media and entertainment to lead an industry-wide diversity and inclusion initiative focused on leadership acceleration and workforce development. 

She lives in Montclair, New Jersey with her husband and two children.  She has been an advocate and volunteer for youth and microenterprise development throughout her career. She is a hot yoga instructor and is feeding an emerging love for gardening and improv.

Holly Macwilliam

Farfetch

Global People Development Manager

Holly is a Global People Development Manager at Farfetch and has worked in the fashion / telecommunications / beauty industry for 10+ years. A certified coach, expert facilitator, guest lecturer at The University of Creative Arts (UCA), and a certified yoga teacher and mental health first aider. She is passionate about the intersection between happiness, authenticity, well-being and performance and is currently studying a Masters in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health at Kings College London. She continuously explores new ways to combine people’s development and well-being to help others thrive professionally and personally. Her current focus at Farfetch is creating and delivering world-class development experiences in Leadership Development.