Sophia Boleckis

Wärtsilä

Director, Culture Transformation Lead

Sophia Boleckis is currently working in Wärtsilä as Director, Culture Transformation Lead. Sophia has an over 20 years global experience from various HR fields: resourcing, talent attraction, employer branding, talent development, leadership, culture transformation, employee experience and engagement., as well as space design, communications and marketing. She has a strong passion in transforming employee and customer experiences into word-class excellency, working cross-functionally, creating true eco-systems and constantly maintaining a robust business focus in all of her work and initiatives – and through these to help organizations and people to grow and flourish. 

Bjarte Bogsnes

Bogsnes Advisory

Managing Director

Bjarte Bogsnes has a long international career, both in Finance and HR. He is a pioneer in the business agility movement Beyond Budgeting and has been heading up the implementation of the concept at Equinor. He led a similar initiative in Borealis in the mid-nineties, one of the companies that inspired the Beyond Budgeting model. 

Bjarte is Chairman of the Beyond Budgeting Roundtable (BBRT).  He is a popular international business speaker and the winner of a Harvard Business Review/McKinsey Management Innovation award. Bjarte is also author of "Implementing Beyond Budgeting - Unlocking the Performance Potential", where he writes about his almost twenty-five years long Beyond Budgeting journey. He has throughout these years inspired and helped numerous companies all over the world getting started.

Bjarte has taken early retirement from Equinor but will continue his Beyond Budgeting work through Bogsnes Advisory.

Sari-Ek Petroff

VTT

HR Business Partner, Leadership and Talent Development & Culture

Sari Ek-Petroff is responsible for the People and Leadership Development, as well as Wellbeing and Culture, at VTT, Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. Prior to VTT, Sari was working in the pharma industry, in Sanofi for more than 12 years. She was the HR Director for Finland as well as HRBP for one business area in the Nordics and Baltics. During 2012-2015 she had an additional role for the Talent Management for the Nordics and Baltics as well as for the young potential program in Europe, called EVOLVE.

Sari has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration,  she is also a qualified business teacher and holds a HRBP Certificate.

Martin Lexa

former Alcon, Medtronic, Novartis HR executive

Martin Lexa is the former Chief People & Communications Officer at the world-leading medical solutions company Mölnlycke. He has a long track record of HR leadership in growth companies in the healthcare and medical devices industries in both mature and emerging markets.
A German national, Martin joined Mölnlycke in 2016. Before that, he spent three years within the Novartis Group, first as head of HR Over-The-Counter for Europe at Novartis Consumer Health and then as Head of HR for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Alcon. He also worked at Medtronic for five years, including as VP for Human Resources, Europe, Middle East & Africa and Canada – and at Bristol-Myers Squibb for eight years in different national and international HR leadership roles.

Annika Månsson

Happy at Work

Founder & CEO

Annika Månsson created Happy at Work in 2008 with the aim of developing healthier and happier workplaces around the world. Expert in positive organizational transformation, leadership development, resilience and wellbeing at work, she inspires teams and individuals through her keynotes, trainings and coaching in companies like Novartis, Richemont, E&Y, FIBA, JP Morgan, UNICEF, GSK and many others around the world.

Annika holds a Master’s degree in marketing and worked for 15 years at the Danone group, where she held a range of managerial positions for the Evian brand, in the areas of marketing and communication. She is also a qualified coach and certified practitioner in MBTI®, Belbin®, NLP, Prosci change management, self-compassion meditation and neuroleadership. 
Originally from Sweden, Annika claims that wellbeing at work is not a luxury! It is essential to our success and to the sustainable performance of all organizations.

Mark Hayton

Nokia

Head of Culture & Leadership

Mark Hayton is the Head of Culture & Leadership at Nokia. In this role, Mark provides proactive and reactive frameworks for executives and HR practitioners that map out employee perceptions across the employee life cycle. Drawing from a knowledge base of behavioral psychology, microeconomics and game theory, Mark is an advocate of rolling up the sleeves and digging deep into the data to find broad impact interventions for those who can’t see the woods for the Decision Trees or define significance in decimals rather than P values. A fan of Stats, Bots, AI, ML, 'nudges' and consultation, his role in Nokia’s most recent transformation is to help HR practitioners understand, focus, support and motivate where it matters most while walking the line between the benefits of people analytics and the uncertain data privacy environment. A firm believer in human-centricity and that people don't think as much as they think they think.

Jenni Kivikoski

Wolt

Talent Acquisition Partner - Product+

Jenni Kivikoski is currently the Talent Acquisition Partner - Product+ at. Wolt. In her previous roles she was a Talent Acquisition Lead at Silo.AI - the largest private AI lab in the Nordics, heading recruitment and employer branding in Finland and in all new markets. She has previous experience in talent acquisition, designing and executing recruitment and employer strategies in fast-paced high-growth environments, especially in the field of IT. In her previous role, Jenni was responsible for leading the talent acquisition and kicking off international talent acquisition from scratch. Together with the team, they managed to grow from 500 to 1000 professionals, from one country to six in less than three years. She is passionate about modern talent acquisition, data, company culture, internationalization and diversity & inclusion topics. Not getting enough of recruiting during working hours, Jenni helps people during her free time in job search and volunteers around tech and startup scenes and speaks in different events.

Jenny Hjalmar Åkerblad

IKEA

Leadership & Competence Development Manager

Work as Leadership and Competence Manager at IKEA of Sweden responsible for learning/competence/leadership and talent development. Been working in IKEA for long in different functions and organisations, always with focus on People and Business development under the umbrella of “People and Culture”. 
Drives of passion for people and business and to reach result by having a strong purpose, working together, curiosity, letting people shine, simplicity and always having a playful and creative mind in everything you do as well as the spirit of getting things done.