Christopher Littlefield is an International and TEDx Speaker, Expert in Employee Appreciation, Workplace Culture and the founder of Beyond Thank You. He has trained thousands of leaders, across six continents, on how to understand what their people want and need to be at their best. His clients include Accenture, Boston Medical, Lebanese Postal Service, MIT Sloan School of Management, Reserve Bank of Australia, Salesforce, the U.S. Army, the United Nations, and more. He has spoken at The Arc National Conference and NCE Twice and worked with over 50 chapters. His work has been featured in New York, Inc, Mindful, and British Psychologies Magazines, and profiled in Harvard Business Review. Chris is a regular contributor to Forbes and Harvard Business Review and the author of the bestselling book, 75+Team Building Activities for Remote Teams.

Debra Corey is a highly experienced and award-winning HR consultant, world-class speaker, and six-time best-selling author who has been named as a global employee engagement influencer and HR thought leader for her contributions. After over 20 years working for global companies, she now ‘pays it forward’ by inspiring and helping others develop and deliver people and culture strategies and initiatives in a rebellious way, pushing the boundaries and challenging the status quo to truly drive employee engagement and business performance.

Bruce Daisley is a Sunday Times bestselling author and presenter. He has become regarded as one of the most respected thought leaders on the subject of workplace culture and the future of work.

His prior business career saw him spend 12 years as one of the best known technology leaders in the country, first running YouTube in UK and then Twitter across Europe, Middle East & Africa. In this time a high profile survey of industry leaders voted him ‘Fantasy Hire’ that most of them would like to make. He ended up winning the award four times. (For context he came in ahead of Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Sir Martin Sorrell).

Campaign magazine said Twitter UK ‘formed a reputation for being one of the most respected cultures [in the media/tech industry]… Bruce Daisley can reflect on building something particularly special.’ The UK culture was celebrated as the best in the global organisation.

After several promotions, he left Twitter as the company’s most senior leader outside of the US.

Following the remarkable success of his debut book, The Joy of Work which reached number one in the Sunday Times charts, in 2022 his second bestseller, Fortitude, was described by the Financial Times as the best business book of the year.

Bruce’s writing has featured in the Washington Post, The Guardian, Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal and The Daily Telegraph amongst other publications.

Bruce has spent the last few years turning his passion for workplace culture into an expertise. His award-winning podcast, Eat Sleep Work Repeat, has topped the business charts and has been listened to over six million times.

Having led at some of the fastest moving and high profile companies in the world Bruce understands that there’s a big difference between what might work in theory and what actually works in practice. His discussions about workplace culture are always filled with practicality, warmth and often humour.

Bruce is an Honorary Visiting Professor at Bayes Business School. He regularly teaches at London Business School.

“The best thing about Bruce is that he’s not only one of the best thought leaders when it comes to great workplace culture but he’s also personally led a billion dollar organisation and knows the complexity of getting things right in the real world”

“Bruce had the audience in the palm of his hand” – culture conference

“Bruce was brilliant, very approachable & positive. Plus, he delivered an incredible presentation. 9.6/10 – incredible score, the audience simply loved his presentation, a lot of social traction as well”

People, personalities, strategies, theories, the words that stick and the messages that make an impact. Having spent 25 years on the front line of the communications industry, Cathy has seen first hand how informed, imaginative IC can take people on an authentic, engaging journey. It’s the magic formula that makes real shift happen. And it continues to drive her passion today – working alongside our clients on their own engagement journeys.

Alya is a seasoned people and culture expert with a decade of international work experience in the media and hospitality sectors. Starting in leadership roles in France and New Zealand’s hospitality industry, her career transitioned to the UK and Ireland focusing on learning and development, employee engagement and workplace culture in media in 2017.

In 2020, she was appointed to lead News UK’s Diversity in Leadership initiative, driving gender and ethnic diversity into leadership positions and fostering an inclusive culture. Following that, she was selected to lead the development, design and implementation of News Corp Australia’s first diversity and inclusion programme, expanding her successful UK-based efforts whilst embracing an appreciation for Australian culture and championing DE&I best practices.

Notable achievements include launching company-wide internal campaigns, introducing new policies, designing and facilitating DE&I international workshops and learning initiatives, and spearheading the creation and sustainability of 11 employee networks.With an ongoing love for restaurants and wine, Alya returned to hospitality in 2023 and has a duo life, working in both the wine trade as well as freelancing as a Culture and Engagement Consultant. Her culture work specialises in crafting bespoke solutions to help organisations start their journey, where employee culture and inclusion is at the heart of everything.

Nothing excites Kay more than exploring new ideas and theories and putting them into practice in organisations. She has supported countless people in global businesses to unlock their full potential and perform to their best, using her keen knowledge of psychological and communication principles – mixed with her own unique brand of natural curiosity – to devise creative learning interventions and programmes that achieve brilliant results and deliver real value. With boundless optimism and enthusiasm, Kay brings a wonderful people-centred approach to our programmes.

It’s been 26 years since Jayne joined East Riding of Yorkshire Council as an adult learning volunteer – instantly sparking her imagination about the possibilities that teaching and learning can unlock. Her passion and drive secured her a position as an adult learning digital skills tutor and soon she was using her deep understanding and first-hand knowledge to develop family and adult learning programmes, designing, creating and delivering dynamic engagement and qualification-based courses.  Jayne has spent the past decade in more senior leadership roles, however adult and community learning remains incredibly close to Jayne’s heart and she is still very much hands on. She now leads the team evolving and managing the council’s learning opportunities, as well as being responsible for the Council’s Continuing Professional Development (CPD) offer. Through this, she develops a vast range of leadership, management and communication learning opportunities, including the industry-recognised Leadership in the Spotlight programme.  

Over the last 20 years, Jamie has held senior and board level product, commercial
and marketing positions across global brands including Toshiba, Samsung, Sodexo
and Pluxee. Throughout that time, he was aided by a powerful friend… storytelling. In
late 2023 Jamie decided to embark on a mission, to close the storytelling gap that
exists in the workplace.

In March 2024 Jamie became a best-selling author in business communication with
the release of his new book, 28 Bags of Sprouts – Storytelling with Impact. Today,
Jamie works with businesses, leaders, and teams to level up the impact of their day-
to-day content and communications through the power of storytelling, and his unique
approach.