Nick Holley as Director of CRF Learning has responsibility to provide development for HR teams and senior professionals. Prior to joining CRF, Nick spent 10 years at Henley Business School where he was a visiting professor and Director of the Centre for HR Excellence. He has developed and delivered HR capability programmes for organisations across the UK and Europe, and internationally.

Nick Kemsley has a wealth of experience in the HR and talent arena. His 30+ year career spans corporate, consulting and business school sectors and includes 10 years running talent functions at regional and global level and nearly 15 years working with C-suite teams and HR Leadership Teams around the world. Nick specialises in aligning people and organisation to business strategy and increasing HR functional and individual effectiveness in delivering real value to business in an ever more complex world.

Gillian has worked as a senior HR practitioner and OD specialist for several organisations including Swiss Re, Vodafone and BAA. Prior to her HR career, she was a management consultant with Deloitte Consulting and is also a qualified solicitor. Gillian has written various CRF reports on subjects including HR strategy, organisation design and development, leadership development, coaching and diversity.

John Whelan is a Director at Corporate Research Forum. Formerly UK HR Director of BAE Systems, the FTSE 100 defence, security, and aerospace company, John’s experience and strengths lie in business and HR Transformation, Organisation Development and Employee Relations. Prior to joining BAE, he held a variety of HR roles in engineering, technology and manufacturing businesses across the telecommunications and semi-conductor industries including Matra-Marconi Space where he was HR Director for the UK and, latterly, Group HRD.

Phil is a Director of PARC and contributes to the design and development of its annual programme of events and its reward learning. His previous corporate roles included Global Head of Reward for Reed Elsevier (now RELX), for ICI, and for Diageo. Since 2010 he has established an independent consultancy business to provide strategic reward support that is focused on the delivery of business strategy and organisational performance. His other major focus is as coach to newly appointed (or aspiring) Corporate HR Directors on all areas of reward strategy and delivery (including incentive plan design and corporate governance effectiveness).