Dr. Guy Champniss is a strategy consultant and educator, specialising in the application of social psychology and behavioural science in business. Guy works with clients across healthcare, technology, energy, and consumer goods, using behavioural science to improve business performance and deliver sustainable innovation. As a consultant, his work in healthcare and corporate learning has won awards for innovation, impact, and business transformation. Guy has a strong interest on the emerging psychology of AI adoption and integration in the workplace. 

Guy was a founding member of the management team of a US climate-tech’ start-up, where his research secured awards for innovation, including the AESP Innovation Award for ‘market transformation potential’ in energy efficiency and behaviour change. Guy remains a strategic advisor to the company. Guy is also an advisor to Carbon13, a Cambridge-based venture studio for climate solutions. 

As an adjunct professor with IE Business School, Guy designs and delivers Master’s level courses on behaviour change, innovation and business transformation. Guy is also an educator with Headspring, the joint venture between IE Business School and the Financial Times. 

Guy holds an MBA from IE Business School, has completed post-graduate programmes with Stanford Graduate School of Business and the University of Cambridge, and holds a prize-winning PhD in experimental social psychology from Cranfield University. Guy is a Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. 

Simon Brown is EY’s Global Learning & Development Leader, shaping the skills strategy for 400,000 people across 150 countries worldwide. Since joining in February 2024, he has launched a new L&D strategy with a strong emphasis on AI fluency to power EY’s All-in strategy and deliver business impact at scale. Under his leadership, EY’s learning team earned 14 Brandon Hall awards (9 Gold), and its AI learning impact was recognised with the Coursera AI Innovation Award.

Simon is co-author of the Amazon best-seller The Curious Advantage and co-hosts the podcast of the same name, featuring guests such as former European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, Harvard professor Amy Edmondson, and All Blacks Rugby Manager Darren Shand.

Previously Chief Learning Officer at Novartis in Switzerland, he led a transformation of the company’s learning ecosystem to support its culture shift to Inspired, Curious and Unbossed. During his tenure, Novartis ranked #3 globally for Talent Development in the ATD BEST Awards, and Simon received the Chief Learning Officer Strategy Award (Gold), having earlier earned a Strategy Award (Silver) for enterprise-wide transformation at Lloyds Banking Group in the UK. Earlier roles include Accenture (clients: Microsoft, HSBC, BP and Canon), co-founder of leading UK learning developer Brightwave (acquired by Capita), and starting his career at PwC.

Simon is a member of the WEF CLO Community, a Senior Fellow and faculty member at Hult Ashridge Business School, Advisory Board Member to global organisations including Gartner, Skillsoft, and Coursera, as well as an active supporter and angel investor in education start-ups.

In his spare time, Simon enjoys spending time with family and friends, and can usually be found at the weekend struggling up a mountain road on his bike, or in the winter warily descending one on his skis being overtaken by his kids.

Siegfried Hoenle is Founder and Managing Partner of Talent & Leadership Solutions. He started the company in 2010, following an international twenty-year career in various corporate roles. His expertise includes leadership, talent management, strategic HR as well as organizational culture and change. He partners with CEOs, CHROs and Talent Executives to design and implement effective strategies in these critical fields. He helps organizations find new ways to groom and retain top talent, develop their leadership bench, and transform at the speed of change. Siegfried also acts as a coach to senior executives and executive teams.  Clients of Talent & Leadership Solutions typically are multinational companies across a wide spectrum of industries, including UBS, Merck, Swiss Re, Allianz Suisse, Coca-Cola, Amlin, Takeda, Julius Baer, Novartis, Zurich Insurance and UniCredit.

Siegfried is a visiting professor at IE Business School in Madrid. As an educator, he supports senior managers in dealing with today’s complex challenges and in growing personally as positive and authentic leaders. He is a multiple winner of IE’s prestigious “Teaching Excellence Award in Executive Education”.

In his last corporate role, Siegfried was globally responsible for Recruitment, Development & Diversity at Credit Suisse. In previous roles, Siegfried was responsible for the Bank’s Corporate University, first for Asia Pacific in Singapore and then globally out of Zurich. Prior to that he oversaw group wide Leadership Development, Learning and Talent Management. He started his career at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, followed by five years at UBS Investment Banking in London.

Siegfried holds a PhD and a Master in Organizational Psychology from the University of Zurich.

Mirja is a product-minded HR strategist passionate about turning internal people solutions into scalable products. At ING, she led the creation of global learning and growth frameworks for tech talent — from role-based capability building and career paths to embedding learning into performance management and recruitment standards.

Mirja believes HR platforms should drive measurable business impact, not just support operations. Her work blends product thinking, behavioural science, and tech fluency to build systems that elevate performance, engagement, and talent mobility.

Amanda is recognised as a global expert in skills and learning strategy and technology. She helps companies like Google, HSBC and Novartis deliver business results by shifting to skills-based organisations, while advising startups and scale-ups on their own strategy, go-to-market, positioning and more. She is strategic advisor at Sana, Non Executive Director at Totara, venture partner and LP at Emerge Education, faculty at IE University, a regular speaker at events such as WebSummit and Learning Technologies, and the author of a popular LinkedIn course on the Future of Workplace Learning.

Born in the United States but based in Spain for over two decades, Amanda is also 100% fluent in English and Spanish.

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.