People Analytics for HR Leaders: Turning Evidence into Influence

Rob is Professor of Organizational Psychology at Queen Mary, University of London and Associate Research Director at CRF. He is also currently a Visiting Professor of Evidence-Based HRM at Birkbeck University of London and Professor at Oslo Nye Høyskole. He was previously co-founder and Scientific Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Management and has held positions at the Institute for Employment Studies, London School of Economics, Kings’s College (University of London), Bath University and University of Edinburgh. His publishing and research focus on topics including wellbeing, emotions, stress, motivation and everyday work behaviour.

Keran is a Business Psychologist and global talent leader helping organisations prepare for the future of work through behavioural science, workforce strategy, skills intelligence, measurement science and responsible AI.
As Global Head of Selection and Assessment, she leads evidence-based approaches to how organisations identify, assess and build the capabilities required for future business performance. Beyond her core remit, Keran has led the strategy for an award-winning enterprise skills transformation and shaped broader work across workforce capability, skills-based hiring, analytics and organisational change.
Keran partners with leaders to translate business priorities into clearer capability requirements, stronger talent decisions and more objective, inclusive and future-focused workforce practices. Her experience spans FMCG, technology, financial services and insurance.
A core part of her work is proving the value of talent investment. Keran uses measurement science, behavioural data and people analytics to assess whether selection, learning and workforce programmes are changing capability, behaviour and performance and to connect those outcomes to business priorities such as productivity, quality, growth, risk, retention and workforce readiness.
Her work is also increasingly focused on the workforce implications of AI: how tasks and roles will change, which human capabilities will become more valuable, how work can be redesigned responsibly, and how organisations can build adoption, trust and measurable value.
Keran believes AI transformation is not only a technology challenge. It is a work, leadership and human capability challenge. Her distinct contribution is bringing behavioural science, skills intelligence and rigorous measurement together to help organisations make better decisions about people, work and investment.

Tim is an Organisational Design & Development leader with close to three decades of senior HR experience inside FTSE Top 10 and high-growth global companies, including BP, GSK and Jazz Pharmaceuticals. At GSK he built and led a new People Data & Analytics Centre of Expertise, and at Jazz Pharmaceuticals a new People & Culture COE — experience that speaks directly to the challenge of establishing analytics capability and earning credibility with business leaders.

He now works as an external consultant across financial services, travel, pharmaceutical and oil & gas, on OD and HR projects ranging from HR consulting support to a Chief People Officer, to leading change and culture integration through complex post-M&A integrations. He is a skilled group facilitator and coach, with particular experience in designing large group events and simulation exercises, and has lived and worked internationally across the USA and Europe.

Tim holds a BSc in Management Science from Warwick Business School, a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management from Edinburgh Napier University, and an MSc in Organisational Consulting from Ashridge. He is a Fellow of the CIPD, has judged the annual CIPD People Management Awards, and is an active member of the Organisation Development Network Europe (ODNE) and the European Organisational Design Forum (EODF).