Rob Briner is Professor of Organisational Psychology at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London. He previously worked at Birkbeck College, University of London. His publishing and research have focused on several topics including wellbeing, emotions, stress, motivation and everyday work behaviour.

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.

A self-described people geek with a curious interest in why people behave as they do in the corporate environment. Dave came into HR from the Talent Acquisition specialism and has spent seven years learning and refining what he would now call an ‘evidence-based approach to HR’. Dave works in an environment of mega size infrastructure programmes that combine the innovation and low build numbers of F1 with the size and scale of the Millennium Dome.

Dr. Thomas Rasmussen is Vice President Organisational Development and Learning at Shell. Thomas was previously Senior Vice President, Digital & Automation, People & Culture for sustainable energy company Vestas, Executive General Manager Employee Experience, Digital & Analytics at National Australia Bank, and VP HR Data & Analytics at Shell. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, still does research for fun – his papers on HR Analytics with Dave Ulrich (2015, 2023), and his main interest is bridging management science with practical application, showing the importance of people in value chains.

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.