David is a Partner at Mercer and European Practice Leader for Workforce Rewards. He helps clients across Europe maximise the value from their rewards by increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of their reward programmes. He is particularly interested in helping organisations develop the broad proposition that attracts and excites the best people. He works across most sectors but particularly enjoys working with organisations with a high sense of social responsibility (in the private, public and third sectors) and what this means for their reward and talent programmes.

Dr. Debra France is a researcher and designer focused on leader and innovator development at W. L. Gore & Associates, an enterprise acknowledged for sustained innovation.

Since it was founded in 1958, Gore has operated as a lattice organization to optimize innovation. Debra researches Gore’s organic processes and designs these principles into learning experiences, leadership practices, and organizational processes.

For more than two decades Debra has led design teams that provide learning analysis and support for leaders, technologists and innovators. She was the Learning Leader for SEMATECH, the semiconductor manufacturing research consortium, and she led Executive and Management Development at Dell Computer. With a dissertation study on cultural practices that support innovation, she earned her doctorate from Columbia University in Leadership and Organizational Learning.

Alex Fergus is Global Head of HR at Thomson Reuters, where he leads the Human Resources team for the Financial & Risk business, providing HR leadership and support to successfully deliver the strategy, culture and growth priorities of the business. Before joining Thomson Reuters, Alex spent 10 years at British Petroleum plc (BP) and 3 years at Castrol Lubricants where he was Global Head of HR.

Dr Nigel Guenole is an academic at University of London. He is co-author of ‘The Power of People: Learn how successful organizations use workforce analytics to improve business performance’. Nigel has published extensively in journals including Industrial Organizational Psychology and Frontiers in Quantitative Psychology. He teaches on talent management and statistical modelling. Nigel leads a team at IBM that is training cognitive computing systems in behavioural science.

John Greatrex has held a number of HR Leadership roles in a variety of sectors both in the UK and internationally. Before joining the Unipart Group, John held senior HR positions in a number of organisations including Diageo, the Dalgety group and the BBC. He currently holds the position of Group HR Director for the Unipart Group of Companies. In this role, John is responsible for all aspects of the HR function as well as leading the Company’s CSR activities and leading the Health & Safety and Payroll functions. John has a particular interest in achieving transformational change by combining Continuous Improvement techniques together with an Employee Engagement approach. In his spare time, John is also a trustee of the Institute of Employment Studies and a trustee of his local Citizen’s Advice Bureau.