Employee Wellbeing Congress 2022

Dr Eliza Filby

Dr. Eliza Filby is a writer, speaker and consultant who specialises in ‘Generational Intelligence’ helping companies and services understand generational shifts within politics, society and the workplace. 

Eliza has worked with a variety of organizations from VICE media to Warner Brothers, from the UK's Ministry of Defence to the Royal Household, with banks such as HSBC, Barclays, BYMellon in Canada and Macquarie in Australia. She has spoken at the EU’s Human Rights Forum on teenagers and technology; the Financial Times CEO forum on the future of work and to the UK’s House of Lord’s Select Committee on intergenerational unfairness. 

She is the author of Fuelling Gender Diversity: Unlocking the Next Generation Workplace and Mind the Gap: Managing a Multi-Generational Workforce in the Post Pandemic Age and recently launched her own podcast, It’s All Relative, in which she interviews famous families on the generation gap. It is available on Spotify and Apple. 

Eliza received her PhD from the University of Warwick and subsequently taught at King’s College, London and the University of Renmin in China. Her writing has been published in The Times, Guardian and the Financial Times. 

Her writing can be found on her website www.elizafilby.com and you find out more @drelizafilby on Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.  

: https://www.elizafilby.com/

Rt Hon Baroness Camilla Cavendish

Journalist & author of "Extra time: 10 lessons for an aging world",

: https://www.linkedin.com/in/camilla-cavendish-b9bb

Dr Chris Tomkins

Head of Wellbeing Propositions,

Chris leads AXA Health’s Wellbeing services, he’s passionate about engaging workforces in their health and driving healthy behaviour change through innovative workplace solutions.

He’s been in health and wellbeing for over 20 years, starting with a PhD in molecular biology, equipping him with a strong appreciation of the diverse range of risks created by modern lifestyles.

AXA Health’s wellbeing portfolio include ground breaking propositions comprising smart digital technology and physiologist expertise. Chris’s aim is to help employees achieve better health outcomes and employers to improve the energy and productivity of their organisations.

Dr. Wolfgang Seidl

Partner, Leader of Workplace Health Consulting UK and Europe,

Wolfgang is a partner and leads Mercer’s Workplace Health Solutions, advising companies on health and wellbeing strategy, integrated models of healthcare and proactive interventions, such as resilience programmes. He is a member of the Global Health Management team, founded the European Health & Well-being Network, and is a member of various national and international research organisations and a regular speaker at professional conferences around the globe. 

He is a Doctor of Medicine, holds a master’s degree in psychiatry, philosophy and society, and is a BACP accredited counsellor and psychotherapist. He is an internationally recognised expert in the field of quality enhancement measures in workplace health and return on investment models. 

Elle Hopkins

VP, Global Total Rewards,

Gareth Mullen

Head of Safety, Health & Wellbeing,

Gareth is Head of Safety, Health and Wellbeing at Thames Water, responsible for the health and safety management systems and reporting within the business. He has 30 years of experience in the water industry, having worked across many departments from customer facing to operational roles before moving into health and safety.  He is a Chartered Occupational Safety & Health Practitioner and a keen believer of promoting health as much as many promote safety. 

Gethin Nadin

Bestselling HR Author and Director, Employee Wellbeing,

Jeremy Hill

Head of Pensions and Benefits,

As Head, Wellbeing at Standard Chartered, Jeremy has responsibility for the Bank’s approach to the wellbeing of its 85,000 employees in 59 countries, encompassing the four pillars of mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing in the Bank’s commitment to “bring out the best in all colleagues, by establishing and maintaining a work environment that promotes positive wellbeing and healthy lifestyle choices”. As part of this, he also leads the further development of the Bank’s Future Workplace Now programme, which has been running since 2020, embedding hybrid working approaches across the Bank.

Jeremy’s background is as a qualified actuary, and he has over 30 years’ experience working across the broad playing field of international pensions, benefits and wellbeing, from both the consulting and client sides. From his work with a wide range of multinational companies, he developed his interest in the broader future of work, and how companies can shape offerings to employees – extending from benefits and reward to encompass the whole employee value proposition – in order to address social, generational, demographic and business changes.

Nikki Kirbell

UKI Health and Wellbeing Manager,

Nikki Kirbell is Unilever’s Wellbeing Manager, managing the extensive employee health and wellbeing offerings for the UK and Ireland.  Nikki has been the key driver for Unilever’s award-winning wellbeing programme and places the programme success upon good internal network links and having a great understanding of employee needs, challenges and wishes.

Nikki has a BSc in Nutrition and Health and has previously worked as an Advanced Regional Training Facilitator / Health Advisor for Bupa and a Senior Technical Nutrition, Health & Exercise Adviser for Lamberts Healthcare.  She is purpose driven to share a positive impactful wellbeing message by using a collaborative, sustainable and tailored approach to Unilever’s unique workforce.

Chris Andrew

Strategy Director,

Louise Aston

Wellbeing Director,

Jake Attfield

Programme Manager for Strategy,

Peter Blake

Global Head of Benefits and Wellbeing,

Peter Blake is Sanofi’s Global Head of Benefits & Wellbeing.  He has been in the role since April 2011.  Prior to this he was in a similar role at Alcatel-Lucent (now Nokia).  He has a consulting background and has previously worked in the UK and US now being based in Paris for the last 11 years.  Peter is an actuary by training.

Peter works in Sanofi’s HR team and has responsibility for ensuring that the Group’s Benefit and Wellbeing programs across the globe foster healthy behaviors and create a safe environment where all employees feel supported, included, valued, and engaged.

Peter is a British national and studied for a mathematics degree at the University of Cambridge.  He is a Fellow of the US Society of Actuaries, a Fellow of the UK Institute of Actuaries and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries. 

Dani Brackpool

Head of Benefits,

Since starting her HR career 27 years ago Dani has worked in a variety of roles including Training, Recruitment, Shared Services, Reward and Pensions before ending up specialising in Benefits & Wellbeing.

Dani is currently leading the Benefits Team at Sainsbury’s Group and is responsible for driving the benefits strategy across the Sainsbury’s brands including Argos, Habitat, Nectar, Tu and Sainsbury’s Bank.  She’s constantly looking for new and innovative ways to bring to life the company’s benefits offering, working closely with the Wellbeing Team to ensure clear communication and delivery under their wellbeing pillars. She has been both an Advisory Board member and Employee Wellbeing Awards judge for REBA.

As the former Benefits Manager for Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Holidays responsible for core and voluntary benefits, Dani successfully managed the launch and implementation of multiple new benefits and services such as digital GP, personalised financial education, ULEV car scheme and brand new flexible benefits platform, achieving the Workplace Wellbeing Charter and winning REBA’s Employee Wellbeing Award for Benefits Strategy 2018 as well as nominations for WSB and Employee Benefits awards.

Debbie Bullock

UK Wellbeing Lead , Aviva

Debbie started her career straight from school at General Accident (one of Aviva’s predecessor companies), working in various areas of Marketing, before moving into Corporate Responsibility.

In January 2018 Debbie joined the People function, to lead the [email protected] programme for colleagues in the UK. Covering physical, mental, financial and social wellbeing, she’s responsible for strategy and delivery of the award-winning programme that supports employee wellbeing to enable colleagues to perform at their best. As well as managing the wellbeing team, she also inspires, motivates and supports a network of 200+ wellbeing champions – known as Health Heroes.

Debbie is a Let’s Improve Workplace Wellbeing Ambassador, features in the Reward 300 list, and has recently featured in the 50 over fifty list for inspiring women in insurance.

Rt Hon Baroness Camilla Cavendish

Journalist & author of "Extra time: 10 lessons for an aging world",

: https://www.linkedin.com/in/camilla-cavendish-b9bb

Sheila Champion-Smeeth

Total Rewards Leader - Europe, Middle East, Africa, Russia,

Sheila is responsible for developing a Global Wellbeing Strategy that drives a Conscious Culture of holistic wellbeing for leaders, teams and individuals at Cisco.  Sheila joined Cisco in 2000 and for the past 15 years has held various roles in People & Communities (formally known as HR).

During her time in People & Communities, she has been responsible for leading the EMEAR Total Rewards Team with oversight of compensation and benefit offerings across 65 EMEAR countries ensuring they are compliant, market relevant and aligned with the global reward philosophy and strategy that supports Cisco’s purpose to Power an Inclusive Future for All.  She also has led implementation of Total Rewards technology platforms and delivered on Mergers & Acquisitions.

Proud winner of Excellence in Wellbeing for the Great Place to Work survey as well as receiving the REBA Inaugural Wellbeing Award and the Employee Benefits award for Innovative Reward Technology, Sheila is passionate about embedding a holistic and inclusive wellbeing strategy.  Sheila has been the thought-leader in a unique collaboration opportunity with internationally renowned wellbeing expert, Jessie Pavelka, with the exciting #CiscoPavelka Wellbeing initiative helping employees and families embrace healthier lifestyles and equip them with tools to sustain this lifestyle at work and at home using Cisco’s amazing technology. 

In her spare time, Sheila loves being with her family and friends.  Her passion and love of sport, particularly field hockey, is embedded into her everyday life where she takes care of herself and those around her to role model her work on wellbeing for all.

To hear more about Sheila’s passion around wellbeing, click here. 

Chris Coyne

Head of Performance & Reward,

Amanda Dini

EMEA Pension, Savings & Fin. Wellness Manager ,

Amanda is a Global Rewards Professional with broad experience in compensation and benefits, be it in the pharmaceutical industry (Bio-Rad Laboratories or more recently Insulet), high-tech (Adobe Systems, Zebra Technology or Unisys) or retail (Black & Deck), covering the UK and European countries. 

Through my diverse work experience, I am  used to engage with key stakeholders and to manage cross-organizational projects, including detailed data analysis and job evaluation, salary benchmarking and leading pay reviews, together with benefits administration and vendor management.  

Dr Eliza Filby

Dr. Eliza Filby is a writer, speaker and consultant who specialises in ‘Generational Intelligence’ helping companies and services understand generational shifts within politics, society and the workplace. 

Eliza has worked with a variety of organizations from VICE media to Warner Brothers, from the UK's Ministry of Defence to the Royal Household, with banks such as HSBC, Barclays, BYMellon in Canada and Macquarie in Australia. She has spoken at the EU’s Human Rights Forum on teenagers and technology; the Financial Times CEO forum on the future of work and to the UK’s House of Lord’s Select Committee on intergenerational unfairness. 

She is the author of Fuelling Gender Diversity: Unlocking the Next Generation Workplace and Mind the Gap: Managing a Multi-Generational Workforce in the Post Pandemic Age and recently launched her own podcast, It’s All Relative, in which she interviews famous families on the generation gap. It is available on Spotify and Apple. 

Eliza received her PhD from the University of Warwick and subsequently taught at King’s College, London and the University of Renmin in China. Her writing has been published in The Times, Guardian and the Financial Times. 

Her writing can be found on her website www.elizafilby.com and you find out more @drelizafilby on Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.  

: https://www.elizafilby.com/

Saffron Freeman

Head of Reward,

Deborah Frost

Chief Executive,

Deborah Frost joined AIM-listed Personal Group plc as Chief Executive in February 2019, bringing with her unparalleled industry knowledge, strong leadership skills, and creative commerciality which have made her a trailblazer in the field of employee experience and reward.

Deborah has a diverse background and long-standing career spanning over two decades in both industry and consultancy, working for big names such as Marks & Spencer, Nationwide Building Society and Towers Perrin.

A business graduate and Chartered Fellow of CIPD, Deborah is a respected and ground-breaking thought-leader in reward, performance and high growth businesses.

Deborah is particularly proud, that after a career championing fair pay and careers for women, she is one of only four female Chief Executives in the largest 200 AIM-listed companies.

Gareth Fryer

Co-founder and Co-CEO,

Karen Gaynor

Reward Director Europe & Africa, DIAGEO

Karen Gaynor has over 20 years HR experience in major global conglomerate organisations providing solutions in Healthcare, Industry and FMCG.  With operational experience as a HR Director, and more recently within Compensation and Benefits, Karen has a wealth of experience that results in a true understanding of the diverse requirements of employees and leadership.  

Karen is part of the Diageo reward leadership team delivering powerful rewards and incentives. Karen is responsible for global benefits strategy and supporting EMEA markets. She has recently reviewed sales incentive plans and is passionate about driving diversity and inclusion into employee benefits.

Diageo’s diversity and inclusion has been recognised as the top company globally for gender equality (by Equileap) and they were listed in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index.

Matthew Gregson

Executive Director,

As Executive Director, Matthew leads all aspects of our service proposition to corporate clients. He has 18 years’ experience in employee benefits, including 15 ½ years at Thomsons Online Benefits, where he helped create their market leading flexible benefits proposition in the UK. Matthew has helped many large and complex clients introduce transformational change to their benefits programme, launching flexible benefits, wellbeing and global initiatives, for which many of those clients won awards.

Melanie Hall

Executive Director, HCM Compensation EMEA,

Melanie Hall is Senior Reward Manager for Europe at Gap, a US owned clothing retailer. Prior to starting her HR career in L&D, covering both technical training and management development, Melanie got a diploma in photography and design after being asked by her mum, “Why don’t you study radiography? It’s still taking pictures.”

Melanie has specialised in reward at a senior level for many years covering both UK and international reward mainly in the private sector and predominantly retail. She currently leads all reward and global mobility activity across the UK, Republic of Ireland, France and Italy for Gap and has seen this role evolve in recent years to encompass being the custodian of well-being for its Europe market.

Her two rescue cats help maintain her personal sense of wellbeing (read: busy as their chef, door-person, housekeeper, nurse) and she’s embracing ‘the good life’, growing her own veg. She thrives on a fitness regime consisting of a daily morning and afternoon 30-40 minute workout on her cross-trainer, leaving her no excuses not to work out in bad weather.

Marc Holl

Head of Quality, Primary Care,

Andy Holmes

Former Global Head of Wellbeing / Leadership & Capability,

Philip Hutchinson

Senior Manager Total Rewards,

Nathalie Hyatt

Strategy Principal,

Nathalie Hyatt is a multilingual Strategy Principal within Aon‘s Health Solution Team. She is skilled at consulting with senior stakeholders to identify and understand their business challenges and recommending strategic solutions that are aligned with their objectives.

Prior to joining Aon and for over 15 years, Nathalie worked in senior Planning & Strategy positions for three of the largest Global Employee, Channel and Consumer Engagement agencies covering a range of areas from employee benefits, communication, employee listening, reward and recognition to channel incentives and consumer promotions. She has also worked as an independent Strategy Consultant where she consulted with global clients on their Strategic Planning, EVP and Sales Compensation Plans.

Natalie Hyett

Programme Director,

Natalie has worked in a variety of roles in the financial services sector over the last two decades. She is qualified with her Diploma in Regulated Financial Planning which gives her a broad understanding of the financial needs of today’s consumers, from purchasing your first home to saving for retirement and living your best years in later life.

Her current role at Legal & General as Programme Director sees her lead the care strategy within their Fintech division. This is precisely the kind of challenge that she thrives in as she has a passion for business which has a moral and social purpose.

Natalie takes on a number of additional roles within the Legal & General group.  She is an active member of their Family and Carers Network Committee which supports employees with caring responsibilities. She is also a valued member of the Wellbeing Advisory Board, a group of industry experts and practitioners that work together to create and share knowledge that empower businesses of all sizes to drive a clear, measurable and impactful wellbeing agenda.

In her spare time Natalie sits on the board as a trustee of a charity proving respite care for carers, she also runs their fundraising subcommittee and has recently put together the company’s employee benefits package. Her work over the last year has given her insight into how UK businesses are responding to the needs of working carers so she’s delighted to be speaking at the REBA conference this year.

Gary Impett

Head of Corporate Business ,

Derek Irvine

Senior Vice President of Client Strategy & Consulting, workhuman

As Senior Vice President, Client Strategy & Consulting at Workhuman, Derek helps clients – including some of world’s most admired companies – leverage proven recognition strategies and best practices to elevate employee engagement, increase retention, and improve bottom-line results. While he currently leads the company’s strategy & consulting services division, from 2000 to 2010 Derek also oversaw the company’s global marketing and rewards functions, growing Workhuman from a start-up to the Unicorn organisation it is today.

Derek is one of the world’s foremost experts on employee recognition, engagement and continuous performance management, helping business leaders set a higher vision and ambition for their company culture. As a renowned speaker and co-author of three books – Making Work Human, Winning with a Culture of Recognition and The Power of Thanks – he teaches HR leaders how to use recognition to proactively manage company culture. His viewpoints and writings are also regularly featured across major HR publications including HR Zone, Workspan, HR Magazine, HR Executive, and Workforce Management.

Ethaniel Kelly-Wilson

Head of HR Operations & HR Technology,

Ethaniel Kelly-Wilson is Senior HR Manager EMEAR at Epson Europe and leads HR Operations for six countries in Northern Europe and additionally the function of HR Systems and Technology across all Epson’s businesses in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia. He has twenty years of working within the human resources sector, having worked at a leadership level since 2007. Ethaniel holds an MBA and is also a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD. 

Ethaniel is passionate developer of people, always seeking an opportunity to help people achieve their best and be well in the workplace.  As a true Sagittarian, Ethaniel regularly spends time outside of work championing activities that support women, mental health and those who identify as LGBT and BME. 

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Max Landry

Co-CEO, Peppy

Max Landry is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of digital health platform, Peppy.

Max has spent his career launching and building businesses. Before launching Peppy in 2018, he co-founded and served as Chief Executive of The Conversation. Prior to that he co-founded and served as Managing Director of Paperstone, one of the first online suppliers of office products.

Max is driven by his ambition to make personalised, expert-led health support available to everyone, regardless of job role or salary. Beyond work, he loves cooking, boxing and spending time with his young family.

Mike Lewars

Head of Sales for Health & Benefits (GB),

Mike joined WTW in 2022 and is responsible for leading sales delivery and growth across the Health & Benefits team.

He has more than 25 years’ of experience in the employee benefits space and has held various senior roles for both insurers and intermediaries, working  across both domestic and international markets.

Mike is passionate about helping progressive clients to achieve optimal and desired outcomes in their benefit strategies; and has worked closely with a number of leading global brands during his career.

Jennifer Liston-Smith

Head of Thought Leadership, Bright Horizons Work + Family Solutions

As head of thought leadership, Jennifer is a pioneer of parent transition coaching and a leading influencer in the field. For over 20 years, Jennifer has been relentless in pursuit of innovation, identifying, defining and sharing best practice and ‘next practice’ for leading global employers in flexible working, family-friendly and wellbeing programmes, closing the gender pay gap and promoting gender-inclusive parenting. She is a sought-after speaker, writer, conference moderator and consultant on these topics and more. 

Jennifer set-up, and for a decade led, the Coaching & Consultancy side of what became Bright Horizons Work+Family Solutions advising employers in banking, professional services, STEM and wider sectors on programmes for working parents and carers and evaluating their impact and ROI, as well as developing coaches and coaching capability. 
She now focuses on identifying overarching trends through research and through advising employers and translating these insights into solutions and practical actions.  

Sarah Long

Head of New Business, WEALTH at work

Sarah joined WEALTH at work in 2021 and heads up the new business team.  Sarah has extensive experience in both broad based and executive compensation plans on an international level and has over 20 years’ experience in the equity plans/employee benefits market.  She is passionate about all aspects of wellbeing in the workplace and in particular financial wellbeing to help improve people’s lives.  A keen runner having participated in many marathons and is proud to have raised over £28,000 for breast cancer charities.  In her spare time Sarah is also a Rugbytots coach.

Dr Fran Longstaff

Head of Psychology ,

With more than 15 years' academic and applied experience in sport and exercise psychology, Fran oversees Fika's Behavioural Science output, designing and implementing organisation-wide Mental Fitness training programmes for Fika's client-base of more than 80 businesses, education institutions and healthcare organisations. ​

She is passionate about training leaders and managers in how to build their own and their team’s Mental Fitness in order to transform the culture, output, productivity and happiness of their workplaces.​

Fran worked as a lecturer in Higher Education for 13 years before joining Fika, and still works closely with Fika's board of academic experts.​

Rick Lower

Head of Reward & People Services,

Helen Matthews

Chief People Officer,

Helen Matthews is an industry-leading agent of change, specialising in creating, shaping and delivering world-class management of people. She has over 20 years of experience, collaborating with businesses and C-suite teams to design and enact new ways of working, future-proofing some of the world’s best known organisations across sectors to cater to the talent of today and tomorrow.

Helen is a passionate advocate for not just attracting diverse talent, but providing an environment of true inclusivity which allows all voices to thrive with a sense of belonging.

Helen is the overarching guardian of the agency’s employee experience, co-designing new ways to attract, retain and grow talent. In 2019, Helen launched the industry’s first Menopause Policy whilst at Ogilvy UK, leading to a more open conversation on an issue affecting 50% of the population.

Sarah McDonough

Employee Experience Leader, UK & Ireland, Willis Towers Watson

With over 25 years experience in communications in both in-house and consulting roles,

Sarah has delivered significant transformation programmes on behalf of large indigenous and international businesses across multiple sectors. Sarah brings a deep level of understanding of needs of stakeholder groups through change and the most suitable communications interventions to deliver impact and success.​

Clients have included global leaders in Technology, Financial services, Media & Retail.​

Helen McGowan

Group Benefits Manager,

Daniel Meehan

Head of Workplace Savings,

Sophie Money

Group protection wellbeing manager,

Oluyomi Okunowo

SVP Total Reward and People Operations, Wella Company

Oluyomi is currently SVP, Total Reward and People Operations at Wella Company, with responsibility for Total Reward (Compensation, Benefits and Mobility), HRIS, Payroll and HR Data Management across all Wella businesses in more than 30 countries. Prior to his current role he was VP, Global Compensation at COTY. 

Oluyomi has over a decade of experience leading Compensation and Benefits programs across multiple industries and geographies, including the Pharma industry with AstraZeneca as Regional Reward Lead responsible for Russia, Eurasia, Middle East and Africa (including Turkey) and in Banking as Compensation and Benefits Head for Citibank Africa. He has a keen interest in leveraging the link between Performance and Reward to drive business outcomes and is currently keen to see the evolution of Reward Management as Talent and Workforce Management evolve in the Digital age, more importantly in the post COVID world.  
 

Guilherme Pegorini

Total Rewards Sr. Manager, UK & Ireland,

Mark Pemberthy

Benefits Consulting Leader,

Tim Perkins

Co-founder, nudge

With over 18 years’ experience in HR and reward, Tim has been at the forefront of innovation in the industry. Prior to nudge, Tim was part of the team at Thomsons Online Benefits (now Darwin), the global benefits platform that brought employee benefits online. In his time at Thomsons, Time worked with HR and reward leaders from the world’s leading companies to share marketing-leading employee benefit strategies.  

In the space of just three months in 2012, the UK saw not one, but two once-in-a-generation legislative changes hit the world of personal finance. The first Auto enrolment changed the pay and savings of over 10m people, and the second removed access to financial advise for 20m at exactly the same time they most needed it. Tim, alongside nudge co-founder Jeremy Beaument, recognizes that people have an unprecedented level of responsibility for their money, but are lacking confidence and knowledge.  

People are crying out of help and that’s where the idea of nudge was born – a market-leading, global financial wellbeing platform filling the void in financial education. Nudge has grown rapidly, supporting almost half a million people to improve their financial wellbeing and create brighter financial futures for themselves and those they love.  

Simon Pettit

Senior Manager, Pensions and Benefits,

Simon Pettitt is responsible for Pensions and Benefits within the UK for Cunard and P&O Cruises for both Fleet and Shore employees.  Across a varied Pensions and Benefits career he has supported internal employee resource groups with their strategies and initiatives, improved and implemented employee and family focussed benefits and assisted Trustees with the operational side of Pension Schemes.    v

His current areas of focus include the operational efficiency, strategy, sustainability and cost management of a broad range of employee benefits, the current and complex legacy pension schemes along with supporting wellbeing and DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) initiatives.   

Luke Prankard

Global Leader Total Wellbeing & Head of Alliances EMEA,

Luke is responsible for some of the largest partners who embed the LifeWorks proposition into the value proposition for their customers and policyholders both in the UK and across EMEA. Luke likes to share with the market LifeWorks thought leadership, research and insights on how to achieve employee well-being. He has a passion for bringing the “S” in ESG to life for organisations and evidencing how improving and measuring the wellbeing of organisations, leads to great business results and value to investors.

LifeWorks is a world leader in providing digital and in-person solutions that support the mental health and wellbeing of individuals. We deliver a personalised continuum of care that helps our clients improve the lives of their people and by doing so, improve their business. LifeWorks support over 35 million people and trusted by over 24,000 companies around the globe.

Alana Rae

Principal,

Alana is a Senior Principal and leads Growth for Mercer Marsh Benefits’ specialty propositions. These areas represent our core areas of Wellbeing. As well as being an advocate for Employee Wellbeing, she is also passionate about the progression of women in the workplace and sponsors several key initiatives across the Mercer business.

Alana has been at Mercer for 10 years, working closely with clients across multiple areas. Initially working with large multinational organisations providing global benefit strategy and coordination services, she then focused on working with clients across Europe providing consulting support for globally mobile workforces. Alana was appointed the Growth Leader for the International business in 2019, before broadening her remit to encompasses core areas of the business that can support the broad wellbeing strategies of our clients.

Burcin Ressamoglu

CEO,

A Turkish citizen, born in Vienna, Burcin Ressamoglu is an experienced Executive Leader with a passion for gender equality and support of Women leadership in organisations.   

Burcin started her career in marketing with STFA Ogden Services, moving to Siemens, and then joining Philips Electronics for 14 years where she undertook several senior management positions across various countries of Europe and in China . 

In 2012, Burcin took the CEO role in Sodexo Benefits and Rewards Turkey and in 2018 moved into the CEO role of Sodexo Benefits and Rewards UK. In both roles, Burcin has fostered and led highly engaged teams to deliver new operating models, new product portfolios and digital transformation, all resulting in sustainable profitable growth for Sodexo Benefits and Rewards. 

Burcin is an ambitious leader with strong values and a passion for gender equality. Part of the Sodexo Women Advisory Board Sotogether since 2017, Burcin sponsors inclusion and gender balance initiatives in the company while partnering with local NGO’S to progress in women’s representation. In addition, Burcin continues to mentor many young professional women across the world. 

Spencer Roach

Reward Director EMEA & APAC,

Spencer is Currently Director of Compensation & Benefits For EMEA & APAC regions at GoDaddy, the worlds largest services platform with 20 million+ entrepreneurs around the world. Spencers responsibilities at GoDaddy include all aspects of Rewards for employees in 20 countries. During his 25 year career Spencer has worked in consultancy and many international reward roles at well known organisations in the tech sector including Gartner & Cisco. 

Having joined GoDaddy in the summer of 21, Spencer has never physically met any or his team, colleagues or customers so is interested in how organisations will adapt to “the new normal”. More importantly he is passionate about how these cultural and organisational shifts will translate into future reward and wellbeing strategies.

Mirka Slater

Benefits Manager,

Clare Stinton

Financial Wellbeing Analyst,

Stacey Sutton

Executive Director EMEA Benefits,

Stacey manages the employee health and benefits programme for Morgan Stanley in EMEA, as well as overseeing the health and wellbeing strategy.  In this role, Stacey led the creation of an EMEA Mental Health Advisory Board, consisting of senior leaders across key business units who sponsor programmes and initiatives to raise awareness of mental health and challenge the associated stigma.  Previously Stacey led a variety of projects to foster positive employee engagement and experience. 

Stacey is passionate about leading a preventative health and wellbeing strategy and is committed to fostering a positive culture and opening up the dialogue on mental health in the workplace.  Morgan Stanley is focussed on taking a holistic and inclusive approach which acknowledges the intrinsic links between social, financial, physical and emotional wellbeing.

Stacey is also extremely interested in workplace environments to support a culture of positive health and wellbeing and she has led on projects to develop employee facilities such as onsite health centres and mindfulness and meditation space.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley a decade ago, Stacey began her HR career in 2001 at Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd, gaining experience in a wide range of areas including HR Business Partnering, Learning and Development and Reward. 

Stacey is a member of the Business in the Community Wellbeing Leadership Team.

Stacey is married and a mum to two young children, she enjoys family time, as well as exercise and meditation.

Dr Nick Taylor

Co-founder & CEO,

Dr Nick Taylor is the Co-Founder and CEO of Unmind.

From a young age, Nick had a deep fascination with the human mind. This passion guided him to volunteer as a Samaritan and then as a support worker for the mental health charity, Mind, before studying psychology and gaining his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Sheffield, and embarking on a career with the National Health Service as a clinical psychologist.

While leading a team in the NHS, Nick became interested in corporate wellness, and how organisations can benefit from looking after their employees. He realised there was a clear gap in the market for a platform that enabled organisations to offer employees proactive and preventative wellbeing support. It was this vision that led Nick to co-found Unmind in 2016.

Six years later, Unmind is a leading international workplace mental health platform offering 2.5 million employees access to expert tools for measuring, understanding and improving their wellbeing, while enabling organisations to drive real cultural change.

Emily Trant

Head of Impact and Inclusion,

Mandy Willis

Group Board Director of Corporate Strategy,

Mandy officially joined Mace in 2014 after supporting the Board as an external adviser on Tax, Shareholder and Commercial matters for 14 years. Experienced in shareholder matters, corporate structuring, funding and high-level reward and incentivisation, Mandy was appointed in January 2017 to the Board as the Director for Corporate Strategy, leading on Governance and corporate restructuring activities, that are critical to delivering the Mace strategy.

Mandy is also a member of the Development and Innovation Boards at Mace, steering the agenda for capital structuring and Research & Development. In addition Mandy acts as the Board Sponsor for legal, tax and “Woman at Mace”, where Mandy champions gender equality as part of the wider diversity and inclusion agenda at Mace.