The speakers and round table hosts this year are an impressive line up of industry experts, celebrities and senior benefits and wellbeing professionals:
Debra Clark is Head of Wellbeing at everywhen. With around 30 years in the employee benefits industry, Debra is a mental health first aider, a menopause lifestyle coach and volunteer board member of a local counselling support service. A passionate advocate for workplace wellbeing, she actively contributes to UK Health & Wellbeing forums and is regularly recognized in industry publications. Debra firmly believes that people are a company's greatest asset, and their wellbeing is key to success.
Jeanette is Principal Wellbeing and Strategic Consultant at Aon, with 25+ years’ experience in pharmaceuticals and research, advising both UK and global clients on people risks. A medical professional with a robust publication record and cross-sector expertise, she excels at turning data-driven insights into transformative solutions for FTSE 100 organisations. Jeanette is dedicated to creating holistic, evidence-based wellbeing strategies that deliver measurable business impact by focusing on real, data-verified, health risks. Her work drives meaningful change for organisations and their people.
Ant leads on all aspects of employee benefits, pensions, and company car schemes for the Wolseley Group, across the UK and Ireland, having previously managed E.ON UK’s reward and benefits activity, including developing the E.ON Group’s first global employee benefits strategy.
Ant’s focus is on engaging Wolseley’s diverse workforce with their pensions and benefit offerings, and continuously improving employee experience and wellbeing, together with scheme delivery and cost-effectiveness. He regularly looks to implement new arrangements, to help meet colleagues’ diverse needs and keep the offering fresh.
Earlier in his career, Ant held several operational management roles at E.ON, Powergen and TXU (Eastern) Energy, and headed a number of significant organisational change programmes. He’s also a Chartered Accountant, with an initial grounding in internal and external audit.
Shamira Graham has been working in mental health research and clinical practice for over 20 years. She is a passionate mental health specialist providing mental health solutions, designing clinical pathways and building innovative evidence based mental health propositions for corporate organisations and large insurers at scale. These incorporate assessments, psychiatry, psychological therapy, and counselling pathways for both adults and children and young people, whilst always ensuring patient care and patient experience is optimised.
As a practicing clinician, Shamira delivers clinical services and specialist consultancy shaping wellbeing, mental health training, and organisational performance solutions. She has extensive experience working with global professional services companies delivering consultancy, specialist training and corporate insights delivering benefits to people and organisations.
David brings 17 years of experience in employee benefits consultancy, broking, and strategic advisory roles. As Aon’s Lead Strategic Broker, he has helped clients embrace innovative benefit broking by leveraging early market engagement and advanced analytics. This approach has delivered premium savings, bespoke solutions, and improved access to wellbeing funding for organizations of all sizes. Most recently, David has applied his deep understanding of the UK benefits market to evolve strategies for identifying and managing people risk. His work focuses on helping clients achieve better health and financial outcomes while maximising the value of their benefits spend.
Gregg’s career has spanned over 20 years; starting in payroll and gaining experience across benefits, pensions and share plans, as well as wider reward. Gregg has worked in various sectors from aviation to construction and most recently financial services. He brings knowledge and expertise gained from companies like easyJet, Kering (Gucci, Alexander McQueen etc.) and Entain (Ladbrokes, Coral etc.) Gregg is a financial wellbeing enthusiast and has launched various campaigns and benefits to support multigenerational and global workforces with all things money. A self-confessed pension geek, he also loves to lead pension governance, education and engagement to support people preparing for their future. With a passion for diversity, equity and inclusion, Gregg has also chaired a previous employers LGBTQ+ employee network.
Gregg currently is the Senior Compensation and Benefits Manager at Santander.
Rosie is Head of Pensions and Benefits at Costain and has been in pensions for over 30 years. Rosie has extensive experience in the UK and Ireland pensions industry having worked in -house roles across a number of industry sectors from finance to construction. She started her career as a pensions administrator in Bristol and from there moved into pensions communications, compliance with a measure of pensioners welfare thrown in. It was through her time as Communications Manager for the AA and then Barclays that she developed her passion for talking about everything pensions and financial wellbeing.
For Rosie, benefits are core to any wellbeing or financial wellbeing strategy. In this time of crisis in the medical sector, Rosie is focused on how Costain can support colleagues get the treatment they need through joined up use of their medical plan and services offered via GIP.
Rosie has been on the PMI advisory council for over five years supporting a number of the committees and is delighted to be starting her second term as vice-president of the PMI and NED on the PMI Board.
Outside of work, Rosie lives with her husband Rick and Kenzie, their beautiful black cat. She enjoys running round but has no ambition to run a marathon!
A Certified Principal Business Psychologist, Jennifer has been an influencer in the field of employer best practice for over 20 years, with particular focus on working families, wellbeing, gender inclusion and evidence-based approaches. She is a leadership coach, coaching supervisor and sought-after speaker, writer, conference moderator and consultant.
Jennifer was a pioneer of parent transition coaching in the early 2000s, and as a Director of My Family Care, then Head of Thought Leadership with Bright Horizons, as well as through her own consultancy People in Progress, she has worked for over 20 years with the US and UK’s largest banks and financial institutions, supporting their talent strategies through financial crisis, pandemic, return to office and more. Jennifer is known for translating trends, public policy and research insights into solutions and practical actions.
Lucie has worked in the health and wellbeing industry for over 20 years, drawing on this experience to help organisations create bespoke solutions to meet the ever changing needs of their employees. Lucie is responsible for developing and executing WTW’s market leading health data insights and predictive health analytics reporting proposition. She likes to challenge traditional thinking about health and wellbeing benefit delivery and reviews health tech trends to understand what is ‘transformational’ rather than ‘trendy’ in the digital health and wellbeing marketplace.
Before joining WTW, Lucie was Head of Client Management for Cigna Healthcare in the UK and previously worked for a number of large employee benefits consulting firms. Lucie’s broad mix of consultancy and provider experience, across health benefits, wellbeing and occupational health services gives her a wealth of knowledge to draw from when supporting her clients, colleagues and business partners.
Stephanie works within WTW’s health and benefits practice as the UK wellbeing lead. Having joined the employee benefits industry in 2006, Stephanie has many years of experience managing employee benefit, wellbeing and engagement programmes. This includes specialty vendor review work, ongoing cost and risk control, advising on organisational wellbeing strategy, and working proactively with clients to optimise employee experience and triage processes between providers. WTW has a network of global wellbeing consultants and the team in GB which Stephanie leads has DE&I subject matter experts as well as clinical and actuarial specialists.
With over 20 years of 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. At Thomsons, Tim worked with HR and reward leaders from the world’s leading companies to share marketing-leading employee benefit strategies.
In 2013, Tim co-founded nudge alongside Jeremy Beament. nudge is a market-leading, impartial global financial education solution for all. Combining behavioral psychology, data and personalized education, nudge empowers people to develop their financial skills and knowledge. A global solution without conflicting financial products, our inclusive approach is trusted by the employees of 4,000 of the world’s largest organizations across 160 countries. We're very proud to be improving the financial health and create brighter financial futures for these employees and their loved ones.
Steve brings nearly 20 years of experience in workplace performance and wellbeing strategy. Throughout his career, he has helped organisations transform their cultures by connecting employee wellbeing with measurable business outcomes. His expertise lies in turning data into action, building strategies that energise teams, boost engagement, and drive sustainable performance.
Passionate about enhancing workplace performance through the lens of wellbeing, Steve combines data-driven insights with human-centric approaches to create environments where people thrive and businesses grow. He believes wellbeing is a performance multiplier, not just a perk, and works with organisations to make that connection clearer, stronger, and more actionable.
Since joining Innecto in 2007, Justine has led complex reward transformation projects for organisations including the Wellcome Trust, UKTV, British Medical Association, ITV, and the Law Society. With over 25 years’ experience in pay and reward, both in consultancy and in-house roles at GSK, Woolworths, London Underground, and the Post Office, she’s recognised as one of The Reward 300’s most influential figures.
Justine is a highly knowledgeable speaker on pay transparency and works closely with businesses to build talent mobility and career pathways that align with their strategic goals. Her expertise spans all aspects of reward, with a passion for helping clients connect pay, performance, and purpose. A Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, Justine holds a first-class degree in Psychology and serves as a Trustee for Crohn’s and Colitis UK.
Moving from a cost centre to being a strategic business lever
Wed 22 Oct | 10.00 - 11.00 BST
