Flexpo Business Digital Summit Agenda

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David Blackburn is one of the most awarded HR professionals working in the UK today. In January David was made a Chartered Companion of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). This is the highest accolade and level of membership awarded by the CIPD professional body and the selection of individuals to enter this group – currently only twenty-six - is made directly by the CIPD Board.

With over 20 years’ experience in leading all aspects of Human Resources, David is currently the Chief People Officer of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS). Prior to his current role he worked across both the private and not-for-profit sectors. David is a graduate of the University of Aberdeen and the London Business School; a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce; the Institute of Leadership and Management and a Member of the Guild of HR Professionals.

David Blackburn is the Investors in People (IiP) Leader of the Year; MEMCOM Excellence Awards HR Leader of the Year and Personnel Today Awards HR Director of the Year 2020 as well as being the inaugural Financial Times FT Adviser Diversity Champion of the Year. David’s work has been recognised in multiple National Awards including: Brilliance in Internal Communication; Business in the Community (BITC) Responsible Business; CIPD People Management; Employee Benefits; Engage Awards; Financial Adviser Diversity in Finance; Financial Innovation; Housing Heroes; HR Distinction; HR Excellence; Investors in People; Personnel Today; and the UK Customer Experience Awards.

After a successful career in retail bookselling, a degree in Politics as a mature student and with over 20 years’ experience leading all aspects of HR and L&D, Lisa prides herself on being a people focused HR professional with the emphasis on ‘human’ not ‘resource’.

As Head of People for FSCS, her intent is for everyone to stop focussing on policies and procedures and start engaging with people and their lived experience, endeavouring to ensure we give the best employment experience to our people which in turn, ensures they give their best to our customers.

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Kathryn is Chief People Officer at Benefex, where she heads up the People function, looking after almost 500 employees across the business. She has more than fifteen years’ experience heading up People teams across a variety of sectors, alongside managing operational departments, with a focus on transformation and change.

Kathryn is passionate about making a difference, delivering an outstanding employee experience, and ensuring that we bring the “human” back into Human Resources… so that everyone is able to come to work and give of their best, and no one ever needs to wake up dreading Monday mornings again.

Matt is a global thought leader in the employee experience space, specialising in how technology can help bridge the gap between companies and its employees. He is the Founder and CEO of Benefex, the award-winning global employee experience provider. Matt’s vision is now impacting the lives of millions of people at work every day, but he also believes we’re just getting started.

He’s helped hundreds of organisations understand what’s impacting their employee engagement, and has then worked with them to design and deliver an employee experience which enables them to achieve their strategy.

His mission is simple: Everyone deserves to have an exceptional employee experience, every day. He believes that when you look at any workplace, no one comes to work to do a bad job, or be actively disengaged. There are just a collection of missed opportunities to make the most of every single interaction and experience. He’s made it his personal mission to help organisations to design and deliver exceptional employee experiences, ones that enable people to get engaged.

Matt is part of the Advisory Board for KPMG’s Global Fintech 100 business, and for Salary Finance. He is also a Barclays Entrepreneur Ambassador and Advisor. He’s been nominated as a ‘Business Hero’ by The Times, and secured a place within the Reward100 most influential leaders in the Industry. Plus, he has a 99% CEO approval rating on Glassdoor.

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Emma is Global Inclusion Leader for professional services firm Deloitte and leads delivery of the organization’s global inclusion strategy. Emma’s work in this role includes a focus on Respect & Inclusion (including the ‘Can You See Me’ campaign); gender balance (including the development of a series of interventions to enable Deloitte to meet its gender equality goals); LGBT+ inclusion (including actions to deliver on Deloitte’s commitment to the United Nations’ Standards of Conduct for Business Tackling Discrimination against Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, & Intersex People]; and mental health (including the implementation of a mental health baseline globally and becoming a Founding Partner of the Global Business Collaboration on Better Workplace Mental Health). Emma’s role has also included the production of thought leadership aligned to this strategy, such as that relating to the impact of the Pandemic on women in the workplace.

From 2013 - 2019 Emma was the Managing Partner for Talent for Deloitte LLP in the UK and sat on the firm's Executive Committee. During this period Emma led a period of significant change for the firm from an inclusion perspective, including the firm's award-winning approach to Respect & Inclusion. Alongside this, Emma also led the UK firm's approach on mental health, overseeing a period during which stigma was reduced and an array of support for those with mental ill health was introduced. In her global role Emma’s work on mental health has included leading the development and implementation of a mental health baseline across the 150 countries where Deloitte operates and working with a number of global organisations to establish the Global Business Collaboration on Better Workplace Mental Health.

Emma is a member of the UK LACA Lead the Change board, the BiTC Gender Leadership Team and the UK Thriving at Work Council.

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Ursula Tavender is founder of Taking Care of Business and Mumbelievable™ and co-director of Flexpo Ltd. Following a successful career in corporate communications, Ursula founded her first business in 2015 with the mission to change the world of work by helping companies become more flexible, inclusive and close pay gaps. She is building companies that complement the brilliant campaigns for social, societal and business change by challenging and enabling organisations to think and act differently, make bold decisions and lead the way in their sector with impactful change to flexible working culture, behaviours and mindsets. Ursula has found a strong sense of purpose in innovating solutions and developing tools that support people - regardless of their circumstances or working pattern - to stay and progress at work, increase flexible working opportunities for everyone and strengthen the female talent pipeline. In March 2020 Ursula co-authored a guide with Liese Lord to support UK businesses making the emergency move to en-masse remote working that has since become a trusted resource for thousands of organisations and employees as they navigate the working world created by COVID-19. She also participates in a number of influential government groups and regularly writes, speaks, comments and campaigns for business change on the issues of closing the gender pay gap, flexible working and the future of work in a post-pandemic world.

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Claire Walker and Hannah Essex are Co-Executive Directors at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC). BCC sits at the heart of a business network that spans the length and breadth of the UK, with links to markets across the world. Claire and Hannah lead the BCC’s campaigns, communications, public affairs, policy and membership work.

Together, they joined the British Chambers of Commerce in September 2019 from social enterprise Teach First, where they co-led the Communications Department. Claire covered Hannah’s maternity leave and they formed their partnership when Hannah returned in 2015. As one of the few Executive level job-share partnerships in the country, they are considered trailblazers in the concept of co-leadership.

Together, they have a combined 35 years’ experience leading in a range of organisations, driving transformation and impact. Claire has held a number of trustee positions and led a range of community projects. Hannah is Vice-Chair and Founding Trustee of The Girls’ Network.

Claire Walker and Hannah Essex are Co-Executive Directors at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC). BCC sits at the heart of a business network that spans the length and breadth of the UK, with links to markets across the world. Claire and Hannah lead the BCC’s campaigns, communications, public affairs, policy and membership work.

Together, they joined the British Chambers of Commerce in September 2019 from social enterprise Teach First, where they co-led the Communications Department. Claire covered Hannah’s maternity leave and they formed their partnership when Hannah returned in 2015. As one of the few Executive level job-share partnerships in the country, they are considered trailblazers in the concept of co-leadership.

Together, they have a combined 35 years’ experience leading in a range of organisations, driving transformation and impact. Claire has held a number of trustee positions and led a range of community projects. Hannah is Vice-Chair and Founding Trustee of The Girls’ Network.