Founder and CEO of Rialto, Richard has 23 + years experience working with Senior Leadership teams to strengthen their growth mind set, originate strategy and build more adaptive organisations. He has been described as a trusted game changer, skilled collaborator, and one of the best connectors, innovators & opportunity catalysts for today’s disruptive environment.

Background & Experience

• Richard is a highly acclaimed and well-respected practitioner in his field, listed in Cambridge Who’s Who of Executives, Professionals and Entrepreneurs; Strathmore’s Who’s Who for Global Leadership & Achievements in Management Consulting; and recently recognised as Professional of the Year within the Global HR consulting profession.
• During his successful career, he has made nine major career changes including a move from strategic HR to line management, and periods in sales, marketing and commercial roles.
• Richard has operated at Main Board level for 23 + years and is currently awaiting evaluation by Harvard Business Review for possible inclusion in a book of World Class Leaders.

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An Executive Coach who partners with leaders to support them building confidence, self-awareness and an effective leadership approach whilst moving ‘up’ the organisation. He has specific expertise in working with leaders who are looking to develop a more flexible, situational style and are challenged with letting go of their functional expertise whilst stepping into strategic, visionary, leadership roles.

Background & Experience

• Tony has held country and regional General Manager/CEO positions in multinational FMCG, and Life Sciences businesses in Switzerland, Brazil and Australia as well as the UK. Most notably, he held senior leadership roles at Novartis, where he was a member of a divisional Global Executive Committee and successfully implemented significant revenue growth and organisational change initiatives.
• He provides coaching and mentoring support as a ‘Visiting Executive’ at The London Business School and as a Career Coach at Cambridge Judge Business School.
• Tony holds an MBA from Cranfield Business School and is a graduate of the Meyler Campbell Business Coach Programme.

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Jayne is an experienced Executive Coach. She has a proven track record in supporting executives and organisations in cultural change, engagement, executive and organisation transition with very positive results, in both the private and public sector.

Background & Experience

• During her Executive career as Group HR Director she worked at Board level, in Retail, Leisure & Hospitality, Construction, and the NHS.
• Jayne is a Non Executive Director for London Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Trustee and Chair of the Remuneration Committee for St John Ambulance, and Trustee of MEI Mathematics in Education and Industry.
• She has a Certificate in Coaching from Henley Management College and also an MSc in Human Resource Development.

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Ray’s experience over the last 14 years covers a broad range of clients from FTSE companies, privately owned organisations and NGO’s. This includes working with international clients based outside of the UK from different cultural backgrounds including Europe, India, North Africa, Central Africa and the Middle East.

Ray’s executive coaching is focused on enhancing the learning, development and performance of his clients. He combines his commercial experience and understanding of the psychology of individuals and teams to help create action plans that have “buy in” and are sustainable for his clients and their organisations. He supports existing, and emerging, executives to become more effective leaders able to develop teams and organisations to deliver results.

Ray has delivered leadership development and training both across a broad range of leadership subjects and draw upon contemporary ideas and models in working with clients.

Background & Experience

• Ray has over 20 years of international business experience working with large multinational organisations.
• His work as a senior finance executive in these organisations has allowed him to build a broad commercial knowledge and a wide ranging network.
• He was CFO of Global IT Solutions at Electrolux
• Ray also held several International Finance Director posts with Diageo Plc
• Ray holds an MSc in Change Agent Skills and Strategies and is an active member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council.

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As an Executive Coach with over 14 years’ experience, Tricia has coached CEO’s, C-suite executives & senior business leaders from a wide range of professional functions & industry sectors.

Her expertise covers all aspects of executive career development & transition (including new role assimilation & building an NED portfolio), executive branding & market positioning. She has worked extensively in coaching effective board room relationships & navigating organisational politics.

Tricia has had considerable success in helping clients to understand & communicate what they do best & support them to develop their future capability to meet the increasing challenges of global markets.

Background & Experience

• Tricia has a commercial background gained in the finance sector where she ran businesses in retail & corporate finance. Latterly, her blue-chip career focussed on mentoring & coaching at senior levels.
• As a full-time Executive Coach, she has worked with senior individuals in FTSE 100/250 organisations, public & not-for-profit sectors ; CEO/MD, Finance, Operations, HR, Marketing, Commercial, Legal, IT, Supply Chain, Sales, & Customer Experience
• Tricia is a Qualified Member of the Career Development Institute, Member of the Association for Coaching and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.

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Janet is an experienced executive coach, learning consultant and facilitator of leadership, change and culture programmes, management development and all aspects of learning linked to step up performance. She was a core member of the team who were winners of the  organisational culture consultancy of the year, won by Rialto in 2016 consultant awards for culture.  She has a reputation for a business focus with the energy to cut through issues to seek our improved engagement of employees to deliver enhanced performance

Background & Experience

• Janet has many years of senior leadership experience working within the public sector, supporting business focussed learning. She has executive board member experience within government. For the past seven years she has focussed on mainly private sector clients working as part of the Rialto Transforming the Performance Culture team .
• Janet has a passion for people and career/talent development and coaches senior leaders some of whom are participating leadership and talent schemes.
• She combines her consulting and coaching expertise with a range of diagnostic tools including 360 degree and psychometric tests and personal feedback, where relevant, to provide clients with insight and perspective in the handling of their organisational, performance and career challenges.
• Janet works with clients across the wider public sector in addition to international and private sector clients at senior and management levels to build capacity and capability.

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Nici is Founder and Managing Director of Talent Gateway, a Rialto Partner in executive search and talent insights, with a social conscience. Having spent over a decade in business within various executive roles including business development, marketing, commercial and corporate due diligence, Nici made the decision to build Talent Gateway focused on cultural fit.

Nici believes that more than ever before, people are the key to business performance, due to the fast-paced constantly changing environment. Those businesses that focus on their people will outperform the rest.  Attracting and developing the right talent that matches an organisation’s aspirations, values, motives and culture is essential in delivering outstanding business performance.

Background & Experience

• Nici has worked in Charity, Telecoms & IT and FMCG holding various executive and board member positions.
• She has also held numerous non-executive positions in both public and private sectors, most recently at her local CCG within the health service.
• Nici has developed and run numerous events focused on women in business to inspire success through ambition, drive and self-belief.

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A highly specialised Career Coachwith over 25 years experience of delivering career programmes up to Board Level, Mike is committed to empowering individuals to make informed decisions about their future goals, needs and aspirations.  He is skilled at bringing people and resources together to realise and develop personal potential. His clients enjoy concrete and tangible outcomes in their chosen fields.

Background & Experience

• Career Coaching individuals to recognise their talents, consider suitable alternatives and explore the consequential outcomes, helping them build the confidence to make the right choices
• Performance Coaching Senior Executives, covering areas of leadership, influence and personal impact.   Assisting clients to set out clearly defined goals aligned to business and personal objectives.
• Developing and delivering ‘Career Management Programmes’, facilitating career assessment training exercises to optimise redeployment opportunities. Using on-line career management tools to increase the effectiveness of self assessment/self insight, leading to better informed future decisions.
• Mike is experienced in e-learning, designing content and co-authoring on-line career management web portals. He has acted as “Job Doctor” for the market leading job search website, monster.co.uk, using his experience to provide guidance and answer career questions to UK job searchers.

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Lynne has over 20 years’ experience in psychometric profiling, and is qualified in a wide range of assessments. She is currently Co-Chair of The Psychometrics Forum.  She works with clients in transition in their careers to help them identify their strengths and the kind of work and organisational culture that suits them best.

She is an accredited executive coach and coach supervisor, and works with both individuals and teams to address development areas and enhance effectiveness at work. She also helps organisations in their hiring decisions by using psychometric assessments as part of the selection process.

Background & Experience

• Lynne has an MSc in Organisational Behaviour, an MA in Coaching and Mentoring, and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Coaching Supervision.
• She is a graduate member of the British Psychological Society.
• After completing her first degree in English and History, Lynne worked in publishing before moving into training and development. During this time, she was introduced to psychometric profiling, which sparked her interest in behaviour at work, and her decision to pursue business psychology.
• She is an accredited coach with the Association of Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision, and has published a number of papers and articles on coaching and personality.

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Kim Arnold is an international branding, marketing and communication consultant who helps individuals and businesses stand out, get heard and connect with clients in a noisy world.

She spent two decades challenging banks, tech firms, legal services and other complex businesses to ditch dried-up corporate jargon and bland branding to become irresistible to their clients.

She’s a firm believer there’s room for every individual and business to stand out, however crowded the market. You just need to know how.

She cut her teeth working for financial heavyweights, including Deutsche Bank and Thomson Reuters businesses, where she led large global communications teams across Europe, Asia and the Americas in 10 different countries. She even worked alongside former US Vice-President, Al Gore.

Kim now teaches growth businesses and entrepreneurs all over the world how to build imaginative brands that attract, inspire and sell as well as ‘brains and brawn’ marketing strategies that knock their competition out of the ring.

As a communication expert, she shows leading organisations how to talk and write and act in a way that inspires action in clients (instead of inducing a coma).

She speaks regularly on branding, marketing and communication and has been featured in a variety of media including Professional Marketing Magazine, HR Zone and Coaching Perspectives.

She is a Panel Tutor at The University of Cambridge Institute Of Continuing Education, where she teaches branding.

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A Career Coach, Trainer and Mindfulness Practitioner offering unstinting enthusiasm and energy supported by long standing market experience. A Member of the Association of Coaching, postgraduate qualified and quoted in many highly acclaimed publications as well as local and national media. Worked at all levels, consistently producing robust results even in the most resistant of markets.

Background & Experience

• Coached at Board level during critical times and through ongoing development. Entrusted to deliver in the most sensitive of situations
• Supported across all industries at all levels and around the globe via Skype
• Developed and delivered masterclasses on all aspects of career development and outplacement including LinkedIn. Assessed after every delivery and performed consistently ahead of all trainers
• Researched and collaborated with industry leaders to develop and deliver Mindfulness and Wellbeing courses in the City
• Invited as Guest Speaker by clients including Harrods, Deutsche Bank and Westminster Council delivering to large audiences including additional Skype audiences with full audio visual set ups, across multiple international sites.

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Gails expertise covers all aspects of executive career development and transition (including new role assimilation and building an NED portfolio), executive branding and market positioning.

An ‘out of the box thinker’ who truly stimulates thinking for senior Executives in what they might achieve with alternative approaches. Not a coach to remain with ordinary approaches and thinking, someone who can ‘reach the parts which others cannot’. Able to challenge appropriately without leaving the client deconstructed, but truly energized.

Specialist in ensuring clients have the ability to not only understand, but are able to articulate clearly their value and offering to the market.

Background & Experience

• Her career has been based on accreditation and expertise in Marketing which then, combined with recruitment, provided a most robust platform for the delivery of first class career advice.
• Gail has a very strong commercial background having been instrumental in start-ups and contributing to successful disposals and acquisitions for clients. This support has resulted in the completion on a variety of transactions.
• She has worked with key staff in public and not-for-profit sectors in addition to individuals wishing to gain entry into this sector, operating across most functions.

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Mike is a chartered management accountant who holds a number of executive and non-executive roles within a number of fast-growing businesses in the technology and professional services sectors.

He has been Director of Finance at Rialto since 2006, where he is responsible for financial management and administration.

Background & Experience

• Following a successful exit from his telecommunications business in 1998, Mike has been advising businesses on fund-raising, business planning, strategic development and financial management with a particular focus on building towards a high value exit route.
• He has taken the lead role in acquisitions, disposals, and company reconstructions as well as the management of complex customer and supply-side contracts.

John is a successful entrepreneur with a leadership background in staffing and recruitment. He has worked as a director for several of the top global staffing companies and founded Best International Group which grew to £130million turnover in 18 months.

As a Chairman of Rialto, he contributes to the overall corporate strategy and continues his reputation for creating shareholder value in fast growing environments.

Background & Experience

• John holds significant experience in mergers, acquisitions, fund raising and IPOs.
• He has 30 years experience in recruitment in senior roles at Ajion (UK) Ltd, trading as Computer People, Best International and Spring Group Plc.
• He is currently a non executive chairman and strategic advisor to eight companies in the Talent and Recruitment sector.

Christopher is a deeply experienced and versatile customer experience consultant possessing over 15 years of putting the customer first. He is driven to accelerate client profitability by providing customer insights and developing the best customer engagement solutions.

Background & Experience

• Christopher writes the ‘CX Leaders Interview’ series for the CX Magazine, as well as publishes the monthly ‘Customer’s World update’ bulletin.
• He also regularly speaks on CX topics at industry events, guest lectures (including The International University of Monaco) as well as holding significant roles as a judge at several Customer Strategy Awards.

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Jan’s career provides a pragmatic base for training, coaching and mentoring senior level leaders before, during and after effecting significant corporate or personal change. She also uses her experience in an advisory/facilitative capacity with organisations on their business growth and transformation strategies as well as guest lecturing at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.

Background & Experience

• Jan’s career over the past 25 years has comprised senior corporate roles including Head of Zurich Corporate Pensions, Global Sales Director and Executive Committee member, Barclays Private Bank and Resident Vice President, Consumer Lending, Citibank.
• She is past Vice President of UN Women UK, and past Chair of the innovative women’s sector funding charity, Rosa UK Fund for Women and Girls. She was a Commissioner of the Women’s National Commission (WNC), with a special remit for its Women on Boards policy.
• Jan is a qualified Level 7 Executive Coach and Leadership Mentor (from the Institute of Leadership and Management, Europe’s leading awarding body), and a Fellow of ILM. She has been recognised as one of “100 Best Global Coaching Leaders Award” by the World HRD Congress.

Rob is passionate about connecting talented people into pioneering organisations in which they can thrive.

He has been a director of  Rialto executive search sister company, Talent Gateway since 2012 working with clients to think creatively about talent acquisition.

Background & Experience

• Rob’s early career spanned over two decades across a range of sectors including Telecoms and IT, business services, financial services and the public sector.
• He has worked with many clients in his career from WPP, AT&T, NTT, Vodafone and Orange
• Rob originally qualified as an electronic engineer, and now holds professional qualifications in marketing and an MBA from Henley Business School.

Lesley is a commercial leader with a track record in International growth and digital transformation in a range of sectors including travel, paper distribution, brand services, technology, publishing, supply chain and healthcare.

Background & Experience

• Lesley has extensive experience with mergers and acquisitions in corporate, VC backed and privately owned businesses and has led growth and go to market strategies, digital transformation programmes and growth capability development with clients including KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Hertz, Williams Lea, The Economist and Polyco Healthline.
• Lesley is skilled in working with executive teams to develop growth strategies and the cross-silo teams needed to deliver them.  She credits her success to focusing on the customer and persuading boards and broader stakeholder groups to do the same.  Her methodology and rigour to drive growth combined with her agility and entrepreneurial skill have proven successful in larger corporations and mid-sized businesses looking to scale.
• Lesley is also a Trustee of Revitalise, a national charity providing much needed respite holidays for disabled people and their carers.

As a commercially focused CIO, CTO and Global Programme Director, Malcolm has 25 years of executive experience delivering business and technology transformations.  Later in his career he founded Transformation Partners, a consultancy focused on creative change and two further start-up businesses as the Chairman. He is also a non-executive director of a third. Working now as a portfolio executive Malcolm works with large and small companies providing advisory services.

Background & Experience

• Malcolm is very well respected as a pragmatic leader who has delivered eight complex business/technology transformations in FTSE100 organisations. He is well known for applying creative solutions to business problems
• At the peak of his career as a permanent CIO, he led a team of 2,500 in India and the UK, with responsibility for removing £500m of technology expense
• Malcolm has a well-developed skill for changing the culture of a business and getting engagement from large teams, using limited resources

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A chartered clinical psychologist and PHD scholar, John has been assessing and coaching c-suite executives and their teams in leading organisations for 24 years.  Assignments have taken him to 20 countries around the world working in the areas of leadership development, managing stakeholder relationships, the management of power, organisational politics, influence and personal impact.  He has a reputation for considered judgement, insight and rigour when it comes to assessing individuals and teams, pragmatism when it comes to coaching and development.

Background & Experience

• John started his early career in the NHS working as a Senior Clinical Psychologist.
• He has since held Director-level roles at Kiddy and Company, Kaisen, Cedar International, Quality Forum and Misura Consulting. John has also worked as a Managing Partner of The Oxford Consulting Group.
• He has a BSc and PhD in Psychology from London University, is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a founding member.
• John  has been a guest lecturer at the IOD, INSEAD and The Cranfield School of Management. He has published on the topics of leadership, relationship development and emotional resilience.
• John’s research, The DNA of a Game Changer and The DNA of a Game-Changing Team, focuses on the premise that organisations are neglecting the very talent, which has the potential to transform the future.

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George leads both our Advanced Management Consulting and Transforming the Performance Culture practices. Working within both public & private sectors and with associated bodies, George partners with organisations to deliver measurable and sustainable business transformations and culture change with a keen focus on ROI, increasing enterprise value, and the creation of step change such that organisations are better placed to deliver their strategic goals.

Background & Experience

• George has predominantly worked in the private sector throughout his career including nearly 18 years in two high service level FTSE25 organisations.
• George’s ‘blue chip’ years are sandwiched between a short service commission in HM Forces in the 1980’s and since 2006.
• He has owned 2 companies, one in the education sector as a school owner, and the second in HR consultancy.
• George is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development with expertise in High Performance Culture development, High performing Team development, Organisational design and  Leadership Behaviour development.
• Since 2006, he has built two independent businesses whilst simultaneously working as a change management specialist supporting clients to focus on reaching their objectives effectively and efficiently, by dynamically bringing together teams’ know-how and creativity in the pursuit of step changes in performance.

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Chris Roebuck is a Senior Director at Rialto, Visiting Professor of Transformational Leadership at Cass Business School and advisor to a select group of forward thinking organisations. His passion is helping organisations improve performance through their people, by working with Executive Directors to help them understand how they can contribute to organisational success via developing leadership, engagement, high performance and alignment on to key deliverable.

Background & Experience

• Chris was formerly Global Head of Leadership at UBS, where his work is now part of a Harvard Business School case study.
• He has worked with organisations as diverse as HSBC, RBS, the UK National Health Service, international law firms and London Underground.
• He has been on the HR Most Influential Thinkers list annually since 2010, been interviewed over 200 times on TV and quoted in many global publications on leadership issues.
• His new book, Lead to Succeed, on his new Mach 2 leadership model was published in May 2014.This sets out a new perspective delivering successful leadership and transformation in the 21st century described as a “breakthrough in thinking” about leadership

With over two decades’ experience and a refreshingly practical sensibility, Peter Ryding gives CEOs, MDs, and other business leaders the inspiration, guidance, and support they need to thrive. This can be as an executive coach, mentor, strategy advisor, NED or chairman.

Background & Experience

• A serial CEO and Chairman whose career included Exxon, Mars, EMI and 3i before becoming a turnaround and transformation specialist and a top coach to CXOs.
• He has generated over £1billion of profit and shareholder value and won awards for his turnaround and coaching work.
• Peter has a Chemical Engineering degree from Imperial College, an MBA from London Business School. He is a keynote speaker, conference chairman, author of 6 books and has been voted BBC interviewee of the year.
• Turnaround & Transformation Credentials include, National award winning turnaround and transformation expert, Main Board Director of the Institute for Turnaround, 100% track record for turning around (15) companies and blue chip divisions. Coaching & Mentoring Credentials include, Professional Coach since 1999 & Master Coach since 2005, Voted Top UK Coach to CXOs (Ernst & Young), Ran Europe’s biggest coach training business.

Simon is an expert in future of work and leadership.

His particular interest is the impact of technology and social media on the world of work and business, and in how this affects behaviours, effective leadership and organisational design.

He also draws from other first-hand leadership experience both is extreme sport and business.

Background & Experience

• He has led teams on arctic expeditions and round the world yacht races, most notably as skipper of Toshiba in the BT Global Challenge round the world race where he finished second, the youngest skipper in the fleet.

David has 25+ years in top executive roles leading enterprise strategy, execution, turnarounds, and improvement initiatives that generated hundreds of millions in bottom-line results, improved morale, and won top awards from the US White House, US Senate, and others.  Employee engagement for the New World was always key to his success.

Background & Experience

• David the author of a best-selling book Creating You, Inc. which helps people to find a niche they are truly passionate about, and one that they can excel at. Additionally, it helps them to create and follow a plan to become a thought-leader within their niche
• He provides executive workshops to worldwide audiences on how to find your sweet-spot, and on creating highly engaged cultures
• He recently chaired World Strategy Week where he brought together thought leaders from around world to discuss critical forces changing global economies. Included top government advisors (e.g., U.K. Prime Minister, U.S. White House), scholars from top universities, best-selling authors, and top executives from private, public, and non-profit sectors
• David has worked as senior management adviser to top government officials and consulted extensively with federal organisations, Fortune 100 companies, small-medium sized businesses, and non-profit organisations

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An experienced leader, instrumental in delivering digital transformation at a number of multinational organisations, working throughout Europe, USA, South America, Middle East, Asia and Australia.  Implementing solutions across multiple language groups and business cultures.

Recognised within UK CIO 100 in 2014, 2017 & 2018.

Background & Experience

• Dave has over 30 years’ experience in various roles, culminating in C-Level roles at global organisations such as Altrad, Cape Plc and Doncasters Limited.
• Dave has a purpose of helping organisations of all sizes realise the benefits achievable through having a winning Digital Strategy. Helping clients define and understand the opportunities which will maximise Return on Investment, differentiate from competitors, or disrupt the sector they operate in.
• Dave holds an MA in Leading Innovation and Change from York St John University.

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An Executive Career Management Consultant and Coach with extensive experience in developing and delivering career transition, career management, and coaching programmes to both individuals and teams.  Successful track record of coaching clients from a wide range of sectors and functions up to and including Board level.  Offers a background which includes senior line management and professional consultancy roles in sales, recruitment, operational and project management.

Background & Experience

• Tanya has over 15 years experience of coaching clients from a range of sectors including: Retail, FMCG, Leisure & Hospitality, Professional Services, Oil & Gas and Utilities, Manufacturing, Engineering, Financial Services, Pharmaceuticals and Insurance.
• Prior to moving into career management and coaching, Tanya had a successful career in international and UK businesses in both senior line management and professional consultancy roles.
• She has worked for large, multi-national retail organisations including Marks and Spencer, The Body Shop, as well as a management consultant for KMPG and at Korn Ferry International, where she sold and delivered executive search programmes at Board level.

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Katie King is a published Author, Keynote Speaker and Consultant on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital transformation.

Background & Experience

Katie has over 30 years’ of consulting experience and has advised many of the world’s leading brands and business leaders, as well as schools, colleges and universities.

Katie is a member of the UK Government All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) task force for the adoption of AI.

She is also an Editorial Board Member for the AI and Ethics Journal (Springer Nature – global publisher).

Katie is the author of Using Artificial Intelligence in Marketing: How to Harness AI and Maintain the Competitive Edge, published by Kogan Page in February 2019. The book is currently being translated into Chinese, Vietnamese & other languages. It was also listed as a reference source in the ‘Brand Strategy’ section of the World Economic Forum’s Empowering AI Leadership AI toolkit for corporate boards.

Katie has delivered two TEDx talks and is a frequent commentator on BBC TV and radio.  She is also a regular speaker on the international conference circuit, having delivered talks and workshops in Dubai, Oman, Bahrain, Singapore, China and beyond.

Founder of LURN, a consulting, advising and coaching company and Associate Director of X-PM, a partner of Rialto serving the Asia Pacific market. Lesz brings extensive HR and Organisational Design & Development experience in supporting clients to define and lead transformation, to elevate leadership & build HR capabilities. Lesz is a certificated executive coach.

Background & Experience

• Lesz has an extensive career in the private sector with major multinationals in the industrial, construction materials and mining sectors. He has held senior global and multinational roles, has deep APAC experience and leverages broad cultural awareness having lived in 4 countries on 2 continents and experienced working on 6 continents.
• Lesz is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development with expertise in Strategic HR, Organisation Design & Development, and Talent Management.

Founder and managing director of Asq Project Management and associate director for X-PM, Steve has 18+ years as a business owner, entrepreneur, portfolio, programme, project and change manager. He brings global expertise from experiences in the UK, Singapore, China, India, Australia and New Zealand.

Analytical, creative and innovative, Steven has a natural flair for problem-solving. He’s very good at understanding an organisation’s strategy and identifying what’s needed to achieve its goals. Steve thrives on uncovering hidden risks and opportunities.

Background & Experience

• Steve is a versatile and resourceful professional delivering business and technology solutions for companies.  Sector experience in telecommunications, banking and finance, pharmaceutical, medical, government, and education. Today he specialises in transformation and change management. Providing end to end consulting to help organisational leaders navigate periods of transformation and change, and to achieve their ambitious goals.
• Steve completed a 2-year research project into transformation and change in business, publishing a white paper “Transformation and Change: Why we need to understand the difference” and a discussion paper “Definitions and distinctions between Change and transformation” which has been presented to corporations and professional organisations in Australia and Singapore.

Mike Magee, X-PM SEA Managing Director, has been a consultant in organisational change for over 3 decades and working in Asia Pacific over the past 23 years. He has extensive international experience with large multinational companies and has delivered solutions in many different countries.

Background & Experience

• Mike has been working on Board level assignments for many years and has carried out a significant amount of transformation work with executive management teams. He has worked with a large number of Asian based companies assisting with change and transformation programs. He specialises in aligning strategy, leadership and people.
• Previously, Mike was an Executive Director with Cap Gemini focusing on strategic outsourcing and change management.
• Mike has been highly successful at building high performing teams and enjoys engaging with teams and creating working environments that are engaging and fun.

Stephen is an expert adviser consultant, and producer of commercial business to business events. With over 20 years’ experience of content production, running leading exhibitions, C-suite networks, and online events he has managed events in every industry vertical globally.

Background & Experience

• Stephen’s background includes several senior Head of Events roles in industry associations such as CIPD and inhouse within private sector companies in publishing, media, and logistics.
• As a consultant he has managed large scale event projects with: Clarion Events, Informa, EasyFairs, Ceridian, UBM and Akabo Media.
• In 2020 he has been working with clients to shift to virtual and hybrid event planning and execution. E.G Ceridian’s global customer event ‘INSIGHTS’ for an audience over 30,000 guests.
• Stephen set up Events Creator in 2019 to aid companies’ growth, to advise on the strategy of their events portfolio and to help manage specific content led events.

James Blackwood is an experienced Career Transition consultant, who helps senior executives seek and identify their next vocation. He is instrumental in delivering end-to-end talent solutions for both UK and global corporates and SMEs, with a focus in Technology, Defence, Security and Professional Services.

Background & Experience

• James has over 20 years Talent Acquisition and Executive Search experience, working for leading Search firms including Odgers Berndtson and Norman Broadbent. He has sold and delivered assignments across all business functions at main board and senior management level. Many of his clients have become game changers in their new roles.
• He has organised and chaired networking events, bringing together industry leaders to discuss topics such as transitioning from Exec to NED, Geopolitics and more recently the future of Aerospace post Covid-19.
• Prior to this James was trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and commissioned into the British Army.
• He is SHL qualified.

Bharatti is a senior HR Consultant and high performing technical coach with experience gained over thirty years in the corporate world. She is naturally curious and interested in looking at new ways of working, incorporating technology and innovations to enable the workforce to work more efficiently and drive performance improvement. Throughout her career she has worked in a multi-cultural environment, leading HR teams across Europe, Middle East and Africa and mentoring regional executives in North America and Asia. Bharatti has a natural empathy and deep understanding of the complexities and demands on HR leaders within multi stakeholder environments. During her corporate career she was able to use her highly developed influencing skills to give HR a voice in the boardroom and ensure company’s included a people element in their strategic plans and goals. She is particularly interested in diversity and inclusion and HR professional development which exceeds expectations. Bharatti believes that to successfully deliver organisational change, you need to be employee & customer centric.

Background and experience

• Bharatti has extensive experience at executive board level gained in the Corporate & Investment Banking, Telecommunications and Retail sectors
• Additional to her HR expertise, Bharatti has broad knowledge of governance, compliance, ESG/CSR and crisis management
• She is a Board Trustee with the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and The Befriending Scheme.
• She is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personal and Development (CIPD)
• Bharatti is passionate about social mobility and is a Mentor with the Social Mobility Foundation. She strongly believes that social mobility is fundamental to creating a truly diverse and inclusive society.

Simon went ‘independent’ approximately 25 years ago. Prior to that he was a Director of NCR in the UK. As an independent, he has operated as an interim manager, a consultant, trainer, facilitator and executive coach for a wide variety of clients across many industries.

He has specialised over the past twelve years in helping senior executives’ transition into independent work, enabling them to achieve their goals of challenge, variety, control and work/life balance. In this period, he has worked with over 4500 people to help them decide if this route is right for them and then coached them to help make it happen.

Background and experience

• Extensive experience operating as an independent executive, which ideally positions him to help others who wish to take this route.
• Works with his clients in all three critical areas of success – Outcomes – being clear about what they are aiming to create, Actions – creating and executing a plan to deliver on those outcomes, Mindset – creating the right ‘state of mind’ of openness, resilience and action-orientation.
• His clients describe him as inspiring, challenging and encouraging

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Nick started his working life in international hospitality working on both sides of the Atlantic and achieved CEO status before the age of 30. His career since has been involved with privately owned companies in the hospitality, training, technology, and property sectors.

He has been a catalyst in developing and improving their businesses. Nick has a wealth of knowledge regarding establishing, running, and developing businesses and successful, motivated teams. Latterly he has been meeting and working with individuals enabling them to maximise their career potential. He is charismatic, dynamic, perceptive, and detailed, and has a track record of pro-actively making things happen. Comprehending commerce, along with understanding the psychology of an individual, is key in his current work of enabling individuals to progress forward in their career / future with an understanding of personal branding, on-going guided learning and development to remain competitive for tomorrow.

Background and experience

• 20 years at senior management level in the international luxury hospitality sector.
• Business consultancy with 4 major business start-ups / turnarounds.
• His work has enabled him to develop his skills in understanding multifaceted businesses, and staff within those organisations, and how to achieve the best for both with a service journey to exceed clients’ expectations.
• Operated at many levels within various organisations: including CEO, Business Development Director, Regional Director, Sales and Marketing, Consultancy.

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Frank is CEO of AI-Future Inc. A former senior bank executive and strategic planner, he is a consulting business futurist and strategist with an unmatched 30 year forecasting track record.

A pragmatic optimist, he is full of innovative ideas, an in-demand keynote speaker, and a best-selling author. His latest book is Future Think, first in an 8-part series based on the upcoming convergence of Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence.

Frank advises clients on AI DigiTransform strategies in order to be competitive and successful in the digital economy. His satisfied clients are a global A-Z of Fortune companies, professional organizations, and governments. He advises China on economic modernization (ever since 1984), with many of his ideas being implemented.

Background and Experience

• 10 Year career with Barclays, TD, and CIBC banks in UK and Canada.
• Director – Strategic Planning, Domestic Regions, CIBC, 1,800 branches.
• CEO of Successful B2C Startups and Turnarounds in USA and Canada.
• More than 400 International Speaking Engagements.
• 8 Times Best-Selling Author of Business Books.

Richard Chiumento is proud to confirm that he has been asked to endorse Frank’s latest book.

Denise, Chief Executive of Umbrella HR Ltd, is a seasoned HR and Diversity & Inclusion  (D&I) professional.  For Rialto she provides Diversity & Inclusion Consultancy including Coaching, Mentoring, practical solutions, and interventions required to progress an organisation’s D&I journey.

Having held executive roles across several sectors with a career spanning HR subjects, Denise knows what it takes to deliver value to business.  Her strength is translating strategy into practical sustainable actions.

Background and experience

• Denise has a business focused approach to HR and D&I both driving these in the organisations she worked for and latterly, equipping organisations across sectors to drive change.
• She has held board level positions at Craegmoor and Marks & Spencer.
• Her last role was CEO at the Employers Network for Equality & Inclusion (enei) where she led a team providing D&I support to c.380 private, public, and not-for-profit organisations. Denise personally supported the Executive Steering Committee’s 30 Members.
• Previous positions were BGL’s HR & Communications Director: Craegmoor’s HR, Communications, IT & Clinical Governance Director; Marks & Spencer HO People Proposition; Nationwide Building Society’s HO Corporate HR.
• Denise is qualified CIPD Member and has a Masters in Strategic HR Management (SHRM).

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Dr Djamila Amimer is an AI Global Thought Leader, AI Business Consultant and Speaker.

Background and experience

Djamila has over 20-year business experience with a broad range of skills across AI, machine learning, commercial deals, business strategy, energy, supply chain, shipping & trading, business resilience and climate change.

Djamila has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Economics. She has developed frameworks and novel AI techniques in the area of investment decisions, dealing with uncertainty in project evaluation. Djamila is currently ranked among Top 10 AI Global Thought Leaders.

Djamila’s main mission is to help businesses and organisations apply AI and unlock its full potential. She has a track record in leading teams, delivering results and focusing on performance. She brings clarity to complex concepts and deliver strongly underpinned messages to executives.

Djamila is passionate about AI for good and would like to make AI accessible to everyone. She frequently speaks on AI, acts as an AI mentor for UCL enterprise and innovation programme and contributes to MIT Technology Review Insights as a global panellist. Djamila is a board member of “We and AI”, an organisation that aims to raise public awareness around AI risks and opportunities in the UK.

Over the last 20 years, Stuart has coached thousands of executives to become confident networkers and get jobs they love. He is the co-author of the best-selling ‘Confident Networking for Career Success’. He is widely recognised as a leading career management practitioner, with testimonials showing that he is seen as engaging, results-orientated & perceptive, & that his approach is highly effective at supporting the growth of his clients’ self belief & their ability to clarify & achieve their career objectives.

Background & Experience

• Stuart started his career as a social worker, then moved to a second career with Vodafone, where he held  executive roles in business development & corporate client satisfaction.  It is here he faced his first encounter with redundancy and was introduced to career transition coaching, which was to become his third and most fulfilling career.
• As a Career Coach, Stuart has developed a strong reputation for developing clients’ self belief & resilience, boosting their purposeful direction to maintain momentum & motivation, & improving their networking skills to enable them to unearth & seize otherwise hidden opportunities.
• Stuart is a qualified Career Coach, and an accredited Strengthscope and MBTI practitioner.
• He is also licensed to administer, interpret and provide developmental feedback on a range of psychometric tools, including the industry-leading PSI Resilience Questionnaire.

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Dan is an experienced Career Coach – having advised hundreds of people directly and indirectly as a result of his previous 20+ year corporate career as an HR/Talent Leader (which has involved hiring over 100 Managing Directors, NEDs and C-Suite executives around the world), and more recently as the owner of a specialist career coaching boutique focused on the global Financial Services industry.
He brings an in-depth knowledge of how the modern job market works including the role of HR, Talent Acquisition teams and third-party vendors such as Executive search firms, assessment providers and the various technology, social platforms and tools that support the industry i.e. Applicant tracing systems (ATS), Linkedin, Job Boards, Company Careers sites, AI enabled recruiting tools.

Background & Experience

• Dan has run Talent Acquisition and Executive Recruiting for a number of global financial services organisations across Investment Banking(Citi), Investment Management(BlackRock) and Insurance (XL Catlin and QBE)..
• His career prior to working in HR/Talent involved working on the trading floor at Lehman Brothers before moving into executive search and recruiting.
• Diverse functional knowledge – having recruited for and been a talent advisor for every single function of a large company from IT/Digital/Data through to all sales/product/customer facing functions as well as the full range of corporate functions and regional/global executive roles up to and including C-Suite.
• Holds well-rounded Talent Management experience – having been closely involved in executive succession planning, promotions, leadership assessment, onboarding, internal mobility, learning & development, talent acquisition and future of work initiatives, programmes and processes.
• Global job market experience – whilst UK and continental Europe are his sweet spot, Dan is equally knowledgeable about markets in North America, Australia, New Zealand, India and Asia too (and has covered most places in between at some point).

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Widely acknowledged as a thought-leader, Russell is not your average people-person.  He blends an engineer’s desire for knowledge, an inquisitive need for evidence and a belief that things can be better with an inspirational, charismatic and thought-provoking style.  He connects dots in an informative way to help organisations take tangible actions to unlock the potential and productivity of their most expensive asset, their people.  Often acting as a catalyst, he captivates people, motivating them to think differently, providing the impetus to change and transform, enabling them to move quicker and further than they previously thought possible.

Russell delivers keynote addresses, ‘inspire and challenge’ talks and interactive workshops.  Recently he delivered the keynote at Vodafone’s hackathon (which was live-streamed to all employees globally), and at the annual conferences of ACAS HR Leaders, CIMA and Skillnet Ireland.

Background & Experience

• Worked as an engineering project leader in 26 countries, as the Managing Director of a £120m turnover outsourcing business, and as a people strategy consultant.  He has consulted with and supported leadership teams of companies of all sizes from SME to FTSE100 – and across many sectors – technology, engineering, pharma, retail, finance, hospitality, public, 3rd sector.
• Russell’s has a 1st class degree in Electronic and Communication Engineering, a Masters through research (both from Bath University) and a Diploma in Business Studies from Henley Business School.

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Alvin has 40 years R&D experience in the Defence & Aerospace Sector, spanning Electronic Warfare, Radar, Imaging, MilSatCom and Avionics.

This included leading the design of the 4 nation Eurofighter Defensive Aids Subsystem.

He was the CTO for Thales UK for 10 years and in 2019 led a 3* sponsored “lessons learnt” review of military UAS incidents.

Now “retired”, he is a visiting Professor at Bristol and Southampton universities, with an interest in Complex Socio-Technical Systems and Safety Critical Autonomous Systems.

At Southampton, he is a board member of the MINDS CDT and the Trusted Autonomous Systems Hub.

Tom has over 20 years executive search experience gained from both Plc and SME organisations working for a range of organisations across automotive, aerospace, defence, energy, process and sport.

Clients include Bentley Motors, McLaren, Aston Martin, Airbus, GKN, Ricardo, TATA Steel, Horizon, URENCO, Astra Zeneca, Wood Group and BAE Systems together with a large number of SME and start-up businesses in the relevant supply chains.

He has also built talent pipelines, for a variety of organisations in telecoms, professional services, management consultancy and a premier league football club.

Since 2019, Tom has been delivering a limited number of assignments at any one time using the services of a market leading independent researcher to fulfil each assignment with the upmost professionalism and integrity.

Successful assignments include: Managing Director, Finance Director, Operations Director, HR Director, HR Manager, Plant Manager, Programme Manager, Project Director/ Manager, various Specialist Engineering roles, Quality, HSE, Business Development, and Operations Manager in both UK and International locations.

Tom offers a bespoke service working closely with clients and the key stakeholders throughout the assignment, ensuring regular and transparent communication at every stage.