Giovanni Everduin

ETNICITY Group

Managing Partner

Giovanni Everduin is a global expert on Organizational Strategy, Analytics, Culture and HR.
He has worked in a variety of roles within industry and consulting environments, including global Fortune 500 companies to local Middle Eastern banks and start-ups.

A Harvard Business School alum, he is the Managing Partner of the ETNICITY Group, a boutique advisory firm that specializes in cross industry organizational strategy, analytics and culture consulting, as well as creative direction and new product development for fashion and retail brands. In addition he serves as Senior Advisor for HR & Organizational Development at Boston Global – a US based Communications & Performance consultancy, Senior Advisor to Peoplecart – an India based social Rewards/Recognition & Performance Management platform and as Senior Advisor of Product & Brand Strategy for Qlearsite – a London based People Analytics firm.
In his last industry role he served as Chief People Officer of Tanfeeth, the GCC’s first, fast growing, Shared Services & Advisory organization in Dubai where he helped build a unique business model and culture that was documented in a Harvard Business School Case Study (Tanfeeth: Bringing Service Excellence to the GCC – 2015).
Giovanni is a published writer and global speaker on various topics around The Future of Work, Analytics and Shared Services. In his spare time he is an avid collector of sneakers.

Julia Von Dewall

KIKO MILANO

Chief HR Officer

Julia von Dewallis the Global HR Officer at KIKO MILANO. Previously she was the Global Talent Director at Unilever based in London. In her long term career at Unilever, she has held several senior HR generalist roles as the Global HR Director for Ice Cream & Beverages in London and the Global HR Director for the Pepsi Lipton Joint Venture based in Geneva. Julia holds a law degree and bar exam from the University of Bonn (Germany) and an LL.M. from the University of Notre Dame Law School (USA). As a member of the Rotary Club in London, she actively engages in voluntary work.

Anne Morrison

Pearson College London’s Governing Body (former BAFTA chair, former BBC Academy Director)

Chair

Anne Morrison is Chair of Pearson College London’s Governing Body and is a senior media executive, coach and keynote speaker. She is Creative Director of Factual Programmes at Nevision, a London-based independent production company, where she has recently executive produced several feature documentaries, including The Missing Children for ITV’s Exposure strand. 
She was Chair of BAFTA from 2014 to 2016, the second woman to hold the position in the organisation’s history. She is a member of the Communication and Engagement Committee for the British Academy and of the Annual Review Panel for BBC-branded magazines at BBC Studios. Previously she was a Governor of the University of the Arts London, Chair of Creative Skillset’s TV Committee, a Trustee of the Charleston Trust and a board member of Women in Film and TV.
She is a frequent speaker internationally on issues such as diversity, employability, and creativity and has her own coaching practice. Throughout her career, she has been committed to the development of new talent. Until 2014 she was Director of the BBC Academy, the BBC’s centre for training, which she launched in 2009.
In her television career, having worked as a producer/director, she held senior management positions for 20 years at the BBC, and was responsible for hundreds of hours of factual television including many award-winning programmes.
Anne was educated in Belfast and Churchill College, Cambridge.

Torben Pedersen

Novo Nordisk

Senior Project Manager, Digital Transformation, Global HR

Torben Pedersen, is currently in charge of the Digital Transformation of Global HR for Novo Nordisk. Previous to this role he was in charge of the Oral Launch Plant in Novo Nordisk and an SVP HR Partner where his main field of work was the optimization of the core HR processes leading up to talent recruitment and developing and implementing a new talent management process.

Andre De Wit

Leadership Academy Amsterdam

Dean

Andre De Wit until recently served as Vice President Learning and Capability Building for the Carlsberg-group, an internationally Beer-brewing company with 45.000 employees and factories in 40 countries mainly in North, Western & Eastern Europe and Asia. Carlsberg, which has his home base in Copenhagen Denmark, is currently the 3rd biggest beer-brewing company in the world. Previously to joining Carlsberg Andre was the Group Director Learning at Metro A.G, Developer and Facilitator of Cultural Transformation Program at Friesland Campina, CEO MCC Croatia at Metro Cash and Carry and CEO IKEA Iberica.

Philippe Cathélaz

Happy At Work

Partner

Based in Geneva, Philippe is now leading his own consultancy and is Partner at Happy at Work, one of the world’s leading experts on happiness at work. His mission is to help organisations who want to grow their business, attractiveness and influence to first gain traction within their employees, building sustainable engagement and well-being. In this context, he supports Boards, Executives, HR and Communication teams to reach their next level.  

With 25 years in the communications field – 10 years as a PR consultant then Chief of Communications & Marketing within both public and private sectors – Philippe dedicated his career to build trust and articulate campaigns that successfully engage people, clients and stakeholders. His experience in coaching the C-Suite, managing teams and transformational projects gave him a strong expertise on how to generate fellowship and followers. 

Philippe has been seriously involved in talent management, circular economy, driving cultural change, employer branding, corporate purpose, digital transformation, complex matrix organisations and inspiring leadership. His track record includes remarkable achievements across MNCs as HSBC, Lombard Odier, Firmenich, McDonald’s.

Anna Stenbeck

Independent Talent Consultant, Former Nordic Talent Sourcer

Anna is an award-winning passionate Talent Acquisition nerd, with experience from full-cycle recruitment as well as specific areas such as Sourcing and Employer Branding. Her approach is to level up recruitment Inhouse, to be seen as a Partner rather than a Service Delivery Organization. She believes in the power of moving the needle through strong partnerships with internal stakeholders as well as the talent market; this helps build a strategic and proactive approach rather than operational reactiveness. Anna has experience from international organizations such as Capgemini, and Bombardier, and most recently she spent 2,5 years at Facebook where she worked as a stand-alone Talent Sourcer in the Nordics. Today, she works as an independent Talent Consultant, with partnerships and clients from various industries and markets.

Enrico Cazzulani

AIDP

General Secretary

Graduated in Law, he began his career at Farmitalia Carlo Erba (Montedison Group). In 1982 he was appointed head of the Corporate Training and Development department at Montedison Holding. In 1984 from the position Director of Personnel and Organization at Recordati he joined Smith Kline & French as HR & Organization Director. After the merger between ISF, Sk&f and Zambeletti, which lead to creation of SmithKline Beecham Italia, he become V.P. HR of the new Company and member of the Board of Directors. From 2000 to 2006 he was Director of HR, Organization and Quality at Albacom (today Bt Italia). From 2004 to 2011 he was President of AIDP Lombardy Group. Former President of the Corvette Group, of AIDP Promotion and Partner of Arethusa, he is currently General Secretary of the AIDP.

Riccarda Zezza

Life Based Value, co-author of the learning method MAAM®

CEO

Riccarda Zezza is the CEO of Life Based Value, an EdTech Company that creates innovative solutions for the development of human capital based on a proprietary learning methodology based on years of scientific research. Life Based Value solutions transform life transitions and caregiving activities into a master's degree in soft skills for professional growth. The program is delivered fully online to the employees and it enables businesses to capitalize on the energy and strength that people gain in their daily lives. Today they are used by more than 7,000 people in 60 companies and has started an international development phase. Riccarda is a blogger of Alley Oop – IL Sole 24 Ore, a Fellow of Ashoka - the NGO which selects the best social innovators in the world - an honorary member of Cesvi and a member of the Weizmann Young European Network. She was awarded as "Most Influent and Innovative Woman Fortune 2018" in Italy. Riccarda has two masters: Marta (11 years old) and Luca (8 years old).