Barbara Wright-Avlitis

The Wright Work Place

Managing Director

The  WrightWorkPlace   helps   organisations   around   the   world   build   pro-resilient, healthy companies.
Barbara holds a Master of Sciences (MSc) Degree, with  Distinction,  from  the University of Liverpool, UK, in Global Human Resources.
She worked for 20 years with 3M Company, in the U.S., Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East, and Asia where she progressed throughout the organisation in sales, sales learning, and Human Resources Development. Her experience also includes serving as General Manager of HR and Global Head of Leadership Development,   as well as Global Head of Leadership and Change with ING Group (Banking and Insurance)    in    Amsterdam.    After    ING,    Barbara    became    the    Global    Head    of Leadership Development for Novartis Pharmaceuticals in Basel, Switzerland.
Barbara brings, to the HR Bootcamp, an extensive experience in organisational change and leadership transformation on a global scale. She has influenced business leaders in more than 32 countries, over the past 30+ years, to strengthen their personal, team, and organisational effectiveness through strategic learning.
Barbara has also involved some of her colleagues, from around the world, to join us on Bootcamp day to bring their own content on various aspects of wellbeing from the perspective of HR leaders, team leaders and employees. Together, we will make the day about real-life issues we are all facing, not only on hypothetical cases.

Catalina Schveninger

DataCamp

Chief People Officer

Catalina Schveninger FCIPD, joined DataCamp from Futurelearn & Vodafone where she most recently held the Global Head of Learning and Capabilities role, being responsible for the reskilling/upskilling and learning culture strategy for the FTSE 20 company’s 100,000 employees across 25 countries.
Previously, Catalina was HR Director of T Mobile in The Netherlands. She began her international HR career in 2002 as a member of the Human Resources Leadership Program at GE and held different roles, including the HR Director of GE’s Security EMEA division.
A mother of 2, Catalina is a passionate advocate for the attraction and development of women in organizations and describes herself as a people and HR tech geek. Catalina holds a BA in Journalism and Communications from the University of Bucharest, a Diploma in Management from The Open University, and has lived and worked in six countries.

Maud Durand

META

Global Change & Learning Manager

About 15 years ago, Maud started the most fascinating journey, working in the Human Resources world! She is a passionate person for whom the greatest career achievement is to bring out the best in talents and being surrounded by the people that encourage her to be a better human being and professional.
As a Global Change & Learning Manager based in London, Maud is operating across the globe with a focus on enabling the potential of teams and talents that surround her. 
Her will is to be a partner, teacher and advocate to the teams she supports; ensure they have the guidance and resources to turn their high-impact work into the talents’ Meta needs now and in the future.
Preceding her time at Meta (Facebook) she worked for LinkedIn and Dell as a Talent Acquisition Partner & before that as a HR Partner in France. 

Jean-Noël Thiollier

Groupe SYNERLAB

Group HR Director

Jean-Noël is Group HR Director at Groupe SYNERLAB. Previously Jean-Noël held the position of Senior Vice President of Human Resources for the French national employment agency, ANPE, in preparation for its merger with the national agency for unemployment insurance. He was also the Director Talent & Reward for Disneyland Paris from September 2008 till July 2013. His responsibilities included defining appropriate recruitment and remuneration policies to make Disneyland® Paris one of Europe’s favourite employers. Jean-Noël was Vice President HR for the EMEA region at Tech Data and Chief People and Inclusion Officer France, Turkey, MENA and Global Change Lead HR Effectiveness at Dentsu Aegis Network. 

Sergio de la Calle

Telefonica Universitas

Programme Director& Faculty

Comic artist by vocation, Sociologist by accident, HR expert by profession. I’m also a bit masochist as I have been working in HR for twenty years. A bit of recruiting & on-boarding, a bit of Direction by objectives & performance, a bit of Compensation, a lot of Engagement & culture change programmes and many HR platforms implementated. Currently pretty excited in the position of Programme Director& Faculty at Universitas, the leadership corporate University of Telefónica.

Anna Zakharova

Unilever

Senior HRBP RUB

Anna Zakharova is a Global Talent Manager at Unilever based in London. Prior to joining the Global team, she has held several Leadership Development roles in Russia, driving employer brand agenda and effectiveness of graduate programs. Her main priority in current role is designing the changes in Talent & Performance cycle to strengthen development culture and create more impact for the business. As a strong advocate of developing young and emerging talent, she is actively engages in work with Universities and international student associations.

Kim Wellemberg

Zimmer Biomet

Nordic HR Manager

Kim has extensive HR experience from matrix organizations in Global companies in various business. Kim has lived through and driven many changes and transformations in his recent positions and is very curious on the new normal, how the world will look in the future and the consequences for businesses and business models and at the same time how HR can be a strategic driver for the change which will inevitable surround all of us in the near future. 
Kim is driven by making a positive difference as a business co-driver - being the trusted adviser on people, leadership and business topics. 
Kim recently signed up for a Master of Business Development at Copenhagen Business School to further develop his competencies and capabilities to support and develop the business in the new normal.  
 

Andrzej Borczyk

Grupa Żywiec S.A.

HR Director

Business Leader, Board Member with Sales, Operations and HR experience. 23 years within global leading companies: Mars, Diageo, Microsoft and Grupa Żywiec (one of the biggest Heineken unit in Europe).

Co-creator of HRInfluencers initiatives that drives HR best practices, trend books and cross company mentoring program.

Creating and executing People and Organization strategies in Poland and Central Eastern European Markets. Strongly believe that in digital era key role of HR is to create working environment that enable sustainable business & people success led by transformational leaders.

Stephanie Fastre

Netflix

Learning and Organisational Development, EMEA

Stephanie has over 22 years of psychology, people and organisational development experience, firstly in a professional acting career, followed by over a decade in Google’s Learning and Development organisation, where she helped build and sustain effective cultures of learning, innovation, creativity, and community via extensive teaching, advising, and coaching to all levels of employees. 
 
Her strengths lie in working with executives and leaders on achieving their business goals by developing their people capabilities, by focusing on their organisational design and approaches, on people management, innovation and creativity. Stephanie is well-known for developing unique solutions, including Google’s acclaimed globally scaled community of learning: "g2g" Googler-to-Googler peer-to-peer learning platform, Google's global "Manager Communities" platform for manager development, for Google team development and CSI:Lab, one of Google’s flagship innovation and creativity learning programs. 
 
Stephanie has also worked at McKinsey, Columbia University, Alcorn McBride, and QVC (you might have seen her on the occasional show ;)) More recently, she joined Netflix’s Learning and Organizational Development team.
 
Stephanie is a trained professional actor, business mentor and executive coach. Outside of work, Stephanie is from Belgium but was brought up in the USA, Germany, France, and the UK. Today, Stephanie has three sons and one daughter, who teach her lessons like she never imagined - thankfully, she is an insatiable, incredibly curious, lifelong learner.

Sam Neo

People Mentality Inc

Founder & Chief People Officer

Sam Neo is currently a founder of 2 start-ups. The first being People Mentality Inc, one of APAC's top 10 HR and Employer Branding consultancy firm that helps organizations become an Employer of Choice while his recent venture, Stories of Asia, a story-tech platform that was set up to empower the Asian community with a voice through storytelling.

As a trusted advisor, he has worked with leaders in various large and reputable organizations such as Samsung, Prudential, L'Oreal, Diageo, Under Armour, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and more.

Besides securing the Ministry of Manpower's National Human Resource Scholarship in 2011, Sam's contributions in the HR community were also recognized and in turn, awarded as one of the HR Rising Stars in 2016.

As a millennial HR thought leader, he is regularly invited to deliver keynotes at conferences globally. In addition, Sam has also been invited to share his insights as an HR and Millennial expert on national TV and radio channels as well as being featured on major publications such as The Business Times and Straits Times.

Finally, Sam was also most recently co-opted as the youngest council member of the Singapore Human Resources Institute to transform its brand image and drive membership.

Vesna Schaefer

Henkel Adhesive Technologies

Global Head of Digital Training

I am an Innovation Change Agent driving a cultural change in large organizations. I am passionate about innovation, intrapreneurship, and empowering people to grow and thrive in their careers. Throughout my career, I've developed strong business acumen and cross-disciplinary skills. By nature, I am a curious and open-minded person, continuous learner, and explorer. I like to be inspired and to inspire others. I love change and discovering new things and I believe that change when properly managed is the way forward and a key success factor of competitive advantage.
I have 10 years of working experience at Henkel in various business roles including R&D and New Business Development, and 5 years of experience in running functional change management programs, digital training, coaching & peer-to-peer learning initiatives.