Programme
People Development Summit 202512-14 March 2025, EPIC SANA Marquês Hotel
2025 Topics & Themes
- Practical use of AI in L&D
- Learning with a neurodiverse population
- Proving L&D ROI
- Talent management approaches to performance management
- L&D’s role in workplace wellbeing
- Data-driven L&D
- Psychological safety
- In person vs. virtual instructor-led training (ILT)
- Relationship between L&D and D&I
- The future of L&D?
The People Development Summit programme consists of - keynotes, TED-style talks + Q&A and interactive Action Learning Workshops
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2025 speakers below!
Biography
The world is changing incredibly fast and shows no sign of this slowing down any time soon. For the last 25 years I have focused on helping organisations succeed by helping their people succeed. Fostering and building curious, continuous learning cultures across global technology businesses mostly from the ground up has given me incredible opportunities to explore and experiment with the levers that can build or destroy these highly engaged, high performance environments. It has sparked my thinking around leadership, performance, career, engagement, employee experience and wellbeing (to name a few areas).
Presentation Outline
This interactive session will delve into the reality of wellbeing in organisations. Peeling back the lid to look at what really happens when wellbeing aspiration meets business realities and how to make it about more than “hey we got an app”. Nick doesn’t have all the answers, but he has an interesting set of experiences and a curious mind. Which means this session will be about collectively seeing what ideas we can uncover and pool for everyone’s benefit.
Sarah Kenuel
Director - Leadership, Learning, Talent, Culture and DiversityBT Group
SPEAKER
Authentic Leadership: The Key to ED&I
Biography
An experienced Leader with a career predominately in the Technology sector – Sarah focuses on driving organizational change and performance through the lenses of Talent, Leadership, Inclusion & Diversity and Organizational Culture.
Currently Sarah leads the teams focused on Learning, Leadership, Talent, Culture, Performance and I&D in BT Digital. Previously Sarah spent nearly 8 years at Salesforce; leading the team designing and delivering learning pathways for Global Senior Executives and supporting the Talent Development agenda across EMEA & the UKI. Prior to Salesforce, Sarah was a Talent Development Manager at CA Technologies.
Sarah is a passionate speaker, a lifelong learner and focuses on self-development through supporting and learning alongside those around her.
At home, Sarah and her wife are proud parents to 4 children – she enjoys travelling (always a joy with 4 kids!), cooking and spending time making memories with family and friends.Presentation Outline
Exploring the role of leaders in unlocking organisational culture, equity, diversity and inclusion. How we show up, how we create space and how we lead - all build the foundation for the experience of our people. Leaning into authenticity, empathy and psychological safety empower us to be the best leaders and sustain the best organisational culture.
Biography
Laura Ashley-Timms is the co-author of the best-selling book The Answer is a Question: The Missing Superpower that Changes Everything and Will Transform Your Impact as a Manager and Leader.
She’s also the COO at Notion (L&D Supplier of the Year), the co-creator of the STAR® model, the multi-award-winning STAR® Manager programme and an expert thought leader on how to leverage Operational Coaching® behaviours across organisations to drive commercial results and improve productivity and engagement levels.
Laura learned about the power of coaching from her early childhood career in international sports and was coaching others by the time she entered Oriel College, Oxford. With over thirty years of international business experience, living and working in the USA, Europe and Asia, Laura has a strong focus on pragmatism and results. She’s been recognised as one of the UK’s top executive coaches and as one of 40 Outstanding Global Women.Presentation Outline
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John Gregg
Head of Learning and Organisational DevelopmentAlzheimer’s Research UK
SPEAKER
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Biography
John Gregg is the Head of Learning and Organisational Development at Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK). He is responsible for all L&D and Organisational Change interventions as well as L&D projects, EDI and technical programmes.
Earning his Degree at Coventry University he soon found he had an aptitude for converting difficult information into easy-to-understand, manageable content. He is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, a Fellow of the LPI, LinkedIn Top voice and he is also a proud Dyslexic.
He has enjoyed a successful career over the last 20 years and has worked for various multinationals across Banking, Motor trade, Education, Telecoms and Non-Profits
Away from ARUK he works with NEET young learners to help them improve confidence to gain work and apprenticeship experience.Presentation Outline
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March 2024
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