Managing Partner, Professional Coach

OZLEM SARIOGLU, PCC is a professional coach working with leaders, teams and organizations and is also the co-founder of Sparkus Digital Coaching Platform, one of the 400 start-ups around the globe invited to the World Economic Forum with a social impact. As the managing partner responsible for coaching in Sparkus, she has vast experience on how to adopt coaching services to the digitalization agenda of the corporate HR and L&D teams, also leading the Sparkus coach pool. She is the author of the book “World Voices in a Polarized World” which focuses on adopting an individual coaching technique, namely Voice Dialogue, to teams and organizations. In 2019, Ozlem was recognized by the International Coach Federation (ICF) with the “ICF Young Leader Award” as one of the six people to carry the coaching profession into the future.

Human Resources Director

Lara Calfa is the HR Director of Hellenic Corporation of Assets and Participations (HCAP).
She has over two decades of experience as Human Resources Leader – specialist and generalist – in a variety of industries, in various companies in Greece and abroad, with focus both on local and European level and in multinational as well as Greek environments.

Lara started her career with Colgate Palmolive in Greece. She then worked at the European Headquarters of Colgate Palmolive in Brussels and Paris while working closely with the Global Headquarters in New York. She moved back in Greece on 2000 where she worked in a variety of industries, always as an HR Leader, in companies like Wind (telecommunications), ANT1 Group (Media), Media Markt/Saturn (Retail), Famar (Pharma Manufacturing). Lara and her teams won a variety of awards for employee experience and digital transformation initiatives.

Most recently, Lara joined HCAP where she oversees HR for the SOEs in HCAP’s portfolio that are operating in critical sectors of the Greek economy, such as energy, water supply and sewerage, infrastructure, transportation, services, markets etc., – sectors that affect positively significant aspects of the Greek economy like development, employment, competitiveness and extroversion.
Lara has an MBA in Finance from City University, London UK – Cass Business School. She studied business in Deree American College as well as Mathematics in Kapodistriakon University, Athens, Greece. She is fluent in Greek, English and French and has basic knowledge of Italian, German and Spanish.

Executive Education Department Head

Denis Konanchuk has been managing consulting projects in the field of education at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO since 2010. Denis was involved in implementing a strategic program for the Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Arkhangelsk city; the Concept and strategic program for the Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg city; the Concept for the Russian International Olympic University, Sochi city and the Concept of Educational Aircraft cluster by UAC request. Since 2013 Denis takes part in strategic sessions as an expert for the leading universities of the Russian Federation, including Tomsk State University, Samara State Aerospace University, Far Eastern Federal University, Novosibirsk State University, Urals Federal University and others. Denis has a role of the moderator of project groups of corporate programs of the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO.

Denis Konanchuk is the author of significant studies in the field of education: “The Greenfield Era in Education” (2013) and “Silver University” (2015).
In 2003-2009 Denis Konanchuk was involved in developing and implementing programs for the federal and regional level personnel of the Government of the Russian Federation, managers of the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan, hi-potentials of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, staff of the Central Bank of Russia and was a moderator of the Russian Open Government working group.
In October 2012 Denis Konanchuk headed SKOLKOVO Education Development Centre (SEDeC) – leading Russian center of expertise in higher education. In 2016 Denis was appointed as an Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Under the leadership of Denis SKOLKOVO received international accreditation of business schools EQUIS EFMD, has formed its core faculty team and opened 3 new research centers. Since February 2020 Denis holds the position of Director of SKOLKOVO Corporate Education Department, responsible for the development of corporate programs line.

Global Head of HR & Executive Coach

Navid is an Executive Coach and an expert in leadership transitions, having lived and worked in 5 countries across 6 sectors. He has 20 years of HR experience in some of the world’s most admired organisations at country, regional and global leadership level, in both emerging and developed markets. Navid has specialised in partnering with leaders on executive transitions, maximising leadership impact and High Performing Teams.

Director Training & Development

Rob Veersma, Global Director Training & Development, Gazprom International

Rob J.H. Veersma MSC (1955) is Director Training & Development at Gazprom International in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is responsible for implementing international training programs for Gazprom, aligned with the competence management system and tailored to local needs. He creates integrated accelerated learning experiences for the assigned population and integrate learning into the community. He applies organizational effectiveness experiences to enable business performance improvement.

He was previously working for Shell International and amongst others he was the learning director of the Commercial Academy and in that role he was responsible for all aspects of global capability building that enables world-class deal making.

Over the years of his 30+ years of experience he was focusing on global onboarding, virtual working, leadership development and portfolio management. He has published often, and given many public speeches on among others, Performance Improvement, Just-in-time-learning, Learning and Ethics, Virtual Working, and ROI of Learning

Director Human Resources

Madiha Khalid has over 15 years of professional HR work experience and started her career with ABN AMRO bank. She has worked in a variety of business partner and HR specialist roles during her 14 years with Shell Pakistan and is currently the Director and Head of Human Resources looking after an employee base of 500+ staff. She is passionate about helping working women achieve their potential and has introduced industry firsts in making corporate environment gender friendly. Her aspiration is to bring gender parity to the workplaces and board rooms in Pakistan.

She is a Chartered Member from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) UK, holds an MBA and BBA degree from University of Wollongong.

Partnership Manager at VCV.ai

A brave professional with a creative mindset and international work experience in such fields as Strategy, Marketing, Sales, Recruitment Consulting and HR. Ready for new challenges.

Sales Director, Europe at Virgin Pulse

I spark joy in people and teams and enable them to succeed 🚀 .

I have dressed up and performed a one-woman show for Sales Center agents. I have lost a diamond from my wedding ring while kick-starting a sales race. I have stood up for team members to top management when I feel they were treated unjust. And I have fought for recruitments I just knew were the right fit.
Why? Because finding the right people, sparking their passion and increasing their performance is what makes me ME.

Whether I have managed young and inexperienced call center agents, newly graduated and hungry sales team members or tech savvy developers, I have done it with three pillars that I feel strongly about and believe are key elements for any successful team:

• Communicator
I believe in providing clear guidance through confidence and strategic decisions. I always work towards everyone understanding the big picture and what is best for the business. I value opinions and discussions.

• Coach
I strive to create the highest value by activating the right resources and competences. I empower people and make them feel valued. I build strong teams with highly motivated team members. I make sure they have the tools to succeed and can be the best they can be.

• Creator
Innovations get me excited and change is a good thing. With my sales driven approach, I like to initiate innovative and sustainable concepts and processes throughout teams and divisions. With an agile mindset, I execute them at the highest quality to maximize the value they bring to the business.

Head of Human Resources

Müge is a learning enthusiast and a facilitator who is working in the Human Resources field for 16 years. She has worked in the HR departments of various companies in the banking, telecommunication, and FMCG sectors. Currently, she is the Head of Human Resources at Canon Eurasia in İstanbul, Turkey.

Müge is an Adler certified coach and is working with professionals for coaching. She is keeping a bilingual blog entitled “Human Resources Dairy” with a passion for learning and sharing. She is co-author of the e-book “Digital Human Resources” and an invited keynote speaker for conferences.

Director, International Partnerships, Europe

Ludovic Pureur is heading the European strategic alliances at Virgin Pulse. He brings extensive experience in corporate health, and he has the mission to develop prevention models with private and corporate health insurers. Ludovic is specialized in behavior change and gamification. He holds an EMBA from Washington University, majored in burnout prevention. He loves cooking, playing tennis and guitar.

CHIEF LEARNING OFFICER

Sachin heads Learning and Development function at Forbes Marshall. In addition, Sachin heads HR function of the Core Business Group of Forbes Marshall.

An Engineering Graduate from Pune University and a Diploma holder in Business Management from NMIMS (Mumbai), Sachin also completed PGCHRM from XLRI. Sachin is certified Trainer by Dale Carnegie and he is a qualified assessor by CEB-SHL. Sachin is certified in MBTI, DISC, and Hogan assessments. Sachin began his career with Mahindra & Mahindra, subsequent to which he moved to Tata Motors and led the
team of Engineering Research Centre. Sachin is well versed in all the areas of Human Relations, with special interest in Learning and Organisation Development Sachin has been a guest speaker at many national and international forums and he enjoys sharing his work experiences.

Executive Director, Europe bei Virgin Pulse

Supporting companies to increase their employee’s engagement, productivity, absenteeism and well-being through our unique solutions and consultancy

Head of Innovation Facilitation & Digitalization

Alain is a trained Agile coach/transformation lead with experience in human and patient centric design of healthcare and has been working more than 12 years at Roche in different roles.
He has extensive Innovation Management experience (setting up innovation lab, innovation programs, open innovation, crowdsourcing, knowledge management, innovation culture)
In addition he is leading an innovation network at Roche to support the business to innovate and manage innovation programs to support digital transformation at Roche.
Alain has set up an Innovation and agility program to build new capabilities in the organization so support the organizational transformation. This program focuses on Agile ways of working, incl. rapid prototyping, co-creation with customers. This program supports our company’s transformation to move the organization to a more self-organized organization.

Head of Human Resources

Experienced Human Resources Change Leader in the Banking industry. Skilled in HR Consulting, Recruiting, Engagement driving, Change management, Leadership Development, and Training. Guiding leadership teams to achieve business results with loyal, motivated and competent people. Mediator for Integrative and Workplace Mediation. The initiator of BPB Junior Program, which evolved into Junior Academy that develops youth and guides them for a successful career.

Group Head of HRSS Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan at Al-Futtaim

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