Best Coaching/Mentoring Programme​'s Category Champion       

Margaret Burnside
Director, CAKE People Development
@margaretburnsid 

Margaret, a fellow member of the ILM, is an experienced coach, trainer and facilitator; having worked in Learning and Development for over 25 years.
Her expertise lies in the area of leadership development, whether it is coaching a director to define their organisation's vision and strategy or designing and delivering a tailored management development programme.

Emotional intelligence is an area of particular interest, and Margaret is one of the few people in the UK certified to use the Mayer Salovey Caruso Emotional Test (MSCEIT).  She is also a member of the Engage for Success Guru Group and a volunteer Business Mentor with The Prince’s Trust as well as training new mentors.

Mararet's panellists include:

Miroslav Vala - Founder and Director, Better Sage Limited

Best Talent Development Programme​'s Category Champion                       

Hesketh Emden   

Director, ProInsight | Linkedin  

Hesketh Emden is an award-winning Talent Management (TM) professional and has headed and set up a broad range of public and private sector Learning and Development functions, from Commercial Union during one of Europe’s largest mergers, to the Metropolitan Police. He also lead TM across the NHS, after which as part of government health service reforms, he was brought in to help create the brand new NHS Property Services, a Limited Company owned by the Secretary of State into which 3200 staff TUPEd overnight. Hesketh is also a trustee of the SMMGP, a national charity, is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, and unusually is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Physicist!​

Hesketh's panellists include:

Shaun Wilde - Chief Executive Officer, think learning

Hanno Ellensohn - Managing Director, K3 Performance Ltd

Best Leadership Development Programme​'s Category Champion

Neville Pritchard

Founder & Chair of HR in Flow , People in Flow. Executive Director of Neuro-Link Europe
Co-Author of ‘Go Beyond’ – Your Workplace = Your World (May 2018)

@nevillejp 

Neville has over 30 years in HR, L&D, OD, and Leadership Development from his corporate and consulting roles. He began corporate life with Legal & General, then Abbey National and Barclays. He, and the teams he has worked with, have won 23 industry awards. He now focuses on the impact of culture, leadership, management, and their development, on the working environment and performance.

A coach, mentor, consultant and speaker, he provides organisations support in all people related considerations including organisation health, operational and strategic HR or People Support and People Development. He has developed a range of frameworks that enable new thinking and potential impact from people support and development including leadership. 

Neville's panellists include:

Guy Bloom - Executive Coaching & Team effectivness Director, Living Brave Leadership

Claire Elwin - Executive Director Engagement and Transformation, Livability

David Hayden - L&D Content Team, CIPD

Best Engagement Programme's Category Champion

Henry Stewart
Founder, Happy

Henry Stewart is chief happiness officer of Happy, the learning provider he founded almost 30 years ago. His company was originally called Happy Computers and focused on making learning about IT an enjoyable experience.

In 2011 Henry was added to the Guru Radar section of the Thinkers 50 list of the most influential business thinkers in the world.  "He is one of the thinkers who we believe will shape the future of business", explained list compiler Stuart Crainer.

Henry's panellists include:

Sarah Metcalfe - Happy

L&D Team of the Year's Category Champion

Karen Velasco

Director, PeopleSolve Ltd 

Karen is a performance management consultant, trainer, facilitator and coach and has worked in learning, development and leadership roles for over 25 years.

Karen is a director of PeopleSolve Ltd and immediate past Chairman of the British Institute for Learning and Development. She spent nine years as a non-executive director at the University of Chichester and is now a trustee of its Student Union.  Karen was honoured with the Award for Outstanding Contribution to the field of Human Resource Development at the 2011 Asia HRD Congress and has been a judge for the TJ Awards for the last seven years.

Karen's panellists include:

Hayley Mogridge - Director, Hayley Mogridge Training Ltd

Adrian Snook - Director, Learning Accelerators Limited

Mark Gilroy - Managing Director, TMS Development International Ltd

Best Training Partnership's Category Champion

Melanie Lepine  

Group Head of Learning, Development & Talent | Domestic & General

Having worked in the HR & L&D world for over 20 years, across the Retail, Finance & Travel sectors, Melanie has developed a real passion for employee experience, strategic people development and leading through change. She has worked across multiple matrixed blue chip organizations both globally and locally.  Now working for Domestic and General as Group Head of Learning, Development & Talent, she is bringing together many facets of her previous experience.

Melanie's panellists include:

Diane Seaborne

Kate Widgerey