Best Coaching/Mentoring Programme​       

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.
CAKE is a people development consultancy based in Norfolk.  Margaret leads a core team of performance consultants and manages key relationships with a select group of CAKE colleagues who support the delivery of development solutions to their clients.

Margaret believes in working in partnership with clients to develop their in-house skills and capability, leaving a sustainable resource to continue the ongoing development of people, encouraging and supporting individuals to take responsibility for their own learning and development.

Best Talent Development Programme​                       

Hesketh Emden   
Director, ProInsight | www.linkedin.com/in/heskethemden      

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!​

Best Diversity & Inclusion Programme 

Binna Kandola

Senior Partner BSc (Econ), MSc, PhD, CPsychol, ACIPD, FRSA, OBE Diversity, Assessment and Development specialist

Diversity, assessment and development specialist Professor Binna Kandola is a Business Psychologist, Senior Partner and co-founder of Pearn Kandola, where in the last thirty years, he has worked on a wide variety of projects for public and private sector clients both in the UK and overseas.

As well as leading the practice, Binna is particularly interested in the study of gender bias and unconscious bias in organisations. He is the author of three new and critically acclaimed books on these subjects – ‘Racism at Work: The danger of indifference’, 'The Invention of Difference: The story of gender bias at work' and 'The Value of Difference: Eliminating bias in organisations', and the co-author of several other management books, one of which 'Managing the Mosaic' won a Special Commendation at the 1994 Management Book of the Year Awards. A regular contributor to the HR and business press he is a sought after and highly regarded conference speaker.

Best Training Partnership

Rachel Keener

Rachel Keener has been involved in adult education and learning and development for over 20 years. She is currently working with Knowledgepool as a Senior Learning and Development Consultant, supporting clients to improve their learning and development proposition by recommending tailor made solutions for their business. She is an active member of many forums and supports new L&D professionals with coaching as they develop their skills. She has implemented core training programmes across EMEA and implemented global rollouts for sales and training interventions. Prior to focussing on learning and development she worked in the theatre in the UK and the USA.

Best Sales Programme

Clare O'Shea

Clare has more than 30 years in Sales, Consultancy and Training. 

Her company, Marlow Sales Academy, through it’s team of consultants and partners, focus on helping B2B organisations improve their sales performance by focussing resources on robust sales strategies, processes, key account management & consultative selling.  

Clare was instrumental in the design of the first ever Qualifications in Sales back in 1998 with the first Institute of Professional Sales and continues that interest with exclusive Partnership designing and delivering the CIM’s Post Graduate Diploma in Strategic Sales Practice.  Clare has a background in the ICT industry with roles in Sales & Key Account Management.  

As a Consultant, Trainer and Coach, Clare’s focus is always to achieve sustainable behaviour change and help maximise ROI from any interaction. 

Best Public Service/ Not-for-Profit Programme ​

Tony Shaw
Director of Development,Dods Group

Tony has been Director of Development at Dods Training for the last 10 years.
He works with public and private sector organisations both in the UK and internationally to design and deliver a range of policy, communications and governance programmes.
Prior to joining Dods he was a Programme Director in the Government and Policy Group of the National School of Government.

Best Apprenticeship Programme

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.

The company has been widely recognised, winning awards for customer service and, for five successive years, for being one of the UK’s top 20 workplaces. Happy has twice won (and four times been runner up) in the Learning & Performance Institute’s Learning Provider of the Year.

The company developed a highly interactive style based on the age old principles: Tell me and I will forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I will understand.
Henry is best known for promoting the concept of happy workplaces. His Happy Manifesto was shortlisted for Business Book of the Year when it was published in 2013. 

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.