Event: Speak to the human

Anthony Tasgal

Tas is a trainer, author, speaker, brand/comms strategist and lecturer. He is a Course Director for the Chartered Institute of Marketing, the Market Research Society, the Institute of Internal Communication and the Civil Service College, and principal advisor for CIO Connect in Hong Kong.

He is a global speaker and regularly contributes on marketing and communications subjects to the James Max show on TalkRADIO. Specialist topics include storytelling, behavioural economics and insightment, and as a lapsed Classicist he also indulges in etymology and Homer (not the yellow one). He also runs The Guardian masterclass on “Harnessing the power of storytelling”.

He is the author of the award-winning The Storytelling Book, (which has sold over 30,000 copies globally) The Inspiratorium , InCitations and in April 2022, The Storytelling Workbook. Tas can be found at @taswellhill and linkedin.com/in/tastasgal.

Becky Rowe

Revealing Reality

Owner & Head of Research

Becky is a specialist in behavioural insight and behaviour change, and a leading practitioner of design, comms and marketing research. With a background in psychology, Becky leads work at Revealing Reality to deliver a more sophisticated brand of behavioural research. Her commitment to context-based research and pioneering thinking has helped her and her team to set new standards in terms of the rigour, reach and impact of qualitative research.

With nearly 15 years of industry experience, Becky has worked for a huge range of big brands, marketing and advertising agencies, central and local government, plus a wide variety of charities. She works as a consultant on design research for the Design Council, Design Thinkers Academy and Ministry of Justice, among others.

Lori Greene

Netflix

Global Education Manager, Grow Creative EMEA, APAC, & LATAM

Lori is an educator, digital marketer, strategist, content creator, and a frequent speaker on digital subjects. She runs external workforce training as the Global Manager Education at Netflix, has been teaching at New York University’s (NYU) School of Professional Studies for over a decade, is an adjunct at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business master’s programme, and is the founder and member of the board at Temple University’s Fox Business School where she helped to launch one of the school's most successful programmes. She created the first Netflix New Entrant elearning programme for production, has developed educational initiatives for most sectors of the Netflix Studio, and is currently laying out the strategy for several more digital education projects.  In addition, Lori has trained major corporations in the financial, advertising, and media sectors among others.

Fraser Simpson

Wellcome

Associate General Counsel, Head of Ethics, Governance & Compliance

Fraser is Associate General Counsel for the Wellcome Trust, growing a new Ethics, Governance and Compliance team. Wellcome is a charitable foundation that exists to improve global public health, funding this work from its significant endowment, currently worth £29bn. Fraser started out as a corporate lawyer at Linklaters before specialising as a charities lawyer. He moved in-house, first within a major NGO, and then a sustainable agriculture initiative. His work has taken him across the world, including time spent living and working in Tanzania. He is passionate about ensuring that purpose-driven organisations not only do the right things, but that they do them in the right way.

Tracey Darley

Co-op

Change Management Practice Lead

Tracey currently leads the Change Management Practice for Co-op. She is an accomplished organisational transformation leader, with the ability to foster and embed change in complex multi-cultural contexts.

Having implemented strategic change initiatives across almost 100 countries, Tracey has a truly global perspective and experience on learning and organisational transformation in a hybrid world.

Mike Taylor

Co-op

Lead Design and Systems Manager 

Mike leads the Learning Design and Systems team at the Coop, with the responsibility for all things related to creating meaningful and impactful leadership and learning experiences. He has a long and varied career within L&D and People functions and is also an accomplished coach.

He is currently working on the implementation of the Coop's 'digital first' learning strategy.