About this Event
Join us in London on 17th September for our next Talent Leaders Workshop
Today’s talent landscape is more complex and competitive than ever. Employers must rethink how they design and deliver talent strategies that respond to rising expectations, increasing skills scarcity, and growing pressure for measurable business impact. This workshop will explore what truly enables organisations to stand out — and move from insight to action.
Alongside this, Talent Acquisition and workforce leaders are under increasing pressure to use data, intelligence, and AI responsibly to anticipate talent needs, identify skill gaps, and inform better decision-making. We’ll examine how workforce analytics and emerging technologies can support the human experience, enable smarter planning, and help organisations stay ahead of market change.
We will also be having a lively Q&A with Sarah-Jane Johnson – ex-London Stock Exchange Group – who has taken a deliberate career break to build her own hands-on capability in AI and investigate what it takes to point AI at the right problems, distinguish genuine AI capability from hype, and govern AI well enough that organisations can trust it to deliver.
We’ll explore what’s been challenging, surprising, interesting and, most importantly, what will be most helpful as she transitions back to corporate life.
This will be a thought-provoking session for anyone trying to balance the day job and being be able to show that you have actually delivered results with AI.
Join senior Talent Acquisition and HR leaders for a practical, insight-led workshop, focused on building future-ready talent strategies. Through expert keynotes, interactive panel discussions, and peer-led roundtables, we’ll explore how organisations can elevate TA as a strategic partner, strengthen employer brand and EVP, and prioritise effectively for the years ahead.
Key themes we’ll explore:
- Talent Experience & Employer Value Proposition: Evolving the employee and candidate journey, and adapting employer brand and EVP to meet changing expectations across hybrid, diverse, and multi-generational workforces.
- Business-Aligned Talent Strategy: How TA and people leaders can embed more deeply into the business to deliver integrated, long-term workforce solutions with measurable impact.
- AI, Data & Human-Centred Innovation: Using AI and data responsibly to enhance the human experience, improve productivity, and move from experimentation to real business value.
- The Future of Talent Acquisition: Elevating TA through insight and intelligence—using data to shift from delivery-focused functions to strategic workforce partners.
Why attend?
Practical takeaways — Leave with actionable frameworks and insights you can apply immediately.
Peer insight — Learn what leading organisations are doing now—and what is genuinely delivering results.
A curated conversation — Engage with a senior group of HR, Talent Acquisition, and Workforce leaders facing similar challenges.
This is a complimentary, invite-only workshop, designed exclusively for employer in-house HR, Talent Acquisition, and Workforce leaders. Register your interest now and we will update you to let you know if you have secured a place.
Speakers
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Maria Macaloney Teradata Director Talent Acquisition International -
Sarah-Jane Johnson Former Director, People Data Governance & BISarah-Jane Johnson is a people and workforce insights leader with experience shaping workforce intelligence, organisational effectiveness and people data strategies across large, complex, multi-jurisdiction organisations, most recently at the London Stock Exchange Group. She has advised CEOs, Boards, ExCos and People Leadership Teams, translating workforce data and insight into decisions on organisational health, talent, diversity and inclusion, employee sentiment, data risk and regulatory reporting. Sarah-Jane is currently taking a period of focused learning and exploration to deepen her hands-on AI capability and examine three questions: how organisations can use AI strategically to create business value; how to distinguish genuine capability from the hype; and how AI can be deployed and governed safely and responsibly.
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Robin Stander Appcast Vice President, Sales EMEA -
Sarah James-Bryan De Beers Group Global Head of Executive Talent Acquisition -
Sarah Cooper Rentokil Initial Group Talent DirectorSarah Cooper, Global Talent Director for FTSE Rentokil Initial Plc, has over twenty-five years of recruitment experience. In her 7th year at Rentokil, she is on the global leadership team overseeing all end-to-end Talent processes, including Recruitment, L&D, Talent Management, Succession, and Redeployment, across c.90 countries and 68,500+ employees, which involves hiring c.18,000 annually. A qualified executive coach and RL00 member, she speaks publicly on ethical AI in HR, recruitment best practice, and Talent transformation. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahloucooper/
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Parminder Kaur Eightfold AI Growth Partner, EMEA & APACEightfold AI doesn’t just organise data – we understand people. As pioneers of the world’s most innovative AI-native Talent Intelligence Platform, we combine enterprise data, market insights, and user interactions to create a complete picture of talent across the entire employment life cycle, providing an end-to-end experience that includes hiring, development, and retention. A third of our customers are from Fortune 500 companies and have relied on us to move faster and more strategically than the competition. Our platform is guiding our customers through the greatest work acceleration in history by unlocking the power of people and showing them how partnering with AI can unleash unlimited potential.Learn more at eightfold.ai -
Tim Cincotta vervoe Sales Director for EMEA & APACVervoe is an AI-powered skills intelligence platform that helps organizations uncover skills at scale and identify the people most likely to succeed. Instead of inferring ability from resumes, credentials, or self-reported profiles, Vervoe enables candidates and employees to prove their skills through realistic, job-related tasks.The platform uses AI-powered screening, autograded skills assessments, cognitive assessments, and job simulations to show how people perform real work, grades responses consistently at scale, and advances the strongest candidates with Intelligent Interview Scheduling. That same verified skills evidence extends beyond hiring and across the existing workforce, including AI readiness, turning demonstrated performance into decision-ready intelligence. The outcome is better quality of hire, fewer costly mis-hires, and lower risk of attrition from poor hiring decisions, backed by explainable and auditable AI.Vervoe is trusted by global organizations including Lumen Technologies, OneMain Financial, Kroll, the NHL, Subaru, dentsu, Rentokil, and Australia Post. Learn more at vervoe.com -
Louise Shaw Omni CEOOmni is an award-winning recruitment and talent solutions business, helping organisations build, transform and mobilise the workforce they need to perform, adapt and grow. For almost three decades, we have supported clients through Recruitment Process Outsourcing, Executive Search and Talent Strategy, covering everything from early careers and specialist hiring to board-level appointments.
Our expertise now extends across the wider talent lifecycle. We help organisations attract, assess, deploy and develop talent, improve internal mobility, build critical skills and strengthen workforce capability. By combining deep recruitment expertise with workforce insight, leading technology and evidence-based decision-making, we deliver flexible, scalable solutions that improve performance, efficiency and long-term resilience.
Our belief is simple: Talent is Everything — because organisations that get talent right create lasting competitive advantage.
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Laura Sawyer Global Head of TA and TA Transformation Diageo
