UK BRILLIANCE AWARDS

Dr. Sujaya Banerjee has been a Human Resources professional for over 22 years and has transformed the HR functions in several leading organizations during her career. She is an OD professional par- excellence having set up world class PMS and Talent Management programs and helped build Learning Organizations through her assignments at ADNOC, Lowe Lintas and Partners, British Gas and the Essar Group. Sujaya has been listed among the Top 40 HR professionals in Asia ,has won the Youth Icon Award for 2009 and the Contribution to the HR Community Award in 2012, besides bringing several international accolades to India- the Learning Elite Award – CLO USA, Learning in Practice Award – CLO USA, Best Project Implementation in Asia- SuccessFactors and Best Business Adoption Award- SuccessFactors.
She has presented White Papers at leading conferences at GE’s John F. Welch Leadership Center (Crotonville), at the CLO Summit-Harvard Business School, ASTD, SkillSoft Perspectives and recently at SuccessConnect Sydney. She is a sought after speaker and thought leader and is a regular contributor to the Human Capital Magazine.
Sujaya is a TEDx speaker and leads the Learning & OD Roundtable- a forum for practitioners which has a worldwide membership of over 1600 Learning & OD professionals. The L&OD Roundtable enables capability building of Learning professionals and helps member organizations become Learning Organizations.

Katharina is an internationally recognised business communicator with proven delivery of effective global communication strategies and programmes, and has Lean Sigma qualifications for process and performance improvement.

Previous roles include Head of Internal Communications & Engagement at ABB, Head of Employee & Executive Communications at Zurich Insurance, Head of Internal Communications at Rio Tinto, Head of Global Internal and Management Communications at Shell, Head of Global Internal Communications at AstraZeneca, Corporate Communications Lead at GE Capital EEF and Corporate Communications Manager at Corange/Boehringer Mannheim. Katharina has worked in Nigeria, Hong Kong, the UK, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

Eric is a senior HR VP with an extensive international experience in developing HR into a global function, facilitating organisation transformation, driving sustainable performance, growing a diverse talent pipe-line, building an inclusive culture and coaching executives in line with the business strategy. He has worked in different industries during down-turn and high growth phases i.e. Oil and Gas, Mining, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Facilities, Financial Services and Professional Services. In addition to holding roles in the UK, France and Argentina, he has travelled and worked globally in particular in the emerging markets.

Eric has an executive degree from the Harvard Business School (AMP) in addition to an MBA and an engineer degree. He is a Board member of 2 international HR MBAs. He also does consulting and gives international conferences on leadership in a VUCA world, employer branding, global talent management, diversity, CSR and emerging markets.

Georgia is the Founder and Director of Halston Marketing an agency that specialises in business to business marketing and corporate communications.

Working out of their Leeds office in the UK, Halston Marketing have launched projects
with clients of varying sizes from start-ups to Fortune 500s.
The clientele work within vastly differing industries from pharmaceuticals and industrial coatings to IoT and ecommerce. Georgia also sits on the UK board for the International Association of Business Communicators, runs a technology initiative, RegTech Talks and is the co-founder of the NHS Sustainability Partnerships.

Twitter Handle: @GeorgiaHalston @HalstonMarketin

Founder and CEO Report App B.V.
Report App B.V. is an organization that provides a platform with a smartphone application Report
App. This app has two main functions: 1) providing information and instruction about unwanted
behavior (discrimination, sexual harassment, bullying, violence and aggression). 2) providing a
secured digital hotline to report unwanted behavior to the (internal) support team, either as a
victim or a bystander. Next to that providers of our platform make sure that all topics that
influences our behavior is negotiable anytime. Today we also help with vitality, financial concerns,
domestic violence, addiction etc.

Background Karin Bosman
More than twenty years of experience in the advertisement business, at several international
advertising agencies.
After this period Karin started an international study about the topic (unwanted) behavior and labor law. She’s is an international speaker/ trainer and researcher about workplace safety, mental
wellness, and psychosocial workload. Karin has traveled to Pakistan, the Caribbean, Canada, US,
Canada, and throughout Europe to create awareness about the shared responsibility we have in
creating a safe and healthy environment where everyone feels welcome. Beside speaking and
training Karin also advices organizations on their harassment policy. Karin has a special interest in
how our personal boundaries have an impact on the grey area of workplace safety.
With the Report App, Karin has connected the theory with the practice. This unique platform with
smartphone app is to help deescalate situations of unwanted behavior in the workplace and to
make the work environment healthier and safer.

Karin is a very optimistic person and she understands that despite the seriousness of this topic we
always need to laugh, because this will motivate us to see workplace harassment as a shared
responsibility.

Trudy Lewis is a communication consultant, executive coach, and international speaker. She has a passion to help leaders, professionals, and their teams to develop influence and create impact as they master effective communication.

Trudy has over 20 years’ experience focusing on strategic internal communications, employee engagement and change communications, supporting leading organisations from retail, hospitality, rail, construction, and professional services industries.

Throughout her career, Trudy has championed communications and its management and as such has an MA in Communications Management, is a Chartered PR Practitioner, Fellow, and former Director of the Board of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR). She is also co-chair of the Institute of Director’s (IoD) Marketing Communications group, member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), and co-hosts an award-winning podcast – Calm Edged Rebels.