23rd March 2023
155 Bishopsgate, London
We're super-excited to welcome you to the People First Conference & Partner Summit 2023. Get ready for an incredible day jam-packed with keynotes from inspiring thought-leaders, interactive panel discussions where you can ask questions to those in the hotseat, networking with like-minded professionals and much more. We can’t wait to bring together our Breathe customers and HR Partners for this show-stopping day.
Mandy Hickson has over 30 years’ experience within aviation. She joined the Royal Air Force in 1994 and flew the Tornado GR4 on the front line, where she operated in hostile environments, including patrolling the ‘No Fly’ zone over Iraq. Since leaving the RAF she retrained as a facilitator and coach in human performance factors. Drawing on her experience of calculated risk-taking, decision-making under pressure and the critical role of the human in the system, she transfers vivid lessons from the cockpit to other management and leadership contexts.
She has recently launched her bestselling book, ‘An Officer, not a gentleman’, her inspirational journey to become a pioneering female fighter pilot. Check out Mandy's showreel here.
Lucy Adams is one of the most innovative and inspirational speakers in the HR profession. Now CEO of Disruptive HR, having previously led HR in major organisations such as the BBC, she knows why HR has to change and provides fresh insights and practical tools to help HR and leaders.
Lucy created Disruptive HR after having held senior level HR roles in a variety of sectors. She grew frustrated with the lack of innovation and fresh thinking and wanted to find new ways of tackling old problems. Lucy now runs the agency to help business leaders and HR functions do things differently.
Lucy is also the author of the bestseller “HR Disrupted”, a book packed with practical ways to innovate your approach to leading people in a disrupted world and her very latest book bestseller “The HR Change Toolkit” providing the complete guide to making it happen.
Bruce Daisley is one of the UK's most influential voices on fixing work, published in the Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal and The Guardian. He has written two Sunday Times bestsellers. The Joy of Work ended 2019 as the UK's top selling business hardback of the year and is now translated into 16 languages. His 2022 book Fortitude was propelled by strong reviews to the top end of the book charts.
Previously he spent over a decade running Twitter and YouTube (the latter at Google) for Europe, leaving Twitter as its most senior leader outside of the US. Bruce runs the Apple #1 Business Chart topping podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat on work culture.
Jemma Fairclough-Haynes is a Public Speaker, Employment Law Specialist and the CEO of global award-winning business Orchard Employment Law. She is also a Federation of Small Business (FSB) Area Leader for Kent and Medway and a school governor at a local school.
Jemma is often featured in the media and blogs as an expert in her field. Some of her most recent interviews have been on, Sky News, BBC South East, ITV, BBC Radio Kent, Times Radio, KMTV and the Daily Mail. Jemma has over a decade of experience in Employment Law and she has represented businesses of various sizes in employment tribunals across the UK in many different types of claims. She is also the owner of Orchard Employment Law, Employment Law, and HR consultancy which she founded in 2015. Jemma is a dynamic speaker who takes the bore out of Law. Her presentations have been described as “eye opening” “interesting'' and “refreshing” but most importantly easy to understand and relatable.
