Penny Stoker, VP Global HR Services, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP

As Vice President, Global Human Resources Services, Penny oversees the development and implementation of processes and improved technologies that enhance the global delivery of human resources for AstraZeneca. Penny joined AstraZeneca in 2004 as Vice President, U.S. Human Resources. During her tenure, she is credited with building an industry-leading workforce and helping to establish a successful strategic direction for the company’s U.S. business. Penny began her career in 1987 as a Tax Associate with Coopers & Lybrand. During her 10 years there, she assumed the lead role for human resources in the tax business division. She later served as Vice President-Human Resources for CIGNA Corporation and the Internet Capital Group

Tim Casserley, Author and Founder of Edge EquilibriumTim is co-author of, ‘Learning from Burnout: developing sustainable leadership and avoiding career derailment’ and founder of Edge Equilibrium, which specializes in sustaining, engaging and accelerating the wisdom of top leadership talent. He previously held senior, international leadership and organization development roles with PwC, GSK, Chevron Texaco and Fujitsu. He is a regular contributor to management publications and conferences and appeared on radio and TV talking about sustainable leadership, executive coaching and creating meaning at work.

 

Professor David Ulrich, Professor of Business at the University of Michigan and a partner at the RBL Group

Dave Ulrich is as a Professor of Business at the University of Michigan and a partner at the RBL Group, a consulting firm focused on helping organizations and leaders deliver value. He studies how organizations build capabilities of speed, learning, collaboration, accountability, talent, and leadership through leveraging human resources. He has helped generate award winning data bases that assess alignment between strategies, human resource practices and HR competencies.

Rear Admiral Chris Parry (Ret), Strategic Thinker / Author

Chris Parry has an international reputation for his penetrating analysis and stimulating articulation of a wide range of geopolitical, strategic and security themes. He is one of the UK’s top strategic thinkers and forecasters, whose assessments about the future have consistently proved extremely accurate and are considered amongst the best in the field by governments, the City, the academic world and a variety of national and international institutions.

Tom Stewart, Chief Marketing and Knowledge Officer, Booz & Company

Global management consulting firm Booz & Company today announced that Thomas A. Stewart has been appointed Chief Marketing and Knowledge Officer (CMKO). Stewart most recently served as editor and managing director of Harvard Business Review, and is a best-selling author, an authority on intellectual capital and knowledge management, and an influential thought leader on global management issues and ideas.

In his new position, Stewart will lead Booz & Company’s marketing, intellectual capital and knowledge management efforts. He will manage the firm’s team of marketing and knowledge management professionals and work with its global partners to build on the firm’s broad and robust foundation of world recognised thought leadership on the future direction of business.

Professor Rob Briner, Professor of Organisational Psychology, Birkbeck University

Rob Briner is Professor of Organizational Psychology and Head of the School of Management and Organizational Psychology. His research focuses on the reciprocal links between work and various aspects of well-being such as moods and emotions. His other interests include the psychological contract at work, absence, ethnicity, work-nonwork relationships, and contextual performance. He is also involved with a number of evidence-based management initiatives.