Darren Briggs Darren is the Managing Director of Flametree, a specialist leadership and change communications consultancy. Darren has over thirty years’ global, pan-European and national experience working at Chief Executive and Board level in internal communications. He has worked at British Airways, Microsoft, Nike, PepsiCo and Vodafone in the HR, Marketing and Corporate Communication functions. He is an expert in leadership communication and has extensive international executive communication coaching experience and facilitation experience at both Board and C-suite level. His current and past consultancy and coaching clients have included organisations from both the private and public sector. These include the World Bank, HSBC, Sony, BT, GE, Swiss Re, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Virgin Atlantic, BP, AEGON, BAE Systems, London 2012, Bombardier, Ernst & Young, Eon, Santander, Vodafone, Majid Al Futtaim, Hewlett Packard, CPA Global, SABMiller, Phaidon International, St Mungo’s Broadway (Homeless charity), University of Reading, Network Rail, Scottish Power, Associated British Foods, Experian and Unilever, among others.
Karen Ward Karen is an associate of the Corporate Research Forum and the Research Director of Aditi Unlimited. She has worked extensively across all sectors on the issue of organisation effectiveness, particularly developing sustainable strategic capability. She has published books on the global aspects of effectiveness – ‘Leading International Teams’ & ‘Globalisation: The internal dynamic’. Karen has worked with Senior HR and OD professionals for over twenty-five years exploring how the HR function can add value through building sustainable organisational performance. She taught on the Ashridge Strategic HR Programme for many years; worked closely with the CIPD Next Generation HR Research; collaborates with the Corporate Research Forum on a range of research topics and is working with The Maturity Institute, a leading think tank on the effectiveness of People Practices in organisations.