Oracle - Workplace Well-being: the Key to an Organisation's Success?
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Fearne Cotton
Broadcaster, author & founder of Happy Place
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Fearne Cotton
Broadcaster, author & founder of Happy Place
Fearne Cotton is one of the best known and most popular broadcasters in the UK and is most recently known as the Founder of the wellbeing brand, Happy Place. The brand was created from her first book released in 2017, Happy, which was a Sunday Times Bestseller and a silver Nielsen Bestseller. This was the first in a series of books talking about her own, and some of the not so positive, experiences with happiness.
This was also the premise for her podcast launched in 2018, Happy Place, and has featured an array of guest such as Ellie Golding, Hilary Rodham Clinton, Jada Pinkett Smith, Russell Brand, Gary Barlow, Alicia Keys, and Elizabeth Gilbert amongst others. To date, the podcast has nearly 40 million downloads and continues to top the charts.
2019 saw a further extension of the brand into the live space, with over 10,000 people attending two Happy Place Festivals, one in the north and one in the south of England. The Festival went virtual in 2020, running over for month featuring around 150 pieces of content. Her third children’s book Your Mood Journal was published in the Autumn last year, and her most recent book Speak Your Truth, published on 7th January.
Fearne is a mother of two, and step-Mother of two, and closely supports a range of charities - most notably mental health charity Mind, The Prince’s Trust and Coppafeel!, the latter of which she curates the charity’s music festival, Festifeel.
This was also the premise for her podcast launched in 2018, Happy Place, and has featured an array of guest such as Ellie Golding, Hilary Rodham Clinton, Jada Pinkett Smith, Russell Brand, Gary Barlow, Alicia Keys, and Elizabeth Gilbert amongst others. To date, the podcast has nearly 40 million downloads and continues to top the charts.
2019 saw a further extension of the brand into the live space, with over 10,000 people attending two Happy Place Festivals, one in the north and one in the south of England. The Festival went virtual in 2020, running over for month featuring around 150 pieces of content. Her third children’s book Your Mood Journal was published in the Autumn last year, and her most recent book Speak Your Truth, published on 7th January.
Fearne is a mother of two, and step-Mother of two, and closely supports a range of charities - most notably mental health charity Mind, The Prince’s Trust and Coppafeel!, the latter of which she curates the charity’s music festival, Festifeel.
Valerie Hughes-D'aeth
Chair of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
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Valerie Hughes-D'aeth
Chair of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
Valerie is Chair of the CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) and a Non-Executive Director for DWP (Department for Work and Pensions). She also provides business advice, consulting and mentoring support through her own consultancy VHD Consulting Ltd.
She has worked in HR/OD for over 35 years across a broad range of large international organisations in both the private and public sectors, including Media and Entertainment, Technology, Construction, Transportation, Support Services, Retailing and Professional Services/Consulting.
Valerie’s last role was at the BBC between 2014 and 2019 as Chief HR Officer. Her work has recently been recognised with the HR Lifetime Achievement Award.
She has worked in HR/OD for over 35 years across a broad range of large international organisations in both the private and public sectors, including Media and Entertainment, Technology, Construction, Transportation, Support Services, Retailing and Professional Services/Consulting.
Valerie’s last role was at the BBC between 2014 and 2019 as Chief HR Officer. Her work has recently been recognised with the HR Lifetime Achievement Award.
Sarah Henry
Vice President, HR Transformation, Oracle
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Sarah Henry
Vice President, HR Transformation, Oracle
Sarah is a Vice President, HR Transformation at Oracle. With over 20 years’ experience in HR, Sarah has expertise in business transformation, business case creation, implementation, business and solutions architecture, solution design and development and even a spell in HR operations management.
Sarah has been at Oracle for 7 years and before that worked for RBS Group. She has a depth of experience in both HCM Cloud and PeopleSoft and has worked with and implemented many other HR technology solutions.
Although at first glance Sarah might look quite techie her real passion is enabling HR departments to drive real business value through the use of technology rather than talking tech!
Sarah has been at Oracle for 7 years and before that worked for RBS Group. She has a depth of experience in both HCM Cloud and PeopleSoft and has worked with and implemented many other HR technology solutions.
Although at first glance Sarah might look quite techie her real passion is enabling HR departments to drive real business value through the use of technology rather than talking tech!
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