Opening Keynote Speaker
Director, Strategic HR Academy
Jon Ingham specialises in innovative people management and organisation design and delivers training and consulting around these areas through his Strategic HR Academy. This digital academy includes courses on organisation design, digital transformation and HR, strategic partnering and lots of other topics, all focused on helping HR improve its strategic contribution.
Jon has previously worked as an engineer, an IT consultant and an international HR Director. He has maintained an interest in technology throughout his career, particularly as this has had a growing impact on HR’s ability to contribute strategically.
Jon has also conducted research for the Economist Intelligence Unit and has been a media ambassador for Glassdoor, being interviewed on Sky News, BBC Breakfast and the Radio 4 Today programme. He has worked for several business schools and currently tutors on a Masters programme for the Irish Management Institute.
He is the author of ‘The Social Organization’ and co-author with Dave Ulrich of ‘Building Better HR Departments’. He is frequently identified as a top HR influencer, and has been #7 in HR Magazine (UK)’s list of UK HR thinkers, and one of HR Executive (US)’s top 100 global HR tech influencers.