Diana Marsland is a coach, mentor, lecturer, researcher and conference speaker focused on helping people to find their way in the changing world of work. She works with leaders and managers to increase personal and organizational influence in addition to developing both individual and team capabilities. She believes that managers’ abilities are vastly underrated and that they will flourish with encouragement and support.

Although she gained a degree in Town Planning, Diana’s first job was a media buyer in an advertising agency. Since that time, she has worked in banking, fund management, executive education and research, central government and the NHS before becoming a university lecturer and gaining an MA in Academic Practice. Her varied career has encompassed culture transformation, marketing, and the impact of digital technology in the workplace. She has worked in all sectors and in organizations as diverse as Halifax plc, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Fidelity Investments and Roffey Park Institute.

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LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianamarsland/

Twitter @dianamarsland

Julie Nerney MBA, Chartered Director (CDir), Fellow of the Institute of Directors (FIoD

Julie has been delivering impactful and sustainable change in organisations for over 30 years in CEO, CEO, Transformation or Change Director, Board Adviser or Critical Friend roles.

She has experience of every stage of the organisational life cycle, from start-up through to disposals and acquisitions; and every type of catalyst for change - from taking new products or services to market, to mergers and their associated integration activities to drive value, and internal transformations centred on operating model re-design, cultural and people change. She has also been called upon to deliver high profile and complex programmes, including a leadership role in the transport operation for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

She has worked with over a hundred organisations spanning a wide variety of industries across the private, public and third sectors, providing real breadth and depth to her change leadership expertise.

In addition to her change roles, Julie has a varied portfolio of Chair and NED roles. She is a guest lecturer for Oxford Said Business School’s Global Leadership Development programme, for the Institute of Directors on their role of a Non-Executive Director course, is a keynote speaker on a number of topics, and a published author of two business books, including Business Morphology [LINK].