ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS AND PRESENTERS

Keryn Paviour-Smith GM HR Services & Operations at News Corp Australia

Keryn is responsible for leading a broad team of 50 people across four programs for News Corp Australia (approx. 5,500 employees) including Talent Acquisition, People Connect (Shared Service team of HR Business Partners), Payroll & HR Information Systems.

News Corp Australia is an innovative media company with the best brands in the market - think of lifestyle bibles Vogue, GQ, taste and delicious. Combined with an audience footprint larger than Facebook, we are the only Australian player with all the solutions for our clients’ needs.

Andrea Kirby, Director at Recruitment Events Co Australia & New Zealand

Having worked as both a functional recruiter and on global recruitment projects both in the UK and Australia, Andrea brings a solid understanding of various applicant tracking systems (ATS), end to end recruitment procedures from job approval through to onboarding, direct hiring, social media and employment branding.

With over ten years of recruitment experience, Andrea brings a knowledge and passion for the global recruitment process and systems, along with an understanding of translating that into the real world working environment for recruiters, hiring managers and candidates. She recognises that recruitment is more than a process and forms part of the wider company marketing approach. What happens in the external recruitment and candidate experience, heavily influences how people perceive the company.

Kylee Stone, CEO at The Performance Code

Pairing 20 years in transformational learning and development with 28 years in strategic marketing and communications, Kylee has a talent for getting to the root of what matters and helping people produce unprecedented breakthroughs in their career, business and entrepreneurial paths. Kylee has earned a reputation as a courageous leader who combines resilience and compassion to help others disrupt the status quo and discover their purpose, passion and potential as a leader. Described as "one of the most engaging and authentic leaders of our time" and an "effervescent force of nature”, it’s my no-BS approach that earns me the trust and respect of others.

She is a proud Wakka Wakka woman with an intrinsic love for the power of storytelling and our cultural values to transform life. In 2018, she was officially acknowledged and featured in the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC) “Because of Her We Can” campaign to raise awareness of indigenous female leaders in business.

Steve Grace, CEO & Founder at The Nudge Group

Steve is Founder of The Nudge Group, a disruptive force within the recruitment industry, offering a system known as “the nudge experience” aimed at fast-growth businesses, the start-up space (in particular after series A, B or C funding), and transforming businesses resulting in accelerated hiring and change management. The system helps increase the chances of success of fast-growth through extensive inclusive services as well as a more cashflow pricing model that adds real value to companies.

Laura Johnson, CMO

Laura is a driven and hugely successful Marketing leader with experience working for HR Tech companies in the UK, Canada, and Australia.

Rob Catalano, Co-founder at InnovateWork

Rob Catalano is passionate about helping companies succeed – by helping them focus on their employee experience. With his unique experience in HR Technology as a founding employee at Achievers, Rob co-founded WorkTango – software that helps give employees a voice and companies actionable insight. He has recently been named as a 2019 Top Global Employee Engagement Influencer, and is the Canadian Chairperson for The Enterprise Engagement Alliance, with a mandate to lead and help educate corporate, government and not-for-profit management on a formal process for implementing engagement across the enterprise community. He is an avid hockey and volleyball player, traveller, and in his own terms a ‘pointaholic’ – he collects loyalty points for everything and anything!

 

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