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Dr. Sallyann Freudenberg

Director and Chief Being Sal Officer at Cucumber Ltd

Dr. Freudenberg is at the tech start-up Cucumber Ltd where she holds the somewhat unique job title of Chief Being Sal Officer. Sal is also co-founder of the Inclusive Collaboration Campaign. When she’s not remote mob programming, strategizing or parenting, she is busy raising awareness of the benefits of neurodiversity, and helping the tech industry begin to understand how to support and include every kind of brain.

Gifty Enright

Author & Public Speaker

Alongside her work as an author, Gifty Enright provides consulting services to multinational companies on major transformation programmes. She is also the Managing DIrector of a sports events company. Gifty has travelled extensively throughout Europe, the Americas and across Asia and has spent the last twenty years studyting the hectic life of the busy working mother and the effects if has on women and their health. Her boook Octopus on a Treadmill is based on her lifelong expierence across diverse cultures, research and science. Born in Kumasi, the ancient capital of the Ashanti people in Ghana, Gifty lives in Hertfordshire, UK.

Marie-Claude Gervais

Founder / Research Director Versiti

Marie-Claude is a leading expert on diversity and inclusion. She was a lecturer at the London School of Economics, teaching both Social Psychology and Quantative Research Methods for seven years, before co-founding on the UK’s most successful agencies specialising in research with people from minority ethnic backgrounds. Originally from Montreal, Canada, Marie-Claude takes multiculturalism and equality for granted. She has two mixed-race, mixed-faith teenagers. In her spare time, she sings and wages a losing battle with weeds in her communal garden.

Martina Hodges Schell

Head of Product Design at Pivotal Labs

Martina Hodges Schell leads the Product Design practice of Pivotal Labs globally, where she works to transform large enterprises so that they can adopt modern product practices, with a strong emphasis on Lean, Agile, Balanced Team, and Design Thinking. Martina is the co-author of Communicating the UX Vision, which is all about reducing friction by getting people to talk with one another, teaches user-centered design at the University of London (Birkbeck) and mentors start-ups at Seedcamp.

Teresa Leighty

Senior leader with expertise in enterprise transformation and digital innovation

Teresa Leighty is passionate about building and transforming businesses using customer-centric approaches. Over the course of her career, Teresa has led product development, operations, professional services, customer engagement and technology organizations.Teresa works with global enterprises looking to create value by using lean product and innovation practices.