Speakers

Garry is a Change Catalyst & Strategic Advisor who works at the intersection of design, disruption, education and innovation. Leveraging over 20 years of international commercial experience combined with over 5 years building human-centred approaches across people, culture and systems, Garry supports senior leaders as a 1-1 Thinking Partner, Interpersonal Guide and Confidential Aide, supports teams as a human-centred workshop facilitator, is a keynote speaker and podcast host and has acted as an advisor to two tech startups.

Jenn Tardy has vast industry experience as a Recruiting Thought Leader, Diversity Recruitment Practitioner, and Career Success Coach with over 15 years of multi-industry experience in the field of human resources and recruiting.

She has been helping employers and job seekers reach their goals since 2004 and is on a mission to make it easy for recruiters to find, attract, engage, and hire job seekers from historically underrepresented backgrounds, ultimately helping employers to increase diversity.
She owns and operates Jennifer Tardy Consulting (aka Team JTC) which is an internationally known, award-winning diversity recruitment consulting firm based out of Maryland, USA.

Americo Bento has a degree in Sociology and Public Policy, a Master’s in Public Policy from ISCTE-IUL and is currently studying at NOVA’s Science and Technology Management postgraduate course. He is a Program Manager for the Valorization of Technological Infrastructures at the National Innovation Agency (ANI).
Among others, he was previously a Science and Technology Manager at Universidade Lusófona, an Erasmus + Program Quality Assessment Expert and a CCDRC Consultant.

As an inclusive Workplace Wellness Advocate, Vivian Acquah advises managers on how to keep their team members engaged, energized, and safe in a sustainable manner.

Vivian Acquah is making topics related to workplace wellness & DEI accessible to everyone. She provides people with the right tools, at the right time, to embrace inclusive changes. Vivian motivates people to think consciously and inspires them to take action.

As a multicultural and multi-passionate human being, Vivian inspires and empowers people to be their best selves. Becoming a mother inspired her to shift from being a Finance/ IT consultant to becoming a workplace wellness & Amplify DEI advocate.

Vivian made a promise to her son Orlando (2013) to help make the world a better place by creating thriving workplaces for EVERYONE. This is a promise not only to him and his generation but also for future generations

Although I never planned it this way, I had two parallel careers before co-founding my own company. I performed as an electronic musician at numerous international festivals and clubs, including Glastonbury and Creamfields festivals. At the same time, I served as a people manager for large-scale organisations in Europe and the Middle East. Balancing such diverse careers helped bring the benefits of creativity into the workplace and gave me valuable problem-solving and leadership experience.

My travels through business, music performances and personal adventures have taken me to 50 countries and five continents. Those experiences allowed me to cultivate meaningful relationships with people from many different cultures and backgrounds.

Throughout my career, I learned how to maximise individuals potential and create the right conditions for creativity and innovation to flourish. By fostering diverse thinking and developing a psychologically safe environment, I am skilled in bringing out the best in people and showing others how to build high-performing teams from their own experience.

My leadership approach has always been to trust first, nurture growth through opportunities that arise from failure and uncertainty. Knowing first-hand the value of communication and self-reflection, I seek to guide people to reconnect with their wisdom, creativity, and passion for life. Over the last two decades, I developed hundreds of individuals and high performing teams for Orange Telecom in the United Kingdom, Zurich International Life in the United Arab Emirates and Booking.com in Germany. Currently, I work as a creativity consultant, certified executive coach and mentor.

My name is Bogdan Manta. I am a Neuroscience for Business expert. By understanding how our brain works, I combine practical insights with strategic thinking in a business context.

In my quest to decipher the human brain, I gathered a Masters’s Degree in Persuasive Neuro Communication, a Bachelor’s in Psychology, and a Bachelor’s in Behavioral Economics.

I provide made-to-measure solutions to organizations and professionals, focused on Effective neuroscientific communication, Enhancing employee engagement, Neuromarketing, negotiations & neuroscientific pitching, Impactful, memorable training or workshops, Company-wide content & video strategy

I’m known to be highly effective, to the point, and ”quite the opposite of boring”.

What it all comes down to – after 20 years of unleashing neuroscience in business – is just like Maya Angelou once said – ‘’people will forget what you said, they will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel’’.