ERA Conference 2025
ERA Conference 2025 – Tuesday 20th May 2025
Sadler’s Wells Theatre London
“Beyond the Uncertainty: Talent Research & Acquisition for Tomorrow”
Tickets are now on sale
Registration & Tickets
- ERA Members in Person £90
- Non-Member/Guest in person £175
- ERA Member online £75
- Non-Member/Guest Online £150
- Non-Member in-person ticket & annual membership offer £240 – Benefits of membership
AGENDA Conference 2025
“Beyond the Uncertainty: Talent Research & Acquisition for Tomorrow”
| 09:30-10:00 | Registration & refreshments |
| 10:00-10:15 | Welcome ERA Co Chairs |
| 10:15-10:50 | Keynote James Osborne Chairman & Chief Growth Officer @ The Recruitment Network (TRN) Welcome to the Recruitment (R)evolution |
| 10:55-11:30 | Workshop presentation Siobhan Stericker Talent Acquisition AI Lead @ HMRC AI in Action: Streamlining Your Talent Acquisition Operations |
| 11:30-11:45 | Break |
| 11:45-12:20 | Alison Ettridge Director Global Talent Intelligence @ Lightcast Strategies for success in today’s uncertain labour market – case studies from global enterprises |
| 12:25-12:45 | Gold Sponsor Presentation, Cluen, Heidi Braun Senior Solutions Consultant @ Cluen Agentic AI for Executive Search: The Coming Productivity Gains from the Next Wave of AI |
| 12:45-13:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45-14:20 | Michelle Vaughton Founder @ VOLT Consultancy and Illuminate Yoga Boost Energy and productivity |
| 14:25-14:45 | Gold Sponsor Presentation, Talentis, Jason Starr CEO @ Dillistone Group Plc Where Executive Search meets Vidal Sassoon |
| 14:45-15:00 | Break |
| 15:00-15:35 | Katrina Collier Author, Facilitator & Speaker Leaning into humanness in an age of AI |
| 15:40-16:00 | Closing address & presentations |
| 16:00-17:00 | Networking refreshments, nibbles and a glass |
ERA Webinar with Helen Coult
Wednesday 11 December 2024 @ 12pm-1pm GMT
Get you Christmas hats and crackers ready for our last webinar of 2024!
ERA Christmas Cracker: 2024 Global Talent Trends, Shifts, AI Magic, and Unwrapping what’s in store for 2025
Helen Coult – Regional President, Asia Pacific – Armstrong Craven
Registration & Tickets
ERA Members free
Guest non member £50
TALK DESCRIPTION:
– 2024 Review: the impacts of geopolitics, economics and tech advances on global talent trends
– Asia Pacific talent trends and insights
– The rise of GenAI, AI adoption in businesses and the effect on client project requests and our research capabilities
– 2025 Outlook: the “so what” for global talent research into 2025
Bio
Helen is the Regional President, Asia Pacific at Armstrong Craven (AC), based in Singapore, and is a key member of the Global Operations Board. She leads AC’s research-driven consultancy across all industry sectors in APAC whilst managing a global portfolio of strategic accounts providing talent pipelining, executive search, talent mapping, insights, and embedded TA solutions.
Helen’s career began in Executive Search within media and advertising, followed by a senior Talent Acquisition role at GroupM, part of WPP. She joined AC in Manchester in 2015, in a global role focusing on the Consumer and Industrial sectors. In 2018, Helen relocated to Singapore to accelerate AC’s growth in the Asia Pacific region.
ERA Webinar with Helen Duce
Wednesday 20th November 2024 @ 12pm-1pm GMT
Registration & Tickets
ERA Members free
Guest non member £50
How to help clients hire more diverse candidates by debunking common hiring myths.
So you client is asking for more diversity in your candidate slate, but is also asking for other criteria that are in conflict with this goal! Sound familiar?
In the session learn how to use the latest evidence and research to challenge your clients assumptions and help them meet their stated goal.
Together we’ll debunk the myth of meritocracy, share evidence that show how years of service or previous company are poor indicators of a candidate success, and review some evidence based approaches that actually do work in attracting a broader, more diverse range of candidates and ensuring the best candidates gets the role!
BIO
Helen (She/her/hers) is a recognised expert in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion with a wealth of experience in implementing successful DEI programmes in multinational workplaces
She is the founder and CEO of INCLUDE, and has led DEI strategy workshops and training programs across Asia, Europe, and North America with organisations such as Standard Chartered Bank, JLL, Airbnb, CGIAR, World Food Program, IHH, Google Play, Grant Thornton, Credit Suisse, and Facebook.
Helen acts as an Executive Consultant for the INSEAD Gender Initiative and is the founder of Lean In Singapore. As an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) from the International Coaching Federation (ICF), and a certified registered management consultant (IMC) she has also been active as an adjunct professor at IE Business School, Madrid, CUHK (Chinese University of Hong Kong), and INSEAD.
Helen has a background in strategy, marketing and sustainable business. She started her career with Unilever, where she spent 12 years, before co-founding and running a successful global marketing consultancy that was sold to WPP in 2014.
Helen has a 1st Class. Hons BSC in Marketing & Psychology from Lancaster University and an Executive MBA from INSEAD.
