Guy Hollebon

Fiona Colquhoun

John Harker

Michael Griffin

Tony Stafford

David Liddle

George Lepine

Wendy Gay

Guy Hollebon is a partner and Head of Employment Law at Bevans solicitors. He has extensive experience of all aspects of employment law. Guy is an accredited mediator with ADR Group and he is actively involved within the mediation team at Bevans. Guy is also co-author of ‘Mediation in the Workplace’.

Fiona Colquhoun, a CEDR Solve Mediator, is Director and Mediator with the remit to develop conflict management and employment mediation for organisations in all sectors. Fiona’s professional background is as a board level HR Director in the IT and telecommunications industries and previously in the NHS.

John Harker is Citi’s Head of Human Resources and Corporate Affairs for the EMEA Region. He joined Citi in London in December 2000 as Director of Human Resources for the Corporate Bank in Europe. In June 2001 he was appointed Managing Director HR for Citi’s Corporate and Investment Bank in Europe and in 2003 to his current position for the EMEA Region. Prior to joining Citi John spent 13 years with Unilever which he joined in 1991 in Durban, South Africa where he performed a number of HR assignments.

Michael Griffin is Director of Human Resources and a member of the Board of King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. King’s was one of the first NHS Trusts to enter into a formal partnership agreement with its Trade Unions and has been recognised by awards from the DTI for its innovative approach to partnership working, including the establishment of an internal mediation service.

Tony Stafford is deputy director of the Dispute Resolution team in the Employment Relations directorate of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR). Tony has been involved in the Gibbons review and its follow-up since 2006. He leads a BERR team which is working with Acas, the Tribunals Service and others to refocus the Government's employment resolution services, following up the recommendations of the independent review led by Michael Gibbons.

David Liddle is the founder and director of Total Conflict Management – a leading mediation and dispute resolution company. David is a thought leader in the areas of mediation and alternative dispute resolution (ADR). He has worked with some of the UK’s leading brands to embed their mediation programmes and recently established the Professional Mediators Association.

George Lepine is the HR Director at the Legal Services Commission (LSC). He has transformed its HR function to improve the service it provides to its customers. This change is increasingly putting a premium on effective communication and the involvement of people and their representatives in decisions that affect their working lives and can quickly become a cause of conflict.

Wendy Gay, Director of Workforce and Education, Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust