Emerging
workforce
summit

Jon Williams

Jon’s career has spanned across Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia. He has held senior business leadership roles including five years as Managing Director for Hewitt Associates, Managing Principal for Gallup in Australia and 10 years with PwC as global leader in the People and Organisation business.

With an academic background in Psychology and Economics and a career in the people consulting space, Jon has also spent the past few years focusing on the future of work as a regular conference speaker and media commentator. At the EWS, Jon will be sharing the key results from a data analysis and networking event, hosted by CXC in February. Join his session to understand the key trends and tangible strategies being employed by leading workforce managers.

Natalie James

Natalie James is a Partner with Deloitte in the Assurance and Advisory Practice. Natalie is the former Fair Work Ombudsman, leading Australia’s national workplace relations regulator from 2013–2018.

Previously, Natalie led the development of the Fair Work Act legislation as Chief Counsel in the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Natalie has worked with both Coalition and Labor governments to develop the passage of workplace laws. She has overseen critical policy-based interventions in the courts, including the High Court challenge to the Work Choices laws.

Natalie has also led the delivery of government employment, education and childcare programs in Victoria as the Manager of the Department of Employment, Education and Workplace Relations’ Victorian office.

Charles Cameron

During his 20 years in the workforce solutions industry, Charles Cameron has built a wealth of experience across economics, advocacy, risk management, lobbying, compliance and professional standards.

Charles joined the RCSA as Chief Executive in May 2016, and since that time has established the foundations for an employment services certification scheme that will define professional service providers within the marketplace in Australia and New Zealand for years to come.

Charles is a Director of the World Employment Confederation and holds the position of Quality Standards and Compliance Officer on the Executive Committee of the Board.

Nick Duggal

Nick has practiced in the field of employment and industrial law throughout his legal career. Nick understands the time and cost pressures that employers and insurers face and works closely with clients to provide workplace solutions that are responsive, pragmatic and commercial.

Nick acts for a diverse range of long-standing clients, from start-ups and small family-owned businesses to multinationals and publicly-listed enterprises.
Nick has experience across the full breadth of employment law issues.

Paul Chiswick

As Director of Corporate Solutions and a member of the Leadership Team, Paul’s role is focused on driving the best contract talent solutions for CXC’s existing and new clients. With his team of contingent workforce management specialists, Paul partners with clients in the design, implementation, delivery and transformation of their contingent workforce solutions.

The experience Paul has gained in this industry throughout Asia, Europe and here in Australia gives him the perfect foundation for advising CXC’s clients on initiatives to improve revenue, broaden access to talent, improve contingent quality, workforce insights and achieve better regulatory compliance.

Doug Leeby

Recognised as an industry innovator, Doug has led Beeline to become the largest independent provider of solutions for managing all categories of non-fulltime talent, including temporary staff, professional contractors, service workers, consultants, project-based workers, and independent contractors.

With offices in the US, UK, Australia, and the Philippines, Beeline serves the world’s largest and most respected brands by managing over $40B in contingent workforce spend.

Doug is in his 17th year at Beeline and is based at the company’s headquarters in Jacksonville, FL. He has been included on Staffing Industry Analyst’s list of the “100 Most Influential People in Staffing” every year since 2012.

Dr Mike Haywood

Dr Mike Haywood is a Founder and Growth Director of LiveHire.com, and a regular speaker and author on the future of work.

Mike’s passion is in finding and engaging the brightest people that have a desire to help scale new ideas and technology solutions that help move us to a more humanised and connected world, delivering positive value in people’s lives.

Mike has completed a PhD in Engineering, a Bachelor of Commerce (HR & Finance) and Bachelor of Engineering, over 10 years at the University of Western Australia. Prior to founding LiveHire, Mike co-founded two successful technology product start-ups.

Rebecca Houghton

One of Australia’s leading Talent Transformation thinkers, speakers and mentors, Rebecca works across the Talent Management eco-system – HR leaders, Recruitment Agencies & RPOs, and Talent Tech firms.

Playful but challenging, she delivers a practical, confident approach to doing business differently and is now a sought after speaker, coach and facilitator.

Deb Jackson

Deb is currently the Head of Talent Acquisition at Transurban. She has over 20 years’ experience as a Talent Acquisition professional. Deb’s experience includes the implementation and management of outsourced and in-sourced recruitment functions; delivering strategic sourcing solutions; and managing HR transformation projects including three contingent workforce solutions.

This breadth of experience give Deb a unique perspective in today’s talent and workforce market.

Deb is passionate about developing best practice and sustainable Talent Acquisition models that incorporate workforce planning and succession planning.
Prior to her career in Recruitment Deb was an officer in the Royal Australian Navy.

Tanyth Lloyd

Tanyth heads up the Talent Acquisition Innovation functions at Korn Ferry. She helps clients synchronise strategy and talent to drive superior performance, and works with organisations to design their structures, roles, and responsibilities.

In her previous role at Deloitte, her team was responsible for designing strategies aimed at proactively constructing the workforce of the future by identifying and engaging the integrated network of practitioners that make up the Deloitte Talent Ecosystem.

Drawing upon her Korn Ferry and Deloitte experience, at the EWS Tanyth will share her passion for developing future leaders, using data to tell compelling stories that help shape business strategy and outline the exiting trends in emerging tech.

Tara Nguyen

Tara Nguyen is currently Head of Employee Services, Employee Experience at Origin, where she leads a team responsible for delivering multi-channel people and culture services and advice, across the entire employee lifecycle.

Commercially focused, her career has been all about connecting and understanding business strategy and adding value through people and talent initiatives. A HR leader with demonstrated expertise in passionately leading teams through disruption and change, Tara’s recent experience has lead transformation of HR services through digitisation, the use of technology as well as developing and implementing new operating model strategies.

Darren Morris

Darren’s role is to manage CXC’s client services team, and work with CXC’s contingent workers and enterprise clients across the APAC region, to deliver the highest performing contract workforce possible.

Darren has enhanced CXC’s capacity to deliver enterprise workforce programs focusing on risk management, cost control and quality of service delivery. Through his high standards of service and continuous improvement initiatives, CXC has retained all enterprise clients through 20 contract renewals during his five year tenure.

In previous roles Darren has led the talent acquisition function for American Express in Europe, ran the implementation of the outsourced Macquarie Group global talent acquisition solution and led Professional Services activity for Alexander Mann Solutions in Asia.

Jan-Willem Weijers

Jan-Willem is the Global Workforce Manager for AkzoNobel. He helps the business take on the right people, with the right qualifications, at the right time. Jan-Willem creates the link between procurement and human resources, while driving the contingent labor program for AkzoNobel globally. He is currently in the process of implementing a global contingent workforce program, incorporating a Managed Services Program and Vendor Management System. He is also responsible for developing efficient and effective processes, improving cost management and mitigating all business risks. He brings passion and enthusiasm, along with a unique and holistic skillset, to AkzoNobel’s contingent workforce program.

Jan-Willem joined the staffing industry in 1997. Over the past 20 years he has gained experience in various talent acquisition, contingent workforce and HR management roles, leading talent acquisition for national and international corporate organisations.

Gabi Bywater

Gabi Bywater is an HR professional with procurement expertise. She was the architect of the NSW Government contingent workforce strategy, which transformed the way NSW Government recruited and managed its contingent workforce. She was responsible for delivering the strategy across the sector, which involved client engagement, stakeholder management and sourcing activities.

Gabi has been involved in the HR/recruitment arena since 1995. After working for an international recruitment company she moved on to implement Australia’s first national vendor neutral VMS/MSP/RPO solution. She then managed other major corporate clients’ labour and professional services in the private sector before progressing to the public sector in 2009. Her tertiary qualifications include two master degrees (industrial relations and human resource management).

Sue Howse

Sue is a highly experienced, talent industry executive and thought leader with over 25 years’ experience in Human Resources, Talent Strategy, Talent Management, Talent Acquisition and Talent Solutions – locally and globally.

Having designed and led some of the most complex Talent Management and Acquisition models around the world, Sue is known for her expertise in leadership, strategy design and execution. With a deep industry perspective she’s worked with organisations across all industry sectors and has the ability to draw upon this experience deeply.

Further to Sue’s Talent Industry expertise, she has spent the past 10 years working with small to medium businesses in Australia, building successful business plans and models to accelerate organisation capability, creating sustainable performance.