Deborah brings 25 years of business consulting and transformation experience. The focus for her work has been to bring together people, process and system strategies to deliver human-centric performance and unlock growth. 

She has covered a range of roles starting as a human resource development specialist, becoming a global talent, learning and leadership head. With the impact of the financial crisis her role became even more commercial; partnering with strategy, finance and COO teams to drive transformation. She has worked with Deutsche Bank, American Express, Coca Cola Company and Lloyds Banking Group.

In recent years Deborah has held Board positions as Head of Human Capital and Business Transformation for PE companies, driving success across their portfolio companies.

Dave has been ranked the number one Management Educator & Guru by BusinessWeek. He was selected by Fast Company as one of the world's 10 most innovative and creative leaders, is one of 21 people in the Thinker's Fifty Hall of Fame and named the most influential HR thinker of the decade by HR magazine. With his colleagues, he has written over 30 books that have shaped the HR profession, defined organizations as capabilities, and shown the impact of leadership on customers and investors.

Dave is a professor of business at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, author, speaker, management coach, management consultant, and co-founder of The RBL Group. 

He is globally renowned for helping organizations add value to customers and investors through talent, leadership, organization, and human resource practices. He has successfully articulated how the modern HR function can be organized into shared services, centers of expertise, and business partners. He has co-directed research on over 125,000 respondents about the competencies required for successful HR professionals. 

David Ssegawa is Ugandan business and Human Capital management leader, having provided strategic-thought direction as Human Resources Director at some of the leading global multinational organisations including; Unilever, The Standard Bank of South Africa and The Coca-Cola Company. He is currently the Global Chief People & Culture Officer at Living Goods.

Over the last 20 years, David has played a key role in mapping and building African talent pools for multinational businesses in Uganda, East Africa and across Africa. He has mentored and coached many professionals to become top business Leaders across Africa and globally. He is excited about the innovations around talent management practice which he has led as a way of laying a foundation for the workplace and workforce of the future in Africa.

Taaka Awori is the CEO of Busara Africa a Pan-African Leadership Development Firm. She is a Leadership Trainer, Certified Coach, Facilitator, Speaker, and Organisational Development Specialist with over 20 years of experience working with civil society, the private sector, and various Government Agencies in East, West, Southern Africa, Europe, and the U.S. 

Taaka has worked with a wide range of clients such as the Open Society Foundation, Care, Greenpeace International, MTN, Newmont Corporation, Bank of Africa and the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre.

She sits on the Board of the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) and the Editorial Board of Coaching Perspectives, the flagship global publication of the Association for Coaching.  She is also a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF).

Lucy Quist is a C-suite telecommunications and financial services executive. She was most recently Managing Director at Morgan Stanley serving as the Global Head of Firm (Business) Resilience. She is widely known for being the first Ghanaian woman to lead a multinational telecommunications company as the former CEO of Airtel in Ghana.

She spent 11 years of her executive career working across Africa mainly in telecommunications.

The rest of her nearly three-decade long career was spent in Europe, in the automotive and financial services industries. She is adept at working at scale across geographical locations in complex organisations. She is the author of the book, ‘The Bold New Normal’ and the convenor of the conference of the same title.

Lucy is a thought leader and international speaker focused on the Leadership, Change, Equity and STEM advocacy. She passionately believes that business done with excellence and integrity is a vehicle for positive societal change. She is a co-founder of the Executive Women Network and served as the Vice President of FIFA's normalisation committee in Ghana.

She is a chartered electrical and electronic engineer with a first-class honours degree from the University of East London and holds an MBA from INSEAD in France.

She serves on the boards of INSEAD and Mercy Ships. In 2022 she joined the board of Margins ID Group. She is an advisory board member of Yemaachi Biotech and Ethical Apparel Africa. She is the recipient of multiple honours by reputable organisations for her exceptional strategic insights, delivery of transformative business results and dedication to growing people within her organisations. Notable among these are CIMG Marketing Woman of the year, Telecom CEO of the Year, CSR CEO of the year and the Corporate Leadership Award at the Ghana Legacy Awards.

On the 20th of January 2020 she moderated the UK - Africa Investment Summit hosted by the then British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and attended by 21 African Heads of State (https://youtu.be/Vz43FAea7W0). She has spoken on platforms such as TEDx EUSTON, Wharton Africa Business Forum, the Sanford C. Bernstein Centre for Leadership & Ethics at Columbia Business School, McGill University and INSEAD’s Africa business forum. She spoke at the GSMA’s Mo-bile World Congress in 2017.

In 2016 she was featured on the BBC’s Power Women series as one of the top businesswomen driving transformational change in Africa.

Debbie Hollis is a Director of DevLinks Limited and an Associate of Deloitte and The Leadership Group.  Prior to moving into an Associate role in January 2021, Debbie held the position of Senior Manager in Deloitte Consulting Nairobi, Kenya, seconded from Deloitte Southern Africa practice since 2014.

At Deloitte, Debbie lead the Eastern Africa Organizational Talent & Transformation practice area in the Human Capital Consulting service line. This practice area focused on the provision of services in Strategic Change Management, Talent Management, Leadership Development and Culture Transformation. 

Debbie has over 20 years’ professional consultancy experience, working for clients in the NGO, Public and Private Sectors in markets across multiple geographies in Africa, including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Sudan, Mauritius and Egypt.  In her current role, Debbie is focused on providing organizations with DDI (Development Dimensions International) Leadership Development and Talent Management solutions support, as a DDI Master Trainer, and on providing Strategic Change and Culture Transformation support to clients, as a Prosci Certified Change Management Practitioner.

Susan is the Founder & lead consultant at Human Performance Dynamics Africa, an organizational development, and human resources consulting.  She has over 25 years of global experience across multiple sectors and specializes in organizational transformations, talent development, executive recruitment and diversity, equity, and inclusion management.

Before establishing HPD AFRICA, Susan worked at the Coca-Cola Company and was until January 2009 the Eurasia & Africa Group director for Coca-Cola university.  In this capacity, she was responsible for learning and development initiatives in 90 countries across Africa, Asia, and Europe. Prior to this role, she served as the Coca-Cola Africa Group CHRO based in London and Johannesburg.  She has consulted widely for several organisations including the World Bank, IFC, Mckinsey, Safaricom, and sits on the Boards of Centum Group (Kenya) and Circle Gas (UK). She has previously served on the Boards of M-KOPA Solar Ltd; EABL-Diageo, Kenya Women’s Finance Trust, and UAP Insurance amongst others. 

She is a faculty member of the Stanford University SEED program since 2017.

Serial entrepreneur and investor with 20+ years of experience in Africa and the United States.

Talks about: #DigitalFutures #ScaleUp #LeadWell #GlobalAfrica #AngelinAfrica #MadamChair #Thriving

Interests: Investment, Talent, Technology, Law & Society.