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I'm the Founder & Chief Energy Officer of PTHR. In 2022 I was ranked Number 1 Most Influential HR Thinker by HR Magazine. In 2023 I was inducted into the HR Most Influential Hall of Fame. In 2024, I was given the Lifetime Achievement Award from WorldBlu for service to self-managed and democratic, freedom-centred work. My short form bio is 30+; 20+: 10+. 30+ years experience in Change and Transformation through technology, 20+ years as an HR Professional and 10+ years since founding PTHR. My personal mission is to see more people flourish through their work and help shift organisations into a force for societal good (not just profit machines). PTHR's mission is defined as "Better Business for a Better World". In October 2017, my first book, Transformational HR, was published by Kogan Page and The Energized Workplace was published in August 2020. The 2nd Edition of Transformational HR was published in July 2021. In 2021 our first research report "The State of HR" was published with HR Zone, and refreshed in 2023. PTHR, the OD Academy and HR Zone also published "The State of OD". I am a 5x nominated HR Most Influential Thinker 2017-2022 (4x Top 10). I was also named the most influential HR and Transformation Professional by Corporate Vision Magazine. I am a Chartered Member of the CIPD, advised them on HR’s use of Digital & Social Media, and was a Guide for the 2013 CIPD HR Hackathon (with Professor Gary Hamel’s Management Innovation Exchange). My client work now includes Organisation Design & Development, project and work effectiveness & efficiencies, self-managed and Agile systems, behavioural change, business transformation and creating innovative ways of working, delivered through close collaboration with HR and OD teams, Change Agents and Innovation teams. I am a Global and 2x TEDx Speaker, Adviser and Conference Chair on the Future of Work and HR, a Certified Semco Style Institute Expert on Self-Managed Systems and a Qualified GCOlogist with the Game Changer Index. I am also a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield School of Management and Sheffield Hallam University, a Fellow of the RSA, was a Guest Professor at GEA College in Slovenia, and am part of the Adjunct Faculty at Ashridge Executive Education and Guest Professor at Hult International Business School - as well as an Associate at the Work Foundation.