Business Transformation Forum: Building Your AI Strategy

Steve boasts a 35-year global career in talent sector leadership, marked by consistent success in achieving high growth and market dominance.

His dynamic approach thrives in challenging market conditions and was recently recognised as the UK recruitment industry’s “Business Advisor of the Year”.

A disruptor and visionary, Steve applies his growth mindset as an operational and board advisor, leaving a lasting impact on the companies he collaborates with.

Victoria is a commercial and data law specialist and partner in our commercial team.

She focusses upon complex contracts and projects and in particular those involving data privacy issues. She has particular expertise in a wide range of technology agreements, regularly advising both providers and customers of IT services.

Victoria advises clients within various sectors including technology, life sciences, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, education, charities and the public sector.

She is vastly experienced in dealing with tricky contractual issues especially where personal data is involved and regularly advises clients in the private and public sectors upon data matters including regulatory compliance, international transfers, and innovative usage of personal data.

Victoria has a particular interest in the life sciences, healthcare and fertility sectors, advising pharmaceutical companies, service providers in the pharma sector, fertility clinics and other service providers within the fertility sector. She is chair of the regulatory committee for the AI Fertility Society and regularly speaks on matters such as AI, ethics and data privacy.

With 25 years in the professional recruitment industry, Teri has seen first-hand how powerful it can be when people, purpose, and process align. Recruitment is a profession that thrives on human connection and her passion lies in developing those humans to be their best.

As our industry evolves through AI and automation, Teri is focused on how we build capability, resilience, and trust in our people. Because even as technology takes on more of the work, it’s the people who understand, inspire, and connect others who will shape the future.

Joel is Global Managing Director at Hydrogen Group & Argyll Scott, where he leads 300 people across EMEA, US, and APAC to deliver high-impact workforce solutions (RPO, Project RPO, MSP, SoW, Consultancy, HR Services, EVP development, Talent Marketing, Talent Insights).

His role is to ensure Hydrogen delivers a consultative, strategic, client-centric service to our client portfolio through all we do.

Max is an experienced management consultant with a focus on finance and HR transformation, organisational change, and programme management. His career spans consulting roles at EY and leading two successful businesses, giving him a rare dual perspective — combining strategic insight with hands-on operational experience.

Max brings deep expertise in transformation programme change management, capability development, and organisation design. He has worked with some of the world’s largest organisations on complex global programmes, helping them navigate change and build more resilient, people-centred businesses.

His project experience includes designing the change and organisation design approach for a global SAP implementation and corporate divestment, leading a cultural assessment for a global publishing company, and managing change activities across 12 country markets as part of a major finance transformation programme. Max is also a passionate mentor and coach, having designed and delivered leadership development programmes to support professional growth across all levels of an organisation.