Art is a visionary transformation leader with a proven track record in leading digital and organizational transformations. With 30 years of experience, he has honed the ability to identify emerging trends and leverage innovative technology to address complex business challenges. His strategic foresight and ability to drive change have been instrumental in helping clients navigate turbulent transformational landscapes. Art brings his passion for enabling people to thrive through his collaboration with complex, global clients to unlock value by transforming the human experience and the very essence of work. Art has held senior HR leadership, outsourcing executive, and transformation consulting roles that form the multi-faceted foundation from which he delivers value to his clients across strategic planning, operating model and organization design, experience transformation, digital enablement, governance, and change management for sustained results. 

As a hands-on leader, Art is actively engaged in driving major transformation initiatives with some of the world’s best-known brands. Art has served as Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Practice Leader, leading the Global Human Capital Executive Team as a member of the Global Consulting Offerings and Assets Leadership Team. Prior to that, Art led the HR Transformation practice globally.

Art earned his degree in Organization & Management at Emory University's Goizueta Business School. Originally from New York and having worked and traveled around the world, today Art and his family reside in Atlanta.

Anthony Abbatiello is a Partner at PwC, where he leads the firm’s Workforce Transformation practice. He helps organizations align workforce and business strategies across organizational design, talent strategy, skills development, workforce analytics, and the responsible use of AI. His work focuses on helping clients navigate disruption, shifting employee expectations, and the rise of agentic technologies.

With over 25 years of experience in human capital consulting and leadership advisory, Abbatiello advises senior executives on performance, transformational leadership, and succession management. He is a recognized thought leader on the future of work and has led extensive research on global workforce trends.

Before joining PwC, Abbatiello led the global advisory business at Russell Reynolds Associates. He began his career at Accenture, where he helped build the firm’s HR transformation capabilities. He has been named a Top 25 Consultant by The Consulting Report and an HR Trendsetter by SHRM. He holds a business degree from Villanova University.

Pete Brown is PwC’s Global Workforce Leader, with over 25 years of experience helping organisations navigate workforce transformation and unlock the full potential of their people. He advises global clients on workforce strategy, upskilling, talent development, and the future of work—focusing on building human-led, tech-powered organisations. A recognised thought leader - Pete drives PwC’s flagship Hopes & Fears survey, which explores the sentiments of over 55,000 workers globally, and leads the development of the AI Jobs Barometer, which offers critical insights into the impact of AI on global labour markets. He regularly collaborates with the World Economic Forum, contributing articles and insights on workforce disruption, inclusive growth, and leadership in the age of AI. Pete is a sought-after voice on how organisations can create agile, future-ready workforces and align people strategies with business success.

Prior to working in professional services, Pete was in the Royal Air Force and continues to support them as an Ambassador for the RAF Museum and as an Hon Group Captain in No 601 (County of London) Squadron RAuxAF. He was appointed MBE in 2000.

Dave Eberhardt is a Partner at PwC, a global network of over 370,000 professionals operating in 149 countries. PwC provides a range of services across audit and assurance, tax, legal, deals, and consulting, supporting clients in navigating complex challenges and driving business growth. The firm’s approach focuses on helping organizations build resilience, optimize performance, and maintain a competitive edge in their industries.

With over 20 years of experience in human capital, Eberhardt specializes in helping clients develop and implement effective strategies for HR transformation, service delivery models, operating model development, leadership enhancement, culture building, change management, talent management, and workforce analytics and planning. His expertise has consistently driven positive outcomes for a range of organizations.

Eberhardt’s extensive experience includes leadership and consulting roles at premier organizations such as Accenture, Deloitte, and Booz & Company, where he has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies. In addition, he has served as a chief human resources officer, providing him with a well-rounded perspective on human capital management. Eberhardt holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah and an executive certification from The Wharton School.

Jason Averbook is a global thought leader, keynote speaker, author, and future of work visionary on Human Resources, digital experience, and workforce technology. Currently a Senior Partner and Global Leader of HR and Digital Transformation at Mercer, Jason has spent three decades advising executives, HR & People functions, and technology solution providers. He also drives Mercer’s global Generative AI strategy and services, spearheading innovative solutions across the HR technology landscape.

Jason has personally guided more than 1,000 HR transformations and deployments for some of the largest, most prestigious organizations in the world. He is the accomplished author of two books illustrating innovative approaches to HR, workforce experience, and digital transformation. From 2018 to 2023, Jason co-founded and served as CEO of Leapgen, a consultancy committed to helping organizations shape the digital workplace. In his expanded role with Mercer, Jason continues to challenge executive mindsets and advocate for digital-first cultures where business and people outcomes mutually flourish.

One of the world’s most highly respected analysts and consultants in digital HR and workforce Technology, Jason’s previous experience includes executive and strategy roles Ceridian, PeopleSoft, Knowledge Infusion (later Appirio), and The Marcus Buckingham Group. He serves as adjunct professor at universities worldwide, imparting his knowledge and insights on HR technology and digitization to future generations of leaders.

One of the top thought leaders in the world when it comes to HR, technology, and the future of work, Jason is frequently quoted in BusinessWeek, CNBC, Forbes, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. He is one of Human Resource Executive’s Top 100 HR Tech Influencers.

Keith is a Partner at PA Consulting and leads their Global People & Change team for Public Services. PA works with their clients in both private and public sector organisations, on their most critical workforce challenges, such as talent strategy, organisation design, leadership and culture, skills and learning and business change around complex transformation.

Keith has 22 years’ experience of consulting, with a primary focus on the public sector and has worked extensively across UK government departments in a range of sectors, including police and law enforcement, justice and home affairs, revenue, welfare, health, defence and education. He has led on offerings and market thought leadership on topics such as skills and learning transformation, AI and digital impacts on workforce, leading transformation through uncertainty and organisational agility.

Keith sits on PAs Public Sector Global Governance Team, leading Strategy and Performance. Prior to working with PA Consulting, Keith was a Managing Director at Accenture, where he led their Talent & Organisation practice for Health and Public Services for the UK and Europe.

Keith lives in Manchester, with his wife, Jude, a Child Psychologist and their son Sebastian, daughter Emily and Golden Retriever, Isla. He coaches youth football, cricket and rugby teams at the weekend and is a keen runner, swimmer and padel player.

Micah Alpern is a globally recognized expert and thought leader on culture and leadership. He joined Teneo in 2022 as a Senior Managing Director within Teneo’s People Advisory practice to build out its growing culture and leadership solutions, which include executive and team assessments, coaching, culture change, people strategy and the future of work.

Alpern has over 20 years of experience advising organizations and executives on the people elements of transformations and transactions across all industries. He has a history of growing leaders and evolving corporate culture to enable strategy, accelerate transformation, enhance the employee experience, and improve performance. Alpern is viewed as an innovative leader on culture change through his unique and practical approaches that are data-backed and behavioral-science based. He has built several leading-edge culture diagnostics and behavioral based approaches that accelerate adoption and enhance the impact culture has on performance, employees, and customers.

Alpern’s passion for culture and leadership led to him writing many articles on the topics and being quoted as an expert in major publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, The Washington Post, and others. He has also appeared on CNBC, several podcasts, and delivered multiple speaking engagements at board and executive forums on the people agenda, culture, leadership, and remote work. This resulted in Allpern being recognized as a leading thinker in these areas, including being identified as a “Remote Work Influencer” in 2021 and 2022.

Prior to joining Teneo, Alpern spent time at EY, Kearney, and Booz & Company. He has a a master’s in business management from the University of Florida and a bachelor’s in economics and communications from Northwestern University.

Simona Spelman has been Deloitte’s US Human Capital National Managing Principal since 2023, focused on “making work better for humans and humans better at work.” She advises leaders on how to achieve their business objectives and architect future-focused growth strategies through human performance and the latest emerging technology solutions. As an integral part of the Global Human Capital Executive Leadership Team, Spelman proactively addresses the work, workforce, and workplace challenges organizations face while looking to realize the value of their AI and emerging technology investments. Spelman is an active contributor to, and advocates for, prominent Human Capital eminence such as Deloitte’s annual Human Capital Trends report.

Spelman brings over 25 years of experience with Fortune 500 clients, leading them through complex, global transformations to achieve business and human outcomes. Her deep expertise is in optimizing staffing and management of delivery models for enterprise programs, which helped her to grow and advance Deloitte’s Human Capital practice. Her experience includes managing several complex global projects as a single, integrated program with a unified set of resources, governance, program management, quality assurance, and delivery capabilities. 

Yaarit Silverstone is a Senior Managing Director and Reinvention Executive Advisor Vice Chair at Accenture, a leading global professional services company that helps businesses, governments and organizations Reinvent themselves to Thrive and Win, to enable the Leadership and People to continuously reskill, embrace the fast moving change and to define Strategies and programs that move fast and effectively to win. Yaarit leads the firm’s Global Talent and Organization Strategy practice, advising C-Suites on effective reinvention journeys enabling the people, technology, and corporate growth agenda. She is regarded as a People’s leader and a powerful partner to create the future. Her clients and her teams appreciate her ability to create journeys that truly enable the future, inspire  support and engagement and deliver on the promise. 

With more than 30 years of consulting experience, Silverstone partners with global clients across industries, specializing in diagnosing complex organization issues and designing, implementing and sustaining leadership development programs, large-scale journey management, human capital strategy and transformation and talent management solutions. During her many years at Accenture, she has held leadership roles in the firm’s Talent and Organization performance service line, as well as in the chemicals, life sciences, resources and products industry groups. Prior to joining Accenture, she led Gemini Consulting’s North American Human Capital practice and ran her own consultancy. Silverstone holds master’s degrees in psychology and business administration from Rand Afrikaans University and the University of the Witwatersrand.