Date: 25-26 November 2025.
Location: 44 Hallam St, London W1W 6JJ. Situated in the West End, five-minute walk from Oxford Circus.
Duration: Two days, 9am to 4pm (UK).
Format: Conference with plenary sessions and breakouts.
Fees: £895 + VAT per delegate.
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E-reward’s annual reward conference addresses the key reward issues, challenges and opportunities facing reward/HR practitioners. This conference:
Key topics covered include:
Duncan Brown, Independent adviser, Principal Associate IES, Visiting Professor University of Greenwich
Scott Cawood, Chief Executive Officer, WorldatWork
Event chair: Duncan Brown, Independent adviser, Principal Associate IES, Visiting Professor University of Greenwich
Scott Cawood, Chief Executive Officer, WorldatWork
For most of us, work has been designed around a centralised, often physical, structure. Employees commuted to office spaces, tackled a list of prescribed tasks, and aimed to climb the corporate ladder – with tenure and titles as the ultimate markers of success.
Today, work is fundamentally different. Remote work has become the norm. Employees are more likely to set their own tasks, and few have a desire to climb the traditional corporate ladder, preferring to create their own ‘ladder’ instead. As work evolves, so must the roles of total rewards and HR professionals. They now face the challenge – and opportunity – of adapting to this shifting landscape and develop new approaches to respond, react, and reset work in this new context. Employees expect more from their employers than ever before. This moment demands innovative approaches to elevate employee experiences and help organisations thrive.
Let’s explore the current world of work and uncover actionable strategies for total rewards and HR professionals to lead confidently into the future of work.
Giac Soliman, a reward practitioner cutting a niche for himself in the CompTech & AI space
20-minute Q&A.
Ken Mulkearn, Director of Research, Incomes Data Research
Tong Rogers, Head of Reward, Multiverse
In an era of economic uncertainty, fierce talent competition, and the unstoppable trend of pay transparency, to be effective, reward professionals must evolve from reactive data providers to proactive strategic partners. But how do you make that leap?
Join Tong Rogers from tech unicorn Multiverse for a practical session on leveraging compensation analytics to drive business decisions. You will explore a maturity model to assess your own organisation's capabilities – from foundational reporting to predictive modelling.
The session will feature a case study on how Multiverse tackled the complex challenge of pay equity during a period of hyper-growth, turning data into a clear narrative that secured leadership buy-in and drove meaningful change. Leave with a practical toolkit and actionable strategies to start building a data-driven reward function that makes smarter, fairer, and more impactful decisions.
15-minute Q&A.
Michelle Clark, Executive Director of People, Culture and Transformation, The Children’s Society (TCS)
All too many conference presentations seem to be about developing and launching short-term single initiatives and reward ‘products’ which always seem to work brilliantly. But then what happens? When we know from the academic research that only long-term, broad, multi-pronged reward and related HR initiatives can have real and sustained impact on corporate culture and performance.
Michelle has led and successfully implemented wide- ranging reward, HR and culture changes over recent years in support of the charity’s ambitious strategy and values, including a complete pay structure redesign and new financial wellbeing policy. She will focus in this session on TCS’s pay approach, putting something in place that is sustainable and enables the Society to be agile and flexible in the current challenging context.
Georgia Parlour-Rule, Group Reward Director, The AA
Explore how The AA has transformed employee wellbeing into a strategic business driver, supporting over 7,000 staff – including 3,500 mobile patrol workers – through a comprehensive and data-driven approach. This session explores the integration of physical, mental, financial, social, and professional wellbeing across every stage of the employee journey. Learn about practical tools and tailored support for remote and mobile staff that led to measurable results, including reduced absence and improved engagement. And hear real employee testimonials that show a culture where wellbeing is not an add-on, but a core part of business success.
Hear from an expert panel of reward professionals with experience across a wide range of market sectors. Find out what they see as the critical capabilities that reward leaders will require in the future. Take away valuable insights you can use to help with your own career or the people in your reward team.
Panel members include:
Sylvia Doyle, Interim Reward Director / Head of Reward / reward mentor / reward consultant, Reward First Consulting
Matt Brooks, Founder of MBHRN – Senior Reward Recruitment
Event chair: Duncan Brown, Independent adviser, Principal Associate IES, Visiting Professor University of Greenwich
David Cohen, Director, Farient Advisors
The 2025 AGM season has undergone considerable changes, with a number of companies going early for their Policy review. This presentation focuses on key trends for those companies who proposed new policies, going beyond looking at quartiles for the whole market, to identify what is changing in the market
David Tuch, Managing Director (Partner), Alvarez & Marsal
Setting performance targets for both short- and long-term incentives has always been a difficult task. You need to balance the interests of all stakeholders, ensuring targets are sufficiently stretching to satisfy shareholder expectations, while at the same time being considered fair and achievable by management.
This session will seek to provide some guidance based on A&M’s experience and a range of market reference points on performance targets for profit metrics within both the annual bonus and long-term incentive of companies in the FTSE 100, 250 and SmallCap.
Event chair: Duncan Brown, Independent adviser, Principal Associate IES, Visiting Professor University of Greenwich
Charles Cotton, Senior Reward Adviser, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
This session will be based on data from the CIPD’s Pay, Performance and Transparency survey 2024, its Good Work Index 2025, and the most recent quarterly Labour Market Outlook. It will explore the challenges faced by UK employers and the workforce, and how they are responding.
Issues to be covered include:
Mona Parikh, Head of Reward, Coventry University Group
The challenges facing our universities have been much publicised this year. Significant cost pressures, the loss of overseas student income, redundancies and a recent history of industrial action over pay and pensions – not an easy organisation or reward context to succeed within.
Yet a number of the post-92 universities have been leading the sector in making essential pay and benefits reforms to make their packages more attractive and performance-related, with Coventry being one of the best-known. So what changes have they been making and how have they managed to implement them successfully in this difficult context?
Busola Farinmade, Director Total Rewards EMEA, Equinix
AI continues to shape the world we live in, including our ways of working. This thought-provoking session explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping the world of total rewards, through the eyes of forward-thinking reward leaders. Whilst AI experts focus on algorithms and coding, we will discuss strategic actions that total reward leaders should take to stay ahead. We will explore areas where reward leaders can potentially embed AI to design fair, engaging and future-ready programmes:
Duncan Brown, Independent adviser, Principal Associate IES, Visiting Professor University of Greenwich
Stuart Hyland, Partner, Ellason LLP
Stephen Munday, Associate Client Partner, Total Rewards Advisory, UK & Ireland, Korn Ferry
Like us, you are probably a bit bemused at receiving a flood of emails and marketing materials this year from law and HR consulting firms updating you on Malta’s initial proposals on transposing the EU Pay Transparency Directive and similar. So what? Didn’t we leave the EU? And aren’t the Labour government at the moment simply proposing a gentle extension of the gender pay gap reporting regulations to cover ethnicity and disability at some point in the future?
We are therefore pleased to present you with a thee-part, in-depth session to address the confusion:
Stuart Hyland, Partner, Ellason LLP
Duncan Brown, Independent adviser, Principal Associate IES, Visiting Professor University of Greenwich
Stephen Munday, Associate Client Partner, Total Rewards Advisory, UK & Ireland, Korn Ferry
Test the knowledge of our panel of pay transparency experts in an interactive Q&A session. Bring your toughest questions, real-world challenges and complex scenarios to see how the experts tackle today's most pressing pay transparency issues. Submit your questions by email to E-reward ahead of the event, if you prefer.
Event chair: Duncan Brown, Independent adviser, Principal Associate IES, Visiting Professor University of Greenwich
Duncan is an independent reward researcher and adviser, Senior Associate at the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) and Visiting Professor at University of Greenwich. He is a former employee reward practice leader at Willis Towers Watson, PwC and Aon Hewitt, who spent five years as the Deputy CEO at the CIPD.
Duncan is a highly regarded adviser and writer on reward management, including jointly authoring with Michael Armstrong the best-selling Handbook of Reward Management Practice and Reward Strategy. His doctorate was in reward strategy.
Matt is an independent recruitment consultant with over 20 years’ experience specialising exclusively in senior reward appointments. He works with clients ranging from the leading FTSE100 multinationals – helping CPOs find Global Reward Directors across all industry sectors – to very much smaller, owner-managed, organisations looking to establish their first reward function. A trusted adviser to many in the field, Matt continues to help aspiring reward leaders navigate their career paths and ultimately design and establish high-performing teams.
Scott currently serves as the CEO of WorldatWork, a global nonprofit association for HR professionals and Total Rewards practitioners, since 2015. With a career dedicated to improving the workplace, he is known for his deep expertise in organisational effectiveness, employee engagement and workplace culture.
Before joining WorldatWork, he held senior leadership roles at W.L. Gore & Associates, where he led global organisational effectiveness strategies, and at Synygy, a global compensation and sales software company. He also contributed to workplace excellence initiatives at Revlon and the Great Place to Work Institute, which curates Fortune’s ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ list.
Scott holds multiple professional certifications from WorldatWork, including: Global Remuneration Professional (GRP), Certified Compensation Professional (CCP), Certified Sales Compensation Professional (CSCP), Certified Benefits Professional (CBP), and Work-Life Certified Professional (WLCP)
A passionate advocate for employee-centric workplaces, Scott is also a bestselling author. His 2023 book, The New Work Exchange: Embracing the Future by Putting Employees First, explores how organisations can thrive by prioritising people.
Michelle has been working in the charity sector for just over five years moving from the rail industry at the start of 2020. Transitioning to a new sector during the pandemic reinforced to Michelle the importance of a human-centred approach to HR through her People Experience Framework. At TCS, Michelle leads the people agenda alongside digital, data and technology, positively disrupting the system and enabling transformation in the human and digital age.
Achieving the HR Magazine’s ‘HR Most Influential’ list for the last four years and reaching the shortlist for British Diversity Awards in 2024 has given Michelle a sense of pride and recognition of her approach. Michelle is also part of the board at Sussex County FA as a Non-Executive Director, bringing her passion for inclusion to life within grassroots football.
Previously Michelle had an extensive HR career in rail and raised the importance of inclusion and diversity in a traditional environment. Michelle is committed to creating a modern-day workplace, challenging traditional practices and creating an enabling environment so that positive change happens and both individuals and organisations can thrive.
David has close to a decade of experience as a trusted advisor working with UK-listed and private companies across all sectors. David specialises in helping Remuneration Committees and other senior stakeholders through the annual remuneration cycle, covering issues including remuneration strategy, incentive design, corporate governance, stakeholder engagement and disclosure. Prior to joining Farient, David worked in the executive compensation team at Deloitte.
Charles is the senior reward adviser at the CIPD, the professional body for HR and people development. He directs its public policy work in the area of reward and is also responsible for its pay and benefits research agenda. He frequently appears in the media commentating on reward and is often invited to speak about pay and benefits issues at events.
Sylvia is a business-focussed reward leader. Her focus is on reward strategies and practices that align people, performance, and business goals. Working with UK and global clients across a wide range of sectors, recent projects include pay transparency, reward transformation, performance-based reward and reward frameworks. Sylvia has mentored numerous Chief People Officers / HR leaders since 2010. She is also a Trustee Director for the pension scheme of a FTSE100 company.
As part of her portfolio career, Sylvia was previously lead tutor for the CIPD’s postgraduate reward programme to 2021. She is a Chartered Fellow CIPD.
Busola is a HR/reward leader supporting organisations through critical moments such as HR transformation, M&As and IPOs across multiple jurisdictions. She has both internal company experience and many years of solid consulting experience with KPMG which gives her unique skills as an advisor, researcher, thought leader, designer and implementer of HR and reward programmes.
She is the Total Rewards Director with Equinix where she partners with business leaders to embed fair and competitive reward practices on compensation, benefits, wellbeing and recognition. Her areas of expertise are in reward strategy design, equity-based and cash-based incentive design, executive compensation and benefits. In her role, she has been actively involved in using technology to scale the strategy, design, deployment and administration of benefits across multiple countries and complex jurisdictions, to improve employee experience and engagement.
Busola is a thought leader having written business articles and facilitated sessions on total rewards. She is passionate about the experience of people at work and mentoring the next generation of HR leaders.
Stuart has nearly three decades of experience in advising employers across Europe and beyond on reward and pay issues. He has worked with leading global brands as well as smaller national enterprises, spanning a wide range of industries.
Today, his work is increasingly focused on pay transparency and pay equity, helping organisations prepare for new regulations. This includes compliance assessments and broader reward advisory work, such as developing reward philosophy and strategy, grading and job evaluation, performance management, pay practice design, and incentive plan design.
Ken Mulkearn is one of the founding principals of Incomes Data Research (IDR) and is an experienced pay communicator and editor-in-chief who leads IDR’s internal research and networking. He jointly leads a team of researchers that monitor and report on pay trends across the UK economy. He has led a range of research projects for clients such as the Low Pay Commission, the Office for Manpower Economics and employers in the private and public services.
Prior to setting up IDR, he was Head of Pay and Research at Incomes Data Services (IDS), where he led the Pay & Reward, Executive Compensation, and Research Services teams. He was Editor of the monthly IDS Pay Report and a range of specialist sector reports, including ‘Pay and benefits in the public services’, ‘Pay and conditions in call centres’, ‘Pay and conditions in engineering’ and ‘Pay in retail’.
His specialisms include industrial relations, equal pay, job evaluation, the labour market, low pay and pay progression. Ken regularly speaks to a wide range of audiences on pay issues. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Research in Employment and Work (CREW) Unit at the University of Greenwich. He holds an MSc in social research methods from the London School of Economics. His primary degree is from Trinity College, Dublin.
Steve is an Associate Client Partner at Korn Ferry, working with senior leadership teams across the UK & Ireland to solve their most complex reward challenges. With over 25 years of hands-on experience in executive and broad-based pay, he brings a sharp mix of strategy, analytics, and practicality to the table.
His work spans everything from designing total reward strategies to building robust pay models and incentive schemes that actually drive performance — not just tick boxes. Whether it's job evaluation, sales compensation, long- and short-term incentives, or equity plan valuations, he helps organisations design reward solutions that align with business goals and withstand scrutiny.
Steve is also known for ‘making the technical digestible’. He regularly facilitates both in-house and client-facing training sessions, helping teams understand the ‘why’ behind reward, not just the ‘how’. He has advised clients across sectors including energy, financial services, tech, property, and the public sector — always with the aim of helping reward do more than just keep up.
Mona leads the Global Reward function, including pensions. She brings over 18 years’ experience across retail, construction, engineering, project management, housing, and education, with deep expertise in designing and managing reward, benefits, and pensions for both private and public sector organisations. She has more than eight years’ experience heading global reward functions in complex matrix environments and a proven record of delivering strategic reward initiatives.
A recognised GRP (Global Remuneration Professional) certified by WorldatWork, Mona specialises in strategic reward and benefits projects that optimise offerings, drive cost efficiency, and sustain competitive total reward packages. She is committed to aligning reward strategies with organisational objectives to attract, retain, and engage top talent.
Her particular passion is advancing pay gap reporting for ethnicity, disability, and sexual orientation. At the University of Warwick and Arden University, she implemented these initiatives using a data-driven approach. She is currently progressing the same work at Coventry University, championing meaningful change and ensuring the organisations she serves place EDI at the heart of their operations.
With over a decade of experience working in reward, Georgia is a reward leader experienced in designing and implementing award-winning total reward strategies in regulated, matrixed organisations. As Group Reward Director at The AA, she leads a team responsible for the full total reward spectrum – executive remuneration, compensation, benefits, recognition, pensions, and wellbeing – for over 7,000 colleagues.
Georgia is known for driving innovation in reward, leveraging technology to enhance employee engagement and understanding, and championing wellbeing initiatives that make a real difference to colleagues lives. She has a proven track record of using data and technology to improve communication plans which have led to a better engagement and understanding of total reward in companies with diverse and remote workforces.
Tong is Head of Reward at Multiverse, a tech unicorn dedicated to creating a diverse group of future leaders through the power of apprenticeships. In her role, she is responsible for designing and implementing global reward strategies that attract, motivate, and retain top talent in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.
Prior to joining Multiverse, Tong held senior reward leadership positions across various industries, including Amdocs, Sportradar and Snow Software. She brings a wealth of experience in building data-driven reward functions from the ground up, enabling business growth through dynamic compensation strategy, developing executive compensation, equity plans, and navigating the complexities of pay transparency and equity in high-growth organisations.
Giac helps organisations design fair and scalable reward programmes using AI and modern compensation technology. His work focuses on practical applications across merit cycles, pay benchmarking, job architecture, pay equity and employee communications. He shows reward leaders how to deploy AI safely, measure outcomes and build the skills their teams need for the future. He is a Compensation Manager at Monzo.
David is a Managing Director (Partner) and leads Alvarez &Marsal’s Executive Compensation Services team in London. He brings more than 35 years of experience in advising companies on all matters of executive compensation. David specialises in finding the right balance between all stakeholders whilst ensuring that the resultant remuneration arrangements are aligned with business strategy. He has advised Remuneration Committees and managements of UK and overseas listed companies, companies preparing for IPOs (both on the Main Market and on AIM) and other unlisted organisations on the design of overall remuneration policies and, more specifically, the design and implementation of both short-term and long-term incentive plans.
TBC
44 Hallam Street, London W1W 6JJ
Nearest Tube: Oxford Circus, Great Portland St, Regent's Park.
Nearest Overground: Marylebone, Euston, Kings Cross
Situated in the West End, five-minute walk from Oxford Circus Tube.
There are numerous buses stopping within a few minutes’ walk of Hallam Street, including nos: 3, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 25, 88, 94, 137, 159, 189, 453 & C2.
Marylebone, Euston and Kings Cross St Pancras Stations – all within 10 minutes’ taxi rides or alternatively 15 minutes by Underground.
Paddington Station (which has a direct link to Heathrow every 15 minutes) – 20 minutes’ walk or 10 minutes in a taxi.
Circle, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan lines – 5-minute walk.
Leave the station, walk south down Great Portland Street. At the traffic lights, cross over the street and continue down the road. Turn right into Devonshire St and immediately left into Hallam Street at The Masons Arms. Continue down the road, cross Weymouth Street and walk down the road, you will then shortly arrive at 44 Hallam St.
Bakerloo, Central, Victoria lines – 5-minute walk
Leave the Tube using Exit 4, which will bring you out on the North side of Oxford Street by H&M. Walk North away from Oxford Circus with H&M on your left. The road starts to curve round to the left as Regent Street becomes Langham Place. Cross the street at the zebra crossing and walk towards the BBC’s main entrance. Just before the entrance turn right and then left up to 44 Hallam Street.
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