Employee Engagement Summit 2019 Chair announced

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Employer Engagement

We are delighted to announce that Dr Amy Armstrong, Senior Faculty member in Ashridge Executive Education at Hult International Business School will be returning as Chair for the 14th Annual Employee Engagement Summit.

Running leadership courses within the Ashridge Executive MBA for the Creative Industries (EMBACI), Amy holds a First Class Bachelor’s degree, an MBA and a PhD. Having recently returned to Ashridge from the University of Bedfordshire, where she was a Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour.

She is a regular writer and speaker on the topics of engagement, authentic leadership, resilience and compassion at work with a particular interest in how ‘crucible experiences’ of personal trauma affect the way in which managers viw and approach their work.

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Dr Armstrong is also a visiting scholar at Aston University and leads the research stream into barriers to engagement for Engage for Success, a Government-led movement which is seeking to improve engagement and wellbeing levels across the UK.

Having Chaired both the 2017 and 2018 Employee Engagement Summits, we are incredibly excited to welcome Amy back in the role for the 14th Annual Employee Engagement Summit on 28th March 2019, and look forward to hearing her expert input to this highly regarded conference.

Aphrodite is a creative writer and editor specialising in publishing and communications. She is passionate about undertaking projects in diverse sectors. She has written and edited copy for media as varied as social enterprise, art, fashion and education. She is at her most happy owning a project from its very conception, focusing on the client and project research in the first instance, and working closely with CEOs and Directors throughout the consultation process. Much of her work has focused on rebranding; messaging and tone of voice is one of her expertise, as is a distinctively unique writing style in my most of her creative projects. Her work is always driven by the versatility of language to galvanise image and to change perception, as it is by inspiring and being inspired by the wondrous diversity of people with whom paths she crosses cross!

Aphrodite has had a variety of high profile industry clients as a freelancer, and previously worked for a number of years as an Editor and Journalist for Prospects.ac.uk.

Aphrodite is also a professional painter.

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