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Chair announced for employee engagement conference

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We are delighted to announce that Dr Amy Armstrong, Senior Faculty member in Ashridge
Executive Education at Hult International Business School will be chairing the 12th 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 view and approach their work.

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.

We are incredibly excited to welcome Amy as Chair for the 12th Annual Employee Engagement Summit in March, and look forward to hearing her expert input to this highly regarded conference.

Rebecca joined the HRreview editorial team in January 2016. After graduating from the University of Sheffield Hallam in 2013 with a BA in English Literature, Rebecca has spent five years working in print and online journalism in Manchester and London. In the past she has been part of the editorial teams at Sleeper and Dezeen and has founded her own arts collective.

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