Welcome to The London HR Connection
Membership of the London HR Connection is free. Whilst our webinars are free to attend, our face to face networking events cost £40+VAT to attend. As a not-for-profit organisation, this fee covers our administration costs and enables us to offer refreshments to attendees.
HR Forum | Networking | Opportunities
The London HR Connection (LHRC) is a unique forum for the HR community that has been established for many years. We host monthly evening events with high profile guest speakers from the world of business, academia, Government, employment law, trade unions and from both the private and public sectors addressing the hottest topics in HR in this challenging market – and are always open to new ideas and suggestions. We aim to be the premier network for everyone with an interest and involvement in the fascinating world of Human Resources.
Innovative and edgy
We like to be innovative and edgy. Pre Covid, some of our recent guest speakers included the likes of the CEO of Time Out; the barrister representing Uber’s case for zero hours contracts; former HR Director of the BBC; the former captain of England’s rugby sevens team; the managing director of Santander’s corporate banking arm talking about culture change; the CIPD’s CEO; and the HR Director of Waitrose, the CEO from an NHS Trust and the Chairwoman from the UK’s largest media company talking about engagement.
Over the last couple of years we moved to a highly successful, virtual event format and have hosted popular webinars on behalf of our sponsors on subjects including how to manage flexible furlough and returning to work, managing traumatic change and virtual onboarding. We have now returned to a ‘hybrid’ offering of both online webinars and our traditional physical face-to-face events.

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The Board
The LHRC is organised and managed by a voluntary Board. If you are interested in becoming involved as a Board member please contact mail@londonhr.org for more information. Being a Board member offers great development opportunities.
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Craig McCoy
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Jacquie Beck
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Fraser Butters
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Emily Akanimoh
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Nebel Crowhurst
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Nicky Costa
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Robert Hicks
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Georgina Kelly
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Keith Robson
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Denise Jones
Craig McCoy
Craig is a leading HR Director and NED with 30+ years experience at organisations such as Sky, Bupa, BT, Aegis Media, Informa and The Crown Estate. His international HRD experience includes FTSE 100 PLCs, PE and privately-owned businesses, and public and third sector organisations. As MD of The Learning Loop, Craig provides HR services on an interim and consulting basis. Firmly committed to the ongoing development of commercial HR expertise, Craig is also a great believer in the power of developing strong professional networks. The LHRC provides him with a great opportunity to do both.
Jacquie Beck
I joined the Board to become more involved in the London HR community and to bring my financial knowledge to help the London HR Connection fulfil its aims.
Fraser Butters
Fraser Butters has been responsible for the marketing and promotion of the London HR Connection for many years now. He is also the founder of Pervasive PR, a dedicated PR consultancy that specialises in ‘PR for HR’.

Emily Akanimoh
Emily Akanimoh is currently working as the HR Partner for Hospital Records where she is part of the senior leadership team and leads the EDI and wellbeing teams. Emily has over 15 years’ experience in HR operations, creating and setting up people functions from scratch in the game industry, oil and gas, contract publishing and music industry. She has a love/hate relationship with TUPE transfers both as a transferee and transferor for Premiership football clubs in the UK.
Emily is passionate about leading and influencing, especially in coaching and supporting young people to achieve their goals and bringing out the best in them. She often speaks at events and panels about the future of work in the music industry and shares career development tips with students at University of the Arts London and the British and Irish Modern Music Institute (BIMM).

Nebel Crowhurst
Nebel Crowhurst is currently VP People at the education partnership organisation, INTO University Partnerships. She has enjoyed a broad career supporting the people agenda and managing extensive business change and growth within a spectrum of industries and various organisations including River Island, Virgin and Roche.
A Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, Nebel has a Masters in HR and is also a Fellow member of the Learning & Performance Institute. She featured on HR Magazines Most Influential HR Practitioners list in 2021 and 2022 and holds a people committee advisory role with Macmillan Cancer Support as a Non-Executive Director.
Nicky Costa
Nicky is an experienced HR leader with 30+ years HR experience with a diverse range of organisations that range from complex multinationals – such as Ford Motor Company, Energizer, Expedia, CBS and Time Out – through to early stage PE and VC owned businesses. The founder of Kinesis-People, Nicky supports the full range of change and transformation programmes including M&A, restructures, international expansion, strategic frameworks and culture change. Nicky passionately believes that high quality, pragmatic and relevant people plans accelerate businesses towards identifying and achieving their priorities; something that is reflected in the purpose and aspirations of the London HR Connection.
Robert Hicks
Robert is a global HR leader with over 20 years HR experience across sectors as diverse as software, infrastructure, property and the public sector. Now HRD at the employee engagement technology company, Reward Gateway, he has responsibility for people worldwide and for functions including learning and development, diversity and inclusion, internal communications and recruitment. Robert is a fellow of the CIPD, holds a Masters in HR from London Southbank University and an MBA from Imperial College Business School.

Georgina Kelly
Georgina is an experienced Business Development, Programme and Events Director, having spent over 15 years connecting senior HR leaders to solution providers. Georgina is currently heading up sales and business growth at digital learning specialists, Popcorn Learning Media. Prior to that, Georgina was MD of Summit Events Ltd, running annual HR, Learning Development and Reward & Benefits events for the UK and Middle Eastern markets. Georgina regularly offers advice and support to new and established HR suppliers, providing guidance of their sales & marketing strategy. As a passionate HR matchmaker, networking and building authentic connections is where Georgina’s strengths lie. Georgina has been part of the LHRC board since 2021.
Keith Robson
Keith is a highly experienced senior HR professional with global expertise in running complex talent, leadership development and learning functions. Currently the Interim Director, Talent, OD, Development & D&I with M&G Prudential, in his three years as an interim HR executive Keith has held Director level roles with NATS, Rolls Royce and Aviva. Keith has spent 25% of his career living and working outside the UK spending time in New York, Dublin, Dubai and Singapore working in a variety of sectors from Investment Banking to Retail, FinTech and eCommerce

Denise Jones
Denise has over 25 years marketing and events consultancy experience working mostly with membership organisations and volunteer committees. Working with London HR Connection for the past 16 years, has allowed Denise to expand her portfolio of clients whilst enjoying meeting a wide variety of people.
Events
Upcoming Events
We run our events at the end of the working day, usually mid month. Events are participative and informative allowing members to take newly acquired knowledge back to their workplace.
At our events, we meet to update our members on issues of current interest in the world of people management and development with lively and interactive sessions with renowned speakers and subject experts. Our members also get a chance to meet and talk to other HR professionals in a relaxed and friendly environment.
Our events always include high profile and eminent speakers from within the profession and public life and we also hold regular debates at King’s College, London and CASS Business School. We also list our recent events to give you a flavour of the topics we have covered. For many of our events you can download the presentation or other relevant information. We welcome suggestions for future events or perhaps you know a potential speaker for a future event. If so, please contact us.
Past Events
- Breaking Barriers: The Power of Perception in Cultivating Diversity - 21st September 2023 - 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
- Neurodiversity in the workplace - 23rd May 2023 - 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
- The Cost of Living ‘Conflict’ - Money or Mental? - 26th April 2023 - 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
- The People Versus Profit - 22nd March 2023 - 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
- Festivities and Future-Proofing - 7th December 2022 - 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
- Connect, Engage, Grow - Building the Human Centric Workplace - 23rd November 2022 - 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
- Bringing values to life - creating more connected organisations - 2nd November 2022 - 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- The Future Shape of Coaching - 4th October 2022 - 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
- Self-Engagement: Why Your People Strategy is Incomplete Without it - 8th September 2022 - 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Employing older workers: Engaging with a multigenerational workforce - 29th June 2022 - 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
- How to Create a Culture of Connection - 16th June 2022 - 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Now is the New Normal – Lessons from a CEO - 25th May 2022 - 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
- Developing the Agile Mindset - 28th April 2022 - 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Establishing commercial credibility for next gen HR leaders - 24th March 2022 - 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Nudge Don’t Nag – How to Transform Performance - 3rd March 2022 - 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Boosting the employee proposition on a budget - 22nd February 2022 - 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- How HR Tech will Enable Transformation - 10th February 2022 - 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Rethinking 21st century leadership for a complex world - 18th November 2021 - 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- The right to disconnect: how to encourage a healthy work-life balance - 2nd November 2021 - 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Delivering an ROI on workplace wellbeing - 20th October 2021 - 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Sponsors
Sponsorship
If you are interested in finding out more about sponsorship opportunities please contact Fraser Butters at fraser@pervasivepr.com