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Ramya Yarlagadda is a Research Adviser at the CIPD. She co-authored the CIPD Report on Purposeful Leadership and has also published research in the areas of employee engagement, diversity and inclusion and employee voice. Additionally, she is interested in understanding the impact of technology on workplaces and how the “gig economy” is challenging the traditional notion of work. Ramya has a Master’s Degree in Management and HR from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Catherine Bailey (née Truss) is a Professor of Management at the University of Sussex. Previously, she has held posts at the Universities of Kent and Kingston and at London Business School. Her research focuses on meaningful work, employee engagement and strategic human resource management, and she has published widely on these topics in peer-reviewed journals. She is a Co-author of Strategic Human Resource Management (Oxford University Press) and a Co-editor of Employee Engagement in Theory and Practice (Routledge). She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and an Associate Editor of Human Resource Management Journal.

Dr Amanda Shantz is an Associate Professor at the Trinity Business School. Her research interests include employee engagement, purposeful leadership, and employer-sponsored volunteering. She has published over 30 articles on these subjects. Amanda is also an Associate Editor of Human Relations and is an Active Member of the Academy of Management.

Patrick Briône is the Co-author of the 2011 CentreForum report “Employee empowerment: towards greater workplace democracy” and its sister paper “Employee ownership: unlocking growth in the UK economy”. Formerly, the Director of Research at the opinion pollster Survation, Patrick is currently the Head of Policy & Research at the Involvement and Participation Association, leading UK research into employee voice and engagement. Most recently he is the Author of a new research paper by Acas “Minds over Machines”, looking at how new technology affects the future of employment relations.

Ksenia Zheltoukhova is Head of Research and Thought Leadership at the CIPD. She joined in 2013 as a Research Adviser, leading a number of projects, including a major research programme, Profession for the Future, investigating a principles-based approach to professional standards as a way of driving ethical and sustainable decision-making by the business. Prior to the CIPD, Ksenia was a Researcher at The Work Foundation, working on Future of HR, Leadership, and Health and Well-being streams. With a background in organisational psychology, she holds a PhD Degree in Management from Lancaster University, where her research examined the effects of leaders’ sacrificial behaviours on followers.