Liana BagworthFounder & Executive Partner, EQalsEQals is a unique provider of emotional intelligence informed consulting, assessment, learning and coaching, supporting the growth of leaders, teams and organisations. Liana’s vision is a world of courageous and emotionally intelligent leaders who inspire learning, sharing and growing by the way they show up. Her mission is to help create opportunities for greatness by supporting the courageous journey to stand up and stand out. Liana is proud to be a partner and facilitator in the world's first government mandated emotional intelligence development for lawyers, with The Government of Dubai Legal Affairs Department, Continuing Legal Professional Development Programme. She is also a Dare To Lead™ certified Facilitator, an advanced EQ practitioner, certified in a variety of Emotional Intelligence assessment and measurement tools, and is an on-going student of the neuroscience of behavior and performance and its applications. Her latest achievement is Certified Applied Neuroscience Practitioner, (London, UK). Liana has worked with start-ups, and mid and large organisations across many vertical markets in the Middle East, North America and Africa, and was part of a neuroscience research and development organisation in Toronto, Canada. Naturally curious, Liana is a committed life-long student of learning, sharing and growing, globally. She is a sports and travel enthusiast, and combines her passions together with her love of connecting with her clients and partners, and the world. She holds designations as a certified Coach (U.S.A) and Leading Change agent (Rotman School of Business, Toronto, Canada), Her 16 year Human Resources career was supported by the Certified Human Resources Practitioner status (Rotman School of Business, Toronto, Canada), She is the Former President of the Board of Directors of the International Coach Federation , Toronto Chapter. Helle Bank Jorgensen
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Richard joined Lumi as CEO in 2011, having spent 4 years as CEO of IML, a leading global event technology business. In 2013, Lumi acquired IML and merged it with Lumi, to create the leading AGM technology provider that Lumi is today. Richard and his team completed a successful MBO in 2017, backed by Vespa Capital.
Under Richard’s tenure as CEO, Lumi has expanded its presence globally, operating in 40 markets worldwide. Lumi is now considered to be the world leader in AGM technologies, powering the meeting that matter.
Richard is also Chairman and Co-Founder of Halo Post Production, and has advised and supported a number of early-stage technology and media businesses. Richard has an MBA from INSEAD.
Rita Trichur is an award-winning journalist. She is a Senior Business Writer and Columnist in the Report on Business. Her previous roles at The Globe and Mail include Senior Editor, Financial Services Editor, and Canadian business columnist for the Report on Business Magazine. Rita returned to Globe in July 2016 after spending about 2 ½ years as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal’s Canada bureau. She primarily covered domestic banks and insurance companies from Toronto, but also wrote a variety of other stories about Canada for the U.S. newspaper.
Prior to WSJ, Rita spent more than three years at the Globe, initially working as a general assignment reporter in the Report on Business before covering the telecom beat. Rita has also covered financial services and economics for the Toronto Star, and has held various roles at the Canadian Press and the Ottawa Sun. She got her first byline at age 6 when the Toronto Star published her short story about a fish-stealing cat and paid her $10. Rita, who also speaks French, was born in Toronto. She has a Bachelor of Journalism and Political Science and a M.A. in Canadian Studies – both from Carleton University in Ottawa.