Over the last 15 years I’ve been invited to speak on many occasions on innovative uses of analytics approaches to better understand employees and the world of work. On this page you can find some of the media coverage that I’ve had and the public presentations that I’ve given.
For a broader overview of my background see my LinkedIn profile
Recognition
All recognition is for Workometry, the AI-powered employee listening solution that I built
| 2017 |
Gartner Cool Vendor - HCM applying AI |
| 2016 |
People Analytics World “Emerging Game Changer” |
| 2019 |
Wharton People Anaytics conference - startup award runner up |
| 2017 |
HR Tech Europe - Disrupt HR - runner up |
Conferences and Presentations
| 2013 |
Conference Chair - HR Tech Europe “Big Data” conference, the first major ‘People Analytics’ conference in Europe |
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| 2014 |
Presenter and workstream chair - HR Tech Europe |
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| 2014 |
“HR, meet Data Science” - presentation at IHRC (International HR Management - Geneva & Zurich Chapters) |
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| 2014 |
Engagement Webinar - presentation of our thinking on engagement surveys |
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| 2014 |
Tucana HR Change and Transformation Conference - presentation with CHRO of Orange Switzerland |
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| 2014 |
CHRO Roundtable - Presentation “The current state of People Analytics” |
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| 2015 |
Chair - People Analytics World London |
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| 2015 |
IHRC Symposium. Presentation “Getting Started with People Analytics” |
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| 2015 |
People Analytics 2015. Presentation “Text analytics for beginners” |
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| 2015 |
Workstream chair and presenter “Open Source People Analytics” - HR Tech Europe |
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| 2015 |
ERE Webinar - “Big Data & HR - a practitioner’s perspective” |
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| 2015 |
EMFD presentation - “Innovative technology-based ways to run Engagement Surveys” |
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| 2015 |
Engagement Webinar - presentation ““Why are our surveys different?” The complex challenge of the employee engagement market” |
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| 2016 |
Chair - People Analytics World London |
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| 2016 |
Zurich R User Group presentation “Using R to automate Reporting - A case study of our work with Salt” |
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| 2017 |
HR Inspired - presentation with David Balls, CHRO Rank “Putting data and analytics at the heart of your people decisions” |
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| 2018 |
Insight222 member group presentation “A comprehensive introduction to Text Analytics in HR” |
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| 2018 |
CIPD presentation - “How HR analytics teams can benefit from data science skills and techniques” |
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| 2019 |
Wharton People Analytics Conference 2019 - Presenter, Startup Pitch Competition |
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| 2019 |
Innovation Circus presentation “Myths and realities of Text Analytics” |
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| 2020 |
British Swiss Chamber of Commerce presentation - “Using employee ideas to drive innovation” |
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| 2020 |
People Analytics World presentation “Word Embeddings - the heart of modern text analytics” |
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| 2020 |
MyHRFuture presentation - “EMPLOYEE REVIEWS How to use Text Analytics to understand what they say” |
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| 2020 |
Presentation to Polinode’s academic group “Text as Networks” |
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| 2021 |
People Analytics World presentation - “Text analytics hacks - a cheat sheet for insightful text analytics” |
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| 2021 |
Impactify Presentation - “Text analytics and Working From Home” |
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| 2022 |
SoCal People Analytics Meetup presentation “REALLY understanding employee feedback” |
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| 2022 |
Presentation at HWZ “The making of a world-leading AI service” |
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| 2023 |
People Analytics World 2023 presentation “Getting value from text analytics: Text analytics in the age of GPT4” |
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| 2023 |
Insight222 members meeting presentation “Understanding GPT models. GPT models and their impacts on People Analytics” |
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Coverage from around the web
Podcasts and Video
| 2016 |
An interview for Matt Alder’s Recruiting Future podcast about People Analytics |
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| 2018 |
A presentation to the Hacking HR Forum in Zurich |
YouTube |
| 2019 |
A presentation at the SwissText academic / industry conference on building a text analytics startup |
YouTube |
| 2019 |
A short interview on using text analysis to analyse employee feedback given to MyHRFuture |
YouTube |
| 2019 |
Part of my presentation to the Innovation Circus conference on what was possible with text analytics |
YouTube |
| 2019 |
An episode of John Sumser’s HRExaminer Executive Conversations podcast where I was interviewed People Analytics and text analysis |
Podcast |
| 2020 |
A discussion on the text themes identified about working from home during the Covid period |
YouTube |
| 2020 |
A bite-sized clip on sentiment analysis linked to my text analysis course for MyHRFuture |
YouTube |
| 2021 |
On the Experience Designers podcast discussing learning about employee experiences from their text feedback |
YouTube |
| 2021 |
What is text analytics and what can you do with it? A presentation given to People Analytics World |
People Analytics World |
| 2022 |
Discussing People Analytics on the Analytics Power Hour podcast |
YouTube |
| 2023 |
NLP to understand Organisational Productivity - an interview with Cole Napper for People Analytics World |
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Mentions and quotes
| 2016 |
Commentary of People Analytics Tech Company Saberr in coverage in the Guardian |
Guardian |
| 2018 |
Quote: “CHROs have said that they feel [pressured] as the only ones not bringing data to the table. The business is expecting HR to have similar numbers to marketing, though maybe not finance or operations,” observed Andrew Marritt, CEO of OrganizationView, a people analytics practice based in St Moritz, Switzerland. According to Marritt, the data-centric modern HR leader needs to know not only what has happened, but what is likely to happen.” |
Financial Management Magazine |
Citations in books and papers
| 2017 |
The power of people: How successful organizations use workforce analytics to improve business performance by Nigel Guenole, Jonathan Ferrar, Sheri Feinzig |
Google Books |
| 2017 |
Winning on HR Analytics: Leveraging Data for Competitive Advantage by Ramesh Soundararajan & Kuldeep Singh |
Sage |
| 2017 |
The best practices to excel at people analytics - by David Green in The Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance |
Emerald Insight |
| 2018 |
CIPD Report - People analytics: driving business performance with speople data |
CIPD |