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Rebecca Roberts

Chief People and Culture Officer
St. Vincent’s Health

Rebecca is a versatile executive with an extensive background in People and Culture and law who has led organisational change to ensure operations are strategic, optimised and service focused. After a career in law both within Australia and internationally, Rebecca joined St Vincent’s as Executive Director Legal and Commercial Services in 2014 at St Vincent’s Public Hospital Melbourne. In 2018, Rebecca was appointed to lead the People and Culture and Corporate Services and 2021, Rebecca took up the same role at St Vincent’s Public Health Network Sydney. Rebecca commenced her role as Chief People & Culture Officer at St Vincent’s in early 2023 where she now proudly leads our 30,000 people who deliver incredible care to those we serve.

Lainie Tayler

Chief People Officer
Carman’s Kitchen

Lainie Tayler is the Chief People Officer for Carman’s Kitchen.  With over 26 years’ human resources experience Lainie has worked in large global and local organisations specialising in business strategy, organisational development, leadership development, talent management and generalist human resources.  

Lainie is also the founding Managing Director of HR Squad, a boutique HR consultancy with a philosophy of building capable and engaged organisations and leaders.  

Lainie believes the key to an organisations success and longevity is a clearly communicated and understood business strategy, enabled through the quality of its leaders and organizational operating rhythm.  

“Getting the People stuff right is so important, we know that a people mindset is the biggest lever you can pull to ensure sustained financial and cultural success in an organisation.  However, it is important that this is supported by a clearly designed and understood business strategy.” 

Lainie has deep expertise in oganisational development and talent management and in addition to her role at Carman’s Kitchen is a qualified executive performance coach.  Lainie’s real passion is unlocking the potential in all leaders and has deep expertise in strategy, organizational capability, and leadership development.  

Luke Fleming

Director of Human Resources
ICC Sydney

ICC Sydney’s Director of Human Resources, Luke Fleming, is a business events and hospitality industry specialist with over 20 years’ experience in managing expansive workforces both in Australia, Asia and the United States. Luke was an integral part of ICC Sydney’s pre-opening stage having joined the premier Convention, Exhibition and Entertainment venue in March 2016. 
  
Initially responsible for managing ICC Sydney’s sizable permanent and casual workforce planning requirements, Luke’s strengths in strategic business planning, talent acquisition and onboarding, employment relations and industrial compliance earned him a sound reputation as a highly effective people leader. 
  
Luke was recognised by his peers winning the Extraordinaires Awards in 2019 in the Innovation and Creativity category and again in 2021 by the Human Resource Director Magazine as the Australian Human Resource Manager of the Year. Luke is an avid champion of ICC Sydney’s Diversity and Inclusion program. He is a Diversity Inclusion Trainer, certified DISC Practitioner, trained Mental Health and First Aid Responder and key member of ICC Sydney’s internal COVID Taskforce.  
  
A long standing member of the Australian Human Resources Institute, Luke’s Bachelor of Commerce and Master of Human Resources, coupled with being a qualified Trainer and Assessor holds him in good stead to bring business best practices to his role. 
  
Luke is highly skilled at leading top performing, multi-disciplinary teams; developing and maintaining key relationships with stakeholders to drive quality and exemplary service delivery in the business events sector while ensuring team member safety, health and wellbeing remains a focal point. 

David Bellas

Director, LinkedIn Talent Solutions
LinkedIn

David Bellas is a Director for LinkedIn’s Talent Solutions business for Australia and New Zealand. David and his team are responsible for helping organisation the way they plan, hire, and develop talent. This is possible through the disruptive technology and unique data and insights from LinkedIn’s 875+ million members and 57 million companies.

He is passionate about investing in people, everything sales, turning business visions into reality and working with customers to meet their business objectives.

Over the past 10 years at LinkedIn, David has had the opportunity to lead the growth and distribution efforts across all sectors at LinkedIn. When LinkedIn acquired Lynda.com in 2015, an online learning company, David was appointed as Head of Learning for Australia and New Zealand and helped oversee the successful transition to LinkedIn Learning.

Over the past several years David has been recognised with awards such as Diversity and Inclusion Manager of the Year and LinkedIn Manager of the Year and has a reputation for inspiring, coaching and developing talent.