Speakers

Alain Dehaze

Chief Executive Officer since September 2015, Regional Head of France from August 2011 to August 2015, Regional Head of Northern Europe from October 2009 to July 2011. Member of the EC since October 2009. A Belgian national and born 1963, Alain Dehaze joined Adecco Group in September 2009 as Regional Head of Northern Europe. He trained as a commercial engineer at the ICHEC Brussels Management School, Belgium.

From 1987 until 2000, Alain held senior positions in a number of European countries at Henkel and ISS. In 2000, he became Managing Director of Creyf’s Interim in Belgium (now Start People). From 2002 to 2005, he was Chief Executive Officer of Solvus. Following the acquisition of Solvus by USG People, the Netherlands, in 2005, he became the Chief Operating Officer of USG People, with overall responsibility for operations, including the integration of Solvus. From September 2007 until 2009, he was CEO of the staffing services company Humares, the Netherlands.

Alain was on the board of the Global Apprenticeship Network (GAN) and previously served as its Chairman. Furthermore, Alain Dehaze was Vice President of the Board of the World Employment Confederation Europe and member of the Board of the World Employment Confederation between December 2010 and December 2015. Since August 2017 he has been a member of the newly formed ILO Global Commission on the Future of Work.

Dr. Mary-Clare Race

Dr. Mary-Clare Race is the Chief Innovation and Product Officer at LHH with responsibility for ensuring LHH is continually finding new and innovative ways to solve our client’s challenges.

Dr. Race has over 15 years experience in human capital consulting including Career Transition, Leadership & Management development, Coaching, Diversity and Inclusion and Organizational Design. She is a regular conference speaker and has published scientific papers in leading journals including Frontiers in Psychology, Mental Illness at Work, and People & Strategy, alongside industry publications such as People Management and The Financial Times.

Over the past 15 years, she has consulted to a range of clients in financial services (Barclays Bank of England, Goldman Sachs); pharma (GSK, Allergan,Novartis); consumer goods (Unilever, Coca-Cola); luxury brands (Coach, Versace, Estee Lauder Companies); and government (British Government, Cabinet Office, National Health Service).

Brian Welle 

Brian Welle, Vice President of People Analytics and Performance Management at Google, firmly believes in the veracity of this equation: (in-depth understanding of human behavior) + (carefully-crafted experiments) + (strong measurement and analytics) = (effective people practices). Fortunately, his role at Google allows him & his team to run that equation, and thus strengthen Google's people practices and help make Google a great place to work. Over the last 15+ years, Brian and his team of social scientists have conducted research on employee sentiment, leadership, collaboration, productivity, and well-being -- and partnered with colleagues across People Operations to translate insight into action. Highlights include creating a social-science incubator called the PiLab, launching a longitudinal study of how careers develop & can be optimized over time (the gDNA survey), and creating a science-based unconscious bias workshop to enable Googlers to make better, bias-free decisions. Prior to Google, Brian was a research director at Catalyst and a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from New York University. 

Jean-Claude Le Grand

As Chief Human Relations Officer for L’Oréal, Jean-Claude Le Grand has spent his entire career in Human Resources. He joined L’Oréal in 1996 where he was successively Business HR Director, followed by Country and then Divisional HR Director, before being appointed Group Global Recruitment Director. From 2012 to 2018, he was Head of International Development for HR and Corporate Diversity Director.  

Committed to diversity, parity and inclusion from an early stage, he created L’Oréal’s Global Diversity Department in 2006. He was appointed a member of the Committee for the Measurement of Diversity and the Fight against Discrimination (COMEDD), and a member of the High Council of Equality between men and women (HCE). In 2018 he joined Korn Ferry’s Advisory Board and in 2020 the Board of Directors for the FNEGE.  

A graduate of the Institute of Political Studies of Aix-en-Provence, he also holds a postgraduate diploma in HR from Paris Dauphine. In 2012 he was awarded the Legion of Honour. He is married and has 4 children.