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Helen’s purpose is to demonstrate new ways of working, where the wellbeing of people and colleagues’ matter, in ways where communities benefit. This has to start with compassion, for ourselves, each other and together in communities.

Helen is the founder of Helen Sanderson Associates, an international training and development consultancy and Wellbeing Teams, a provider organisation rated Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission. She is also co-founder of the charity Community Circles, creating solutions to loneliness together.

Helen is one of 50 New Radicals in the UK, and is award winning for innovation in health and care and value-based recruitment. Helen was the Department of Health’s expert advisor on person-centred approaches for 10 years and is the author of over twenty books and is a TedX speaker.

Irma Borde is a policy officer in Directorate-General Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission. She works in the Unit that provides policy guidance and develops actions at EU level aiming at combating poverty, social exclusion and economic inequalities. She was involved in the preparation and negotiations of the EU Directive on Work-Life Balance, the European Child Guarantee and recently – the Recommendation on adequate minimum income. Before joining the European Commission, she worked in Poland in the Managing Authority for the European Social Fund.

Anne-Marie Glasby is a Senior Development Officer with the rights-based organisation, Changing Our Lives, and a former nurse working with people with learning disabilities.  She was a member of the NIHR-funded research team based at the University of Birmingham which conducted the ‘Why are we stuck in hospital’ study, exploring ways to support more people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people to leave long-stay hospitals and lead more ordinary lives in the community

Linda Weir joined the Health Information and Quality Authority in 2007 and has worked in a number of teams across the organisation in that time. She is currently a Programme Manager for Health and Social Care Standards in HIQA’s Health Information and Standards Directorate, managing a team responsible for developing national standards and implementation support tools for health and social care services. Linda has overseen the development of national standards in the areas of maternity services, adult safeguarding, infection prevention and control, and children’s social services. She led the development and implementation of a principles-based approach to the development of national standards, focusing on outcomes for people using health and social care services.  She holds an honours degree in Government and Public Policy and a Masters in Public Health and Epidemiology from University College Cork.