Laura is a EMCC accredited Executive and Leadership coach, with 10+ years' experience in leadership and management roles in Procurement & Supply Chain businesses, supporting Procurement teams to deliver value through employee engagement and change management initiatives. Laura has broad experience of working across global organisations in both the private and public sector, both in the UK and in Europe, gaining invaluable business, cultural and multilingual experience across large teams.

Laura delivers bespoke coaching & leadership development programmes for Procurement leaders & their teams, blending 1:1 and team approaches to support them in driving a greater strategic impact within their organisation. In her work, Laura holds a judgement-free and confidential space for CPOs and Procurement Leaders, partnering with them & their Procurement teams to increase their self-awareness, soft skills and confidence, so that they can increase their impact within their organisation in a way that supports their wellbeing.

As Global CEO of one of the world’s fastest growing non-profits, Sally’s mission is to inspire and support the World Commerce & Contracting (World CC) team and global community to collectively drive recognition and excellence in Commercial and Contract Management.

She is an experienced and accomplished commercial and contracts management professional, holding senior commercial positions at a range of corporate and multi-national organizations. Her focus is on the creation of positive and successful business relationships, constantly striving to ensure that businesses realize their true potential and value.

In 2019 Sally was invited to become Chair of the Board for the Open Contracting Partnership (OCP) and in 2021 she was appointed Professor in Practice in Strategy and Innovation at the University of Durham Business School.

Ian Schollar is the Head of CIPS Business Study Centre at CIPS and has had a progressive career in procurement and commercial roles spanning over 30 years in both public and private sectors. He started his career with Mallory Batteries (Duracell) in 1983, before spending 15 years working within both central and local public sector organisations. He was responsible for procuring a diverse range of categories from breathing apparatus for fire fighters to high tech radar systems for air traffic controllers.

In 1998, Ian became a Senior Advisor for Crown Agents, an International Development Agency. He was project lead on numerous capacity building projects working in Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and Eastern Europe and headed up the procurement and supply chain training at their Training Centre. Ian has worked at CIPS since 2005 and has a particular passion for professional development. Ian is a Fellow of CIPS and holds a Master’s Degree in Management, Learning and Leadership from Lancaster University Management School.

whatimpact.com is a National Social Value Marketplace that enables suppliers to the public sector easily connect with hyper-local VCSEs (charities, social enterprises, and community groups) that meet specific social value criteria.
For private sector companies, our platform provides VCSE partnership tracking, validated impact reporting and a volunteering management system. For public sector organisations, whatimpact.com offers social value management and grant management systems tailored to procurement needs.
In addition, whatimpact serves as a think tank, conducting ongoing research into social value from multiple perspectives. Our company has published white papers, guides, and educational content to support its mission: reducing the cost of social value delivery while maximising its impact.
At our core, whatimpact champions equal opportunity, reflecting this in our platform design, hiring practices, and collaborative approach. By fostering diversity and cross-sector partnerships, whatimpact drives meaningful social and environmental change.

David is a globally recognised procurement leader specialising in using his experience of Digital-era methods to modernise public procurement. He is respected for his notable work applying agile ways of working to public procurement, AI procurement, moving from ‘spending’ to ‘investing' public money through public procurement and contracting and helping organisations improve their market engagement approaches ensuring contract exit is thought through from the start.

He has advised and led some of the most innovative digital and technology procurement activities of recent times in the UK Public Sector and overseas governments, centred around the needs of all users, being an expert on all Digital, Data and Technology commercial-procurement and public procurement’s link to the well-being of future generations.

As the National Head of Public Sector at Trowers & Hamlin, Amardeep is a recognised expert advising all levels of government, public bodies and UK and international businesses on transformation and business critical projects, including joint ventures, public/private partnerships, complex supply chain arrangements, regulatory matters and large-scale procurement exercises.

He has extensive experience across a range of sectors including digital technology, leisure, transport, health, logistics waste, major events, housing, education, outsourcing, regeneration and aviation.

With over a decade of sales and customer experience, Ashley is currently managing Customer Business Revenue and is Head of Members for Public Sector at Social Value Portal. His mission is to drive sustainable growth, leveraging his expertise in strategic account management, new business sales and client relationship building.

Dan Ebanks is a respected and recognised leader in Social Value.

Before creating the Social Value Exchange and the country’s leading Social Value brokerage platform, Match My Project, Dan had a 15 year career in management consultancy, advising clients in UK central, regional and local government.

Dan recognised that the Social Value Act represented a qualitative break with previous value for money public policy and saw an opportunity to disrupt traditional procurement processes with modern digital technologies.

In his present role Phil is responsible for supporting the FSB's volunteer activists and other small business members, and representing their policy positions and other interests in Merseyside and Cheshire. This includes chairing the Liverpool City Region Business Group of leading membership organisations and representing FSB in the media. He also project manages the development of the FSB's various activities. He has regularly represented the FSB on television and radio, notable appearances being the BBC’s Panorama, The One Show, Working Lunch, BBC News, Sky News and BBC Radio Four and Five.

Michael Page has five decades of expertise in professional services recruitment. We were established in London in 1976, and over this period we've grown organically to become one of the best-known and most respected consultancies, with an office network spanning six continents

Grahame joined BiP Solutions in 2003 as Production Director with responsibility for the multi-disciplined media and production department, including Content, Research and Distribution. Prior to that, he worked in various senior editorial and publishing roles for the media company EMAP plc.

Grahame was appointed Deputy Chief Operating Officer of the BI Division in May 2012 and became Sales & Marketing Director in May 2016 with overall responsibility for driving revenues through private and public sector sales, marketing and events teams.

In January 2017, Grahame was appointed Managing Director of the Media and Marketing Solutions division of the BiP Group. In this role he assumed overall responsibility for two of BiP Group’s recent acquisitions – Pro Mark Media and Ingenium – as well as BiP Solutions’ events and training portfolio.

Following a restructure of BiP Group in April 2018, Grahame was appointed Sales and Marketing Director for the Business Intelligence and Public Sector business units, before subsequently being appointed Director of Public Policy, Research and Communications in 2023.