Leaders’ Live 2023

One of our two hosts, Camilla joined Maximus in 2022 and is a Self Employment Business Manager in Employability working under the Restart contract in London. Camilla is one of our top-performing managers, achieving a staggering 100% engagement score in this year’s employee survey. 

Our event host alongside Camilla, Scott’s a former physio who’s worked for several football clubs including Manchester City and Newcastle United. Scott now works within a different type of team, managing 21 colleagues as a Remote Assessment Manager. Scott is also based in Stirling, Scotland. 

Stephen joins us for the ‘Be a Productivity Ninja’ session. He helps leaders create organisations that light people up. Following the lead from Ricardo Semler's "Maverick" and Henry Stewarts' "The Happy Manifesto", he’s spent the past 10 years helping organizations create happier workplaces.

Think Productive are a global team of real-life productivity experts and wellbeing champions who see a world where everyone practises ninja-level productivity – and where playful, productive momentum is the default setting, instead of stressed and busy.

Stephen is our Director of Talent & Development and joined us 5 years ago. Stephen has an extensive corporate background leading talent development programmes to achieve strategic objectives in highly regulated industries such as Retail, Healthcare and Energy.

One of three Talent and Development colleagues joining the event, Hayley is contagiously passionate about learning and boasts over 25 years’ experience. Hayley has a strong background management and leadership development, and coaching. Before Maximus, Hayley held similar roles at Bupa, Nestle, and Alliance and Leicester. 

Emma-Jane joined us 5 years ago and is currently our Customer Director, Assessments. She has a track record in developing effective relationships, operational management and delivering solutions to customer challenges.

David arrived at Maximus earlier this year and with a strong background in technology, having previously worked for BT and Vodafone. David now leads all things innovation and has played a key role in supporting the development of ideas via recent spark tank events. Outside of work, David has started a business to improve collaboration in workshops and meetings.

Joining in 2017, Hilary’s been at Maximus for over six years. For the last four years, Hilary’s taken up the role of Senior Leadership and Management Development Consultant, focusing her efforts on developing our leadership community. 

Mo joined Maximus in 2021 and works in the Talent and Development Team. He’s dedicated and passionate and boasts nearly thirteen years’ experience in the learning and development industry. Mo consults, designs, delivers, and evaluates learning solutions for our managers and senior leaders. 

Amber is our Head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) and an award-winning DE&I and wellbeing expert. Joining in May 2022, Amber previously held senior DE&I positions within civil service departments, such as Department of Health and Social Care and Government Equalities Office. Amber is passionate about enabling organisations with people from diverse backgrounds to excel.  

Emma, our DEI Specialist in Communications and Engagement, joined Maximus in 2018, with a background as a Chatbot Developer in the Digital Team and Customer Coordinator in our Employability Division. Her journey from leveraging Behavioural Science Principles in marketing automation to spearheading DEI innovations reflects a blend of her passions in technology innovation as well as transforming DEI practices at Maximus. Emma is also the current Vice Chair of MaxWomen and has been on the board since 2020.

Gethin is CIO at Benefex and has worked in HR Tech for more than 20 years. He’s a multi-award winning Psychologist, member of the All Party Parliamentary Committee on the Future of Employability and a frequent speaker, guest lecturer and writer on the subjects of global wellbeing, engagement, HR, employee experience, benefits and financial wellbeing.

Beth became Director of Business Development and Growth in October 2018. Her role is to lead the growth of existing business operations and to develop new service lines for Maximus in the UK. 

The newest member of our Country Leadership Team, Adam joined Maximus in July 2023, bringing 30 years’ industry experience and a solid background in client relationship management, go-to-market strategy development, and operational delivery.

Fiona is responsible for all aspects of Technology across our UK operations ensuring we have the right technology to deliver services to our customers. 

Margaret joined the business in 2020. She was appointed Managing Director for our Health Division after serving as Chief Operating Officer and Co-chair for the Inclusion and Diversity board. 

Joining the business in 2015, Martin oversees all external communications and marketing, including public affairs and stakeholder relations. 

Working as a Health Care Practitioner in our Assessments Division, Natira has been with Maximus since 2017. Natira was recently awarded the Rising Star Award this year’s Clinical Conferences for her hard work, dedication, and customer focused approach. 

Danielle’s spent 8 years at Connect and is a front line and service user expert, thanks to doing ‘everything and anything’ around the contact centre, from team leading to client development. Working alongside some of the UKs largest charities, such as Mind and The British Red Cross, Danielle’s role mostly involves exploring how Connect can adapt and develop to the ever-changing needs of its service users.

Paul joined BeeZee Bodies in 2021 and is the Men's Health & Wellbeing Lead, responsible for the Gutless Programme. Gutless is a weight loss and behaviour change course for men, teaching them about nutrition and behavioural science to help them take charge of their health, without giving up the things they love.

Shammy joined Maximus in 2021 and believes in delivering excellent customer service whilst doing as much as possible to achieve the best end result for everyone. His previous experience includes 21 years in retail at B&M where he honed his customer service skills and faced the challenge of Covid-19 on the front line.

Keith is responsible for developing our people strategy and ensuring we continue to offer career opportunities that attract, develop, and engage colleagues across the business. 

Elaine leads the HR function after joining as HR Director in 2016. After spending the first four years covering Assessments, Elaine has been responsible for HR operations UK-wide for the last three years. Before Maximus, Elaine worked for BMI Healthcare, Cadburys, and Marriott Hotels. Elaine’s passionate about people and has recently been instrumental in improving our colleague onboarding. 

Leaha joined Connect in 2012 straight from university. Leaha’s worked her way up to Head of Contact Centre Services and is now responsible for almost 200 people, as well as leading the overall running of our Connect contact centres.  

Having joined Maximus in 2020, Maz works as a Business Manager from in our Havering office in East London. Maz is one of our top-performing managers with an 85% score in this year’s engagement survey. Maz manages a team of five and has recently taken on 18 more colleagues.      

Penny is our UK Business Support Director and has been with us for over 5 years. She’s a passionate chair of the MaxWomen Network and also DEI Business Lead. Penny has a wealth of experience in commercial operations in the leisure and wellbeing sector

Guy is our Chief Operating Officer and joined us almost 3 years ago. Guy is responsible for 29 contracts across the UK and 1,800 colleagues. He has a track record of excellence in operational management and leadership within Public Sector Contracting and service delivery.

James joined our Assessments Division as Operations Director in May 2017 and was appointed Programme Director in April 2018.