LONDON EVENT - SPEAKERS

Guy Osmond
Osmond Ergonomics

Guy has been working for nearly fifty years and in ergonomics and wellbeing for over thirty. Along the way, he has learned an enormous amount about people, performance, culture, workplace and engagement. Unfortunately, he has forgotten most of it but still has quite a lot to say about almost anything.

Jim Taylour

Jim Taylour, is Head of Ergonomics and Wellbeing at Orangebox, the design-led office furniture manufacturers based in South Wales, UK.  

Jim trained as a furniture designer and is a Chartered Ergonomist. He has worked in the office furniture industry for 35 years, both in a specialised occupational health capacity and in mainstream workplace design, ergonomics and research. Jim has published a number of papers on the relationship between physical and psychological workplace wellbeing and appropriately deployed workspaces and technology. Jim also co-chairs the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors special interest group on office ergonomics and helps to represent the industry in harmonisation of furniture standards across Europe through the British Standards Institute.  

Rosie Russell
Rosie is a Co-President of IIRSM and has spent much of the last 30 years in and around laboratories in Universities, Biotech/Pharma Companies and Research Institutes. She has worked as a Research Chemist, Lab Manager and, for the last 20 years, in Environment, Health and Safety Roles. She takes a ‘whole person’ view of health, safety, and wellbeing, saying that ‘Wellbeing is more than your physical health; it must encompass your mental health and who you are as a person. After all, how can you have positive wellbeing if you are not in the right frame of mind?’ She believes that the ‘traditional’ workplace, while designed to be a ‘one size fits all’, is, for the most part, a ‘one size fits none’ as we employ people, not automata.

Kirsty Angerer
Kirsty has spent over 10 years working Internationally in the Workplace & Real Estate sectors. Most recently, as Development Director at Leesman, the world leader in measuring and analysing employees' experiences in their places of work. She is a Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE), a Fitwel Ambassador, and an active member in the WELL community, demonstrating her commitment to enhancing people's health and optimising their performance through evidence-based design and policy interventions. She leverages her deep understanding of the interactions among humans and workplace ecosystems to equip executives at all levels with informed, forward-thinking decisions that allow them to mitigate risk, plan for the future, and benefit from a great employee workplace experience.