Julie Tague is Director of Savings and Improvement at the UK House of Commons, where she leads programmes focused on financial sustainability, organisational performance, and delivery in one of the UK’s most high-profile institutions.

Julie has over 20 years’ experience working across the public sector, including senior leadership roles in the Cabinet Office, Ministry of Defence, DCMS and the DSIT. Her career has centred on leading large-scale people and change programmes in complex, high-pressure environments.

Across these roles, Julie has supported organisations and leaders to navigate ambiguity, reshape ways of working, and deliver change while maintaining trust and credibility. She is known for her practical, human approach to leadership and for helping teams adapt and perform when the stakes are high and the path isn’t straightforward.

Laura is the Head of Economic Crime at Clue Software, bringing over 20 years of expertise in counter fraud and economic crime to support organisations in strengthening their fraud risk assessments and implementing best practices.

With extensive tactical and strategic experience, Laura plays a critical role in shaping Clue’s future development, particularly in economic crime. Prior to joining Clue, Laura spent a decade at the Cabinet Office, where she served as Deputy Director at the Public Sector Fraud Authority, helping to shape UK government policies on fraud prevention, professionalisation and insider threats, and prior to this led fraud and financial investigations within the Ministry of Justice.   

Molly Ellis is a passionate advocate for change, shaped by her own journey of rebuilding after adversity. Through discipline, mentorship, and resilience, she transformed her life—and now helps others do the same.

Molly partners with prisons, police, and local authorities to break cycles of violence, poverty, and reoffending. Her work includes structured sports programs, employment pathways, trauma-informed mentorship, and financial literacy workshops—empowering people from disadvantaged backgrounds to reclaim their futures. 

Sandra Pinnington is a globally trained Executive and Systemic Team Coach with over 30 years’ experience helping leaders build accountability, unlock potential and deliver meaningful commercial results. She works with leaders and teams to create clarity, ownership, and momentum, particularly in complex, high-pressure environments. She has over 12 years experience supporting female leadership through the Women Leaders Association.

Her approach combines real-world business experience, leadership psychology, and practical coaching frameworks, positioning coaching as a commercial lever rather than a “soft” intervention. Clients value her ability to create insight quickly, challenge constructively and drive measurable change. 

Benedicta is a Creative Practice Director and founder of Golden Sankofa, a social enterprise dedicated to transforming places and spaces that nurture community wellbeing, belonging and ownership.

After a decade in local government, leading transformative projects from Camden's Neighbourhood Spaces programme to post-Grenfell community assets portfolio, she experienced burnout and anxiety that became a turning point. She left local government in 2022 and in 2024, she followed her dream of becoming a social entrepreneur, channeling her expertise in co-design and place-based transformation into work centered on authentic human connection. Her practice weaves strategic thinking with soul-nourishing experiences; community dinners, retreats, and participatory workshops that honor diverse ways of being and knowing. 

Jess Harman is an Executive Coach Practitioner and the founder of Authentic Self Coaching & Consultancy, where she specialises in Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG) for women in leadership.

With over two decades of senior leadership, education and coaching experience within the healthcare sector, Jess brings a powerful combination of professional credibility and psychological expert-by-experience insight. Her work focuses on the often unspoken cost of leadership, identity loss, burnout, toxic cultures and the cumulative impact of everyday trauma.

Jess supports women to move beyond survival, reconnect with their authentic selves and redefine leadership on their own terms. Her approach is compassionate, trauma-informed and transformational, helping women grow through adversity rather than being defined by it.

Her message is clear and deeply human: resilience keeps us going... but Post-Traumatic Growth is what allows us to move forward, aligned, whole and unapologetically ourselves.

Heather Cover-Kus works to represent the supplier community of tech products and services to Central Government, encouraging effective market engagement between suppliers and buyers, and supporting the transformational power of tech in public service delivery. She is a big advocate for appropriate and meaningful social value in public procurement.

Prior to joining techUK in April 2022 as Head of Central Government Programme, Heather worked in the Economic Policy and Small States Section at the Commonwealth Secretariat. She led the organisation’s FinTech programme and worked to create an enabling environment for developing countries to take advantage of the socio-economic benefits of FinTech.

Before moving to the UK, Heather worked at the Office of the Prime Minister of The Bahamas and the Central Bank of The Bahamas. Heather holds a Graduate Diploma in Law from BPP, a Masters in Public Administration (MPA) from LSE, and a BA in Economics and Sociology from Macalester College.

Sumitra is a Deputy Director at the Ministry of Justice within Justice Data, where she oversees the Data Science and AI profession alongside her role. She previously held roles at the Home Office and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. As a technologist with over 20 years of experience in digital, technology and data across private and public sector, Sumitra has led talented teams of technical professionals. She is a keen advocate for innovation, inclusion and responsible adoption of AI. Sumitra is particularly passionate about increasing representation of women in technology and believes the AI era presents a generational opportunity to broaden participation and reshape the future of the profession.