The iRelaunch Virtual Career Fairs: Relaunch Your Career in UK and Europe

Simran joined iRelaunch as Director, Global Growth Markets in September 2022. Based in London - UK, Simran’s addition to the team has further expanded our international presence and fortified our position as truly global pioneers in the career re-entry space.

As a global HR leader, Simran brings diverse industry experience having held various leadership roles with multi-national organisations across the United Kingdom, Continental Europe and India. With her experience spanning across the HR spectrum within Talent Acquisition, Diversity and Inclusion, Leadership Development and Talent Management, she has a deep appreciation for the diverse talent challenges faced by large global organisations. In addition, Simran’s client-centricity and passion to impact business results, make her a strategic business partner and trusted advisor to C-suite executives.

In her prior role at Cognizant, a Fortune 200 organization with 300,000 employees, Simran was instrumental in conceptualising and designing their global flagship Return to Work program, thus making her a trusted partner for firms seeking to establish or further enhance a global corporate return to work program.

Leading policy and programmes for the UK Government Equalities Office, Nina specialises in workplace inclusion and enabling change through evidence-based action. With 10 years of experience driving culture change within complex organisations, she spearheads the government’s commitment to support returners - raising awareness of the returner talent pool and delivering programmes across the public and private sector. Before working at the GEO, Nina consulted on global transformation programmes across Financial Services for Accenture, and qualified as a secondary school science and psychology teacher through the Teach First Leadership Development Programme.

Olivia Djibo was recently appointed SLB Technology Diversity and Inclusion manager in 2022. She will implement strategies to cultivate diversity and inclusion inside the company’s technical community of 20,000 out of 100,000 employees. Olivia is a native of the Ivory Coast; She graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor of Engineering (2003) and a Master of Engineering both in Aeronautical Engineering (2005). Following several internships at SLB, she joined the Tech & Field program in 2006 and spent two years in the field in the region of Kalimantan, Indonesia. Upon her return to Houston, she was part of several in Engineering projects at SLB Sugar Land Technology Center. This is SLB’s center of excellence for Formation Evolution technology in Wireline and Drilling and Measurements applications. In 2018 she became a function head and started to manage the Sustaining department in the Sugar Land Center with a team of 85 employees. She takes an active part in mentoring junior engineers at SLB. In 2023 joined the board of Houston’s Buffalo Bayou Partnership. She serves on the DEIA and Environmental Stewardship committees.

As an adroit community organizer and passionate program builder, Julie Gardner is dedicated to co-creating and designing full lifecycle career related and employee engagement programs. She’d like to help build the human potential by supporting individuals and communities empower themselves to land where they'd like within their careers and to help advocate for diverse talent and inclusive programming. Julie’s 9+ years of experience include teaching, mentoring, and yes reverse mentoring, program development and management, unlearning and learning in diversity, equity, and inclusion, nonprofit management, and community engagement. She is driven by what's within her heart and it helps prioritize her decision making. Julie is a firm believer that if we all can learn to listen to one another then we can learn a thing or two and co-create some intention together!

Esme leads the EMEA Talent Acquisition team at Workday, supporting high growth across the EMEA region and working closely with the wider Global TA Leadership team. Alongside her EMEA role, Esme is also heavily involved in Workday’s Global TA Diversity strategy which is an area of significant focus as Workday looks for new ways and opportunities to increase the diversity of their workforce, putting DEI at the heart of everything that they do. Prior to joining Workday, Esme lead the EMEA Talent Acquisition team at Equinix, as well as having a global overlay role driving the Talent Strategy across their Data Centre Operations teams. During her time here she launched their successful Career Transition Partnership, focused on increasing the diversity of their Data Centre teams and supporting women to transition into the DC space. Esme is a mother to two young girls under 6, and is passionate about supporting working parents re-enter the workplace and excel in their chosen paths.

Brett is a Vice President in the Moody’s People Team where he is responsible for Early Careers and Programs Talent Acquisition. In this role, he leads the strategic direction and oversees the delivery of programs to attract and recruit students and recent graduates into the global organization. Brett also manages targeted recruitment programs at the mid-career level including RE-IGNITE, Moody’s initiative to hire and support individuals returning from a career break.

Prior to his current role, Brett led Campus Recruitment at Moody’s in both the US and EMEA. Before joining Talent Acquisition, Brett was a manager in the Events & Outreach Team at Moody’s Analytics where he was responsible for the events programming for credit rating research clients in the US.

Brett is a Steering Committee member of the EMEA Pride Business Resource Group (BRG) and previously served as a Co-Chair of the US Pride BRG, as well as represented Moody’s on the Board of Directors of OPEN Finance, a non-profit business league of over 40 US-headquartered financial institutions’ LGBTQ+ employee resource groups.

He earned his BFA from the Conservatory of Fine Arts at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri.