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Keynote SpeakerSophie Bialaszewski

Head of Innovation Culture, Events & FinTech Collaboration, Lloyds Banking Group

Sophie Bialaszewski is a leader in the fields of people, productivity, culture, and innovation. She has been recognised in the ‘Women in FinTech Power list’ for four consecutive years, a finalist in the ‘Women in Banking and Finance’ awards and has been featured in Forbes celebrating women in leadership. She... Read More

Biography

Sophie Bialaszewski is a leader in the fields of people, productivity, culture, and innovation. She has been recognised in the ‘Women in FinTech Power list’ for four consecutive years, a finalist in the ‘Women in Banking and Finance’ awards and has been featured in Forbes celebrating women in leadership. She has delivered talks and workshops in the House of Commons, Lloyds Banking Group, Unilever, Philips, the Post Office and at many conferences including London Tech Week and Innovation Roundtable.

Sophie’s unique background means she is able to bring together policy, campaigns and human centred design to bring a new approach to unlocking the potential of organisations.

As a founding member of the first digital innovation lab leadership team at Lloyd’s Banking Group (LBG) she built and grew the first innovation culture team; running innovation events (circa 15,000 participants) that developed MVPs across insurance , community banking and audit with one in three ideas scaled. Sophie built the first innovation ecosystem with partnerships with global accelerators and coordinated joint government and LBG open innovation challenges for financial literacy.

Sophie Bialaszewski leads the people and capability strategy for enterprise transformation helping people to transition to new ways of working and bringing a happiness advantage into the organisation through positive psychology.

Her strengths are her enthusiasm, ability to connect with others and turning insight and strategy in to action and great experiences for colleagues. Sophie developed the colleague wellbeing journey within enterprise and most recently created the This Is Me canvas that has helped thousands of colleagues become more confident as they understand their best and activate it.

Sophie delivers exciting and thought-provoking presentations at events, round tables and for corporate training. Sophie offers a fresh perspective by combining theory and experience that helps the audience gain an understating into ‘how’ they can apply her ideas in their own organisations. This is why audiences find Sophie’s talks both motivational and useful.

Most recently Sophie Bialaszewski has been host of and spoken at virtual events, her fun style and enthusiasm works incredibly well for virtual events and training.

“You’re very inspiring, thanks for sharing all your knowledge with so much enthusiasm today. Great delivery style, relaxed, engaging and fun! I would love to attend any future sessions you deliver”
“Please do a TED video so I can share with my family!”
“The pace and delivery of the session was fantastic. Giving the audience the information and rapid action points help to cut through the fluff when trying to understand what matters and who you truly are. I found it really inspirational and if I have an ounce of your enthusiasm it would be amazing. Thank you so much”
“Sophie was so enthusiastic, passionate and knowledgeable about the content. Very impressive”
“It was wonderful, one of the best development courses I have ever done (and I have done loads)!”
“Superb workshop, I found you super engaging, loved the flow (good pace), great mix of theory/real life/practical tasks – will definitely be recommending to all of my colleagues!”
“Thoroughly enjoyable and excellent session, very well presented and thought provoking. Thank You!”

Popular Talks by Sophie Bialaszewski

  • Transforming ways of working
  • Innovation
  • Culture and change
  • Career, learning and development
  • Happiness at work
  • Unlocking and activating potential
  • Women in leadership