Stephen Bevan
Stephen joined The Work Foundation in 2002 and is Director of Research. He has previously worked at Ashridge Management College and at The Institute for Employment Studies at the University of Sussex.
His areas of expertise include reward systems, employee engagement, retention, absence and well-being, work organisation and job design. He directed The Work Foundation’s ‘Cracking the Performance Code’ research and is currently investigating the relationship between workplace health and productivity. Stephen manages a multi-disciplinary team of 18 researchers working across four major programmes of work.
Stephen has carried out research & consultancy for the No. 10 Policy Unit, HM Treasury, the Cabinet Office and the European Commission. He has also worked for many ‘blue-chip’ employers and several research councils and charitable trusts. He has written and spoken widely about The Work Foundation’s research, both in the UK and overseas. He is on the Council of the HR Society.
Will Hutton
Will Hutton is Chief Executive of The Work Foundation. He began his career as a stockbroker and investment analyst, before working in BBC TV and radio as a producer and reporter. Prior to joining The Work Foundation, Will spent four years as editor in chief of the Observer and he continues to write a weekly column for the paper.
Will has written several best-selling economic books including The World We’re In, The State We’re In, The State to Come, The Stakeholding Society and On The Edge with Anthony Giddens. In addition, he won the Political Journalist of the Year award in 1993.
In 2004, Will was invited by the EU Commission to join a High-level Group on the mid-term review of the Lisbon strategy and he acted as rapporteur for the report.
Other roles Will performs outside The Work Foundation include: Governor of the London School of Economics; Honorary Fellow, Mansfield College, Oxford; Visiting Professor, Manchester University Business School and Bristol University and is a member of the Scott Trust. He is also a Fellow of the Sunningdale Institute.
Will’s latest book, The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st Century, was published in the UK in January 2007 by Little, Brown.
Nick Isles
Nick is Director of Advocacy and Marketing at The Work Foundation. He has previously run his own public affairs and communications consultancy and was for three years director of development at the Employment Policy Institute an independent labour market think tank. He was general editor of Enterprising Europe published in 2002 and author of several reports on subjects as diverse as work and well-being and CEO pay.
Bjorn Pysander
Bjorn joined The Work Foundation on the 1 October 2005 as Director of Finance and Operations. He has a bachelor degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Uppsala, Sweden. After graduating in 1987 he spent the last 10 years working as a financial director at board level for fast growing knowledge intensive SME companies.
Lynne Thomas
Lynne joined The Work Foundation in 2006 and was appointed Director of Practice in 2007.
Lynne specialises in executing strategy, improving organisational performance and rescuing failed initiatives. She has more than twenty years business consulting experience in the UK, USA and Asia-Pacific. Lynne has consulted to the executive and boards of major players in the private, public and third sectors.
Lynne's areas of expertise include; organisation, role and job design (she previously held the position of Global Competency Leader for Organisational Design for a leading consultancy firm), enterprise-wide change programme design and management, strategy testing for organisational capability, leadership cohesion and clarity and risk management.