7 & 8 October 2025, NEC Birmingham
3 & 4 February 2026, Olympia London

Craig Hamill & Laura Overton

Craig Hamill
Senior Customer Success Manager, Go1

Craig has 20 years’ experience working in Learning & Development as a Head of Learning and Development working with and for learning providers and has worked as a learning consultant for The Learning and Performance Institute (global professional body) with a Masters in Human Resource Development. As an experienced Senior Customer Success Manager, Craig has worked with global enterprise customers of all sizes and from different verticals focusing on ROI/ROE, and has extensive consultative experience working with global customers to define and implement strategical objectives, aligning solutions to ensure continuous adoption and high levels of engagement.

Craig is presenting free seminars at the World of Learning exhibition

Smarter ways for cultivating learning in workplace communities
12pm Tuesday 11th October

Learning in teams – the vital role of the manager
13:45 Tuesday 11th October

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Laura Overton
Co-Founder, Emerging Stronger

Laura is an award-winning learning analyst dedicated to uncovering and sharing effective practices in learning innovation that lead to business value. The author of over 40 reports and hundreds of articles, her work is based on 35 years of practical experience and a commitment to supporting evidence-based learning decisions. Committed to surfacing and sharing collective wisdom, Laura established #Learningchangemakers and is a co-founder of Emerging Stronger, global initiatives to support the changing world of workplace learning.As the founder and original CEO of Towards Maturity, she is also known for leading a 15-year longitudinal study programme (2004 – 2019) with thousands of Learning leaders and workers around the globe to uncover and share learning strategies that lead to business success.In the UK, Laura is an Academic Fellow of the CIPD and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In the last decade, she was the first woman to be awarded the Learning and Performance Institute’s prestigious Colin Corder Award for services to training and was the recipient of the inaugural elearning age Special Achievement award at the Learning Technology awards. Since 2014 she has been consistently recognised as a significant global influencer of workplace learning trends.

Laura is presenting a free seminar at the World of Learning exhibition

Learning in teams – the vital role of the manager
13:45 Tuesday 11th October

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