Kerry Lockyer
Sponsor & Speaker Liaison
Kerry's Role
Kerry is part of the Speaker Support team, a role that she also delivered in 2023. As a 2022 speaker, she’s ideally placed to understand what our speaker cohort will be feeling and provide some personal mentoring and logistical support. 2025 also sees Kerry get involve in the Stakeholder team, helping to generate new connections with potential event sponsors and then looking after them on the night.
Work
Kerry is an award–winning, CIPD L7 qualified Learning and Development expert and Professional Speaker. She is fascinated by people and what makes them tick, which was the focus of her TEDx talk in June 2022. After a very successful 25 year career, Kerry founded Oomph Learning and Development Ltd in 2019. She partners with public and private sector organisations, as well as high street and global brands, to help them develop their talent, particularly around Team, Leadership and Sales Development. She’s a Licensed Insights Practitioner, Accredited Clarity4D Business Partner and NLP Practitioner and loves to use these powerful tools to help people understand themselves (and each other).
Play
Travelling and hanging out with friends and family! Her friends and family are the most important things in the world and you’ll mostly find them outside chatting by the fire pit!
In her spare time, Kerry supports local organisations she is passionate about. She has a particular passion for working with young people and is proud to have been supporting Kriss Akabusi on his Project Mackenzie programme for the last four years, which aims to improve outcomes for young people transitioning out of the care system. She’s also a volunteer mentor for The Girls Network.
Lesser-Known Fact
Her husband and a few close friends founded and created Sandymoor School under the Governments Free Schools Programme, so that her own children, as well as others in the community, could benefit from a brand new secondary school locally.