Leadership Excellence & Learning to Learn

Meet Carina Paine-Schofield, PhD

Carina is the director of Hult’s Leadership Impact Lab. She is a highly experienced researcher whose research interests are in the areas of psychology (organizational, educational, social, and developmental) and technology (AI and the effective use of technology in enhancing learning and teaching).

Carina's first degree was in Applied Psychology and Computing. Following this, she gained a postgraduate diploma in Psychology and a PhD in Psychology from The Open University. She is a member of the British Psychological Society.

The nature of Carina's research experience is interdisciplinary in terms of its strong link between theoretical and applied social science research in a number of settings. She has presented at various national and international conferences in the disciplines of both psychology and computing and has also presented her research as an invited speaker on several occasions to practitioners and policymakers. She has published papers in the areas of psychology, education, computing, and online research.

Carina conducted research into the global multi-generation workforce for over a decade. This research resulted in numerous authored articles (academic and practitioner); workshops and conference presentations, and copious press coverage (print, radio, and television). Her current research focuses on exploring the psychological challenges and experiences of working parents from an organizational perspective and investigating the impact of technology on the learning landscape.

Dr. Eve Poole, OBE

Eve Poole is a Visiting Fellow of the Leadership Lab and serves on the Hult EF Global Advisory Council. She is also Executive Chair of the Woodard Corporation.

Dr. Poole has a BA from Durham, an MBA from Edinburgh, and a PhD from Cambridge. She has written several books, including Robot Souls and Leadersmithing, which are the subject of popular TEDx talks. For 15 years, she taught Leadership at Ashridge, after working for the Church Commissioners and for Deloitte Consulting, where she specialized in change management for the financial services sector.

She has been Interim CEO of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Third Church Estates Commissioner for England, and the first female Chairman of Gordonstoun. In 2023, she was awarded an OBE for services to education and gender equality.

René Carayol, MBE

René is an inspirational speaker, who specializes in leadership, inclusion, and cultural transformation. Over the years, he has advised leaders such as Mikhail Gorbachev and Tony Blair, as well as some of the world’s top CEOs. Much of his recent work focuses on diversity and inclusion and inclusive leadership. As an international speaker, René speaks with the authority and confidence of an expert leader who has seen and experienced it all before.

René draws much from his own unique lived experiences of being in the boardrooms of some of the world's largest international companies, from Marks and Spencer and Pepsi, to IPC Media and Barclays.