Christelle Heikkila started her working life interacting with people from all walks of life as a retail pharmacist. She then took a different career path into technology, starting as an Accenture IT Consultant working in the Retail and Entertainment industries. Afterwards she joined Sainsbury’s and onto Superdrug before swapping health and beauty for football as the IT Director of Arsenal Football Club.
There is so much hype about new technology nowadays it seems the fact people are central to their success has been forgotten. Drawing on her extensive experience of landing new technology to enable business transformation, the common theme of all Christelle’s speaking is that people still matter.
Christelle has excellent insight into many areas of technology and can cover topics as diverse as digital transformation, technology procurement and cyber security culture. With her personal knowledge of (sometimes unsuccessfully) implementing newer solutions she can also present on AI and process automation.
Christelle is drama-school trained so knows how to entertain an audience. She is a natural storyteller with a wealth of anecdotes to draw on from her real-life experiences working in drugs to lipstick to football.
Public speaking engagements have included key-note speeches, facilitation of full day technology-themed events and workshops, round-table and panel hosting, “This Is Your Life”-style interviewing and judging IT awards.
