Dr Clenton Farquharson CBE is a nationally recognised leader in adult social care, disability justice, and lived experience led system reform. Born of frustration with systems that too often manage need rather than support lives, and powered by hope in people and communities, Clenton works to make co-production, equity, and dignity real in social care not as principles on paper, but as everyday practice. He works at the intersection of policy, practice, and lived experience, supporting leaders to make principled decisions in complex and constrained systems by aligning culture, commissioning, workforce practice, and governance around what matters most to people. Clenton is Co-Chair of the Timms Review of Personal Independence Payment (PIP), shaping thinking on how disability benefits can better enable independence, dignity, and participation. He is also a member of the Expert Reference Group for the Review of Social Work Regulation. As Associate Director at Think Local Act Personal (TLAP), his work centres lived experience as “data with soul” essential intelligence for designing fairer, more effective, and more sustainable systems.

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Martina Queally has over 30 years’ health service leadership experience with particular expertise in strategic change management in public services and integrated service delivery. Since 2015, as Chief Officer in HSE Community Healthcare East, she has led the planning and delivery of all community health services in the area (South Dublin and Wicklow), a range of national programmes, and a combined HSE and voluntary workforce of nearly 4000 staff. She has led a range of change, crisis and service transformation programmes, including the Area Crisis Management Team through the COVID-19 pandemic response and vaccination programme. In 2011 as Integrated Services Area Manager for Dublin South East Wicklow she amalgamated three community health services and an acute hospital network, and in 2005 she led the establishment of the Local Health Office structure in Kildare and West Wicklow. Martina trained as a Registered General Nurse before qualifying as a Midwife and Public Health Nurse. She graduated with a M.Sc. in Heath services management from Trinity College Dublin in 2002. Her graduate work focused on the development of strategic, integrated approaches to health promotion within the Irish Health System. Martina has completed further study in areas of quality and service improvement and is a qualified executive coach and mentor. Martina commenced her role as Regional Executive Officer in HSE Dublin and South East on January 29th 2024. HSE Dublin and South East will serve the people of Carlow, Kilkenny, South Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford, East Wicklow and parts of South Dublin.

Thea Stein is currently the CEO of the Nuffield Trust – a health and social care think tank. She started her career as a clinical psychologist and family therapist, before moving into leadership within the public sector in both England and Scotland. Thea has held several CEO positions: Carer’s Trust, a UK wide charity supporting carers, Yorkshire Forward, a regional economic development agency, and most recently CEO of the Leeds Community Healthcare Trust for 9 years , where she led a range of work looking to integrate services across primary, community and third sector organisations. Thea has also held a number of non-executive roles in housing organisations and academia, and is currently a Fellow of the Royal College of GPs and a Visiting senior lecturer at the University of Manchester.