Derek Bruce is a Head of Learning, Leadership and Talent Development, with a great background in improving employee experiences, consultancy, and business transformation. This has come from working with market-leading global organizations in the Fashion, Financial Services, Media, Retail and Technology industries.

Derek’s experience of working on successful leadership, learning and talent development transformations in the UK, Europe, the Americas, and Asia has ensured he is able to adapt his style to suit different cultures.

Derek is currently working for Signify as a Director of Leadership Development. Within this role, he focuses on three areas; deploying business-related centralised learning programs for leaders; providing consultancy services to management teams and HR to address business needs, and be the organisations thought leader on leadership development.

Derek is also the Founder of Derek Bruce Associates, an organisation started in 2018 which provides coaching and learning and development consultancy. He also initiated and runs the Extraordinary Mentors Network, a mentorship program that provides People of Colour with Mentors.

Derek is Myers Briggs Type II certified, NLP Practitioner, and a Scrum Master.

Outside of work, Derek is married to Floriana, and his passions are men’s fashion, riding motorbikes, playing, and watching football, films and travelling.