Gina Buckney is an industry-leading corporate wellbeing expert, who has enjoyed a successful career across the sectors of banking and IT. Having often worked in a male-dominated environment, Gina is passionate to see that women are given equal opportunity in business and promotes the importance of diversity. In partnership with her work as a corporate wellness expert, Gina is also highly sought as a motivational speaker for a variety of events. When booked as a speaker, Gina is able to share her expertise in corporate wellness, along with topics of diversity, women in business and inclusion.
Best known as a corporate wellness expert, Gina is currently the Managing Director of Your People are Your Power and is also the author of self-help books Journals For Life. Throughout her career, Gina has dominated the financial and IT sectors having previously worked for the likes of Barclays, Halifax and BT. Gina made headlines when working for BT, becoming the youngest person with the title of Contract Director and being awarded the UK’s largest Financial Service contract, at the young age of 27. With over 15 years of experience in corporate environments, Gina is able to explain how happier and healthier employees equal increased productivity.
Before forging her successful business career, Gina studied at the University of Chester and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Information Systems. She later went on to become qualified in The Principles of Management, graduating from the Cranfield School of Management. She has also taken part in the PRINCE2 Project Management Course and the Centre of Excellence’s Living Your Best Life Professional Accreditation. Gina began her career as a Project Manager at Halifax, where she excelled and showed her promise on the Rapid IT Graduate Fast Track Programme. She then went on to become an Infrastructure Project Manager for Barclays and a Contract Director and Head of Customer Services for BT.
Gina has also worked as an Infrastructure Project Manager and IT Programme Manager for Lloyds Banking Group. Throughout her career, Gina has been successful in implementing mass IT infrastructure projects, leading teams through challenging times, financial service contracts and matrix management. She has also worked as a Business Change Programme Manager and Senior Operations Manager for BT, a true asset to any business. Most recently, in 2024, Gina announced that she had been selected as a United Nations UK Delegate for the Commission on the Status of Women. Such an appointment underscores Gina's undeniable commitment to advancing gender equality and empowering women to succeed in all spheres of society.
Now working with her programme Your People are Your Power, Gina advises teams and business leaders on how they can optimise employee and corporate wellbeing. On a mission to make working life better for all, Gina is booked as a keynote speaker on wellbeing and promotes the importance of positivity, prosperity and peace. As a speaker, some of Gina’s speaking topics include becoming a champion in your own life, your people your power, women in business, leadership and technology and much more. A fantastic speaker with an expert understanding of corporate wellness, Gina Buckney is the perfect speaker for a range of events.
We recently sat down with Gina to discuss wellbeing and inclusion in business - watch our exclusive interview with Gina Buckney!
