About us

Sophie is an award-winning B2B leader, building communities across global events and podcasts and now marketplaces. She is an advocate for flexible work and the importance of memorable collective experiences and on-demand learning. After seventeen years in the big smoke, she lives in Dartmoor National Park, and loves running, reading, and meeting people. She has a unique vantage point in EdTech. 

Sally is an experienced leader of high-performing teams, and WorkTripp is the platform she wished she had! Previously VP of Content & Partnerships at Series-C ScaleUp Blinkist, and a Senior Director at Audible, she's used to connecting big thinkers - like non-fiction authors and coaches - with avid learners. At remote social enterprise, Hoxby, she helped businesses ensure they were fit for the future of work as MD of Futureproofing..

Jess is the magician who ensures we include the most memorable venues on WorkTripp. She carefully sources out-of-town venues that raise the value of team offsites, to ensure an environment where we can learn and connect together. She is a stellar business operations expert and keeps us all on track!

Florrie ensures the WorkTripp community has everything it needs to create an impact! She makes sure the listings for our venues, experiences, and coach-facilitators showcase the very best they have to offer WorkTripp customers, and is one of our biggest cheerleaders.

Elina is a leadership consultant and coach, speaker and attorney. She firmly believes that the paradigm of business is changing; leaders are now expected to step up and play a role in social impact. She partners with clients - including Sophie & Sally! - to explore how they can create conscious and sustainable change for the world.

Q joined Airbnb in 2018 as its first global people ops leader, and was responsible for the strategic vision, build-out and execution of Airbnb’s people operations function from the ground up. Most notably, Q ideated and rolled out Airbnb’s Live & Work Anywhere program in 2022, created an extraordinary opportunity for Airbnb to become industry leaders in the future of work.

The founder of Boclips, David has deep experience in marketing and sales within corporates and bringing new media products to market. Previously, David was the CEO of Elvis Communications, the Launch CMO for Intel’s IPTV offering in the US, and was responsible for bringing the BBC iPlayer to market in the UK. He has sat on the Executive Boards of Freeview and Digital UK and was part of the original Channel 5 launch team. Two times exited founder.

Jamie is the co-founder of We Are Human. We Are Human’s most successful venture to date is Kahoot!, one of the world’s fastest-growing learning brands with over 8 billion(!!!) participants since launch. Jamie is Co-Founder and was Chief Creative Officer. Under his product leadership Kahoot! grew from a research project to a company that captured over half of US K-12 classrooms, as well as millions of business and social users.

An enterprising start-up builder, specialising in direct-to-market and digital platform launches. Translated, Shona has spent the past 7 years building start-ups and growing the business of one of the Silicon Valley unicorns, Airbnb (inc. building & selling a company to Airbnb). In this role, Shona grew the Airbnb Experiences business and host value in Northern Europe by 300%. She now sits on the board of Visit Scotland and is the Head of Education Programmes at CodeBase.

Salma de Graaff is the VP/CHRO at Skyscanner. She leads a team covering Talent Acquisition, Reward, HR Ops, Business Partnering and Leadership and Learning in all their operating countries globally. Salma is an internationally experienced HR Leader from a commercial background, with Tech Start-up and growth market experience. She specialises in designing and implementing Reward, L&D and Performance Management processes.

Tom serves as the General Manager, International for LEGO Education, where he oversees the international business and channel partners. Tom is passionate about the potential technology brings to business and learning, as well as the social and business impact of education.

Caroline is the VP People and Culture and leads the Blinkist People team covering Talent Acquisition, People Operations, People Partnering and Culture and Community. More recently, Caroline created Blinkist's Coaching pathways programme which launched in 2022 to Blinkist's customers. Caroline has experience from banking, outsourcing and most recently start and scale ups across EMEA. Caroline lives in beautiful Barcelona.