Speakers

James Hempsall OBE is Managing Director of Coram Hempsall’s and has spent more than 30 years working across early years and childcare as a practitioner, manager, consultant, trainer and adviser. He founded Hempsall’s in 1999 and has since worked as strategic lead for Childcare Works and now ‘together’ supporting DfE, local authorities and early years, childcare, and HAF providers, helping translate national policy into practical delivery. His contribution was recognised with an OBE for services to childcare in 2015. James is also the author of Find Joy in the Middle (2025), a guide to finding happiness in all the middles of life and work.