Chief People Officer


Isa Notermans is a people-and-culture leader, builder of brave teams, and professional dot-connector who loves turning big, messy ambition into something humans can actually believe in and deliver. As Chief People Officer at Fleet Space Technologies, she works at the intersection of deep tech, space dreams, leadership, growth, and culture, helping scale a global company that blends satellites, science, AI, and mining innovation. Her work spans executive coaching, organisational design, leadership rhythm, talent, employee experience, and the occasional how do we break HR into something really useful and beautiful?
Beyond the executive table and the bustle of scale-up life, Isa is fuelled by creativity, community, brain health, neurodiversity advocacy, spirituality, and anything that helps people feel more whole, capable, and connected. She has a soft spot for bold ideas, good questions, children who see the world differently, making things with her hands, and building small pockets of magic in otherwise ordinary days. Equal parts strategist, storyteller, mother, community-builder, and gentle disruptor, Isa brings warmth, candour, curiosity, and a little cosmic glitter to the serious business of helping people and organisations grow.
Roles are changing faster than most workforce plans can keep up with. The World Economic Forum just named job design and upskilling the top priority for people leaders this year, and it's easy to see why.
As AI automates and streamlines more of the day-to-day, it's forcing a harder question:
What work is actually worth doing now, and who (or what) should be doing it?
People leaders are redesigning roles around that split, building AI literacy for the tasks AI leads, and doubling down on the human skills it can't replicate for the rest.
In this session, three Chief People Officers from fast-scaling tech companies share what this shift actually looks like inside their organisations, and how they're preparing their people for it.
What you'll leave with:
Final tickets are now selling. Choose the pass that works for you. However you join us, you’ll get access to the ideas, people and sessions shaping startup People teams right now.
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The full SPS 2026 experience. Live sessions across 5 tracks, real-time Q&As with speakers, guided networking built into the day, and your event workbook.
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Join the sessions you can live, then catch the rest on replay for the next 12 months.
Bring your whole People team to SPS for one flat fee, with live access for your team, and 12 months of replay included.
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