Name: Excel Sins and Wins | Lara Holding-Jones & Lorenzo Foti
Start: 2026-01-08T18:00:00Z
End: 2026-01-08T20:00:00Z
Location: Canada Water Library

Lorenzo Foti (2024 and 2025 Excel World Championship semi-finalist) and Lara Holding-Jones share some of their lessons learnt from competitive excel esports

Great functions we'd never use in working life but use all the time for esports (sins) and the best practices we've learnt from esports that you absolutely should use in your day job (wins).

These are based on lessons they've learnt through competitive excelling, as well as broader working life. So, they will share a little bit about Excel esports, including some example questions. Great if you're thinking about signing up to the UK and/or global competitions. But, the session won't exclusively be about esports, it's about real life, so you'll find this really beneficial, even if you aren't interested in competing.

This is an **in-person only** event to be held at
Meeting Room 3
Canada Water Library
21 Surrey Quays Rd, London SE16 7AR

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**Lara Holding Jones**
I help CPOs and HRDs build confident, data-led HR teams that deliver insights leaders can trust.

With 10+ years of experience as an HR professional both, in-house and in consultancies, I know how to bridge the gap between raw data and meaningful insight for executives – so HR moves from reporting what happened to impacting what happens next.

I founded Pink Jelly to make that shift possible. To provide HR teams with the tools, capabilities, and strategies to run on objective data. My work focusses on:
⭐ HR Data Strategy
⭐ Excel
⭐ Data Literacy and Analytics

I'm an Excel World Championship competitor and UK 2025 finalist 🏆, competing with spreadsheet pros from around the world, solving problems in Excel…just for fun 🥰

**Lorenzo Foti**
Senior Manager with 12 years of experience in Management Consulting within the Insurance industry and MBA at Bocconi School of Management. 

Cooperated with several primary italian and international Insurance Companies, leading different teams of consultants in delivering projects with main focus on strategy definition, business and operating model design, business case development.

Lorenzo is a 2024 and 2025 Excel World Championship semi-finalist. After moving to the UK this year, he now competes in the UK championships.

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