HR Directors Business Summit 2011

24th – 25th January 2011

ICC Birmingham, Broad Street

The programme for the European HR Directors Business Summit 2011 is currently under development.
For all speaking opportunities, please contact:
Stephen Pobjoy
Senior Producer, World Trade Group
Tel: +44 (0)207 202 7649


2010 Programme is available for review purposes only.

day one | day two

Day One19 January 2010
08:00
Summit registration and refreshments
09:10
Keynote presentation - Capabilities and the 'Right to Win': a new strategic role for HR
Conference room 1

  • Understanding the capabilities and the leaders within your organisation
  • Facilitating HR strategies through line managers
  • Keeping morale high whilst running a lean and flexible organisation
  • Re-engineering and re-designing the organisation to motivate staff

Tom Stewart, Leading Management Author & Thinker, USA
09:50
Keynote panel debate - 2010 another year of flux? What is needed from the HR Director to succeed in 2010?
Conference room 1
  • What challenges will HR face in different sectors over the next 12 months?
  • Building winning strategies for competitiveness

Harvey Francis, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, Skanska
Therese Proctor, HR Director, Tesco
Paul Kennedy, HR Director, New Balance
Jason Spiller, Editor, The HRDIRECTOR Magazine
10:30
One-to-one meetings and morning refreshments
Exhibition hall
11:25
Engaging the line to drive efficiencies
Conference room 1
  • How do you prevent your cost base going up as signs of recovery become apparent?
  • Managing the expectation of pay and reward following change and cost reduction
  • Moving forward in difficult times whilst remaining lean and agile and maximising employee efficiency
  • Communication effectively and engaging with line managers to implement strategy and goals

Andy Doyle, Group HR Director, ITV
 
Leadership behaviours for the future
Conference room 2
  • Embedding a new leadership style following the leadership change at BP
  • Planning, forming, developing and implementing a coherent leadership programme globally
  • Six programmes for 15000 staff; challenges and successes in the first year
  • Developing various leadership styles for different groups e.g. technical and operational staff

Christopher McLaverty, VP Global Leadership Development and Learning, BP UK
 
How HR can take the lead in transforming your organisation
Conference room 3
  • The top three priorities of your CEO in the next 12 months
  • How world-class organisations make lasting change, fast - led by HR
  • The single action, that ensures HR is properly represented at Board level
  • Includes case study and Research from Warwick Business School

David Taylor, Founder, The Naked Leader
 
The importance of perception in innovative thinking
An interactive presentation and exercises to inspire lateral thinking

Conference room 4
  • Innovative thinking to find different solutions and break down walls
  • Facing problems directly and thinking in parallel
  • The need for creativity to remain competitive

Nigel Newman, Director of Learning and Development, Edward de Bono Foundation UK
 
Creating a European reward and benefits framework
Conference room 5
  • Case study and challenges faced from rolling out pay and benefits standardisation across 27 countries
  • Balancing regional and country specific requirements
  • Solving the technology conundrum - cost of investment against ROI and benefits to a changing company

Grzegorz Puczylowski, Central and Eastern Europe Rewards & Recognition Manager , PricewaterhouseCoopers
 
Driving change through storytelling
Conference room 6
  • How can you connect your organisation, both rationally and emotionally, to the journey the business is on?
  • How can organisations adopt a storytelling approach to alter mindsets, galvanise action and drive change?
  • Case study - The innovative approach taken by mobile phone software developer Symbian to unite its workforce behind a common purpose, to move it from being a successful company to a world class leader in its market.

Richard Lowther, VP HR, TomTom

Alison Esse, Director, The Storytellers
 
Masterclass - Engaging and retaining talent in difficult times: Harnessing the power of employee benefits
Executive room 1 It’s a widely accepted truism that strong employee benefits packages can help a business to attract and retain better staff. At a time when competition for the best staff is fierce, and spend is under pressure, how do you continue to provide a benefits package that delivers real value? This masterclass will explore:

  • Cost v function: Designing the right package for your staff and your business…how efficient are you?
  • Communication Strategies: What you don’t know, you don’t value…are your benefits your best kept secret?
  • Innovation and change: What’s round the corner…Twitter to Personal Accounts - are you ready for tomorrow?

Andrew Woolnough, Director – Benefits Management , Jelf Employee Benefits
Paul Beacham, Senior Benefits Consultant, Jelf Employee Benefits
12:05
Workshop
Getting the Ferrari out of the garage – creating more value and benefits from HR technology
Conference room 1
  • How technology can make a contribution at the strategic level, not just administrative efficiency
  • How to define a business case for investment in technology
  • How technology can support HR and line managers in improving productivity and performance

Steve Foster, Manager, Business Consulting, Northgate Arinso
 
Workshop
Accessing the right “higher-skills” solutions; Learning for work, through work, from work

Conference room 2
  • Discover alternative options for development solutions to suit your people and your business
  • Explore effective ways to improve and enhance performance by enhancing the “higher level skills” of your staff

Alix Pearson, Associate Director, fdf

Frances Cambrook, Associate Director (West), fdf

Angela Maguire, London Region Co-ordinator, fdf
 
Workshop
Managing change and retaining key talent

Conference room 3
  • During this session, DBM will be offering pragmatic insights on successfully preparing for change; leading your people through change; engaging employees throughout the change programme and retaining key talent, whilst positively impacting the bottom line.
  • Case study - TUI Travel UK and Ireland

Tim Taylor, Head of Reward and Recognition, TUI Travel UK & Ireland

Guy Healey, Director, DBM
 
Workshop
Evaluating your people management and the value based HR function
VaLUENTiS Conference room 4
  • In this interactive session, N J Higgins will be sharing evidence from various client case studies on how leading organisations and HR functions are transforming their management capability in areas such as employee engagement, leadership, performance/talent, reward and workforce planning using ‘smart’ evaluative and analytical techniques. The session also links to how this positively affects the positioning and remit of the HR function going forward. Leading insights from one of HR’s leading thinkers.

Nicholas J Higgins, Founder and Chief Executive, VaLUENTiS
 
Workshop
Pandemic and health fears - workforce implications
Conference room 5
  • Preparation and controlling the corporate risk of health scares
  • Communicating clearly and alleviating fears of a pandemic
  • Legislative and company policies relating to health and wellbeing

Prof. Nigel Lightfoot, Chief Advisor, Health Protection Agency
 
Workshop
If people are your greatest asset, know how to maximise it
Conference room 6
  • In this interactive session you will learn how leading organisations measure and improve the impact of their people. There is overwhelming evidence that smart data-driven investments in human capital are generating extraordinary returns and yet most organisations lack the ability to measure the effectiveness of their L&D, recruiting, and talent management initiatives.

Jeffrey Berk, Chief Operating Officer, KnowledgeAdvisors
 
Masterclass - Resource Bank - Recruiting in a recession – Is RPO the answer?
Executive room 1


Richard Pearson, Managing Director, ResourceBank
12:45
Networking buffet luncheon
Exhibition hall
13:55
Keynote presentation - Reinventing Management
Why management failed – and what we can do to reinvent it

  • The new principles of management
  • What’s your management model?

Julian Birkinshaw, Professor of Strategic and International Management; Senior Fellow, Advanced Institute of Management Research; Deputy Dean (Programmes), London Business School
14:40
One-to-one meetings and afternoon refreshments
16:50
The Orange Revolution: How carrots can help you engage your people to execute your strategy - and win
Conference room 1
  • Incentivising, motivating and truly engaging with your workforce

Chester Elton, Author/Vice President of Performance Recognition, O.C Tanner USA
 
Building an innovative and engaging recruitment process
Conference room 2
  • In house recruitment – get closer to your talent
  • Creating a system with the end user in mind
  • Online recruitment – enhancing the candidate experience
  • Recruitment 2.0 - future challenges and opportunities

Misty Reich, Vice President of Human Resources UK and Ireland, KFC
 
Total employee engagement and innovation at New Balance
Conference room 3
  • Maximising manufacturing efficiencies and keeping staff motivated and committed
  • HR’s integral role within the company board and the importance of people to the business and brand
  • Innovation and engagement with staff for future contracts, growth and stability
  • Made in Britain – working with UK govt and other partners to preserve UK manufacturing and provide growth

Paul Kennedy, HR Director, New Balance
 
Improving managers leadership skills and engagement with key talent
Conference room 4
  • Addressing staff engagement and customer satisfaction levels during year on year cost reduction
  • Measuring and benchmarking service and staff perceptions to raise performance levels
  • Setting clear goals with board members and senior managers to change behaviours and their leadership impact
  • The business imperatives of performance levels and cost reduction in the current economic climate

Hugh Hood, HR Director, BT Wholesale
 
Latest HR legislation update

Led by - Capital Law
  • Examples and key learning's from recent HR cases
  • Best practice and future employee law changes

Elin Pinnell, Partner, Capital Law LLP

Henry Gilbert, Director, Holistic Services Ltd
 
Dispute resolution - best practice and current case examples to aid the HR Director

Conference room 6
  • Best practice for avoiding employee disputes and common mistakes made
  • Current case studies from recent dispute cases
  • Acas's future work and how to plan for future legislation

Ed Sweeney, Chairman, Acas

Malcolm Boswell, Area Director, Birmingham, Acas
 
Masterclass - Peopleclick Technology driving service excellence in RPO
Executive room 1

Phill Brown, Service Director, NorthgateArinso
17:30
Keynote Panel Session - Leading business strategy through HR
How will the HR Director implement successful strategies for developing and fostering their people in the future? Join the debate on how strategies should be planned, implemented and aligned with company goals and business value obtained.

Tom Stewart, Leading Management Author & Thinker, USA
Matthew Brearley, HR Director, Vodafone
Chester Elton, Author/Vice President of Performance Recognition, O.C Tanner
Chaired by: Carol Moor, Director of HR, NEC Group


18:30
Drinks reception - Sponsored by Nimbus

Exhibition hall

19:15
Wine tasting experience
Exhibition hall

day one | day two

Day Two20 January 2010
08:15
Registration and refreshments
08:45
Chairman's opening comments

Carol Moor, Director of HR, NEC Group
08:50
Keynote presentation - Fit for purpose?
Conference room 1

  • Are we doing the right things? Are we reading the future correctly?
  • The new model - Is it working?
  • What we need to do to get match fit?

Martin Tiplady, Director of HR, Metropolitan Police Service
09:50
Workshop
Healthy Workforce, Future Proofed Business
Led by -
Conference room 1
  • Effective strategies for creating and sustaining a motivated workforce
  • The how and why of integrated wellbeing: creating a motivated workforce, reducing absenteeism and work-related stress

Liz Cook, HR Director, Sega

Dr Tim Anstiss, Medical Doctor , TVU
 
Workshop
Connecting for Results
Led by -
Conference room 2
  • One of the largest IT projects in the World, run by Connecting For Health, has the ability to revolutionise the NHS and the way we use it.
  • Developing the system involves aligning clinicians, users, IT architects and designers and a raft of other stakeholders such as Government.
  • This session focuses on how some of that alignment has been achieved, and the lessons for Business as a whole, particularly on how you bring together differing teams with different viewpoints and values.

Clare Mitchell, NHS Lorenzo Delivery Director, CFH

Jane Owen Jones, Director, Lloydmasters Consulting
 
Workshop
Cost or opportunity? Supporting your employees to transition to a new career could be the smartest HR policy you ever establish'
Conference room 3
  • Build your 'employer brand' as a leadership organisation among staff, customers / users and suppliers by inspiring young people to become 'Smarter Citizens'
  • Hear how 'Transition to Teaching' is adding to IBM's portfolio of progressive workforce policies that develop employees throughout their careers
  • Create a loyal fan base and underpin the sustainability of your organisation by offering positive choices for employees seeking to change careers
  • HR and Corporate Responsibility - good HR is good CSR!

Jonathan Ferrar, Director of Human Resources, UK and Ireland, IBM

Mark Wakefield, Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs Manager, IBM

Jo Mullis, UK Workforce Lifecycle Programs(WLP) Manager, IBM
 
Workshop
Custom prepaid cards to remove processes and to incentivise staff
Conference room 4
  • Reduce costs, drive efficiencies, increase program effectiveness and enhance brand communications through prepaid cards
  • Providing adaptable systems and processes to your staff and business partners

Thore Vestergaard, Prepaid Solutions EMEA, Citi
 
Workshop
FireStarter: The 7-Minute Secret
Conference room 5
Unlock performance & results in your company, fast
  • Purely business-focused NLP
  • Presented by proven achievers
  • Consistent and permanent change
  • Measured results accessible daily online
  • Multi-sensory, multimedia workshops
  • 7-minute daily coaching call follow-ups and modular one-day workshops

Glen McCoy, Creative director , Carpe World
 
Workshop
Gaining value and justifying the coaching investment
Conference room 6
  • Judging when coaching is the appropriate intervention
  • Using external coaches to meet the needs you can’t meet yourselves
  • The power of developing a coaching culture
  • What helps coaching programmes succeed
  • Targeting the coaching intervention for maximum benefit

Heidi Ashley-Hacker, Founder / Principal Coach, AHA Executive Coaching
 
Masterclass - The employee benefits dilemma - flex benefits, employee communication and pension compulsion. Practical solutions, innovative ideas
Executive room 1


Tobin Coles, Director Flexible Benefits and Marketing , Lorica
10:30
Morning refreshments
11:15
Challenges associated with delivering a comprehensive HR service across multiple jurisdictions
Conference room 1
  • Managing cultural and legislative differences across borders
  • Providing linkage between regional and main offices
  • Open forum questions and debate

Marc Weedon, Senior Director, Human Resources, Europe, Middle East & Africa, Polycom

Stefan Tonnon, Director Human Resource EMEA, Progress Software Netherlands

Jacqui Summons, Group HR Director, Intec

Andy Gillham, International HR Director, 3Com
 
Modernising HR in a unique public sector organisation: 3 pre-requisites
Conference room 2
  • Clear perception of the need to modernise the network of HR
  • Designing the right model for modernising HR in the organisation
  • Capacity to deliver the correct model fitting overall strategy

Fernando Garcia Ferreiro, Head of HRM development unit, European Commission Spain
 
Creating the platform for London 2012
Conference room 3
  • Executive coaching and development of teams and leaders
  • Knowledge nuggets – practical skills to manage change and talent
  • The people journey and tactics to implement the vision and people strategy

Michele Owens, Head of Organisational Development, Olympic Delivery Authority
 
Improving NHS resources and leveraging people performance
Conference room 4
  • Research findings: What do 200 CEO’s want from HR now?
  • Sustaining performance with ongoing cost cutting
  • New models and service resources required for transactional HR
  • How do we deliver future services, value and improved experience for HR Directors and customers?

Sian Thomas, Director, NHS Employers

Cheryl Lee, Director of HR, Medway NHS Foundation Trust
 
Youchoose - Perfecting commercially effective benefit offerings
Conference room 5
  • Offering appealing benefits to a diverse group of employees
  • Reviewing the needs of employees from various forms of feedback
  • Cutting costs but remaining a responsible employer
  • Raising awareness of pensions and other important offerings

Kate Griffiths-Lambeth , Director of Human Resources, White & Case LLP

Kate Coulson, Senior HR Manager – Management Information and Reward, White & Case LLP
 
Serious Game based learning – a revolutionary new approach to corporate training through immersive virtual environments
Conference room 6
  • The power of gaming as a means of learning
  • Trainee motivation – why traditional e-learning falls-short
  • Let’s play – an interactive workshop session where you can discover virtual worlds developed in collaboration with some of Europe’s corporate thought-leaders
  • Just for fun? A feedback session on the real-life application of skills acquired via virtual training environments

Damian Nolan, Director, DAESIGN
 
Masterclass: HR's Role in Managing the CEO's Agenda: Workforce Planning and Analytics as a means of driving key business decisions
Executive room 1


Peter Howes, Chief Executive Officer, InfoHRM
12:00
Workshop
Reconnecting People to the Business
Conference Room 1
  • Aligning organisation structure and roles with new business model
  • Redefining performance expectations and metrics to reflect how value will be added
  • Reviewing reward strategy and programs to engage executives, sales force and employee

Chantal Free, Practice Leader, Human Capital Group, Towers Watson
 
Workshop
Building a Strategic HR Function that Drives Talent and Business Outcomes
Conference room 2
  • Focusing HR Business Partners on the Right Skills, Knowledge and Activities
  • Establishing an Effective HR - Business Manager Relationship
  • Best Practices in Organizing a Strategically Effective HR Function

Christoffer Ellehuus, Practice Lead Europe, Corporate Leadership Council

Clare Moncrieff, Senior Research Director, Corporate Leadership Council
 
Workshop
The greatest wealth is health


Conference room 3
  • Leading UK employers Cisco and PerkinElmer describe the value of introducing the Best Doctors employee benefit
  • What does quality in healthcare actually mean?
  • How better clinical information means better outcomes

Charlie Johnston, UK HR Director, Cisco Systems

Mona Smith, HR Leader, PerkinElmer

Dominic Howard, Director, Best Doctors

Stephen Haynes, Director, Best Doctors
 
Workshop
The role of learning and development in solving 'Wicked' organisational problems
Conference room 4
  • Learning and development's role in helping to address the ambiguity in the current unpredictable environment
  • Wicked problems that have not been faced before and how to approach them
  • Developing individuals innovation, creativity and leadership capabilities to help generate the correct solutions

Dr. Jan Stiles, Director of Executive Education, Warwick Business School
 
Workshop
Changing the face of the rewards industry
Conference room 5 - My Rewards Company
  • Do you already incentivise your customers or staff?
  • Can you fully track your current rewards system in “real time”?
  • Does your rewards system offer lifestyle products, travel, services, theatre and concert tickets as well as experiences?
  • Is your rewards system geared for 100% redemption and does it currently offer a call back service to reward holders reminding them to redeem?
  • Is your rewards system flexible enough to be used for customer retention, referrals, sales promotions, staff benefits, staff rewards, gifts and long service rewards?

Steve Sampson, Director, My Rewards Company
 
Workshop
Employers and Personal Accounts

Conference room 6
  • Impact of the Pension Reforms on larger employers
  • The role of Personal Accounts
  • PASLA
  • Our new scheme name

Richard Bartlett, Head of Direct Distribution, Personal Accounts Delivery Authority
 
Masterclass: CMP Resolutions - Introducing the best application of mediation to restore performance
Executive room 1


Katherine Graham, Managing Director, CMP Resolutions
12:45
Networking Buffet Lunch
Exhibition Hall
14:00
Talent for tomorrow – Structuring European talent development
Conference room 1
  • Designing the programme and selection criteria and aligning them with company goals
  • Embedding CSR and mentoring into ‘Talent for Tomorrow’ succession projects
  • Benefits gained and future aims to develop, motivate, engage and retain talented staff

Danny Kalman, HR Director Europe, Panasonic
 
Benchmarking levels of diversity and equality to improve the internal and external experience
Conference room 2
  • Board buy in and accountability to detailed measures of diversity levels
  • Benchmarking of equality, diversity and inclusion levels with other private and public companies
  • Interventions and matching the representation of customers to improve the experience
  • Improving the diversity experience on leadership, representation, working environment, service delivery and keeping legally compliant

Ravi Chand, Head of Equality & Diversity Dictorate, Home Office
 
Improving decision making behaviours and performance levels

Conference room 3
  • Creating a framework for teams to be more decisive and effective
  • Setting clear objectives for all staff and performance priorities for leaders
  • Results from recent survey on ‘make a decision’ programme

Diane Tomlinson, HR Director Organisation Effectiveness Britain & Ireland, Cadbury's
 
Developing HR partners to build strategic HR practices
Conference room 4
  • Increasing the commercial acumen of HR to support the business
  • How to change the mindset of staff to think strategically
  • Challenges of two different but linked companies with regional and country practices
  • Leveraging centres of excellence, shared resources and services to ease operational HR

Robin Hancock, HR Director, Europe, eBay
 
Masterclass - Performance Management After the Economic Crisis
Executive room 1

Clinton Wingrove, EVP Principal Consultant, Pilat
14:50
Keynote presentation - What competencies should HR now demonstrate?
Conference room 1 - via video link

  • Understanding the context of your company, the economy and what your HR Department needs to achieve to add value
  • Adding value to stakeholders (internal and external)
  • Engagement of customers to invigorate the engagement of your staff

David Ulrich, Professor of Business, University of Michigan USA
15:50
Grand Finale Panel Debate - Future proofing HR - How should the HR Director sustain and drive winning people strategies?
Open forum panel debate with questions from the audience



Robin Hancock, HR Director, Europe, eBay
Kate Griffiths-Lambeth , Director of Human Resources, White & Case LLP
Sian Thomas, Director, NHS Employers
Carol Moor, Director of HR, NEC Group
16:25
Chairman's closing comments and end of summit
Conference room 1
  • Chairman's closing comments and observations from the summit

Carol Moor, Director of HR, NEC Group

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