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2012 Conference Programme

“Excellent way of sharing information on cutting edge HR practice & networking with senior HR professionals.”
HR Director, Magnox South Ltd

day one | day two

Programme - Day One24 January 2012  

 

8:00am - 9:00am

 

9:00am - 9:10am
Conference room 1

Caroline Curtis,

Head of Talent, Performance & Leadership Development,

Santander 

 

9:10am - 9:50am

Conference room 1 - Global research findings from corporate human resource functions.

  • How are the results changing year on year?
  • Future function and deliverable findings for HR Directors
  • Why does HR continue to resist change?
  • Talent - The key for HR to having a more strategic remit?

Ed Lawler,

Distinguished Professor of Business at the Marshall School of Business,

University of Southern California USA

 

9:50am - 10:30am
Conference room 1


  • London 2012 Olympics - Creating winning teams, motivation and business change
  • Being the best - Branding and engagement opportunities with employees
  • Embedding the values of the games with employees and customers
  • Building 'pride' and fans of sports and companies initiatives
  • Employee secondments, partnering and delivering the business of the games

Gwyn Burr,

Customer Service and Colleague Director,

Sainsbury's 

Caroline Waters,

Director of People and Policy,

BT Group 

Tim Jones,

Partner,

Freshfields 

Diane Tomlinson,

HR Director UK&I,

Kraft Foods 

 

10:30am - 12:00pm

 

12:00pm - 12:40pm
Young talent – apprenticeships and effective recruitment at Amey
 

Valerie Hughes-D'Aeth

Group HR Director

Amey 

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Upskilling the line when implementing GSK’s global business HR model
 

Philip Duck

VP HR Operations, US and UK

GlaxoSmithKline 

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Holistic and helpful pensions and benefits provision – FirstGroup My Rewards
 

John Chilman

Group Reward and Pensions Director

FirstGroup 

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Our why. Bringing the core purpose of Carphone Warehouse to life
 

Lynne Weedall

Group HR Director

Carphone Warehouse 

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Redeployment and transformation of peoples roles by strengths at Sunderland City Council
 

Sue Stanhope

Head of HR

Sunderland City Council 

Dave Rippon

Head of OD

Sunderland City Council 

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HR: Building business credibility through leadership
 

Dave Millner

Director of Consultancy Services

Kenexa 

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Why should you future-proof your leadership model?
 

Dr. Andy Brown

CEO

Engage Group 

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Excellence in Partnerships and Work Based Learning – taking it global
 

Dr Bill Gerrard

Head of CLYDEUNION Academy

Clyde Union Pumps 

Fiona Stewart-Knight

Strategic Business Development

Glasgow Caledonian University 

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Embedding your learning and development into apprenticeship programmes
 

Nick Hnatiuk

Employer Partnerships Manager

Pearson 

Susan Cawdron

Employer Partnership Manager

Pearson 

Alan Howson

Employer Partnerships Manager

Pearson 

Ann Jordan

Training and Events Manager

Pearson 

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12:40pm - 12:50pm

 

12:50pm - 1:30pm
Building behaviours that produce high quality relationships and team performance towards shared goals and visions
 

Jason Keegan

Head of GM Logistics

Marks and Spencer 

Matt Perry

Director

Wilsher Group 

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Employment law round up 2011
 

Elin Pinnell

Partner

Capital Law 

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How to create a coaching culture and rapid behavioural change using objective data about the skillset of sales forces, and get a minimum 8% increase in revenues in a year
 

Russell Ward

Founder and CEO

Silent Edge 

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Employee Engagement and organisation performance – The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth
 

Nicholas J Higgins

Founder and Chief Executive

VaLUENTiS 

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Technology – alleviating the absence management headache
 

Charlotte Mallinson

Product Manager

Cascade HR 

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The competitive team - Use sport techniques to focus, unite and energise your employees
 

Ian Maynard

Sport Psychologist

Sheffield Hallam University 

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Enhancing your training and development strategies to reflect emerging technologies and the expectations of the modern workforce
 

Elizabeth Bailey

Principal Consultant

Intraining 

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Managing Complexity - Leadership Today
 

Angela Loggie

Joint Managing Director

Keystone Training Ltd 

Stephen Crane

Senior Associate Actor

Keystone Training 

Jo Raishbrook

Senior Facilitator and Actor

Keystone Training 

Rob Purdy

Senior Associate Actor

Keystone Training 

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Managing the risks that employee absence brings to your business
 

John Ritchie

CEO

Ellipse 

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1:30pm - 2:40pm
Exhibition hall

 

2:40pm - 3:25pm

Technogym
  • Leadership skills - gaining elite performance from talent
  • Technical and tactical strategies to improve performance levels of people
  • Developing a winning mentality and culture within your organisation
  • Analysing everything to perform as best as possible

Sir Clive Woodward OBE,

Director of Sport,

British Olympic Association 

 

 

4:45pm - 5:30pm
Knowing your people better – Oracle’s approach to driving business performance through effective talent profiling and management
 

Alan Thomas

OTD Business Consultant

Oracle 

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Change management - implementing a new model for leaders to manage change effectively
 

Jennifer Bryan

Change & Comms Lead, GCS - Workplace Strategies

CBRE 

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Skills, innovation, strategies and funding to help UK businesses compete globally in the future
 

Lucy Adams

Director, Business Operations

BBC 

Lesley Giles

Deputy Director of Research

UK Commission of Employment and Skills 

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Developing tomorrow’s leaders today – preparing for global growth at JT
 

Richard Summerfield

Group HR Director

JT 

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Managing Trust and Trust Repair: Using Human Resources to repair and/or enhance trust at work
 

Laura Huntley

Head UBS Business University EMEA

UBS 

Dr Graham Dietz

Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management

Durham Business School 

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Talent management state of the art: a view of the FTSE 100
 

Annabel Parsons

Partner

Heidrick & Struggles 

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Unleashing the Breakthrough Mindset
 

Dr. Bart Sayle

Chief Executive Officer

The Breakthrough Group 

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Sustainable employment – attract, retain and develop a more diverse workforce
 

Anthony Lengden

Strategic Business Development Manager

Pearson in Practice - SBL 

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Generation Y - can't live with them, can't live without them
 

Penny de Valk

CEO

Fairplace Cedar 

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5:30pm - 6:10pm

Conference room 1

  • A decade of development, business partnering, HR metrics, capability development and business turmoil...what's next on the agenda?
  • Investigating the form and function of the HR Business Director
  • Power to the people - Is the HRD placing too much HR power on middle managers?
  • Should the HRD of the future be the business performance advocate on the board?

Ed Lawler,

Distinguished Professor of Business at the Marshall School of Business,

University of Southern California USA

David Clutterbuck,

Visiting Professor,

Oxford Brookes and Sheffield Hallam Universities 

Deborah Baker,

Director for People,

Sky 

Jason Corsello,

VP of Corporate Development and Strategy,

Cornerstone OnDemand 

 

6:10pm - 6:20pm
Conference room 1

Caroline Curtis,

Head of Talent, Performance & Leadership Development,

Santander 

 

6:20pm - 7:30pm
Exhibition hall

 

7:30pm - 11:00pm
Awards Logo
www.hrdistinctionawards.com

Award categories include:

HRD of the Year - HR Directors Distinction Award
Distinction in Talent Management Execution
Distinction in Employee Engagement
Distinction in Adding Value
Distinction in Leadership and Development
Distinction in HR Technology or Software Usage
Distinction in Employee Benefits, Rewards and Recognition
Distinction in Recruitment
Distinction in Change Management
Distinction in Diversity and Inclusion

Compered by:



David Fairhurst,

Chief People Officer, Europe,

McDonald's Ltd 

 

day one | day two

Programme - Day Two25 January 2012  

 

8:00am - 9:00am

 

9:00am - 9:10am


Jon Ingham,

Blogger and Social Media Expert,

Strategic HCM 

 

9:10am - 9:50am
Conference room 1

Recession tends to generate a common response – ‘can we become more effective by improving our systems, creating efficient, effective processes and cutting costs considerably?’ This can help to a point but, as leaders, what can we do to stay ahead of the competition, encourage growth and ensure we come out of recession in a strong, sustainable position?

Penny Ferguson,

Managing Partner,

The Living Leader 

 

9:50am - 10:30am
Director and Executive Planning; a new perspective on motivating and remunerating the senior team
 

Martin Holden

Senior Client Partner

Towry 

Bryan Innes

Senior Client Partner

Towry 

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High level skills in your business – bringing higher education to the workplace – the case of the degree in retailing
 

Steve Bainbridge

Director, Commercial Academy

Manchester Metropolitan University Business School 

Dr David Woollard

Principal Lecturer

Manchester Metropolitan University Business School 

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Applying Ecommerce best practice to HR Self Service
 

Mark White

Business Development Director

Transversal 

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Gaining competitive advantage in senior level succession: risk management and competitor benchmarking
 

Heather Garrett

Global Head Talent, Leadership and Development

Nokia 

Alison Harter

Business Development Director EMEA

Talent Intelligence 

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Preparing for the new workplace pension duties
 

Toby Christie

ECR Policy Manager

The Pensions Regulator 

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Identifying and mobilising ‘natural’ talent
 

Anthony Dowie

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Corporate Mind Management Ltd 

Karen Merritt

Co-Founder and Executive Director

Corporate Mind Management Ltd 

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Fierce Conversations: 4 objectives and 7 principles to get you better results
 

Sarah Vogel

Founder

PDA - People Development Associates 

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New Directions in Leadership Development
 

Ken Starkey

Professor of Management and Organisational Learning

Nottingham University Business School 

Roger Evans

Managing Director

Creative Learning Consultants 

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The realities of automatic enrolment for HR
 

Patrick Heath-Lay

Director of Finance and Strategic Delivery

B&CE, the organisation behind The People's Pension 

Chris Clifton

Head of Pensions

MITIE 

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11:50am - 12:30pm
Unconferencing the HR Directors Business Conference
 

Jon Ingham

Blogger and Social Media Expert

Strategic HCM 

Harvey Francis

Executive Vice President, HR, IT and Communications

Skanska 

Donna Miller

European HR Director

Enterprise Rent-A-Car 

David Clutterbuck

Visiting Professor

Oxford Brookes and Sheffield Hallam Universities 

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Transforming Public Sector HR - supporting real business change
 

Tarik Chawdry

Assistant Director, HR

Birmingham City Council 

Melanie Wood

HR Business Partner

Birmingham City Council 

Catherine Griffiths

HR Business Partner

Birmingham City Council 

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International HR Forum - Challenges for the European HR Director - How do you manage HR effectively across multiple jurisdictions?
 

Marc Weedon

Group HR Director

Monitise 

David Apicella

European HR Director

MWV (MeadWestvaco) 

Martin Percival

IHRF Member 

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Designing, merging and integrating T-Mobile and Orange to Everything Everywhere
 

Rachel Denmeade

Director of Resourcing, Talent & Development

Everything Everywhere 

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Can your enterprise engage, empower and retain its employees?
 

Marshall Ayoade

Head of HR, Global Business Services

Vodafone 

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Reforms and ramifications to the employment tribunal process and employment law proposals for the HR Director
 

Malcolm Boswell

Area Director

Acas 

Peter Harwood

Chief Conciliation Officer

Acas 

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Launching a successful salary sacrifice and car scheme
 

Matthew Walters

Head of Consultancy Services

Leaseplan 

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Learning and Analytics- Identifying the link between workforce data, people development and productivity with your bottom line

 

Peter Howes

Vice President, Analytics and Planning

SuccessFactors 

Ed Cowen

VP Learning Technology

SuccessFactors 

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Social Media and the HRD - policies and positives
 

Neil Morrison

Group HR Director

Random House 

Charlie Duff

Community Manager

BraveNew Talent 

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12:30pm - 12:40pm

 

12:40pm - 1:20pm
How can innovation deliver true cost savings using the SAP HCM Suite?
 

Sunny Patel

Practice Director

SAP HCM UK/I and CE Cognizant 

Heike Kolar

Solution Manager

SAP AG 

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What business can learn from Olympians and the Olympics
 

Sarah Winckless

Olympic Rowing Bronze medallist and Chairman

Athletes Commission for London 2012 Olympics 

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The Challenge of Talent Management: a New Leadership
 

Joaquín Uríbarri

Director of Marketing & International Development Executive Education

IE Business School 

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Auto enrolment for pension provision - assessing the impact and changes required for your business
 

Clive Grimley

Partner

Barnett Waddingham 

Mark Futcher

Partner

Barnett Waddingham 

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Essential Recruitment Initiatives for 2012: Discover our top 5 RPO initiatives, discussing cost containment, SLAs and balancing of the candidate supply chain, globalisation and recruitment technologies.
 

Oliver Harris

CEO

Resource Solutions 

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Developing the right leadership capabilities for a changing world - trust, diversity, ubiquity
 

Peter Cheese

Chairman

Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) 

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Improving sales performance: Lessons from the field for HR Directors
 

Ron D’Andrea

Executive Vice President

BayGroup International 

Harry Kendlbacher

Managing Director EMEA

BayGroup International 

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Business protection in the age of social media
 

Julian Hemming

Partner

Osborne Clarke 

Richard Brown

Partner

Osborne Clarke 

Lloyd Davey

Senior Associate

Osborne Clarke 

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1:20pm - 2:30pm

 

2:30pm - 3:10pm
Unconferencing the HR Directors Business Conference
 

Jon Ingham

Blogger and Social Media Expert

Strategic HCM 

Harvey Francis

Executive Vice President, HR, IT and Communications

Skanska 

Donna Miller

European HR Director

Enterprise Rent-A-Car 

David Clutterbuck

Visiting Professor

Oxford Brookes and Sheffield Hallam Universities 

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Building a leadership pipeline to develop and retain key staff
 

Rakesh Seth

Senior Vice President, Group HR

Fedders Lloyd Corporation Ltd. 

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Transformation! And a great place to work … can you have it all?
 

Julie Leo

Head of HR

Bromford Group 

Helena Moore

Group Director of OD and Communications

Bromford Group 

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Creating a diverse and inclusive culture at Sony
 

Emma Kelly

HR Director UK and Ireland

Sony 

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Change fatigue: Is your organisation at risk?
 

Dr. Dawn-Marie Turner

President

Turner Change Management Canada

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3:10pm - 4:00pm
Conference room 1

  • Findings, viewpoints and benefits from the unconference sessions
  • Insights, findings and conclusions from this years summit
  • Threats and opportunities for businesses in the new era

Jon Ingham,

Blogger and Social Media Expert,

Strategic HCM 

David Clutterbuck,

Visiting Professor,

Oxford Brookes and Sheffield Hallam Universities 

Harvey Francis,

Executive Vice President, HR, IT and Communications,

Skanska 

Donna Miller,

European HR Director,

Enterprise Rent-A-Car 

 

4:00pm - 4:10pm


Jon Ingham,

Blogger and Social Media Expert,

Strategic HCM 

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