Speakers
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Conference Hosts
Best known as the man axed by BBC London for being “too intellectual”, Henry has worked in the print and broadcast media for nearly twenty years, winning numerous awards along the way (eg Windrush, Ethnic Multicultural Media, and Gathering of Africa’s Best). After graduating in Modern Languages at Magdalen College, Oxford, he trained as a journalist in his home city of Manchester, before moving to London to pursue a career in broadcasting, first as a BBC staffer, and then as a freelance writer and broadcaster.
Since then he has worked on BBC programmes like Radio 4’s flagship “Today”, Breakfast News, BBC London Drivetime, and Black Britain. More recently Henry presented major Radio 4 documentaries on the abolition of the slave trade, the education of white working class boys, the fiftieth anniversary of the Notting Hill riots, and the trafficking of young African footballers into the EU.
Henry has also done plenty of broadcasting work outside the BBC. For three years he was a panellist on Channel 5’s Wright Stuff current affairs show, and is a commentator on Radio 5 Live, Sky News, and BBC2’s Politics Show. Over the last year his international TV career has really taken off. Henry is the UK Correspondent for Black Entertainment Television, reporting on the recent inauguration of US President Barack Obama. He also presents a weekly debate show for the African satellite station Vox Africa, and is currently working on a documentary for BBC World Service on the “rebranding of Nigeria”.
Among Henry’s numerous newspaper and magazine credits are columnist on Pride Magazine, the Times, Mail on Sunday, Daily Express, The Voice, New Nation, and the London Evening Standard. A former Mental Health Act manager at the Maudsley Hospital Henry has written on a wide range of topics, from health and relationships to the plight of single women, from British identity to the unifying power of football.
Three years ago he entered the world of business, working, with Kofi Kusitor - to launch Colourful, a cross cultural music and speech radio station broadcast on DAB, online, and on mobile phones. He is a programme director, and presents the daily three hour Breakfast show. Colourful has already gained a reputation for giving youngsters access to the radio in a way that others have failed to do. Henry also hosts a number of events for both grass roots charities, and local authorities. But his humorous, charismatic style, which mixes elements of stand-up with current affairs analysis, means he is also in demand from larger public and private sector organizations who aim to break the mould with a new kind of speaker.
After finishing her BA Hons degree at Cambridge, Konnie began presenting on Channel 5 on a programme called “Milkshake”, whilst also working at Q Magazine. In December 1997, Konnie became the 25th presenter of the BBC’s long running children’s programme “Blue Peter”. In her role as a Blue Peter presenter she filmed in many countries, including a filming trip to Bangladesh and her parents’ village in Pabna as well as Dhaka.
In 1992 Konnie interviewed Neil Kinnock for the BBC’s “Newsround” in the run up to the General Election of that year. At the age of 16, Konnie auditioned to be a TV presenter for a cable and satellite programme called “TVFM” (Television, Video, Film & Music). She presented this show whilst completing her A Level studies at school. During her first year of University, Konnie presented a programme called “Eat Your Words” which transmitted early on Saturday mornings as part of “GMTV”.
Konnie presented Blue Peter for 10 years, becoming the shows longest running female presenter. During this time, she worked with many charities for various Blue Peter appeals. She then went on from this work to become a ambassador for the Red Cross. During her time on Blue Peter, Konnie interviewed many famous and prolific people including, the then Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Since Blue Peter Konnie has done many other television projects which have included the “London Mayoral Debate” with Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson, the “Red Bull Air Race” for Channel 4, “Zoo Days” for Channel 5 and “Guinness World Records Smashed” on Sky 1, among others.
Plenary Speakers
WINNER BEST INTERNATIONAL GUEST COMEDIAN – NZ COMEDY GUILD AWARDS 2007
WINNER BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDY AWARD – NZ COMEDY FESTIVAL 2007
WINNER SPIRIT OF THE FESTIVAL AWARD – NZ COMEDY FESTIVAL 2005
NOMINEE RICHARD PRYOR AWARD 2004
WINNER BEST STAND UP – TIME OUT LIVE AWARDS 2004
NOMINEE BEST COMPERE – CHORTLE COMEDY AWARD 2004, 2007, 2008.
Stephen K Amos has charmed and entertained audiences all over the world with his natural, assured delivery and his honest, original material. Amos is filled with an almost child-like joy and exuberance and can find the funny in some of the most unexpected places.
A gifted actor, Stephen has impressed audiences and critics with his performances on stage and screen and has proved not only a gift for comedy but also for more serious roles.
Comfortable as a performer, presenter, actor and guest there is no doubt that Amos will retain his position as one of the nations favourite comedians for a long time to come.
Stephen will be launching his third tour of the UK in Autumn 2009 with 64 dates across the UK . This year Stephen filmed his first solo TV show for the BBC and will be starring in the new Simon Nye sitcom In My Country.
LIVE WORK
Aside from being one of the nations favourite faces on the television Stephen is a prolific writer and performer releasing a new hour long show every year, performing all over the world at festivals. He has performed in some of the UKs most loved theatres and also appeared at the Royal Variety Show in 2007.
Stephen is in great demand as a compere and headliner on the UK comedy circuit and for corporate functions.
René Carayol is one of the world’s leading business gurus specialising in leadership and culture, drawing from his own unique experiences on the boards of the biggest British and American organisations; from Marks & Spencer and Pepsi to IPC Media and the Inland Revenue.
He is the best selling author of the leadership and culture bible, “Corporate Voodoo” and has had the privilege of working closely with some of the world’s best leaders; from former US President, Bill Clinton, to the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, and from former US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, to Sir Richard Branson.
René is a regular broadcaster for the BBC and has presented the influential “Pay Off Your Mortgage in 2 Years” series, BBC2’s flagship business offering “The Money Programme” and the critically acclaimed “Mind of a Millionaire” and “Man From The Met” documentaries. He is a broadsheet columnist, a frequent voice on Radio 5 Live and a regular expert commentator on Sky News and BBC Breakfast.
He has provided leadership support to the likes of the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, the Home Office and McKinsey and Co, and is now an accomplished Visiting Professor at Cass Business School. In 2004 he was awarded an MBE for outstanding service to the business community.
Yvonne Coghill
Programme Lead, National Breaking Through Programme
Yvonne currently works as Programme Lead for the National Breaking Through Programme in the NHS; the programme is designed to support the development of Black and Minority Ethnic staff, enabling them to reach executive director level. Yvonne commenced nurse training at Central Middlesex Hospital in 1977 and qualified as a general nurse in 1980, she then went on to qualify in mental health nursing and health visiting.
In 1986 Yvonne secured her first management post in the NHS and has successfully held down a number of operational management posts. In 2004 she secured a secondment at the Department of Health as Private Secretary to the Chief Executive of the NHS, Sir Nigel Crisp. In the three years at the DH Yvonne held several jobs - Programme Director for the Cleaner Hospitals Programme and External Relations Nursing Officer for the Chief Nursing Officer.
Yvonne has a particular interest in actively encouraging people to reach their full potential and is passionate about supporting colleagues to be the best that they can be in terms of personal and professional development. Yvonne is trained to give MBTI Step 1 and 2 feedback, Leadership Qualities Framework (LQF) 360, Belbin team roles feedback, and is a trained and qualified executive coach.
Professor Bernard Crump
Chief Executive Officer, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
Bernard Crump qualified in medicine from the University of Birmingham in 1980. He practised as a physician and carried out clinical research in the Midlands and the South East before training in Public Health Medicine. He became Director of Public Health in South Birmingham Health Authority in 1990.
He subsequently became Director of Public Health and Deputy Chief Executive of Leicestershire Health Authority and Chief Executive of the Shropshire and Staffordshire Strategic Health Authority from 2001 – 2005.
He is currently the Chief Executive of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.
David Nicholson CBE
NHS Chief Executive
As NHS Chief Executive, David Nicholson CBE ensures that the Department of Health provides strategic leadership for the NHS and social care.
Before taking on his current role, David was Chief Executive of NHS London. Prior to that he held Chief Executive roles at Birmingham and the Black Country Strategic Health Authority (SHA), West Midlands South SHA and Shropshire and Staffordshire SHA.
His 25 year career in the NHS has also seen him hold roles as Director of Health and Social Care for the Midlands and East of England, Regional Director for Trent, and Chief Executive of Doncaster Royal Infirmary NHS Trust.
Dr Anne Rainsberry
Director of People and Organisational Development and Deputy Chief Executive
Dr Anne Rainsberry has worked in health for over 20 years both in general management and in human resources roles. She first became an HR Director in the NHS in 1995 holding a number of Board level positions in London. Anne joined the Department of Health in 2001, working firstly as Director of Workforce Development in the South East Regional Office and latterly the Department of Health and Social Care Sector, with responsibility for leading the delivery of workforce modernisation in the NHS and Social Care across the south east and subsequently the south of England.
In 2004, she was appointed as Director of Human Resources for the Department of Health with responsibility for the Department and its agencies and leading HR policy for its 26 arms length bodies. In 2005 she was awarded Doctorate of Business Administration with distinction and in 2006 was appointed to her present role. Anne is also Deputy Chief Executive.
Workshop Speakers
Carmelita Charles
Get Ahead Programme Manager, IDeA
Carmelita’s work at the IDeA is located within Managerial Leadership. Her areas of expertise are leadership, organisational and personal development. She has designed and delivered tailored leadership development programmes for senior officers in local government and leadership programmes specifically for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic managers aspiring for leadership roles within the public sector.
Her work at the IDeA Includes:
- Programme manager for the Get Ahead programmes
- Research and Development in Leadership in local government and the public sector
- Consultancy assignments ranging from bespoke development programmes to Peer Reviews
- Providing leadership advise and representing the sector on the following working parties:-
-Third Sector Leadership Advisory Group.
-Children’s Workforce in England Leadership & Management Policy Group and
-NHS Breaking Through Leadership Advisory Group
Carmelita is Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and TMSD team management profile qualified and has substantial experience using the instruments. She has accreditation for the LG 360 degree and Transformational leadership competency inventories. Her experience is supported by continuous personal development including CIPD membership, a history degree from Sussex University, DMS and Masters Degree in social work.
Eden has worked as a consultant for a variety of organisations for over 20 years. He has established a track record as somebody who has a passion for success and the ability to make it a reality. He is an innovative, challenging thinker whose personal style enables him to work alongside his clients through the difficult issues they face.
He has directed and contributed to many of the Breaking Through initiatives. These include the Transformational Leadership Programme, The Top Talent Programme, Strategies for Success (Men’s) and Integrating the Elements of Success. These programmes are having a significant impact upon the careers of the people who attend them and upon the organisations that they work for.
He has been coach and consultant to leaders of multi-national organizations, chief executives and to senior managers from a variety of sectors and countries. His work takes him all around the world. His clients include leading organizations from nearly every sector of society including the armed forces, NGO’s, local government, the police force, the NHS, Financial institutions, the oil industry, academic and educational institutions, national and local government bodies. He brings this experience to assisting leaders in the NHS conceptualise and implement approaches that result in deeper more fundamental change.
Eden is recognised as being somebody who is making a distinctive contribution in the whole area of strategies for success for people concerned with valuing and liberating the energies, talents and productivity of the entire (actual and potential) workforce. One example of this is his innovative work with number 10 Downing Street.
He says of himself:
“In all of my work, I try to bring the wisdom and voices of excluded individuals, peoples and paradigms from around the world, into the awareness and strategies of those who determine the direction of change. I hold a strong personal value about our ability, as human beings, to create societies and organisations “fit to house the human spirit”.”
Jeremy Crabb,
Associate, Board Level Development Team, NHS Institute for Improvement and Innovation
Jeremy was a PCT Director for 6 years having previously been Chief Executive of a PCG. He has worked extensively in the Acute sector, in both General and Teaching Hospitals, managing clinical and support services. He originally joined the NHS through the General Management Training Scheme after spending 4 years of University holidays as a ward orderly.
He has significant experience in developing people and organisations, and has helped develop colleagues at all levels of the NHS, Local Government and the Police. He has coached Chief Executive level staff in the NHS, Education, Local Government and the Police, and facilitated senior multi agency groups. He is a Leadership and Qualities Framework (LQF) facilitator. He has a long standing interest in working across boundaries.
His portfolio includes providing Leadership input to the Institute’s World Class Commissioning team; facilitating the BDT; supporting the DH PCT Board Development Framework; working closely with the Local Authority Improvement and Development Agency and the National Police Improvement Agency on Executive development and Peer Review; and leading the NHS Institute’s work on Leadership of Place.
Paul Deemer has been a human resources professional for over 20 years. He has worked in local government, the voluntary sector and the health service. It was whilst working for the charity Barnardo’s that he took on the role of national equality and diversity manager. He then got the opportunity to utilise his experience and knowledge gained in this role when he was seconded into the Department of Health’s equality and diversity team in 2000 to help them develop their national strategy in this area. Paul currently works for NHS Employers - which represents and supports NHS trusts across England - and is helping NHS organisations to embed equality and diversity good practice across the NHS.
Paul is married with two children - and works hard to ensure that he practices what he preaches and gets a good work / life balance which allows him to be around as (hopefully) a good role model for his two boys.
Rachel joined the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement in April 2006 as an Associate specialising in Board Level Development.
Rachel has a broad remit for Board development and has worked with a range of Boards across Acute, FT, PCT, Mental Health and Ambulance Trusts over the last 3 years. She leads on all activity to support the assurance, development and facilitation of the Board Development Tool (BDT). This includes leading the recent review to support PCTs in light of World Class Commissioning and current reviews to support FT and APO organisations.
Rachel has extensive experience in developing people and organisations. Prior to this role Rachel has worked in both the Public and Private sectors. Her experience includes over 12 years within in the Organisational Development and Leadership fields, undertaking a range of management and internal consultancy roles within Retail, Utilities, Education, and Regeneration.
Avi has over 15 years experience working in the fields of organisational consultancy, assessment and selection, leadership development and executive coaching. Starting his working life as a public relations consultant within the Saatchi & Saatchi Group he went on to do postgraduate studies at the Manchester School of Management, UMIST and subsequently qualified as a chartered psychologist. Since then he has worked alongside individuals at all levels in the public, private and third sectors to achieve their personal, professional and leadership potential.
Avi joined a small team of Development Advisors at the NPIA in 2008 where he responsible for encouraging increased diversity within the top tiers of the police service, and further developing the careers and leadership of chief police officers and staff.
Drawing on evidence-based theory and practice, Avi places particular emphasis on the importance of self-awareness as a pre-requisite for ethical and socially responsible leadership. His interest and involvement in promoting equality of opportunity and diversity began as an undergraduate (where he researched the effects of racial stereotyping) and has continued throughout his career. He is currently leading the design and implementation of the NPIA’s ‘Releasing Potential Programme’ – a national positive action career development pilot programme for black and minority ethnic Chief Inspectors.
Avi is a member of the British Psychological Society, the Society for Coaching Psychology and an associate member of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development.
Angela is currently on an 18 month secondment to the Department of Health working on a range of projects including leading the development of year 2 of World Class Commissioning Assurance. Prior to this, Angela was the Director of Commissioning and Borough Director for Merton at Sutton & Merton PCT - a post she held for five years including a short period of time acting as joint CEO. Prior to this role, Angela worked in a range of commissioning and provider NHS organisations, gaining experience in all areas of Healthcare - acute, mental health, primary care and community services.
Prior to working for us, Kerrith worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers as the HR and Recruitment Manager for the Northern region. She has over ten years experience of working within leading professional services, financial services and manufacturing organisations driving change management programmes and delivery training to a diverse and broad range of clients.
She has a “trained ear”, encourages clients to “think outside the box” and to actively seek out new opportunities. A strong communicator, she is able to motivate people and change behaviours. She is also skilled in building a rapport and trust with people and helping them to accept and deal with change.
Kerrith is a member of the CIPD, holds a diploma in Performance Improvement Coaching and is a graduate from Birmingham University.
Dr Nicola Hodson
General Manager, Public Sector, Microsoft UK Ltd
Nicola joined Microsoft UK in October 2008 in the role of General Manager, Public Sector. She is responsible for driving business and relationships across a number of customer segments, including Central and Local Government, Health and Education. A key focus for her is to introduce and deliver new capabilities to solve customers’ core business problems and opportunities.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Nicola was Executive Director at Siemens IT Solutions and Services, where she managed a range of IT and business process outsourcing contracts for customers in the Public Sector, Financial Services and Manufacturing industries in Great Britain and Ireland.
Nicola joined Siemens in 2003 as Executive Management Director in charge of Business Development, with responsibility for all strategic sales across the portfolio, and for sales and bid process, bid management, strategic partner and proposition management and redeployment activities. She also worked on a number of acquisitions and corporate projects, including major reorganisations, TUPE transfers, pension scheme changes and restructuring projects.
Prior to Siemens, Nicola led BPO sales in the UK at CSC and sold a number of systems integration and consulting projects in the energy, FMCG and manufacturing sectors. She has also worked for Ernst & Young Management Consulting selling and delivering a number of transformation projects in the energy and utilities sector.
Nicola is married with three sons and two stepsons, who keep her both busy and grounded in the hurly burly of busy family life. She loves outdoor pursuits including off road biking, skiing and when she does get a moment to herself as a keen motorbike enthusiast she enjoys riding her Ducati. Quieter moments will find her entertaining or reading.
Neda Hormozi, previously director for leadership and development at NHS IMAS, is currently on secondment to NHS Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust. Her role is to assist the Chief Executive review and implement the Trust corporate governance structure and Trust Board development plan. Neda’s 15 year career in senior management spans both the commercial and public sector. Neda has worked in England and Europe as academic and change manager, supporting boards in environments of flux and turnaround. Neda is a participant of the BT top talent Cohort 1
John James
Programme Consultant, NSR Leadership Workstream
John James joined the Department of Health in May 2008 as Programme Consultant for the Next Stage Review: Leadership Team. John is supporting “post Darzi” plans to:
- Increase the capacity of leadership across the NHS
- Increase the capability of leadership across the system
John was previously Chief Executive of Hounslow Primary Care Trust between February 2002 and May 2008 and interim Chief Executive of Brighton and Hove City PCT between August 2005 and October 2006.
In addition to Chief Executive roles John has held a variety of Board level posts in different sectors of the NHS during the past 25 years. During his career he has also served on a number of national and regional committees. He has also received a national NHS Leadership award and actively promotes personal development as a leader. He has been acting as a mentor for the past 20 years and is committed to the development and delivery of equality and diversity within the NHS.
Valerie James has a reputation for being at the forefront of innovation in developing health services leaders. For the last 10 years she was a Senior Fellow in Leadership at the King’s Fund where she has worked with over 800 senior clinicians and managers on groundbreaking programmes such as the Top and Senior Manager Programmes, the Athena executive women’s programme, Management for Specialist Registrars and, with Eden Charles, the Transformational Leadership Programme for senior BME leaders in the NHS. As a result, Valerie and Eden were nominated by over 50 people for the national Leadership Awards (Partnership Category) for enabling multiple, sustained personal and organisational improvements.
She was a chief executive grade in the NHS in her mid 30’s and has two clinical trainings, three degrees and three postgraduate clinical diplomas and a PGCE. She was a research fellow in medical sociology at York University, and in 2007 she became an accredited mediator with the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution. She has lived on three continents and considers this central in her education and personal development.
She is passionate about working creatively with transformational change, equality and conflict. Valerie has been an executive coach to many senior figures, including a professor in the House of Lords, the chief executive of a national arts institution, medical directors of national organisations and many doctors, and was recently selected for the University College London’s coaching register. She has consulted to an international order of nuns on their strategic impact across three continents for the last 2 years.
She has 25 years experience of, and a particular interest in, adult learning - including emotional and political literacy and leaders truly embodying their values. Valerie focuses on ways of helping people find creative ways of managing change and conflict and hold their integrity. She is expert in various forms of action learning sets, clinical supervision and bespoke whole system organisation design and interventions for improvement. She is an honorary senior fellow at St George’s, London & Kingston Universities.
Mohamed Jogi
Chartered MCIPD, MSc, MA, LLB (Hons)
Mohamed possesses 14 years experience of human resources and organizational development experience. He is recognised as a strategic thinker who can see the business priorities and implement a broad range of performance and organisational improvement initiatives.
His expertise include includes generalist Human Resource Management, change management, organizational development and equality and Diversity.
He has overseen and carried out major interventions around HR & OD and diversity management for executives, managers, and employees in banking, healthcare, and emergency services in the UK & abroad.
In recent years he has played a pivotal role in delivering national initiatives to embed good HR/OD and diversity practices across the National Health Service including Ambulance Services in the UK. He has also formulated relationships at senior level within the Civil Service, NHS, Department of Health and other governmental bodies where he has submitted responses to consultation documents and national policy documents around key issues. He has also successfully engaged with internal stakeholders through national seminars to provide a forum for communication HR best practices and has developed strategies and manager tool kits, success of which has seen national roll out within the NHS and also to other public sector organisations.
Through this work, he realized his passion and success in culture change and systems alignment to yield enhanced morale, innovation and productivity.
Mohamed previously was a HR Manager at West Yorkshire Ambulance Service. He is the National Networks Manager for NHS Employers in the UK. He is also the Secretary of the Ambulance Diversity Forum and a founding member of the Ambulance Black & Minority Ethnic Committee. In addition he is a Trustee of a Mental Health & Learning Disability Charity in the North West.
He is a Chartered Member of the Institute for Personnel Management (CIPD). He is also a graduate of the University of Huddersfield, University of Leeds and University of Manchester and holds degrees in Law, Masters in International Relations and a Masters in Human Resource Management.
He is also the author of NHS Employers - National Briefing document titled ‘Managing Diversity - Making It Core Business. In addition the ‘Community Handbook & Multi Lingual Phrasebook’ (Ambulance Service Association.
Kaj Lakhani
Commissioning Development Manager, Commissioning Support for London, NHS
Kaj began her career in the management consultancy in the private sector with Ernst & Young, where she specialised in strategy and change management. She went on to complete an MSc in Economic Development and more recently worked in the public sector in a Children's Commissioning in a senior joint commissioning role for Brent Council and Brent PCT.
Kaj has recently joined as the Commissioning Development Manager in the World Class Commissioning Development team providing World Class Commissioning support and development to PCTs to enable them to achieve their World Class Commissioning goals. She leads on the Commercial Development and Commissioning Professionals programmes within in the team.
Maroline Lasebikan: OND RN MSc
Director
Maroline Lasebikan joined the NHS in 1968 as a cadet nurse. Qualifying as an ophthalmic nurse, and then a state registered nurse, she has had a variety of nursing experience, including Orthopedic Staff nurse, Theatre Sister, Ward sister, Ward Manager and Senior Nurse, Care of Older People.
She then broadened her experience into General Management, first undertaking the role of Hospitals Manager, then Nursing and Quality Advisor to a Trust. In 1996 Maroline gained her Masters degree in Quality in Health Care.
She became Service Improvement and Equality and Diversity Manager for Wolverhampton Health Care NHS Trust working on the Equality and Diversity agenda with the Trust to raise the profile of equality issues through the views of service users and staff, through organisational cultural change.
In 2000 Maroline became the National Network Manager and then the Director for the National Positively Diverse Programme. She set up the National Positively Diverse Network with Lead and Associate sites from phase one of the programme. She developed the national strategy, and recruited 200 NHS Trusts to the programme.
Maroline was instrumental in the development of the National Positively Diverse training, delivered at NVQ level 2 and 3. She was also instrumental in the design and delivery of a Masters Module equality and diversity course delivered through Middlesex University London.
Maroline retired from the Health Service in October 2005 and has now joined Reddenhill Consulting Limited, where she continues to develop her passion for equality, diversity, leadership and organisational cultural change.
Maroline is a visiting fellow of Bradford University, Department of Social Inclusion.
Beverly Alimo-Metcalfe, PhD, CPsychol, MBA, MSc
While Professor of Leadership Studies at Leeds University, Beverly and her partner, Dr John Alban-Metcalfe, conducted ground-breaking research into the nature of inclusive leadership in the NHS and the wider public & private sector that led to the creation of a university spin-out company, which undertakes research and consultancy in leadership, culture, and diversity, and develops diagnostic instruments Most recently, she and her colleagues completed a 3-year DH-funded which identified the nature of the link between leadership culture and the effectiveness of NHS multi-professional teams.
Beverly spends much of her time, with colleagues, supporting major organisational transformational projects in NHS trusts, Councils, and other large public and private sector organisations She regularly contributes to programmes for the NHS, and is an advisor to several national bodies, including the recent Macleod Review of Employee Engagement.
Juliette Alban-Metcalfe, MPOD, MSc
Juliette has run various workshops and research projects on leadership and equality and diversity. Clients have included the Department of Health, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR), National Leadership and Innovation Agency for Healthcare (Wales), Greater London Authority, the Metropolitan Police and Merseyside Police.
Her ground-breaking research includes the largest study of the nature of barriers to career progression into senior positions for minority groups in the public sector, commissioned by the Improvement and Development Agency (I&DeA) and co-funded by Real World Group. She also conducted the first UK study of the nature of bias in performance appraisal for women and minority ethnic managers using 360-degree feedback ratings.
Juliette has developed equality and diversity cultural assessments for organisations, and co-authored 360-degree feedback instruments for leadership development. She has also been commissioned to produce publicly-available best practice guides for equality and diversity in organisations by the National Disability Authority (Ireland) and the Greater London Authority.
Michael Moran
CEO of Fairplace and Lead Career Coach
During his long career as an HRM professional, Michael has coached many senior executives for clients including ABN AMRO, Royal Bank of Scotland, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Schroders, Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch.
He has successfully executed several important career transitions himself – into line operations management while working in the commodities and derivatives sector and latterly as MD and CEO of two leading HR consultancies in the UK.
He is a frequent speaker at HR industry events in the UK and abroad and a regular contributor to many HRM publications including the New Statesman, Financial News, Executive Grapevine, Sunday Times Appointments pages, eFinancial News, HR Business and People Management.
Jim O’Connell
Director of Leadership, Department of Health, London
Jim joined the Department of Health in February 2008 as Director of Leadership. The role is responsible for system level Leadership Development, Talent and Capability Planning and the Leadership Workstream of the Next Stage Review.
Previously he was Director of Workforce and Organisational Development at NHS South Central and prior to that led the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Programme - the world’s largest deployment of an integrated HR and Payroll System.
Earlier roles include National Director of HR for Shared Services, HR Director at East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust and HR Director at the Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust.
Jim’s first degree is in Business Studies. He also holds an MBA from Loughborough Business School and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
Angela O’Connor
Chief People Officer, National Policing Improvement Agency
Past President, PPMA 2006/7
Following a number of years in the private sector Angela has spent the majority of her career in the public sector.
She has been in senior HR roles at three London local authorities.
Her HR teams have been the recipients of numerous awards for Equality and Diversity, recruitment and innovative HR practices.
She was head hunted from Enfield to the Crown Prosecution Service in 2002 where she headed up a national HR team determined to ensure the CPS became a world class prosecuting authority. The CPS was recently named as one of the top 5 best employers in England.
She has been named as Personnel Director of the year 2005 at the Telegraph Business Awards, HR Director of the Year 2005 at the Personnel Today Awards and the HR Director of the Year 2007 at the HR Excellence Awards. Human Resource Magazine named Angela in their list of most influential people in HR 2008 and 2009 and she also appeared in Personnel Today’s top ‘power players’. Angela is a board director of Skills for Justice and has been elected the Vice President of CIPD Police Forum.
Angela is currently the Past President of PPMA (The Public Sector People Managers Association); she was the first Civil Servant President in the organisation’s 30 year history 2006/2007.
Angela is now Chief People Officer at the NPIA (National Policing Improvement Agency) where she is head of profession for police HR staff in England and Wales and leads on Police Learning, Development Leadership, and People Strategy.
A senior Human Resources manager with 10 years strategic HR experience gained within large public sector organisations.
Charlie had a career as a police officer being an operational line manager for over 20 years across a range of different specialisms. In his later service he managed a career development team which improved the business through delivering HR strategies, managed internal and external selection and assessment, revitalised struggling projects of a national and local nature and delivered management development programmes.. He enjoys the challenge of building and managing teams, problem solving, negotiating with internal and external stakeholders and He is also a tutor with the Open University Business School.
Charles’s key areas of interest include: selection and assessment processes; retention and exit strategies; induction; management training and development; leadership development; workplace assessment programmes and diversity programmes
Charles is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD). He holds an Advanced Certificate In Employment Law (CIPD), a Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA).
When not travelling around the country, Charlie enjoys sports of most types, but especially golf, tennis and cycling but with 3 children these activities are usually curtailed to allow time to spend with them.
Working from a firm set of principles Dave Thornton is a competent facilitator adept at handling complex interpersonal dynamics, sizing up situations quickly and dealing with a range of personalities to enable organisations to achieve their outcomes. His work requires integrity as he handles issues sensitively, treating information, confidences and opinions with an air of impeccable trust.
He has energy and commitment to the development of people and teams and with a vast experience gained over 25 years he has an acute insight into people and how they perform best.
His experiences and ability to enter into a rapport with those he works with allows him to rapidly gain an empathetic understanding of issues, expectations and the subtleties of situations. As an experienced facilitator Dave has the ability to tune into his audience allowing them to step out of their roles and think creatively about future opportunities, developments and products in a way that encourages new thinking. He is accustomed to working with all spectrums of new and senior teams encouraging and enabling them to climb to new heights.
Working in such environments has allowed Dave to develop techniques to deal with the inevitable issues that arise in senior 'high performing' teams, collisions of egos, hidden agendas and personal ambition to name but a few. He is comfortable with ambiguity, fast changing agendas, uncertainty and the sometime inevitable scepticism that can emerge in these circumstances.
His impartiality allows him to support people and teams to see the 'wood from the trees' and find their own path to success.
Dave has been fortunate to develop with a wide range of well known and respected people whilst working firstly with the NHS 'Leadership Centre' and later with the NHS 'Institute for Innovation and Improvement'. His experience has been expanded by working outside the public sector taking on a number of commercial initiatives. His is a qualified NLP Master Practitioner, Executive Coach; MBTI facilitator and has a whole host of other experiences under his belt. He is a member of the 'Windsor Leadership Trust', is an associate of the 'Kings Fund', and works with a number of Royal Colleges.
He has great attachment to the 'Breaking Through' initiative and when in the Institute of Innovation and Improvement he brought Yvonne Coghill into his team and worked closely with her to ensure that the NHS got the message that the under representation of BME people in senior environments of the NHS was unacceptable. He supported Yvonne’s team as they remodelled the Breaking Through programmes and although now working for himself he still keeps a keen interest in the success of the venture and those individuals developing through it.
This is all a very long way from his beginning, when as a young NHS manager he started to look around him at those who were managing successfully and those who were not. He became fascinated in services that were delivered by people for people yet often got the 'people thing' wrong. As leadership became more fashionable he looked at the relationship between management and leadership and attempted to make the distinction. Some 14 years ago he became a practitioner in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and went on to become a Master Practitioner.
As he moved to work in the NHS Leadership centre Dave became ever more interested in 'good' leadership and how 'top teams' influenced the culture and success of their organisation. He often gets frustrated when his work is described as 'soft' or 'soft skill based' as he believes good human interaction is the key to successful business, underestimate it at your peril. Many management skills can be taught and learned in various ways, learning about you and the impact you and your senior colleagues have on those around you is hard, changing what you do and how you think is hard, it requires insight, he believes good leaders have good insight.
Jo Webber,
Deputy Policy Director
Prior to her current post, Joanna (Jo) Webber worked as a Policy Manager with the NHS Confederation, following her previous role as Director of Clinical Services at Broxtowe and Hucknall PCT with responsibility for provided services; workforce issues, which included employee relations, staff development, and recruitment and retention initiatives; clinical risk and quality assurance; and partnership working and joint commissioning. Jo Webber was previously Acting Director of Operations and Assistant Director of Nursing at Nottingham Community Health NHS Trust and a member of Nottinghamshire's Joint Commissioning Forum for Children's Services and the Children's Trust Steering Group. Her policy areas at the Confederation include children's policy, older people and adult social care, public health and partnerships/local strategic partnerships, as well as PCT issues and futures.
Claire is acting Director of Commissioning in the Commissioning and System Management Directorate of the Department of Health.
Claire previously headed up the Department’s Long Term Conditions team and has worked on policy areas including delivering extended services in primary and community care settings, practitioners with special interests, GP appraisal and NHS Pay.
She joined the Department of Health in April 2000. Her earlier career was spent working on various aspects of agricultural policy at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in London and the European Commission in Brussels.
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