Conference date: Tuesday 13th October, 2009
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Simon Walker
Talent Smoothie is a research-based organization that develops custom training and development programmes for high-performing leaders and teams.
Simon will be challenging the L&D community on how they might engage with the values, attitudes and behaviours of Generation Y when compared to previous generations, the Generational theory behind this, the impact of Generation Y in the work place and its implications for the industry.
Cliff Fluet, Partner at Lewis Silkin
Lewis Silkin is recognised as one of the top 20 companies to work for in the Sunday Times listings. Cliff will talk about what makes Lewis Silkin a great company to work for and will touch on how they recruit, retain and develop high performing staff in a tough economic climate.
For Lewis Silkin Cliff specialises in helping clients seeking to exploit brands and content, particularly in the area of music-based entertainment do so profitably and legally within a rapidly converging Mediascape. He also specialises in enabling those seeking to use branded content monetise their assets to develop new revenue streams.
Nigel Paine
Nigel is a Strategic Adviser on Leadership and Talent Development and well known to colleagues in the Broadcast Industry. Nigel Paine is a great communicator and profound thinker about what makes contemporary workspaces tick and what businesses need to do to survive in the C21st. He specialises in developing leaders; building learning organisations; getting the best out of staff; and developing strategies for retention and development of key people within organisations.
As the final keynote is a session entitled Major Trends and Directions Nigel will round off the conference by sharing the highlights of the day and set them in the context of some of the major trends in global learning. What is working? What is being funded? Where is learning heading in the next few years?
John Atkins, John Atkins Consulting, Independent & BTSR Validation Team Lead Consultant
John Atkins has been involved in education and training consultancy since 1989. He was a core member of the PricewaterhouseCoopers education consultancy team through the early nineties, and then a Director of Education Advisory Services for KPMG. Since 2001 John has built up an independent education consultancy practice and, as part of this, has supported BTSR in its self-assessment reviews for three years. In addition to his work for BTSR, John maintains an interest in the funding of education and training from both public and private funds and has advised a number of Government bodies both in the UK and overseas as to the most effective use of resources to support both academic and employment-based learning.
Andrew Chitty, Managing Director, Illumina Digital
Andrew has been a pioneer in the converging worlds of TV and digital media since the mid 90s when, as Editor of BBC2's The Net, he was responsible for the BBC's first website and virtual world. Since 1998 he has built Illumina Digital into the UK's leading cross-platform production company winning a raft of awards including 4 BAFTAS, 8 RTS Awards, The UN Award for e-learning - and even a Golden Ladle for the world's best cookery site! In 2008 Illumina joined All3Media, the UK's largest independent production group. Andrew has been active in policy and industry groups, co-authoring OFCOM's paper New Options for Public Service in the Digital Age and advised Lord Carter as a member of the ministerial steering board for the Digital Britain Report. He is a council member of PACT, trustee of TRC Media in Glasgow and a past board member of Skillset. Andrew is currently the Chair of the National Skills Council for Digital Media and visiting professor at University College Falmouth.
Laura Clarke, Indie Training Fund
As Fund Director, Laura Clark oversees the strategic direction of the Indie Training Fund. She works closely with the Trustees to ensure that ITF delivers and funds quality, value for money training for the indie sector. Before running ITF, Laura was Head of Skills at Pact. The Indie Training Fund is a charity that funds and delivers training for the UK independent television and digital media production sectors. Established, funded and run by member companies, ITF provides in-company training and consultancy, plus short courses around the UK. ITF also makes major grants to Skillset, the TV Freelance Fund and the National Film and Television School.
Alice Dudley, TV Manager, Skillset
Alice is the TV Fund Manager at Skillset, managing the TV Freelance Fund, a pot of money contributed to by all the UK's broadcasters and independent production via the ITF. Alice works with industry and training providers to ensure freelancers working in television have access to the most up-to-date and relevant training for a subsidised rate. Alice has previously managed projects to help over 70 indies develop and grow their companies, and previously worked at the Strategic Development Unit at the UK Film Council and BFI.
Mike Haffenden, Strategic Dimensions
Mike has worked at senior levels in the UK, US and mainland Europe for 6 major organisations including Rowntree, Unilever and Hewlett Packard. In 1993, he formed the Leading Edge Forum with the London Business School. In 1995, he formed Corporate Research Forum (the leading OD and MD Research consortium) and Strategic Dimensions, a leading recruitment business. In 2002, he formed the Performance & Reward Centre, which is a research body servicing reward and compensation professionals.
Oliver Hill, Skills Manager, London Brokerage Service
Oliver's role, with his team, is to support employers of all sizes and in all sectors to improve the skills of employees, as a route to improving business performance. The service offers skills advice on everything from Investors in People and basic skills through to leadership and management training. Oliver has a wealth of experience and knowledge of supporting businesses to access government funding through training providers and colleges.
Joan Keevill, Designs on Learning Ltd
Joan Keevill set up her leadership development and e-learning consultancy, Designs on Learning Ltd, in 2008. Previously she worked at BBC Training & Development for eight years, latterly as Lead Learning Consultant and 'rapid' e-learning producer. She researched the BBC's Creative Future People Strategy and developed and delivered 'Stress: a manager's toolkit' - an organisational stress management workshop across the BBC from 2006 - 08. She produced the award winning 'Leadership Essentials Online', a 24-part leadership development e-learning package. She has an MA in Management Learning and Leadership and is an accredited facilitator. She is a visiting tutor at Henley Business School, where she currently e-tutors and facilitates virtual Action Learning sets.
Alan Mackenzie, Mackenzie Consultancy Services Ltd
Alan is an experienced adviser, researcher and consultant, having established his own consultancy practice in 1998 after successful leadership and management experience in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. He has been an Adviser to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) since 2000 and has wide experience through contributing to PwC projects and through his own consultancy assignments. This includes advising and guiding businesses to secure recognition as an Investor in People, focused on achieving business objectives through people and including initial diagnostic assessment; developing strategies to improve performance; identifying skills strengths, gaps and training needs, developing training plans, monitoring action and implementation and evaluating the impact on performance.
Francis Marshall, Joint Managing Director, Cegos UK
Francis joined Cegos UK, part of Europe’s largest learning and development organisation in 2001. He was promoted to the role of Joint Managing Director in 2003 and sole Managing Director in 2008. In addition to his responsibilities as MD, Francis is an NLP practitioner and is active as a senior level consultant within the fields of management, leadership and executive coaching. Francis has many years’ experience helping companies to grow through training, management development and change management programmes.
Before joining Cegos, Francis worked for over 20 years for Barclays Bank in a wide variety of management and leadership roles, where he covered all aspects of financial services from business management to sales and operations. He has significant experience of leading large business units. His final position in Barclays was Group Deputy Director for Quality, responsible for integrating the EFQM Business Excellent Framework into business as usual activities.
Jane Massy, abdi Ltd
Jane Massy is the UK's most experienced ROI practitioner. She has been working as an evaluator in the domain of learning and development since 1993. Since 2006, Jane has been the CEO of abdi ltd, the sole UK partner of the ROI Institute. Since then the consultancy has used the ROI methodology together with other planning and measurement models in client contracts and taught several hundred individuals and many tens of organisations the methodology through in-house and open-booking workshops and coaching. She has extensive experience in measuring the business impact and value from L&D and other HR investments for large corporate clients in the public and private sector; implementing disciplined, efficient investment planning processes and tools for people investments; consulting on change management for international businesses in many sectors and evaluating research into workplace learning and labour market interventions for national governments, the EU and NSF funded programmes.
Claire McCartney, Resourcing and Talent Planning Adviser, CIPD
Claire McCartney joined the CIPD in 2008. She is responsible for research, exploring different aspects of effective talent management strategies, and manages the Institute's Resourcing and Talent Forum. Before she joined the CIPD, Claire was Principal Researcher at Roffey Park. There she conducted research projects and wrote Roffey Park's annual Management Agenda Survey and reports and articles about Work-Life Balance, Flexible Working, Employee Volunteering, Talent Management and Diversity. Claire has also worked with a range of clients on tailored research needs and consultancy projects.
Kate O’Connor, Deputy Chief Executive, Skillset
Kate O’Connor is Executive Director and Deputy CEO of Skillset, the Sector Skills Council for the Creative Media Industries. Her role is to establish and oversee the organisation's approach to policy and development working in conjunction with industry and across UK Government and its public agencies. Kate was the founding member of staff at Skillset in 1992. Previously she worked as the Test Development Manager at City and Guilds of London Institute. There she managed a small consultancy team with an extensive employer client base. Before that, Kate worked in the Department for Employment in various roles connected to training and skills policy. Kate is a Board Member of Capital Quality Ltd, a major London based consultancy, Investors in People and quality assessment centre; she also represents the industry on many consultative and policy advisory committees.
Laura Overton, Managing Director, Towards Maturity
Towards Maturity is a not for profit organisation that provides research and online resources to help organisations deliver effective learning intervention at work.
Laura is the co-author of 'Driving Business Benefits' (09) and 'Towards Maturity' (07) - two studies with over 500 organisations into effective e-learning practices in the workplace. She is also the author of 'Linking Learning To Business' - one of the first studies with both organisations and learners looking at good practice of successful implementations (Jan 04).
Laura is a founding ambassador for Next Generation Learning @ Work, a national initiative in the UK backed by Becta to promote the effective use of technology in learning, training and development in the workplace, colleges and schools.
With over 2 decades of experience of implementing learning technologies in the workplace, she works with government policy makers representing employer interests and has contributed to initiatives associated with the European Commission, the UK's Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and Becta both in her current organisation and as a member the original advisory board to the LSC.
Laura is a Fellow of the Institute of IT training and of the British Institute of Learning and Development and is a popular industry commentator.
Colin Ramsay, Learning & Development Advisor, Global Radio Group
Colin leads the training function with colleagues at Global Radio. His L&D team's mission is to facilitate meaningful personal development to support the continued growth of the company. Colin joined Global Radio in early 2008 before its acquisition of GCap Media. He has since led several development projects, delivered many hours of training time and coached managers throughout the organisation. Before joining Global Radio Colin spent several years working in China as a teacher and trainer in the educational, IT and customer service industries.
Alan Samuel, Vice President UK, Tata Interactive Systems
Alan Samuel heads the UK operations of Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) and has spent the last eight years in Learning Technology. He has been instrumental in managing TIS's key accounts in the UK market and introducing TIS's Learning Consultancy and Business Simulation activities into the UK. The UK team manages TIS's business across the banking, insurance, publishing, telecom and transport industries. In a career spanning 30 years, he has worked in media, advertising, marketing and the hospitality industries. Before joining TIS, Alan spent a number of years working within the Tata Group.
Euan Semple
Euan Semple helps people understand social media in organisations. He was Director of Knowledge Management at the BBC and subsequently has worked with with major organisations such as Nokia, the World Bank, and NATO. His focus is on how social media affects businesses, how they run themselves, attract new staff and relate to increasingly connected and vocal customers.
Donald H. Taylor, Founder and Chair, Learning & Skills Group
Donald H Taylor is chairman of the Learning and Skills Group, Europe's foremost association for workplace learning and development professionals. With over two decades' experience in L&D and IT, he is a widely published and respected thinker in the field, with a focus on the ways technology can be used to support learning. Formerly a non-executive director at talent management software provider InfoBasis, Donald took internet start up SkillServer from concept to trade sale in the early 2000s. He chairs the Learning Technologies Conference and is a non-executive director of the Institute of IT Training. He regularly contributes to industry publications both on- and off-line, edits the UK's Inside Learning Technologies Magazine and is Learning and Development Editor for Learn Ireland.
Jo Taylor, Channel 4
4Talent's aim is to develop and support creative talent at different stages of their careers, reflecting multicultural Britain and a multi-platform industry. Jo Taylor joined Channel 4 in 2007, having previously worked as Head of Production Talent at Optomen Television, where she was responsible for recruiting and head hunting talent for their production portfolio. Prior to these roles, Jo's experience was in Factual Television. She was a managing editor of the BBC's Documentaries and Contemporary Factual department, which involved the management and career development of 500 production staff. She started her career as a production manager and production executive in the Consumers and Investigations unit which produced programmes such as Watchdog, Rogue Traders, Rough Justice.
Chris Thompson, Head of Enterprise and Innovation, Ravensbourne College
Chris Thompson has overall responsibility for the knowledge transfer, training, commercial and industry facing activities of Ravensbourne College. He has worked in the creative industries at director level for the past eight years, is a member of the Design Skills Advisory Panel, Education Advisor to The Future Department and has in-depth knowledge of and contacts in the advertising, design, interaction and the broadcast communities.
Daniel Wain, Daniel Wain Consulting Limited
Daniel Wain specialises in learning and development / HR consultancy, and both training and coaching in a range of business and relationship skills. Before founding Daniel Wain Consulting Limited in 2007, he was Worldwide Director of Learning & Development (L&D) at Research International (RI), part of the WPP Group, responsible for developing and driving the company's L&D strategy across its global network. Daniel is an MA, Chartered FCIPD, FRSA, and MMRS. He sits on the Market Research Society Professional Development Advisory Board and its Training Advisory Group, and leads a range of MRS courses. He has won many awards and writes regularly on 'people' and 'talent' issues for several research publications and for People Management and Training Journal. A Visiting Senior Fellow at Winchester School of Art and a Board Trustee of the charity Audiences London, Daniel is also a member of Equity, the Writers' Guild of Great Britain and the Society of Authors. He ran his own theatre company for many years: Strut & Fret and produced over a dozen shows in London.
Jo Welch, Head of Compact Delivery, Skillset
Jo has been Head of Compact Delivery at Skillset since 2008. She works jointly and collaboratively with LSC nationally and regionally to deliver the objectives and aims of the sector compact. As part of the compact, Jo also supports the delivery of Train to Gain within the sector, working to increase take up, engagement and learner achievement.
In her previous role as Skillset's Midlands Co-ordinator, Jo was responsible for building and maintaining partnerships with the industry, government and public agencies and ensuring Skillset's mission, objectives, projects, and services were delivered effectively across the region.
Rick Williams, Creative Development Director, AKQA
AKQA is the leading global digital marketing and technology services firm. AKQA help their clients design digital solutions that create engaging experiences. Last year he helped to develop Fiat eco:Drive - a solution for Fiat car owners to monitor and improve their driving style, helping them to cut fuel costs and lower their carbon emissions. To date, the Fiat eco:Drive community has collectively saved 1.5 million kg of CO2 - the equivalent of keeping every one of the 18,000 homes in eco:Ville heated for seven days.
Carrie Wootten, Digital Creative Industries Network Manager, Ravensbourne College
Carrie Wootten contributes to the on-going development of the College's digital broadcast media and design industry network. She is responsible for the overall delivery of the ERDF funded Commercialising Digital Technology Programme and its outputs. Carrie spent four years working at Skillset, finally managing the Skillset Screen Academy Network. Carrie also worked in broadcasting in BBC Radio and BBC Television Drama.
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