Talent Management & Leadership Development Summit 2012

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Individual Presentations

* Please note that two sessions from the conference are not available in these webinars but are included in the pdf here.  The pdf is included free with this webinar.  The sessions are: “Dealing with ‘blind spots’: turning around leaders at risk of derailment” by Dr Charles Bethell-Fox, Executive Consultant, PDI Ninth House and “Working with generation Y and Z effectively” by Barry Hoffman, Group HR Director, Computacenter.

Cindy Mahoney, Director, Global Talent Management, Human Resources, BlackRock

Cindy has over 20 years’ experience with Barclays plc, culminating in the role of Change Director, prior to moving into consultancy in April 2002.

She spent two years in talent management and change with Penna plc, before moving to Fairplace in 2004 where she was appointed Head of Talent Management. Cindy subsequently spent 3 years as CEO of Cedar Talent Management.

In June 2011 she joined the talent team of BlackRock with the responsibility of developing the global agenda in the EMEA region. Her main areas of expertise include the identification and development of talent, behavioural aspects of change, and senior level coaching & team facilitation.

Georges Vandenhove, Vice President of Human Resources and Communications for Europe, Ingersoll Rand

Georges Vandenhove is the vice president of human resources and communications for the Trane and Thermo King brands of Ingersoll Rand in Europe, Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA). He has more than 25 years of global human resources and business management experience working in six continents. Previously he was vice president of human resources for Ingersoll Rand’s security technology business in Europe and the Middle East.

Prior to joining Ingersoll Rand, Vandenhove held several senior Human Resources leadership positions in Honeywell Europe, British Telecom Global Services and CHRO at Agfa Gevaert Group. He also worked for Mobil Plastics Europe as vice president of human resources and as global organization development director.

Vandenhove is a highly regarded speaker on organizational transformation and change management. He is certified in change management, six sigma and lean. Previously he served as the president of the International Personal Managers group and was a board member of the European Human Resources Forum. Vandenhove also has taught many classes in creative thinking, organizational development and human resources management.

Vandenhove holds a bachelor’s degree in languages and economics from HTI, Leuven and a Master of Business Administration from Boston University.

Catherine Ward, Group Director, People and Communications, General Healthcare Group, BMI Health

Catherine has led the HR team within General Healthcare Group for over five years and, during this period of significant change for the company, been responsible for delivering transformation of people management, creating a professional infrastructure and building an innovative talent management and succession planning structure. She leads communications for the Group, both on staff engagement and external corporate communications. Catherine has extensive experience within HR management and consultancy having previously been HR Director for BAA and the BBC. Her experience includes high level consultancy, with KPMG, as Consultancy Director for SHL, the occupational psychologists, and as a change management specialist advising on the HR implications pre and post acquisition.

Ann Francke, Chief Executive Officer, Chartered Management Institute

As Chief Executive Officer, Ann brings her extensive global experience to the CMI and Ann has a proven track record to deliver innovative strategies that result in profitable growth. As Global Managing Director at the BSI Group, the global standards, certification and assessment provider, she led the training and certification businesses to create a more customer –facing organisation.

In her new role at CMI, she will bring her experience with her to lead the team in promoting best practices in management and leadership, and improving management standard across the UK.

Prior to BSI Ann held executive board positions at Boots and Yell and was European Vice President at Mars. Ann began her career at Procter and Gamble and managed a variety of international brands before rising to global general manager. She has a BA with distinction from Stanford University and MBA and MS degrees from Columbia University in New York.

Ann lives in West London with her husband, her daughter attends university. A UK/US citizen, Ann also speaks German and Russian.

Barry Hoffman, Group HR Director, Computacenter

Barry Hoffman joined Computacenter in 2008 as UK Human Resources Director, becoming Group HR Director in 2012. His remit includes the full range of strategic and operational Group HR responsibilities as well as Corporate Communications.

At Computacenter the HR function focuses on creating competitive advantage through employee engagement strategies. They pride Themselves on the performance management, talent and succession programmes, which are at the heart of developing their organisational capability. Pivotal to Computacenter’s success is the Business Integration team within HR which is a centre of excellence for all the people aspects of our outsourcing business.

A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Barry has over 15 years’ experience in the IT industry including IT line management. He has a first degree in Modern Languages, an MBA and a Masters degree in employment law. Barry is married with two children and is a keen equestrian.

Hayley Bilantz, Head of Leadership, MDA Training

Hayley leads MDA Training’s leadership development offering. She is a registered psychologist and an established international trainer and coach, with a wealth of experience in leadership and management development, HR and project management, personal growth, and working with teams.

Hayley has had considerable leadership experience, having held a number of senior training and development positions within major organisations. She has led teams and trained internationally at the senior level across many sectors including retail, professional services, pharmaceuticals, media and manufacturing.

Hayley’s key area of expertise is leadership development, making it possible for people to better lead themselves to realise their full potential and to lead others by taking people with them.

Examples of Hayley’s recent teaching and development assignments include:

• Designing and delivering a leadership development programme for an international recruiter
• Regularly coaching on the most senior leadership development programme for one of the world’s most successful retailers
• Working with the board of a large consultancy to develop them personally and as a leadership team
• Developing internal capability for a large retailer both in the UK and Asia

Claire Genkai Breeze, Partner, Relume and co-author of the challenger spirit

Before co-founding Relume Claire worked with Alexander Consulting as Client Service Director, specialising in team and 1:1 work with Senior Executives from organisations within the pharmaceuticals and finance sectors and with Walleczek & Partners as Client Services Director where she was responsible for multi-million pound transformation projects.

Early in her career, Claire co-founded the Centre for Action Learning Ltd. She has a Masters Degree in Change Agent Skills and Strategies, is a qualified therapist andstress management consultant with extensive experience of group work, actionlearning, Adlerian therapy, TA, Gestalt and theories in adult learning.

A Zen Buddhist and an experienced corporate coach of 24 years, Claire specialises in working with people who have broader and deeper questions about what they are trying to cause in organisations, those who need to recover their confidence or their inner compass to lead, and those who are regarded as talented but lacking in relational or EQ skills

Claire is an accomplished public speaker and brings a rich mix of challenge, insight, conceptual and pragmatic stretch. You can expect changes in awareness, purpose, energy and leadership mastery.

Dr Susanne Sondergaard, Principal Psychologist, Ministry of Defence

Susanne joined the Ministry of Defence (MOD) in 2008 as principal psychologist looking after the preparation and support of civilians on operational deployments.

In September 2009, she joined the Civilian Human Resources Directorate to focus on Leadership and Talent Management – particularly working with key stakeholders on ensuring appropriate behavioural descriptors on the Senior Civil Service leadership model to enable baseline setting, development of leadership and linking in with performance management.

Susanne also provides psychological expertise to a number of projects more widely in Defence, including Change management, 360 degree feedback, personnel selection and development, etc. From April 2012, she took on the HR strategy role on civilian leadership.

Sophie Turner, Former Global Projects (Talent, Leadership, Performance), National Grid

Sophie Turner has over 14 years global experience including three FTSE 100 companies and professional consultancy. She is currently working at National Grid where she joined in 2008 as the Global Talent Manager and more recently in a strategic global projects role in which Sophie is responsible for designing and driving leadership, talent and change interventions globally.

Oliver Johnson, Director of Market Offer, Leadership, Penna

Oliver Johnston is Director of Leadership Consulting at Penna. He is currently leading Penna’s research into What Works in Leadership Development? As well as leading the Penna Team, Oliver practices as a leadership consultant, board level coach, facilitator and mediator. He is a member of the Association for Coaching (AC) Global Advisory Panel, was Founding Chair of the AC in Ireland and is an AC Honorary Life Member. As a professional mediator, Oliver was the Inaugural Chair of the Mediation Network.

Steve Pritchard, Director, Global Client Engagement, TMA World

Steve is Director of Global Client Engagement at TMA World, where he has used his extensive international experience in global human resources strategy, organisational capability and cross cultural working to develop talent across the workforces of many multinational organisations.

He has expertise in the design and implementation of enterprise-wide training and organisational design. He has applied this very effectively as TMA World’s lead for the company’s partnership with ArcelorMittal, which has delivered training to over 20,000 managers in 30 countries over the last 5 years. The team were winners of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), 2011 ‘Excellence in Practice’ Award, for their extensive work.

Steve is also a highly experienced international trainer, having delivered over 500 programmes on globalisation, cross cultural leadership and virtual teamwork in over 40 countries.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and has an MBA in International Business.

Dr Charles Bethell-Fox, Executive Consultant, PDI Ninth House

Charles Bethell-Fox has more than 20 years experience as a management consultant with leading organizations around the world. He specializes in the assessment and development of leadership potential and the creation of integrated approaches to human resource development. Charles, who joined PDI Ninth House in 2001, is also an executive coach.

Charles began his career as a psychologist with the Royal Navy working on the selection, training, and development of officers, and later moved to a role with the British Government Home Office to help select and develop future Civil Service fast-track leaders. He was also a consultant in the private sector where he played a leading role in bringing integrated approaches to human resource development to Europe. Charles is the former editor of the British Psychological Society’s journal Selection and Development Review, the author of several published papers and book chapters, and a popular public speaker at conferences.

MDA Training

MDA Training is a leading provider of tailored training services offering our clients a fresh and innovative approach to leadership development.

For over 24 years we have helped our clients improve financial and operating performance through highly engaging and commercially focussed in-house leadership development programmes.

Working with you, we invest our time and expertise to create flexible and interactive training solutions that support the effective transfer of learning to the workplace.
Our bespoke learning events always reflect our clients’ genuine work environments, organisational values and commercial context. We can offer a fully blended solution from interactive classroom-based workshops and experiential business simulations to custom-designed multimedia such as apps and corporate films.

How we make a difference:

Through deep and lasting relationships with our clients we develop the insights and skills of their people so that they can meet the genuine commercial challenges their organisation faces. Our learning events always have a practical focus – challenging participants to apply their new skills in realistic workplace situations. This ensures our training activities create real value for participants and a substantial return on our clients’ investment.

Our long-term, diverse range of clients reflects our versatility and capability to design and deliver unique solutions. Our current clients include: Accenture, Associated British Foods, BBC Worldwide, Bupa, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Energy Savings Trust, E.ON, J.P. Morgan, McDonald’s, Nationwide, Prudential, Randstad, RBS, Santander, Siemens, Tesco, Tube Lines, Twinings.

TMA World

TMA World is a global learning and development specialist, focused on helping organizations achieve global alignment through enterprise-wide learning.

Our transformational One World Curriculum has been researched and developed by globally recognized experts. Our aim is to deliver thought leadership in managerial, global and virtual capabilities every time and everywhere.

We deliver learning solutions where, when and how our clients want them. We offer radical flexibility by utilizing virtual classrooms, e-learning, webcasts, apps, forums and other online tools, such as our Country Navigator. All of these can be used with our interactive and experiential face-to-face workshops delivered by an extensive global network of multilingual facilitators.

We are proud to have long standing working relationships with some of the largest, most successful companies in the world, many of which belong to the Fortune 500.

We do not aim at learning for its own sake, but for producing measurable business results, which improve the performance of your organization and accurately demonstrate the ROI of out training initiatives.

Penna Plc

In today’s fast moving world, finding the time and resources to deliver truly effective development programmes for your leaders is a real challenge. As experts in leadership development, Penna understands the importance of effective leadership and its impact on engagement, motivation and ultimately organisational performance. We work with leading organisations to implement large leadership programmes that deliver lasting and measureable results.

Penna is a global HR Services Group. Our solutions span the entire employment lifecycle from attraction and communications, managed recruitment and assessment, executive search, executive interim and assessment to coaching, learning and development, consulting solutions and outplacement.

PDI Ninth House

PDI Ninth House is the world’s premier global leadership solutions company. For more than four decades, we have provided integrated assessment, development, and coaching solutions around critical leadership and business challenges that most directly impact each leader’s success and the success of their organisation.

PDI Ninth House’s solutions help clients improve the quality and strength of their leaders, allowing them to improve talent selection, placement, and development; ultimately achieving greater business results.

PDI Ninth House serves 1000s of clients on six continents, including 70% of the BusinessWeek Top 100 Global Brands and 75% of the Forbes Global 100. Visit www.pdinh.com.