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Professor Andrew Mayo is a frequent speaker, writer and facilitator in international HRM, specialising in people and organisation development, having worked for thirty years in major international organisations.

He is a Programme Director at the Centre for Management Development at London Business School and Associate Professor of HRM at Middlesex Business School, and author of numerous articles and books.

Clive is a consultant specialising in learning and communications technologies. He works with a broad range of public and private sector organisations, helping them to effectively harness the benefits of technology for workplace learning and communications. He established his interest in interactive media while Director, Training and Creative Services for American (more…)

Graham is the UK Commission for Employment & Skill’s Project Director for Talentplan, and was Head of Employment & Skills for the Olympic Development.

The talentmap™ framework helps employers meet talent and skills needs by providing a simple single view of the education, employment & skills system. It can help employers and others work more effectively together to improve the competitiveness of UK business. (more…)

Debbie Carter is Research and Events Director of TJ (formerly Training Journal). Formerly editor of the magazine she introduced workshops, the TJ Awards programme and a yearly conference.

In 2008 Carter initiated the L&D 2020 research project; an on-going exploration into the future of workplace learning with the aim of considering the question:”What next for the profession?”.

Tony Quinlan is the Chief Storyteller at Narrate Consulting. He has spent 20 years shaping communications and change programmes for large organisations and has developed powerful frameworks for shared understanding and engagement that are more effective than traditional communication methods.

He and his team will be running a session on Anecdote Circles for the sharing of Leadership stories. (more…)

Tiina’s Business Technology Training team at Bupa provides IT training solutions for the Bupa Group, offering desktop and business critical applications training, using a range of learning technologies. She also collaborates with Bupa’s global L&D forum on best practice in blended learning strategies.

The Bupa session looks at how Bupa is using social media in a learning context. (more…)

Stacey Dunkin is Organisational, Development & Learning Consultant at DSTL, the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory.
The talk “Psychology and Drama, Performance Managers becoming Performance Leaders” shows that honest, open conversation between leaders and teams is the foundation of successful performance management, with leaders now having meaningful conversations about personal performance. (more…)

Dr. Anthony ‘Skip’ Basiel is Sr. Post Grad. Programme Leader at Middlesex University.

His talk on The Power of Webcasts considers the potential for using webcasts and webcast recordings as a means to support the development and growth of your online network.

Barry Hopley is Head of Learning & Development at NSL Services.

His talk Development that Sticks like Mud is about a new approach to engaging learners such that they ‘really get it’. The Ican Grow People learning approach takes the complete leadership cycle, breaks it down to appropriate levels, puts your organisation at the heart of it, and then ensures that the learning is understood and applied. (more…)

Michelle is Training Manager at Royal Caribbean International. They use e-Learning and social media to engage their network of travel agents to actively promote their cruise packages – a successful formula now emulated by their competition.

She will explain how they now work very closely with Marketing and Sales, developing a corporate-wide strategy to help remain in the forefront of the sector. (more…)

Larry Gold is Director of Support at Trafford Housing Trust.

His talk; Star Gazing; relates to our galaxy being full of spectacular stars, each unique and following its own journey. Their Rising Stars Programme identifies and nurtures their stars of the future to shine, applying a package of learning & development, remuneration & reward, and talent & performance management to grow and develop their team.