Partnership for Success

Damian Hughes

Founder

LiquidThinker Ltd

Damian Hughes will explain the origins of our behaviour and performance.  He will demonstrate how to bring about genuinely lasting change in performance by identifying your own personal style, strengths and development areas.  An understanding of this deep rooted process is vital to succeed here as opposed to making surface level changes which fail to impact and do not last.  In any organisation, this must start with the individuals taking responsibility to manage their performance effectively.

Judith Hackitt

Chair

Health & Safety Executive

Just one mistake can lead to a major failure, especially in the major hazard industries, because any system is only as good as its weakest link.  For that reason, it is an imperative that organisations ensure as part of securing sustained business excellence that they install a strong health and safety culture throughout their workforce, from the very top to the bottom.  The creation of this 'mindset' - where acting safely is an integral part of getting the job done properly - is dependent on strong leadership.  This presentation, therefore, will focus on what in reality this means as well as highlighting why leadership enables other things: workforce involvement, competence and risk prioritisation, associated with an effective health and safety culture to happen.

Tim Marsh

Managing Director

Ryder Marsh

Tim will address the following:

• What you should look for and how should you look for it
• How do you maximise analysis and minimise workforce defensiveness
• How understanding why people/really/do what they do is essential if you're going to fully understand what a high impact low cost solution looks like
• How do you extract/glad/rather than/grudging/promises

Shaun McCarthy

Director

Action Sustainability CIC Ltd

This presentation introduces the concept of sustainable business and exposes some of the myths and sharp practice that conspire to confuse managers in businesses and public bodies.

It goes on to explore why organisations should choose to do their business more sustainably and how these drivers may influence the way organisations set their sustainable business goals.  They key message is that sustainably is a contextual concept which organisations need to define in a way that best suits their business.  Finally, the presentation highlights best practice in sustainable business.

The purpose of the presentation is to inspire the audience to think about their business objectives in a different way and to explore their own motivations, objectives and targets.

Lawrence Waterman

Head of Health & Safety

The Olympic Delivery Authority

The record in accident prevention and well-being during the construction work on the Olympic Park and Olympic Village for London 2012 stands comparison with other major projects around the world.  This presentation focuses on the contribution to performance provided by the focus on clear leadership and the development of a strong SHE culture despite the pressures imposed by workforce churn, tight deadlines and project complexity.

Paul Thomas

Chairman

Railway Safety and Standards Board

An organisation's safety culture is significantly affected by behaviour and example of its leaders.  This presentation will draw on Paul's experience in submarines, the nuclear industry and latterly the railway industry.

Flight Lieutenant John Nichol

The first the world saw of RAF navigator Flight Lieutenant John Nichol was as a tortured British prisoner of war, beaten and humiliated by his captors.  The ensuing pictures were flashed around the world and became an enduring symbol of the first Gulf War.

John's message is one of optimism, inspiration and personal motivation.  His personal triumph lies in having discovered his potential to cope with extremes and achieve goals way beyond his perceived horizons.  John leaves his audience in no doubt that potential exists in all of us.