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Mercure Piccadilly Hotel, Manchester
1st November 2024 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Event Speakers
Brad Waldron
Vistage Emcee and Speaker
Brad's high-energy, interactive sessions go far beyond traditional one-way keynotes where the audience sits and listens. One of his best clients called him the "provocative comedian" because he sets a fire under the seat of every audience member to ignite change for a remarkable transformative experience and uses humor to create immediate engagement.
CEO & Executive Chairman
As a Leader he is a high achiever with a proven track record of delivering outstanding financial results, leading and driving change, transforming customer relationships and creating a high performance culture in teams. His unique blend of strategic commercial thinking and creative practical flair is highly valued by all with whom he works.
Strategist
As a Strategist he provides winning formulas that take individuals and organizations to the next level. He has positively impacted and accelerated the performance of leading global brands such as Microsoft, L’Oreal, Sony, Warner Bros and Diageo.
Roger is an economist turned strategist. He began his career in the New Zealand Treasury, then moved into Airline Business Planning and teaching postgraduates all aspects of economics. He designed and ran the postgraduate diploma in Airline Management for British Airways before joining Henley Management College in 1987, where for 21 years he taught senior managers macroeconomics and strategy.
Roger is an independent teaching consultant. He has been external examiner to Bath University, worked with the Bank of England, three of the major UK clearing banks, advised a major London recording studio for 15 years, and regularly talks to SME owners in the UK and Europe about economic trends. He is a visiting fellow to Ashridge, Warwick and Henley business schools.
He speaks at conferences around the world on the economic outlook and its impact on business. His quarterly Economic Update is sent to 1,200 SMEs.
Roger Martin-Fagg
Vistage Speaker
Economic Update
Roger is a practical researcher. He focuses on how the economy really works and on the links between FT100 reward systems, the behaviour of banks and economic instability. He also researches his clients trading environment as a necessary component of his teaching.
Roger has 50 years of economic forecasting and explaining under his belt. His mantra is ‘Simplicity is the end point of understanding’. He has a reputation for accurate forecasts.
The session will give you a greater understanding of economics.
We will look at the basic drivers of economic activity and show what the indicators are telling us we should expect over the next 18 months.
As CEO of Be Human First Limited, Jaz helps leaders who want to influence, inspire and motivate their teams with greater engagement in order to grow their businesses and leave a lifelong legacy.
Jaz combines lessons learned from a challenging and often brutal childhood with those from her rise to TV presenter, TEDx Speaker, stand-up comedian and Z-list reality TV star.
Her authentic honesty and humour consistently empower people to think differently about leading themselves and others.
Jaz Ampaw-Farr
Keynote
Being 10% Braver
Change comes as a result of inspiration or desperation. Why wait for the latter?
Courageous conversations, whether at work or in life, require you to show up as your full-fat self. It’s never easy to go against the tide, address conflict or challenge the status quo, which is where being 10% Braver comes into play.
Jamil is one of today's foremost practitioners of performance enhancing psychology and is an expert in high performing teams. Jamil has enjoyed working with a rich diversity of the most talented business and sports people and teams in the world, helping six individuals get to World Number 1.
In 2006, he was appointed as the first-ever official psychologist to work with the European Ryder Cup team by captain Ian Woosnam. They made history in winning by a record-equalling margin. He has since worked with 5 Ryder Cup captains.
Jamil has worked with 22 golfers inside the top 50 in the world, including two world number one’s.
Ranked among the most influential figures in British sport in 2009 by GQ Magazine, Jamil was voted in the top 100 coaches in the world by The Daily Mirror in 2023
He has worked successfully with three English Premiership football clubs, and currently works with a number of players in the Premiership from teams such as Liverpool FC, Manchester Utd and Manchester City, he has also worked with two Formula 1 racing drivers and the 2009 England Ashes winning cricketers.
In business and industry has worked with business leaders and companies in over 24 different countries last year alone, helping teams to fulfil their potential by developing and delivering change and performance programmes.
He has designed and delivered leadership programmes at board level for Coca Cola, Hewlett Packard, Emirates Airlines, Cisco, GSK, and worked across Lloyds Banking Group on their award winning ‘Journey to World Class’ programme.
During Covid, Jamil worked extensively with global leadership teams at a number of companies, such as SAS, Lloyds Banking Group, GSK, Janssen, NHS England, and Protiviti to help them make the conversion to leading remote and hybrid teams in a changing environment.
Jamil is also a world recognised speaker on all aspects of the psychology of performance, psychology of leadership, leadership attitudes, improving people, cultural change techniques, and team performance.
Interestingly,
• He is one of only a few external psychologists ever to be allowed to study astronauts on the 2008 NASA Space Programme.
• Jamil has talked to an audience that included two former US presidents at the K Club in Ireland!
• Jamil was chosen as the supporting speaker to Tony Robbins at his Dublin event.
• Jamil’s versatility is illustrated by the fact he has talked at NASDAQ in New York where he shared a stage with General Peter Pace, Joint Chief of Staff, the highest ranking military officer in the whole of the US armed forces, and next day did stand up in front of a celebrity audience at the Groucho Club!
• He once spoke in six countries in two days!
Jamil Qureshi
Keynote
We often talk about the right behaviours needed for success, but our actions come from what and how we think. This is also true of our team and customers.
To drive meaningful change within others or ourselves we need to understand the difference between commitment and compliance. True ownership of results can only come from establishing the right thoughts and attitudes. To do differently we have to think differently.
Leading performance coach, Jamil Qureshi session takes us through a practical understanding of how to cultivate mindsets for optimizing talent. Using principles that have been shared with six people who utilized the ideas to become number one in the world in their chosen field, delegates will be taken through an insightful and entertaining look at how we can create positive change through obtaining different outlooks.
For individuals and teams to reach their potential we must find the right thinking and consistency of mind to allow consistency of results.
People who reach the top of their game understand the perspectives which must be applied to ensure that skills are used in the most purposeful way.
The session is rich with take-aways and techniques used by the world’s elite sports and business people.
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Breakout Sessions
12.00 - 13.00
Transform Your Leadership Team for Future-Proof Commercial Success
Speaker: Debra Lee
An interactive session designed to support the CEO of a fast-growing SME where we will share how we implemented a clear people strategy and succession plan that accelerated business growth. This workshop dives deep into evaluating your current team, identifying key gaps, and making the tough decisions necessary to build a high-impact leadership team that can propel your organisation to the next level.
Topic: Talent Strategies
12.00 - 13.00
Explode your Growth & Profit Margins
Speaker: Ben Mekie
In this highly interactive session learn exactly what you can do to enhance efficiency and productivity in your business. If you are more efficient and productive you are more profitable. That is a fact. You will leave the session with some practical items for your business today for implementation tomorrow. You will learn exactly what the best businesses in the world do. Best does not mean the biggest. Best means those businesses that beat their competition by having superior profit margins via efficiency and productivity. The best businesses maximise profitability and enterprise value better than their competitors.
Topic: Financial Services
12.00 - 13.00
I have a great business, why can’t I hire great people?
Speaker: Lucy James
If you find yourself asking this question, it's likely you need to change at least one of three key things about how you recruit. Hiring top talent is a huge challenge. In this session, you'll learn about the most effective practical strategies that make the biggest difference to your ability to recruit the people you need, repeatedly. Here's a clue - it's definitely not "I don't like their shoe colour" (true story!).
Lucy James, co-founder of Quarsh, uses her 20 years of experience in recruitment to explain how you can hire the talent your business deserves. Whether you're looking for one key hire or thirty, you'll pick up some valuable tips on how to find, attract and hire the people you want. Join us to gain an unfair advantage in the one of the tightest and most competitive labour markets in decades.
And for pure entertainment, we’ll also share our top 10 most surprising reasons managers use for not hiring candidates.
Topic: Talent Strategies
12.00 - 13.00
How to create business value with AI
Speakers: Alister Harris & Mark Chamberlain
Artificial Intelligence — two words that hold incredible potential, yet often spark more questions than answers. What exactly is AI? And more importantly, how can it reshape the way we do business? We'll dive into the fundamentals of AI and explore how it can seamlessly integrate into your operations. We'll guide you on where to start, how to build value from AI, and share real-world examples of how businesses are using it to drive efficiency, cut costs, reduce risk, and even boost revenue. From analysing receipts with unparalleled accuracy to saving precious hours on routine tasks, AI isn’t just a trend—it’s a transformative tool for growth. By the end of this session, you’ll not only understand AI's potential but be ready to leverage it to future-proof your business
Topic: Technology
12.00 - 13.00
Transform Recruitment: From Cost Centre to Profit Powerhouse
Speaker: Louise Shaw
Join us for a transformative session that will redefine recruitment as a profit powerhouse! Building on our acclaimed UK Talent Planning and Resourcing Report with the CIPD, we’ll explore the true costs of recruitment and the impact of missteps on your bottom line. But fear not—we’ll provide practical strategies to turn the tide! Discover Omni’s proprietary maturity model designed for SMEs, packed with insider secrets to enhance your recruitment effectiveness.
You’ll leave equipped with immediate actions to attract elite talent and drive greater ROI. This award-winning session is a must-attend for anyone serious about maximising recruitment potential!
Topic: Talent Strategies
12.00 - 13.00
Feminine Equity - What is it and Why does it matter?
Speaker: Jane Kenyon
Equality is the end game, but gender parity WILL NOT become a reality without equity. We will be discussing….Is gender parity a pipe dream or a pipe line essential? How do we level the playing field? Why do women exit corporate life at middle management and how can we plug the leak? How do we inspire the next generation to max out their potential, particularly the Millennials and Gen Zs .
Your Takeaways…An honest review of the gender debate – Jane does NOT shy away from the big questions. Understanding the brutal landscape young girls need to navigate to reach their potential
Topic: Talent Strategies
