HR Director Boardroom

Date: Thursday 28th November 2024
Time: 8:30am – 10:00am
Topic: Cultivating Success – for you and your business

What you will get from the session:

• How to foster and sustain a success culture that promotes collaboration, innovation, and excellence within your organisation.
• How to adapt and respond to changing circumstances and challenges that may affect your success.
• How to grow only what serves you and your team – and ‘weed out’ all that is not clear, confident or competent.
• Know how to tackle cultural toxicity better, faster, and more sustainably.

Suzanne Caveney

Suzanne is a Legal Director in the Eversheds Sutherland Employment, Labor and Pensions group specialising in employment law with a particular focus on discrimination, equal pay and DEI policy and strategy. Suzanne has represented employers in tribunal claims since 2011 and has a particular expertise in managing complex discrimination claims. Suzanne’s particular experience includes advising and guiding employers through complex grievances from existing employees, disciplinary investigations and dismissals and dealing with capability issues arising from both poor performance and medical capability. Suzanne also spends a significant amount of her time supporting employers with their strategy to create a diverse and inclusive workforce, including general DEI strategy and pay issues comprising gender and ethnicity pay gaps and equal pay.

Caroline Beardall

Caroline started her professional career as a nurse, and then reasonably quickly moved into HR and Organisational Development. She has worked for the Department of Health, Ministry of Defence, Scottish Executive Health Department and in a range of NHS providers, implementing new services and developing service improvements. Prior to her roles, as Director for Organisational Effectiveness for the NHS regulator for providers of care and improvement agency and Executive / Senior Manager Coach, she was a Board Director for HR and OD, leading strategies focussed on staff engagement, inclusion, leadership development and wellbeing. She also has gone on to be Regional Director of Workforce (Chief People Officer) for the South East of England NHS (250 000 workforce, 9 million population) and was then invited to be a Partner at a global consultancy. The breadth and depth of her skill and experience allow her to work across the public sector, with third-sector organisations and corporate settings. Her goal are always to ‘cultivate success’ to ensure that by working together the outcome is achieved. Delivery is all. As she says, ‘the phrase ‘dig for victory’ has a different meaning today from its original but it’s still the goal!’

Date: Wednesday 22nd January 2025
Time: 8:30am – 10:00am
Topic: Leadership Development for the New World of Work

This session addresses:

• How leadership development must evolve to meet the challenges of the modern workplace.
• The skills, mindsets, and tools leaders need to succeed in a hybrid or flexible work environment, including:
  • Managing distributed teams
  • Building a culture of trust

Chloe Themistocleous

Chloe is a Principal Associate, specialising in Employment Law. Chloe originally trained as a barrister and was called to the bar in 2012, having graduated in 1st place in her cohort at bar school and having received the Harmsworth Major Scholarship from her Inn of Court, before cross qualifying to become a solicitor in 2016. Chloe therefore has a strong litigation practice and regularly represents businesses in the Employment Tribunal at both Preliminary and Final Hearings all over the United Kingdom. Chloe also has extensive experience negotiating the settlement of tribunal claims and also represents clients at judicial mediation.

Chloe has a wealth of experience acting for both Respondents and previously Claimants in Tribunal litigation, including claims for unfair dismissal, all types of discrimination and whistleblowing. Chloe has significant experience in litigating class actions.

In addition to her litigation work, Chloe provides employment law and human resources advice and training to businesses. She regularly advises on a variety of complex disciplinary, appeal and grievances processes; provides advise and support to businesses in large scale redundancy situations and change projects; provides assistance and support to businesses in receipt of complicated flexible working requests and sensitive disclosures from whistle-blowers;
advises on a variety of contract and handbook reviews for various types of engagements; negotiates senior executive terminations and drafts accompanying settlement agreements; and delivers a broad range of training.

Gary Cookson

Gary is a father of four and a husband of one, and runs a successful business, EPIC, in his spare time. He’s an expert in workplace performance, with extensive experience leading and directing HR, OD and L&D functions across all sectors. His clients like working with him as he is authentic, honest, knowledgeable, communicative and people focused, with a broad and deep range of skills and experience – and a glance at his prolific social media output will verify this. Gary is a leading expert in the design and delivery of online/virtual training programmes, as well as an inspiring and entertaining keynote speaker and trainer on a range of leadership and HR issues. He has been recognised in the HR Most Influential awards, written for publications worldwide and spoken at global events. His first book, HR for Hybrid Working, was published in June 2022. His second book, Making Hybrid Work Work, is due to be published January 2025. He is one of the worlds’ leading thinkers on hybrid working and in regular demand with clients and conference organisers worldwide as a result, speaking on these topics plus leadership, management and the world of work. He’s active on social media – follow him on X, or connect with him on LinkedIn.