Directors Forum
Day one
2 April 2008
8.00 - 4.30
Directors Forum Breakfast brough to you by Mettle Group
Guest speaker: John Eales, Mettle Group director and former Australian Wallaby captain
9.00 Introduction from the Chair and opening remarks
Speaker: Mark Orson, business director, The Right Group
9.05 Gold sponsor opening address
Speaker: Julie Carran, general manager, 2discover
9.10 PLENARY KEYNOTE SESSION
Strategies for success in business and life
Speaker: Karen Matthews, CEO, Ella Bache
Karen Matthews was recently awarded the PWC National Franchise Woman of the Year 2007. She was also awarded the Telstra NSW Business Woman of the Yr 2004 and PWC NSW Franchise Woman of the Yr 2005. Karen is the proud mother of 2 children and heads up skincare company Ella Baché as CEO.
Karen has successfully developed Ella Baché into a $20m company with revenue growth of 54% over the last 3 years. In 2007 Ella Baché was listed by BRW as the 16th fastest growing franchise in Australia.
Karen's achievements include launching Australia's first skincare franchise model in 2002, creating a profitable College of Beauty Therapy to underpin the franchise network with staff and future franchisees, developing Ella Baché as a benchmark organisation with a unique culture based on intuitive leadership, strong values and a commitment to ongoing evolution and innovation across the entire business.
In this session, Karen will share the secrets of achieving success in business and life.
10.00 Morning break
10.30 Aligning employee behaviour with business objectives
Co-presenter: Sharyn Shultz, HR Executive Director, ING Direct
- Hear about The Orange Way, ING's unique cultural program
- Explore the role of HR in translating values into thinking and behaviour that continues to drive ING forward
- Find out how you can apply ING's successful strategies to your organisation
Co-presenter: Katharine McLennan, Practice Director, Mettle Consulting
- Partnering HR with the C-Suite in developing strategy and aligning a "culture by design" to the strategy
- Preparing for the changing workplace "The Role of Culture in 2020"
- What does the workplace and culture of 2020 look like?
- How can HR professionals prepare themselves and their organisation for the future?
11.40 The role of HR as executive business partner
Speaker: Sophie Crawford-Jones, HR director, PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Identify the strategic drivers of your business and what those drivers mean to your organisation (and you)
- How strategic HR management can increase revenue and improve operations (and how you can prove it)
- Develop a commercial focus so that you can produce positive outcomes for key stakeholders, employees, line managers, customers and investors
12.30 Networking lunch brought to you by 2discover
1.30 Workshop: Political intelligence
Speaker: Jim Grant, partner, Dattner Grant
- What is political intelligence and positive organisational politics?
- Test your political intelligence skills
- Understand the relationship between power and politics
- Increase your political skills to influence positive politics in your organisation
3.00 Afternoon break
3.20 Talent shortage driving business transformation
Speaker: Lisa Barry, national practice leader, human capital, Deloitte
- Explore new and novel ways to combat the talent shortage, including 'virtualisation', work redesign, mass career optimisation, cooperation and innovation
- Evaluate how the biggest and most successful organisations are responding to talent shortages
- Gain the tools that you need to meet the talent shortage with a significant and structured response
Day two
3 April 2008
9.00 - 4.00
9.00 Opening remarks from the Chair
Speaker: Mark Orson, business director, The Right Group
9.05 Keynote address
Speaker: Mark Orson, business director, The Right Group
9.10 Pre-employment screening and detecting deception
Speaker: Steve van Aperen, 'the human lie detector', expert in the field of interviewing and detecting deception
Seven parts of the brain's cortex are stimulated to lie, four to tell the truth. Your body doesn't lie. What are you really saying?
Steve van Aperen is known throughout Australia as an expert in the field of interviewing and detecting deception. Steve has received extensive training from the world's leading international investigative authorities in how and why people deceive.
He is often consulted by the media and has been affectionately named 'the human lie detector'. Throughout his career Steve has conducted hundreds of interviews, ranging from interviewing homicide suspects to pre-employment screening.
Don't miss the opportunity to learn practical interviewing techniques that can help you identify if your job applicants are lying.
10.10 Morning break brought to you by TANDBERG
10.40 HR strategies in mergers & acquisitions
Speaker: Jane Thomas, head of people and culture, AGL Energy
- Discover how to overcome difficulties in attracting talent during and after integration
- Find out how to sensitively and pragmatically manage redundancies
- How to retain high performers (or anticipate and plan around their departure)
- Hear successful ways to manage cultural change
- Align the transaction with your organisational values
11.25 Employment law considerations in mergers & acquisitions
Speaker: Andrew Seaton, partner, Australian Business Lawyers
- Standardising contracts and benefits
- Under-estimated compensation & benefits exposure
- Unforeseen legal exposure and intellectual property issues
- Identifying threats and opportunities
- Integration considerations and lessons learnt from previous transactions
12.10 Networking lunch brought to you by The Right Group
1.10 Leadership development: building a pipeline of future leaders
Jim Nolan, Vice President HR, General Electric
- Hear about GE's successful leadership development programs and interventions
- Find out how GE's leadership development programs have positively impacted the organisational culture
- Explore strategies to identify leaders that can potentially transform your organisation
2.10 Afternoon break
2.50 Workshop: Joining the 'C-Suite' - strategies for top level job transitions
Chip McFarlane, director, Institute of Executive Coaching
- How to make your mark within the first 100 days
- Learn how Australia's top HR directors "manage" their boards through influential communication and "executive presence"
- Find out how you can crystallize your personal philosophies such as power, success and personal values
- How to move from being an operational expert to a role of guidance
- Find out how to manage personality dynamics with other board members
- Learn how to solve problems effectively
4.00 Close
