As you will know by now, the LIBERTY HR LEADERS’ CONFERENCE is coming!
It will be held on Tuesday 1st November 2022 and will be hosted in partnership with our great friends at the Ordnance Survey in their lovely HQ near Southampton. More details will follow in due course as we are just putting the final touches to our packed programme for the day, but we are getting VERY excited to share some details with you…with MORE to follow soon!
We are thrilled to announce the first THREE speakers at the conference will be;-
Hazel Hendley – Director of People at Ordnance Survey
Hazel is an accomplished Human Resources Leader with over 20 years’ experience of leading and delivering people initiatives and business change. Hazel has been described as a values-driven, courageous and compassionate individual.
Her session, supported by the People Team, is entitled “Known, but misunderstood” and is a fantastic opportunity for us all to find out more about OS and how they are driving a purposeful culture, helping their customers to see how to get to a better place; and be recognised as world leaders in geospatial services, creating location insight for positive impact.
At the heart of the Ordnance Survey business strategy is it’s people, with a people strategy that enables the organisation’s capability and capacity, along with a culture that is led by its values and behaviours. Focused on creating an amazing place to work, combined with a desire to drive a sustainability agenda; the Ordnance Survey people strategy has a true ‘people and planet’ mindset.
Rob Neil OBE – Director at Krystal Alliance.
Rob is an old friend of ours at Liberty HR and we know he will have a great impact on you too! His lengthy list of credits includes being a founding member of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) BAME Staff network and becoming the first elected Chair of the Civil Service Race Equality Network
He has been included in the ‘New View 50’ which recognises influential BAME professionals in the public sector; was elected Chair of the Civil Service Race Forum, ending his tenure as Chair in 2018. He chaired the MoJ’s Diverse Leaders Taskforce until March 2019 and after 35yrs with the MoJ, he departed in April 2019 to support the Department for Education with Embedding Culture Change.
Rob has been a Trustee with RELATE for eleven years and was awarded an OBE by the Queen in 2018 for ‘Services to Race Equality in the workplace and the community’. Rob was also the inaugural winner of Investing in Ethnicity’s Workplace Hero Award in Nov 2018.
After two years at the DfE as Head of Culture Change, and 38 years with the civil service, Rob departed the public sector to launch Krystal Alliance, supporting organisations across all sectors to be more inclusive. In 2021 Rob was included in HR Magazines list of fifty ‘Most Influential Thinkers’ and in June 2022 Rob made the D&I Leaders international ‘Inspirational Leaders’ list. And Rob’s first book ‘The Key to Inclusion’ was published by Kogan Page in July 2022.
His session is entitled ‘Cultural Intelligence – adding flavour to our differences‘ where he will share an introduction to cultural intelligence and the four key capabilities i.e. Drive, Knowledge, Strategy and Action, as the ‘secret sauce’ to working more effectively across a range of different cultural contexts, including; ethnic, national and organisational. Rob will draw on examples from his 38 year career as a civil servant which has included spells of work across all three sectors.
Perry Timms – Founder and Chief Energy Officer of PTHR
PTHR is a growing consultancy, setting out to create better business for a better world which is now entering its 10th year of operating. PTHR is a BCorp Certified Organisation and a Gold-Standard 4-day Working Week company, an accredited Living Wage employer and a Climate-Positive organisation.
Perry is Adjunct Professor at Hult International Business School and Ashridge Management School; a visiting fellow at Cranfield School of Management, and Sheffield Hallam University. He is also a proud Chartered member of the CIPD
He is also an international and 2x TEDx speaker and award-winning writer on the future of work, HR and learning. Perry is a 4x member of HR Magazine’s HR Most Influential Thinkers and a Top 100 Global HR Influencer.
You can purchase your ticket – priced at just £15 – here; https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hr-heroes-just-for-one-day-tickets-411862922087