Impact Conference: The New Talent Mindset
8 - 10 June 2010
Cragwood Country House Hotel

In 2010 Impact will celebrate 30 years in business. To mark the occasion Impact are hosting their annual Conference, The New Talent Mindset, from our headquarters in the Lake District.

The war for talent is over. Talented people are in abundance.

Your business is brimming with capable and gifted individuals. Your organisation's sustainability now depends upon its ability to leverage their potential.

Why attend?

Impact's 30th Birthday Conference will explore new ways of thinking about talent management:

• Developing the many, not just the lucky few

• Creating engaged followers, as well as inspiring leaders

• Creating a great place to work and earning the loyalty of your people

• Abandoning silos and encouraging talent flow across the business

• Driving innovation and creativity

• Taking responsibility for setting talent strategy and objectives

• Building a business case for talent and measuring return on investment

• Avoiding talent gaps during the up-turn

As well as our line up of speakers you will have the opportunity to take part in interactive workshops and conversations with some of Impact's clients.

 

Programme

Tuesday 8th June

12:00 Buffet lunch on arrival
13:30 Introduction: David Williams, Founder and CEO Impact
14:30 Speaker: Richard Reeves, Director of the think tank Demos
15:30 Networking break
16:00 Interactive Session: with Impact
16:30 Facilitated Project: Results Accelerator: Abandoning silos and encouraging talent flow
17:30 Finish
19:00 Pre-dinner drinks
19:30 Pre-dinner Speaker: Roy White, Vice President of HR, Sony and Jüergen Griesbeck, Founder and MD, streetfootballworld
20:30 Dinner

Wednesday 9th June

07:00 Dawn walk (optional)
09:00 Speaker: David MacLeod, Author of the MacLeod Report on Employee Engagement
10:00 Speaker: Simon Haben, Group Talent Director, Royal Mail
11:00 Networking break and Round table dialogue: Building a business case for talent - sharing best practice and case studies
11:30 Workshops and Conversations:

A Conversation:with Christopher Lomas, Chief Executive of Naked Generations
Impact Case Study: 34% of Impact people have worked here for over 10 years. A discussion about our strategy for loyalty and retaining talent.
Impact: Creating Inspirational leaders and engaged followers

13:00 Lunch
14:00 Q&A Session: A chance to pose your questions to our panel of HR and Talent experts
15:15 Networking break
15:45 Speaker: Christopher Lomas, Naked Generations - How to understand, engage and leverage Generation Y
17:15 Lake District National Park Champagne Cruise on Lake Windermere
19:15 Pre-dinner drinks
20:00 Pre-dinner Speaker: Adele Blakebrough, CEO, Community Action Network
20:30 Dinner

Thursday 10th June

09:00 Speaker: Joanne Ramsey, Head of Organisational Development at Scottish Power
10:00 Networking break
10:15 Speaker: Bernard Galton, HR Director, Welsh Assembly Government
10:30 Round table dialogue: Driving innovation and creativity across your organisation
12:00 Introduction to the next part of the journey: Action planning
12:30 Close

Speakers

Richard Reeves

Richard Reeves is the Director of Demos and a writer, commentator and speaker. Richard is a political columnist for Prospect magazine and a regular contributor to The Guardian, Observer and New Statesman as well as a range of national radio and television programmes. In 2005, he was a presenter of the four-part BBC2 series, Making Slough Happy. His latest book is John Stuart Mill – Victorian Firebrand, an intellectual biography of the British liberal philosopher and politician which was shortlisted for the Channel Four Political Book of the Year, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Richard’s other principal areas of current interest are the economics and politics of wellbeing; trends in British politics; and the future of the workplace.

In 2006, Richard was selected by The Guardian as a ‘Thinker to Watch’ and was featured in the paper’s regular ‘Ideas Interview’. He is also a former Columnist of the Year and Young Financial Journalist of the Year. Richard is the author of Happy Mondays – putting the pleasure back into work (2001) nominated as a Sunday Times business book of the week and described by Theodore Zeldin as a 'wonderful book - optimistic, wise and thoughtful.' Other publications include CoCo Companies - Work, Happiness and Employee Ownership (2007), Papering over the Cracks, Rules, Regulation and Real Trust (2006, with Edward Smith), ‘Good work and professional work’ in Production Values (2006, with John Knell), and The Politics of Happiness (2003).

Current European Business Speaker of the Year, Richard speaks to commercial audiences on a range of topics, including happy business, leadership, employee engagement, working time, gender equality and the future of work. Richard also works with John Knell in an intellectual joint venture, Intelligence Agency, for a range of corporate and public sector clients.

Richard is a former Director of Futures at The Work Foundation, Society Editor of The Observer, principal policy adviser to the Minister for Welfare Reform, Economics Correspondent and Washington Correspondent of The Guardian, research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, one of the UK’s premier think-tanks, and a postgraduate researcher at the University of London.

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 Jüergen Griesbeck & Roy White

Jürgen Griesbeck is the founding member and managing director of streetfootballworld. streetfootballworld is a social profit organisation that links relevant actors in the field of Development through Football.  Established in 2002, the organisation encourages global partnerships for development in order to contribute to positive social change. Jürgen has been largely responsible for the organisation’s development in the 5 years of its existence.

Jürgen was recently named Ashoka Fellow for his vision to contribute through the development of streetfootballworld to an environment of social change on a global scale. The Ashoka Foundation supports social entrepreneurs whose innovative solutions to social problems and commitment demonstrate boldness, creativity, and great capacity for social development.

Roy White is the Vice President of HR at Sony Europe and is a long standing client Impact client and sits on our CSER Advisory Board.

Jürgen and Roy will co-present on the benefits of the collaboration between streetfootballworld, Sony and Impact.

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David MacLeod

David has a portfolio of responsibilities which include being a Non Exec Director of the Department for International Development, Non Exec Director of the Ministry of Justice, Fellow of the Sunningdale Institute, Senior Associate of Towers Perrin and Visiting Professor of the Cass Business School.  He is also a Fellow of the RSA, Institute of Marketing and Ashridge Business School.

David has led private sector organisations through major programmes of change including an ICI owned European business from a loss to 20%+ RONA.  He was also head of the marketing team for Dulux where he significantly strengthened the brand through innovation which included Dulux natural whites.  Latterly as a Divisional CEO in ICI he brought together five separate businesses to create a new global organisation.  Profits were significantly enhanced through the merger process.  He has managed businesses in each of the five largest countries in Europe and served on the boards of companies in Europe, North America, Korea and Russia.

He worked at the Cabinet office as Senior Adviser on Change and Performance in 2001-2003 working across different aspects of Civil Service wide reform.  He has also worked at Towers Perrin as Senior Adviser supporting chief executives in both the public and private sectors to implement change in order to enhance performance.  He Chaired the last 4 Chevening Forums which are residential seminars for Permanent Secretaries and Chief Executives.  He was one of the 5 Sunningdale Institute Fellows commissioned by the Cabinet Secretary to review the effect of Capability Reviews across Whitehall.

He has co-authored a book called “The Extra Mile” published by Pearsons in January 2008 on the theme of how to fully engage employees.  In July 2009 he presented the “MacLeod Report” co-authored with Nita Clarke to Peter Mandelson, Secretary of State at BIS on Employee Engagement; it’s importance to organisations and the UK economy.

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Christopher Lomas

Christopher is Founder and CEO of Naked Generations – a Generation Y business consultancy and think tank specialising in Next Generation Talent Strategies. Naked Generations services the Top 200 Global firms with the design and implementation of Succession, Communication and Innovation projects. Naked Generations was recently nominated in the ‘Best Start up’ category at the European Business Awards 2010. 

At just 25 years old, Christopher already has an impressive CV, having attended the University of Durham, Loughborough Business School and Aston Business School. He worked for Lloyds TSB Bank in the City for 3 years as Head of Strategy for the Trading and Sales floor, before setting up Naked Generations.

Christopher will share his expertise on:
 
Succession Planning
How careers are changing and how to attract and integrate Gen Y into your business. Christopher will explore ways of building accountable, trustworthy and transparent relationships with this population.

Communication
What platforms should we be using and what language should we be speaking?  Discover how to start authentic conversations with these communities.

Innovation
How can we get Generation Y to become our innovators?  Starting a ‘culture of intrapreneurship’ inside your business to ensure you retain your people longer. 

Location

Our 30th Birthday Conference is being held at our headquarters in the beautiful English Lake District.

Cragwood Country House Hotel is set in 20 acres on the shores of Lake Windermere and is only 3 hours by train from London. To visit their website please click here.

We will attempt to accommodate as many of our conference attendees into one of our three hotels. Once our hotels are full we will reserve accommodation at a hotel within close proximity of the conference.

Testimonials from 2009

“Stunning location which engendered an atmosphere of learning and reflection. Incredible value for money. I will definitely return in 2010”
Cathryn Francis, Mount Anvil

“A great and relevant theme to today’s issues”
Iain Grayson, DWP

“Thanks for laying on a fantastic and genuinely inspiring conference. It was a privilege to be there”
Bob Cartwright, LDNPA

“Great event, excellent speakers. 10 out of 10”
Natasha Williams, Global Hand

“Highly enjoyable, interesting, inspiring. A truly great conference”
Amy Jones, Speaking Up

Book now

We have fixed our prices at the 2009 rates!

Standard - £750 + vat
SME's - £500 + vat
NGO's - £350 + vat

Prices include all conference sessions and documentation and all meals during conference hours. Your accommodation and expenses are extra.

To complete our online reservation form please click here. We will then contact you to arrange payment options.

If you have any questions or would like a booking form please email Hazel.