08:45 - Opening from Lucinda Case, Lead, Legal Professionals Europe, Thomson Reuters and Chair, Emma Dowden, Chief Operating Officer, Burges Salmon
09:10 - Fireside chat
Richard Price, Group General Counsel, Anglo American
Lucinda Case, Lead, Legal Professionals, Thomson Reuters Europe
Natasha Good, Partner, Freshfields
Axel Threlfall, Editor-at-Large, Reuters
09:30 - Keynote: Lessons learnt from undertaking organisational and cultural change
Lorraine Heggessey. First female controller of BBC One
10:05 - Acritas: Interim results on research project
Lisa Hart Shepherd, CEO Acritas
10:30 - Changing the narrative: Practical steps to deliver best-in breed culture
Hear case studies from different organisations that have delivered significant change in their culture. Understand how they went about it, the challenges they faced and the benefits realised. Followed by round-table Q&A.
- What does your organisation want to achieve?
- Creating the right environment and securing buy in from all levels of management
- Developing a set of values of what is acceptable and non-acceptable – Mindfulness business charter
- What happens when there are different ‘norms’ of culture?
- Changing behaviour and demonstrating your own integrity
- What is measured, valued and rewarded? How do you know it is working?
Kathryn Stone OBE, Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards
Emma Codd, Partner for Talent, Deloitte
11:10 - Morning coffee
11:40 - Choice of 3 workshops
WORKSHOP 1: Practical intervention methods for embedding inclusion and appropriate behaviour across your organisation
- Leadership requirements
- Use of language and behaviour
- Reverse Mentoring. How does it work?
- Unconscious bias awareness
- Steps to create a thriving environment for mental wellbeing –
Dr Ian Dodds, FRSA, (Lotus Award Winner 2017 Lifetime Achievement for Pioneering Inclusive Cultures) CEO, Ian Dodds Consulting
Claire Clarke, Managing Partner, Mills and Reeve
Bronagh Kennedy, General Counsel and Company Secretary, Severn Trent
WORKSHOP 2: Steps to address the gender and ethnicity pay gap
Hear from organisations who have introduced initiatives to address the gap;
- Best practice on reporting
- Practical tips to introduce the initiatives
Laura King, Partner, Global Head of HR and Talent, Clifford Chance
Pavita Cooper, Founder of More Difference
Louisa Lombardo, Head of Diversity and Inclusion for Europe, Eurasia and Africa, Chubb
Mark Greenburgh, Greenburgh & Co Solicitors
WORKSHOP 3: Getting your Voice Heard - Practical tips about how to increase your influence as a change agent and build confidence in the workplace
- Cultivate confidence
- Refine your message
- Stay resilient
- Become unignorable
Justine Lutterodt, FRSA, Director, Centre for Synchronous Leadership
Elias Westerdahl, FRSA, Consultant, Centre for Sycnhronous Leadership
Suki Binjal, Director of Law and Governance, London Borough of Hackney, and President of Lawyers in Local Government
Susan Bright, Managing Regional Partner, Hogan Lovells
Paulette Mastin, Counsel, Linklaters
12:40 - Key takeaways from morning workshops
12:55 - IBA - interim update on bullying and harassment
Kieran Pender, Legal Advisor, IBA
13:15 - Lunch
14:00 - Driving diversity from the top: What are organisations doing to increase diversity in leadership roles?
Despite progress women still don’t have as much power as the stats may suggest. How can we see a more material shift at the top of leadership?
This session will offer you insights into how leading organisations have identified and recruited individuals from diverse backgrounds to their organisation and developed them into executive leaders
- How do you develop a diverse leadership pipeline?
- What can and can’t you do in your hiring strategy when trying to bring about change?
- How are we equipping women in particular to prepare for senior roles?
- What can women promote their own brand to make them a more candidate gravitas?
Tiernan Brady, Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Clifford Chance
Stuart Morton, Partner & Head of Practice, Legal & Professional Services, Odgers Berndtson
Jenifer Swallow, General Counsel, TransferWise
Clare Wardle, GC and Company Secretary, Coca-Cola European Partners
14:40 - Choice of 3 workshops
WORKSHOP 1: Sharing practical tips for advocates of change in a mixed gender workplace
Find out from this workshop what practical things you can do to be a champion on this issue, support your female colleagues and leverage your expertise and clout to benefit women in your network.
- The need of recognition in the board room?
- What is the right language? What is good role modelling?
- Normalising behaviour. How do you differentiate the profession being difficult?
- Calling out inappropriate language/behaviour/assumptions.
Matthew Dening, Partner, BakerMcKenzie
Donna Rix, European GC, Citadel
James Pereira QC, Francis Taylor Building
Geoffrey Williams, Director/ Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion, Thomson Reuters
WORKSHOP 2: Intersectionality and inclusion: Sharing personal lessons learnt and practical approaches to promote inclusion
This session will explain intersectionality, as well as hearing from individuals who have introduced successful initiatives to promote inclusion for all. Find out what you can do to ensure it’s at the forefront of your business strategy
Sarah-Jane Howitt, Partner Weightmans
Daniel Greenberg, Counsel for Domestic Legislation, House of Commons House of Commons
Felicia Hanson Ofori-Quaah, Senior Associate, Milbank
Yasmin Sheikh, Founder, Diverse Matters
WORKSHOP 3: Managing yourself, your team and your career
Hear from women and men and how they managed their own careers and their teams. Hear how they took time out from work through sabbaticals, maternity cover, travel, illness etc, and how they successfully got back in the work place
- How you manage for juniors coming through the ranks
- Identifying the career track you are on and making the right steps
- Navigating the hurdles returning to work
Kathleen Russ, Senior Partner Elect, Travers Smith
Caroline Stratton, Senior Counsel, Director, Deutsche Bank
Stephanie Dillion, Managing Director, Inclusivity Partners
15:40 - Afternoon tea
16:00 - Key take aways from afternoon workshops
16:15 - What role can the buy-side play in bringing about transformational change?
This session will discuss what GCs can do to change the behaviour of law firms when buying legal services. It will enable you to take away some practical steps to embed this change across your organisation and make a difference to the law firms and chambers who advise you.
Dana Denis-Smith Entrepreneur; CEO, Obelisk Support
Andrew Sellers, Group Head of Claims Supplier Management, Hiscox
Christina Blacklaws, President, The Law Society
Mitzi Berberi, VP, Deputy General Counsel Europe and Africa, Fox
Virginia Clegg, Senior Partner, DAC Beachcroft
17:05 - Close of conference followed by networking and drinks at 17.15
*Please note agenda is subject to change. The page will be updated with further details on the agenda once they are confirmed.
