CMCE Next Gen 2.0: Risky Business: Speakers
Workshop 1
Panellists
Bob Garratt learned from a mix of architectural education and community-based Action Learning in Belfast in 1974. With Sally Garratt he worked on 5 continents and helped create management development institutions in China, Brunei Darussalam, the Arabian Gulf, South Africa, and the Caribbean. For thirty-five years he has been a leading figure in the development of Effective Corporate Governance.
His latest book, Breaking The Social Silence On Corporate Governance: The Challenge For The Next Generation of Directors, is published in September 2024.
Edward Sankey has led corporate risk management projects in financial services. He had a long assignment as Interim Director, Operational Risk and member of the Risk Committee at the Santander UK group. Edward’s work has been at MarshMacLennan and KPMG. He is a Director of Larocourt Risk.
Working in the UK, Europe including Russia, and elsewhere, with significant experience in the Far East, he has wide experience of different attitudes to governance and risk.
Edward is a Fellow at the IOR and a past Chairman and an Honorary Life Member of the Institute of Risk Management. He contributed the section about Operational Risk Management to the book “The Risk Management Handbook” (Kogan Page). Edward was a member of the City Values Forum set up by the Lord Mayor of the City of London which focuses on organisations’ cultures and individuals’ behaviors ( Introduction to the City Values Forum | CMCE ). He is a Visiting Lecturer in Risk Management at City, University of London.
Workshop 2
Main speaker: Adam McCarthy is a PhD student in Science Technology and Innovation Policy at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research. His research focuses on the governance of emerging technologies for societal benefit. Considering his background in molecular biology, he has a strong interest in sustainability and responsibility in the biosciences, recently focusing on international efforts to regulate AI-driven innovation in this area. His work is underpinned by a Responsible Innovation approach which means “taking care of the future through collective stewardship of science and innovation in the present”. His work has resulted in collaborations with a variety of stakeholders, ranging from preparing scientific advice for Members of Parliament and conducting interviews with international negotiators to teaching courses on Responsible Innovation in local schools. Quote from him on the topic: "We need to collaboratively rise to address global, grand challenges using all the tools, skills, and technologies at our disposal, while remaining critical about their potential pitfalls. This is the essence of Responsible Innovation.”
Adam led a practical exploration of how different motivations need to align as part of responsible innovation strategies, using a simplified version of a new tool that he has developed that enables a rapid, low-cost assessment of projects that considers environmental, societal, and economic factors, three key motivations for the commercialisation of new technology. In doing so, Adam’s approach is intended to help businesses overcome what’s known as the Collingridge Dilemma – the recognition that in the early stages of technology development, there is a dearth of data available to guide decision-making, whereas in later stages, technological pathways can become entrenched due to path dependency, rendering flexibility difficult. As a consequence, the choices made are by necessity anticipatory and shaped by bounded rationalities. The decisions that are reached often relate to the specific and limited motivation of decision makers employing new technology for a single purpose, rather than the acknowledgement and application of potentially diverse motivations for using (or not using) the very same technology.
Designed initially through work with bio-engineering SMEs, the tool is intended to provide a means for businesses across an array of sectors to effectively navigate what can be competing or even conflicting factors when seeking to implement innovative change, especially in reference to novel technologies. Through Adam’s introduction to his research and practical engagement with the assessment tool during the session, participants took part in answering a key question in innovation studies today: can a method for sustainability assessment critically engage with the complex and multifaceted motivations for technology governance and sustainability whilst remaining practical for use by practitioners? Here you can access a link to his latest article on this topic: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/edhjx
Panellists
Caroline Wehrle has spent more than 25 years working in the fields of risk management, audit, internal controls, compliance and business integrity. She started her career in the engineering sector providing technical and quantitative risk management services to the civil engineering and rail industries. She then moved into consumer goods, joining Diageo, the world’s largest premium drinks business, where she held a number of senior positions, culminating in her final role as Global Risk & Compliance Director leading an integrated global risk management, internal control, compliance and ethics function. Caroline is now a Non-Executive Director and Audit and Risk Committee Chair for Aster Housing Group and NHS Property Services, and an independent member of the Audit and Risk Committee at the Wellcome Trust. Caroline has a BA Hons degree in Risk Management from Glasgow Caledonian University, an MBA from Bayes Business School.
Dannielle Haig is a Principal Business Psychologist, Executive Coach, Board Advisor and People Specialist. She is a HCPC member and MBPsS and is highly accomplished in understanding and analysing human behaviour in the workplace. Her areas of expertise and academic research lie in Leadership Personalities and Mental Resilience which has seen her developing a psychometric with some of the world’s leading Business Psychologists. She is a highly regarded business coach and trainer as well as the Director and Principal Business Psychologist of DH Consulting, a boutique, London based consultancy which works globally with the world’s largest organisations and brands to enhance their performance through Leadership initiatives. She is also an accomplished public speaker and loves nothing more than to share her knowledge of The Dark Triad with a willing audience.
Workshop 3
Main speaker: Peter Knight is a professor of American Studies at the University of Manchester. He is an expert on cultural approaches to economics and finance, and conspiracy theories in American history. He is the author and editor of a dozen books, including the prize-winning Reading the Market: Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America (2016), and most recently the co-written book Invested: How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets and Minds (2022). He was also one of the curators of the exhibition “Show Me the Money: The Image of Finance, 1700 to the Present.” He is currently directing several large team research projects on conspiracy theories in the age of the internet.
Panellists
David Booth, Director, IXQ Consulting Limited. David has been helping organisations develop and implement their strategies for over 25 years, working with some of the UK’s leading organisations from the NHS to major financial institutions. Prior to this he spent 20 years in business management, working for companies including United Biscuits, Grand Metropolitan and Smith & Nephew, in senior roles across marketing, HR, and strategic development.
David’s book, ‘Strategy Journeys – a Guide to Effective Strategic Planning’ was published in 2017 and shortlisted for the Chartered Management Institute Management Book of the Year 2018. His articles have been published in Strategy Magazine and Project Management World Journal, and he is a Fellow of the Strategic Planning Society (FStratPS) and a Certified Management Consultant (CMC).
His recent work has included helping organisations to strengthen their strategic capabilities and adopt a more dynamic and responsive approach to strategy.
Collette Stone, Director of Insights & Options, a Buckinghamshire-based independent management consultancy, is skilled is in facilitating individuals and teams to find their voice, direction and purpose. Her work takes her across the public, private and charity sectors, where she brings a strong diagnostic focus honed as a founder member of the UK civil service’s cross-Whitehall Organisation Design and Development capability. Collette’s expertise is in partnering with senior leaders to get straight to the root of stuckness in team performance and surface options for finding a way through difficult ‘wicked’ business situations. Collette is also a member of external faculty for Henley Business School as MBA Supervisor, Action Learning Facilitator, Marking Tutor and Learning Coach. As a lifelong learner, in 2023 her curiosity began taking her in the direction of how generative AI can be deployed to deliver quality personal development experiences at scale.
Workshop 4
Main speaker: Dr Christopher Golding is a Lecturer in Innovation and Strategy at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, and an Associate Fellow of the Ministry of Defence’s Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC). Chris researches how experienced and expressed emotions can shape aspects of the innovation and strategy process, such as how top managers might formulate strategy, and how organizations might ‘remember’ prior successes and failures. In this session, Chris will discuss his research examining how fear might both enable and constrain the pursuit of novel technologies in incumbent firms, depending on how fear of failure and fear of missing out manifest across the organization. This study builds on prior work suggesting that fear will impede attempts to innovate (Vuori and Huy, 2016), as well as broader research emphasizing the need to consider and manage emotion more generally in the strategic management of organizations (Hodgkinson and Healey, 2011; Raffaelli, Glynn and Tushman, 2019).
Panellists
Cosette Reczek is a Chartered Governance Professional. She is Chair, Citizens Advice Lewisham and holds a number of other non-executive roles. The focus of her most recent advisory work includes board effectiveness and governance reviews, conduct risk, and culture. She founded and leads Permuto Consulting to advise and support others pursuing such efforts, and also is a guest lecturer at Bayes Business School, City University of London.
Bruce Garvey provides specialist support for organisations faced with high levels of uncertainty and complexity, addressing problems and issues at a strategic level. His methods are generic to all organisational types, deployable in areas where uncertainty and complexity abide and has developed proprietary decision support software to help structure complex problems which has been licenced to organisations such as by NATO and Anglian Water. Buttressing this specialist knowledge, Bruce has over 45 years’ experience within the major corporate and SME sectors, performing a wide range of roles as a senior business executive.He has published papers, presented at conferences and run workshop based courses on his specialist area. In addition to the PhD from Imperial College London, he has a MBA from Bayes (formerly Cass) Business School, London, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Economic Integration from Stockholm University, Sweden and a BSc (Hons) in Sociology from London University.