Events

Engaging Talent and increasing business performance

BIE hosted a business breakfast focussed on attracting and engaging talent to drive business performance.  Jonathan Wills, was joined by senior leaders Leo McKee, CEO of BrightHouse, Carol Frost, HR Director for Centrica Energy and Richard Roberts, Group Finance Director for UK Power Networks to talk about their collective experiences of leadership and business strategies.

Will it make the boat go faster?

Ben was a Gold medal winner at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games in the Men’s Eight rowing crew, and he explained how a team that was not expected to perform reorganised themselves around a common goal. Throughout their training everything the crew did was focussed on ‘will it make the boat go faster’ (the crew [...]

Change Discussion Group

The BIE Change Discussion Group  met again in January 2012 for an “Evening with Sir Ian McGeechan and Dick Best”.  This is a UK network of change leaders from large blue chip organisations, discussing and sharing ideas around programmes.  The group  have been meeting regularly for a number of years in the form of dinners, [...]

Women in Leadership: Making a difference with catalytic male female collaboration

BIE’s latest forum was led by Full Potential Group’s John Blakey and Carole Gaskell on Friday 2nd March at One Aldwych where senior business leaders and HR professionals were invited to join the debate as to why there are not more women at senior levels in organisations and on their Boards – the Women in Boards February [...]

HR Forum: Building a high performing and valued HR capability

The November HR Forum was led by Jayne Mee, Group People & Customer Experience Director of Barratt Developments plc at Great Fosters, Egham. Jayne joined Barratt Developments Plc in 2006 as their first board level, HR Director since 1989 and in her 5 years there she has rebuilt the company’s ‘People strategy’ from scratch. Her [...]

Interim Christmas Party

Held at the Royal Society of Arts in Nov 2011, the BIE interim party was enlivened by some singing waiters….  It was better than it sounds!  

HR Forum: in-house sourcing techniques

HR Forum: What part will external third party suppliers play within the increased use of in-house sourcing techniques, direct sourcing, RPOs, Linkedin and social networking? The HR Forum was held at One Aldwych, London, where Recruitment Leaders met to discuss and share views on the Economic factors affecting hiring strategies for 2012 and the impact [...]

Procurement and Supply Chain Forum

Where does your career in Procurement go from here? BIE’s first Procurement and Supply Chain breakfast forum was held at Great Fosters, Egham with Full Potential Group’s Carole Gaskell and John Blakey who facilitated a discussion around the challenges and opportunities faced by Supply Chain and Procurement leaders in advancing their careers. Supply Chain and [...]

Moving from Chief Financial Officer to Chief Executive Officer

Our CFO Forum was held at Cliveden House, Berkshire with senior CFOs attending and the Full Potential Group facilitating. The discussion was on the development of leadership skills in order to make the transition to become a CEO and asked: How has your CFO role changed in the past 2-3 years? How has the role of [...]

Real Deals Private Equity Awards

The Private Equity Awards recognise the very best achievements of individuals and firms working within venture capital and private equity …