Greenleaf Centre for Servant-Leadership and Happy People - UK Conference 2008
Leaders Serving People: Exploring how to create great organisations by putting your people first
November 3rd and 4th: 10.00am – 4.30pm
The Ambassadors Hotel, Upper Woburn Place, London WC1
Speakers at this year’s conference – Greenleaf UK’s tenth anniversary event – will include Cathy Busani, Ella Heeks, Kent Keith, Lynne Sedgmore, Henry Stewart and Ruby Wax.
Lynne Sedgmore CBE
Lynne Sedgmore CBE is Chief Executive of the Centre for Excellence in Leadership - the national leadership college for the learning and skills sector.
She was Principal of Guildford College for six years. Previous roles include Vice Principal of Croydon College, Head of Croydon Business School, and Head of Curriculum Services at Hackney College. Lynne has held a range of full-time Leadership, Marketing and Curriculum posts in Further Education.
In October 2007, CEL won an International Spirit at Work Award for addressing spirituality in the workplace, its commitment to servant-leadership and its focus on reflective practice. In 2005, CEL won the British Diversity Award.
Lynne is a qualified teacher and has an MSc in Change Agent Skills and Strategies. She is a Chartered Marketer and was awarded the CBE in 2004. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a fellow of the Institute of Directors.
She has had several leadership articles published and co-authored a workbook on ‘Marketing for College Managers’.
Ruby Wax
Ruby Wax is best known for her comedy and celebrity interviews.
However, for the past 3 years Ruby has been studying for an MSc in Psychotherapy at Regent’s College and is also studying Neuroscience at UCL. Since graduating she has begun giving talks to senior executives in major companies about how our pathologies can affect our communication and effectiveness at work.
Subjects have covered “The Importance of Openness”, “The Stress of Change” and “How We Get Our Own Way”. Ruby is also coaching individuals within companies to improve their performance. Clients have included BAA, Skype, and several major banks.
Henry Stewart
Henry Stewart is founder and Chief Executive of Happy. His company has been rated the best in the UK for customer service, the best for work-life balance, the 2nd best workplace and the best small company in terms of impact on society. Prior to Happy Computers, Henry was involved in setting up a radical tabloid Sunday newspaper called News on Sunday. He describes much of what he has achieved at Happy as stemming from what he learned about what not to do at News on Sunday. He left determined not to work for others again, and to find out what did make a company both principled and effective, and a great place to work.
A major passion is how to make learning enjoyable and relevant to people of all ages. He is Chair of Governors of his local comprehensive, and Chair of the charity Antidote, which works to help schools become emotionally literate, and campaigns to promote state education and oppose selection. Henry is also active in politics, managing the web site for Jews for Justice and Human Right (JFJHR) and Independent Jewish Voices, of which he is a founding member. Other interests include cycling and re-evaluation counselling, which he practices and teaches.
Ella Heeks
Ella Heeks was Managing Director of Able & Cole, the organic vegetable box delivery company, from 2000 to 2007 and is still Ethics Director of the company. Under her leadership the company grew from £0.5 million to £20 million turnover and was listed by the Financial Times as one of the 15 best workplaces in the UK. She was featured on the cover of Management Today in 2007 as one of the UK’s 40 top businesswomen under 40.
Ella will talk about putting people and ethics at the heart of a commercial business. She will explain how shifting the responsibility from management to front-line staff, and seeing managers as there to support people, reduces risk and pressure. “It simply makes managing a company a far more enjoyable task.”
Dr. Kent M. Keith
Dr. Kent M. Keith is the Chief Executive Officer of the Greenleaf Center for Servant- Leadership in the United States. He was born in New York and raised in California, Nebraska, Virginia, Rhode Island and Hawaii. He has been an attorney, a state government official, a high tech park developer, a university president, a YMCA executive, and a full-time speaker and author.
Kent is known internationally as the author of The Paradoxical Commandments, which he first published in 1968 in a booklet for student leaders. During the past five years he has published three books about the commandments, including Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments, which became a national bestseller and was translated into 16 languages. He is also the author of The Case for Servant-Leadership, very recently published by the Greenleaf Center.
Kent has appeared on dozens of TV shows and more than 90 radio programs in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
Cathy Busani
Cathy Busani is Managing Director of Happy Ltd, the IT and management training company. In 2001 she was awarded HR Manager of the Year by Personnel Today. Since then, she has been rated as one of the best half dozen managers in the UK by both the DTI and the Daily Telegraph. The DTI named her the best boss in the UK for innovative practices.
At the core of her approach is always believing the best of people. “People work best when they feel good about themselves”, she explains. “The key role of management is therefore to support and motivate your people to achieve the very best”.
Cathy will explain the practices that took Happy Ltd to be rated the 2nd best place to work in the UK by the Financial Times in 2007.
CONFERENCE 2007
| Time | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 09.00 | Optional pre-conference workshop Introduction to Servant-Leadership |
| 10.00 | Welcome to the Conference |
| 10.15 | Lynne Sedgmore: Living Servant-Leadership? The CEL Community |
| 11.30 | Coffee |
| 11.45 | Ruby Wax: Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence and Organisations |
| 13.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 | FORUM: The Practice of Servant-Leadership. Ralph Lewis, Charlie Foote & Bob Henry (Greenleaf UK) Lindsey Liddell Starbucks |
| 15.15 | Tea |
| 15.30 | Henry Stewart: Creating a Great Workplace |
| 16.45 | Close |
| Time | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 10.00 | Welcome to Day 2 |
| 10.15 | Ella Heeks: Putting People and Ethics at the Heart of your Business |
| 11.30 | Coffee |
| 11.45 | Kent Keith: Servant-Leadership and the Paradoxical Commandments |
| 13.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 | Cathy Busani: Happy for Real |
| 15.15 | Tea |
| 15.30 | Terri McNerney Conference Reflections |
| 16.45 | Close of the Conference |
Conference Fees
Commercial/Local Authority organisations: £390 plus VAT @17.5%
Individuals & Companies (up to 10 employees): £280 plus VAT @17.5%
Those individuals and organisations registered for VAT should add the 17.5% and make the cheque payable to Happy Ltd. and send it to:
Conference RegistrationsHappy Ltd.
Cityside House
40 Adler Street
London E1 1EE
Those individuals not registered for VAT should prepare the cheque in the basic amount, make it payable to Greenleaf Centre for Servant-Leadership UK, and send it to:
John Noble1 All Saints Road
Sutton
Surrey SM1 3DA
Registrations paid by September 15th will attract an “Early Bird” reduction of £30.
The Greenleaf Centre for Servant-Leadership UK is a not for profit organisation.