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St George’s House, Windsor Castle

Society of Leadership Fellows Annual Gathering Wednesday 6th September 2017 from 6.15pm in

St George’s Chapel

Followed by a Drinks Reception and hot food in The Dean’s Cloister

Participants + Guests: 135 (as at August 29)

Four of our Leadership Fellows tell stories bringing to life the VUCA challenge:

EM Wilkinson-Brice Deputy Chief Executive/Chief

Nurse, Royal Devon & Exeter

NHS Foundation Trust

SHARON Amesu Director, Life in Colour and

Society Facilitator

ZITAH McMillan Chief Executive Officer &

Executive Vice-President Rest of

the World, Dollar Financial

Group

JONATHAN Heawood Chief Executive Officer,

IMPRESS (The Independent

Monitor for the Press)

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Welcome from the Board and Staff of St George’s House The Right Reverend

DAVID Conner, KCVO Dean of Windsor and Chairman of the Board of St

George’s House

Prof HUGH Montgomery

Trustee of St George’s House, Head, Centre for

Human Health and Performance UCL Division of

Medicine

JOHN Newbegin Trustee of St George’s House, Trustee of

Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery Trust

The Reverend Canon Dr MARK Powell

Trustee of St George’s House

ROBERT Woods Trustee of St George’s House, Chairman, P&O

Ferries and DP World Southampton

The Reverend Canon Dr HUESTON Finlay

Warden, St George’s House

GARY McKeone Programme Director, St George’s House

PETE Ashby

Leadership Programme Director, St George’s

House

NICOLA Pryer Leadership Co-ordinator, St George’s House

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PATRICIA Birdseye Consultation Co-ordinator, St George’s House

CHARLOTTE Hall Consultation Co-ordinator, St George’s House

REBECCA Fry Consultation Co-ordinator, St George’s House

Leadership Fellows and their Guests:

ALAA Garad Chairman, Egyptian Association for Learning

AMANDA Foister Founder and Chief Executive, Adventure Learning

Foundation, charity running outdoor activity centres in

the South East of England

Accompanied by: Peter Foister

ANAND Shukla Chief Executive, Brightside, national social mobility

charity mentoring disadvantaged young people every

year into education and work

Accompanied by: Kate Stephens

ANNA Smee Chief Executive, UK Youth, giving young people

across the UK a fair start in life

ANITA Higham Chair, North Oxfordshire Patient and Public

Engagement Forum of the Oxfordshire Clinical

Commissioning Group

ATHOL Hallé Chief Executive, Groundswell, enabling homeless

people to be at the heart of solutions to homelessness

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BEN Wilson Chief Executive of specialist recruitment firm

Grovelands, providing high quality associates across

key sectors

Accompanied by: David James Marker

BERNARD Grenville-Jones

Group Executive Director, Innovation and

Development, Activate Learning Group

BETH McHattie Director of Communications, Allchurches Trust,

one of the UK’s largest charitable trusts

BOB Gilbertson President and Chief Executive, YMCA of Greater

Seattle

Accompanied by: Delphine Gilbertson

CHARLOTTE Sweeney Thought leaders and specialist in diversity and

creating inclusive cultures

CHERI Fletcher Group Executive Director, Activate

Learning Group, a pioneering international education

group

Accompanied by: Evie Ashby

CHRIS Blythe Chief Executive, Chartered Institute of Building

CHRIS Sivers Director of People, Swansea City and County Council

Accompanied by: Gary Williams

CLARE Harbord Director of Corporate Affairs, Drax Power Ltd

Accompanied by: Chris Irwin

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CLAIRE Hunt HR Director, Jelf Bluefin, owned by Marsh McLennan

Companies, largest global insurance broker

DAVID Bott Principal Fellow, Warwick Manufacturing Group,

University of Warwick

DAVID Gold Director of Public Affairs & Policy, Royal Mail

Group, one of the UK’s largest employers

Accompanied by: Robert McIlveen

DIANE Dibley Director of Services, British Quality Foundation,

the premier organisation representing excellence and

performance improvement in the UK

Accompanied by: Amanda Allbright

DOMINIC Campbell Founder and Managing Director, FutureGov,

designing public services for the digital age

EMMA Gilthorpe Executive Director Expansion, Heathrow

ESTHER Foreman Director and Founder, The Social Change Agency

and Society Facilitator

FRANK Nigriello Director of Corporate Affairs, Unipart Group Ltd

GARETH Presch Founder and CEO, the World Health Innovation

Summit, an international platform set up to support our

health services while creating community value

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GAVIN McKinnon Government Relations, Saudi Aramco, the world’s

largest energy company

GEOFF McDonald Global Advocate and Campaigner, seeking to end

the stigma of depression and anxiety in the workplace

GERRAINT Oakley Managing Director, Curo Homes, a thriving ethical

business and leading house builder in South-West

England

GRAEME Duncan Founder and CEO, Right to Succeed, a charity

seeking to develop, pilot and scale collaborative

solutions to educational inequality

HEIN Scheffer Director of Workforce, Hertfordshire,

Bedfordshire and Luton CCG

HELEN Baker Chair, Dimensions UK, one of the country’s largest

not-for-profits supporting people with learning

disabilities and autism

HELEN Marshall Chief Executive, Brook, largest youth sexual health

charity

HERMAN Stewart Founder and CEO, Every Child Needs a Mentor, a

forward thinking mentoring organisation supporting

school leaders to achieve their strategic objectives

Accompanied by: Donna Stewart

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JANE Frost Chief Executive, The Market Research Society, UK

regulator and the world’s leading research association

JANET Hill Programme Director, Civil Service Disability

Inclusion, Cabinet Office

JARL Severn Managing Director, Owen Mumford, international

medical devices group

JENNY Edwards Chief Executive, Mental Health Foundation, UK

charity pioneering change in public health

Accompanied by: Isabella Goldie

JEREMY Dahdi Commercial Finance Director, City & Guilds, a

global leader in skills development

JOHN Vickerman HR Director, Fujitsu in the UK and Ireland

JULIE Hawker Chief Executive, Cosmic, an ethical IT company

JULIE JAYE Charles CEO and Founder, Equalities National Council

KEITH Howells Chief Design Engineer, Rolls-Royce plc

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KRYSIA Hudek Senior Partner, Open Agenda and Society

Facilitator

LINDA Drew Director and Chief Executive, Ravensbourne, a

world-class specialist higher education institution

LISA Humphreys Commercial Operations Director, MediaCom, one

of the world’s leading media agencies

Accompanied by: tbc

MARK Chater Director, Culham St Gabriel’s Trust

MARK Panay Co-Founder and Managing Director, Simpleweb

Ltd, Venture Tech for early stage startups

Accompanied by: Tom Holder

MARTIN Williams Business Coach, Oxford Innovation and Strategic

Marketing Adviser in private practice

MARTYN Dadds Managing Director International at the Crisis

Prevention Institute, providing workplace training in

behaviour management for 1.2 million+ professionals

worldwide every year

Accompanied by: Sarah Dadds

MIKE Gaston CEO and Principal, South Downs and Havant

Colleges

MIKE Silvestri CEO, Moox, Inc., next generation urban bicycle

company based in San Francisco

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MILES Davis Dean of the Harry F. Byrd, Jr., School of Business

and Professor of Management, Shenandoah

University, Winchester, Virginia, USA

Accompanied by: Naomi Pitcock

PATRICK Craven Director of Quality, Policy and Stakeholder Engagement, City and Guilds

PETER Hay Chair and Non-Executive Member of multiple social policy Boards

PHILIPPA Robinson Turnaround Director, Most recently with Virgin Care Ltd

PHILLIP Hufton (Dr) IMD Global Healthcare UK, Berkeley Research Group LLC, leading global strategic advisory and expert consulting firm

RACHEL Wang Founding Director of Chocolate Films & Creative Director of www.1000Londoners.com. Specialising in producing documentaries and video content

RICH Shields Financial Management Officer, U.S. Department of State: CFO responsible for all US Govt. financial expenditures at various embassies around the world

ROGER Burke-Hamilton

Managing Director, DigiThreadz, delivering digital innovation

SARAH Crawley Chief Executive, Initiative for Social Entrepreneurs (iSE), a leading social enterprise development organisation

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SARAH Kling CEO and Founder, UEVision, Inc, user experience strategy and design company based in San Francisco

SEAMUS Oates CEO, TBAP Multi-Academy Trust, running 9

alternative provision and special academies

Accompanied by: Jo Sennitt

SHANI M Siddiqui Founder and lead Consultant, SMS Dynamic

Training Services, providing in-house training

solutions

Accompanied by: Mansoor Siddiqui

SONALI Parekh Head of Policy, Federation of Small Businesses

STEVE Drummond Managing Director, Bainton Capital Partners;

pushing the boundaries for renewable energy

SUNNY Dhadley Director and Founder, The Recovery Foundation

CIC, assisting the process of overcoming addiction

SUSAN Popoola Founder and Director of Conning Towers, a global

Human Resources Specialist Entrepreneur

TERRY Howe Designer of Leadership Products

TESSA Cook Co-Founder & CEO, OLIO, The Food Sharing

Revolution

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TONY Cooke CEO & Co-Founder, One Planet Education

Networks (OPEN)

Accompanied by: Piers Zangana

WILLIAM Barker Head of National Cyber Security Programme,

Department for Communities and Local

Government

Accompanied by: Fay Barker

We will also be joined by a number of invitees to become Leadership Fellows:

AMANDA Nobbs Chair, Thames Regional Flood and Coastal

Committee

BEN Kernigham Deputy Chief Executive, Leap Confronting

Conflict

BEVERLEY Gardner Trust Executive Principal, Trinitas Academy Trust

CATHERINE O’Kelly Director of Industry Development, British Gas,

Centrica

CHRISTIANE Wuillamie Business Advisor/Director, WaterAid

Accompanied by: John Childress

CYNTHIA V Davis CEO, BAME Recruitment Ltd

Accompanied by: Luke R Davis

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DANIELA Barone Soares

CEO, Granito Group

Accompanied by: Rob Datson

DAVID Murray-Hundley

Advisor, Hyperloop One; Board Advisor, The

Sandpit; Chairman, E Fundamentals

DEBBIE Forster Director, Novel Design Ltd.

DEREK Bardowell Senior Head of UK Portfolio, The Big Lottery Fund

EVELYN Findlater Chief Executive and Founder, Good Food Matters

FILIPPO Addarii Co-founder & CEO, PlusValue

IAN Francis Director of Learning and Leadership

Development, Milton Keynes College

JILL Shedden Group HR Director, Centrica

JOE Saxton Driver of Ideas, nfpSynergy

KATH Rees Director, URU Connect

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LIANE Langdon Chief Officer, NHS North Lincolnshire CCG

LINDA Hitman CEO, Exclusive Business

LOUISE Bond Managing Director Children’s Services, LB

Specialist Recruitment

POONAM Gupta Chief Executive, PG Paper Company Ltd

Accompanied by:

RHIANNON Prothero Marketing Director, SAP (UK) Limited

ROSY Greenlees Executive Director, Crafts Council

SABOOHI Famili Chief Executive, Epping Forest College

SARAH Atkinson Director of Policy and Communications, Charity

Commission

SUSAN Osborne Director of Communications, The Goodwork

Organisation

TANYA Castell Chief Executive Officer, Changing the Chemistry