Greenleaf Centre for Servant-Leadership - UK Conference 2009
Servant-Leadership: Making it Happen
Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th November: 10.00am – 4.30pm
The Ambassadors Hotel, Upper Woburn Place, London WC1
This year’s conference will be held on November 11th and 12th at The Ambassadors Hotel, Upper Woburn Place London WC1. Once more we have been able to call upon an outstanding panel of presenters including Ntombi Langa-Royds, Mark Wilkinson, Marion Janner, Roy Wilsher, Jane Little and Terri McNerney. As usual, the conference will be structured to allow for substantial periods of interaction and discussion with participants being given every opportunity to play a full part in each day’s programme.
Ntombi Langa-Royds
Ntombi Langa-Royds is based in Johannesburg and has 22 years experience in the Human Resources environment. She has worked in financial services, manufacturing, electronic and print media industries. Her experience has spanned across the private and public sectors as well as NGO/community environments.
The size of the organizations where she has worked range from small medium sized locally based organizations, to large multinational global players. Ntombi consults in the total spectrum of Human Resources, and has expertise in restructuring initiatives, relationship building with stakeholders, designing and implementing change sustaining initiatives. She has participated and presented several papers at seminars and conferences on restructuring initiatives, the retention of staff, the effect of trauma on productivity, survivor syndrome in the face of retrenchments, Affirmative Action and Servant-Leadership.
Roy Wilsher OBE
Roy Wilsher OBE is currently Chief Fire Officer for Hertfordshire. He joined the London Fire Brigade on 23 November 1981, serving the first five years at Hornsey in North London. He became Senior Divisional Officer Fire Safety in 1998, responsible for 11 boroughs in North and West London, then moved on to Fire Safety Policy.
In 2001 Roy led the project to re-structure London Fire Brigade from 3 commands to 32 boroughs plus the City of London. Following the successful completion of the project he was responsible for Service Delivery in Tower Hamlets, City of London and Westminster. Here, Roy oversaw the introduction of the LIFE scheme working with young people to help reduce arson and anti-social behaviour.
In April 2005 Roy was appointed Chief Fire Officer for Hertfordshire. Leads on Equalities and Diversity for Hertfordshire County Council and on Command and Control for the Chief Fire Officers’ Association.
Roy received the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal 2002, the Queen’s Jubilee Medal and was awarded OBE in New Year’s Honours list 2007.
Jane Little
Jane Little started by working in her local library on Saturdays in the year when “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band” was released. She went on to build a traditional career in public libraries, working for several councils in London and roundabout. Her eyes were then opened to new ways of working (including Servant-Leadership) and, through a series of secondments and experiments, she created a role for herself leading organisational change in a major London borough. She’s still there and expects to carry on, deepening the conversations, until Servant-Leadership is established or she finds another place to talk about it.
Jane is a Greenleaf UK Board member and a contributor to the recent book Servant-Leadership: Bringing the Spirit of Work to Work.
Terri McNerney
Terri McNerney specialises in leadership, team and organisational development and coaching. Her work includes facilitation and workshop/event design and delivery, with a key focus on team development, creativity, diversity & inclusion, change and post-merger workshops.
Terri has more than twenty years experience with Global 500 companies. She has consulting experience in a variety of industries including petrochemical, broadcast media, pharmaceutical, energy, telecommunications and general merchandisers, as well as government and education sectors.
Terri holds an MSc in Organisational Consulting from Ashridge School of Management and completed her undergraduate degree in Education at London University. Amongst many qualifications, she is a Dialogue, Clean Language, Gestalt and Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner, trained in the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), the Ned Herrmann whole brain profile (HBDI) and is an accredited NLP Master Practitioner. Terri is a Greenleaf UK Board member and a contributor to Servant-Leadership: Bringing the Spirit of Work to Work
Marion Janner
Marion Janner describes herself as best known for being the little person at the end of the lead attached to the legendary Buddy. When not performing this duty for her support dog, Marion runs the Star Wards project and its parent charity, Bright. Star Wards supports mental health wards to improve inpatients’ experiences. A majority of the mental health wards in the country are now taking part in Star Wards, very much enjoying this and introducing fantastic new opportunities for their patients.
What staff, patients, managers, commissioners and regulators have found so heartening is the speed with which small changes are being introduced and having a substantial impact on patients’ experiences, and on staff morale. This creates a virtuous cycle of motivation, energy and creativity.
Mark Wilkinson
Mark Wilkinson has over 20 years experience as a successful manager and leader in the IT industry, of which the last 13 years has been with Reed Elsevier (a global publisher and information provider in the top FTSE 100). His current role is Vice president European Operations where he is at the forefront of leading a new business and its people through transformational change; transforming technology operations to provide a premier IT global service.
Mark strongly believes that in a fast world, characterised by uncertainty and instability, employee engagement lies at the heart of sustained business success -and more importantly, how you ‘do it’ in action. His ‘northern passion’ continues to underpin his brand of leadership and steer for shaping what he believes are the ingredients for building a high performing culture. He has worked with an engagement process he calls ‘brITe’, and is proud to have gained an internal business reputation for being an expert in culture change.
Provisional programme
| Time | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 09.30 | Introduction to Servant-Leadership (optional) |
| 10.15 | Welcome and World Café |
| 11.30 | Coffee |
| 11.45 | Ntombi Langa-Royds |
| 13.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 | Ntombi Langa-Royds |
| 15.15 | Tea |
| 15.30 | Mark Wilkinson |
| 16.45 | Reflections and Close |
| Time | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 10.00 | Welcome to Day 2 |
| 10.15 | Marion Janner |
| 11.30 | Coffee |
| 11.45 | Roy Wilsher |
| 13.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 | Jane Little/Terri McNerney |
| 15.15 | Tea |
| 15.30 | Jane Little/Terri McNerney |
| 16.30 | Reflections and Close |