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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 in The Dean’s Cloister

Participants + Guests: 119 (as at August 2)

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

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

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

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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

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

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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 Hill Chief Executive, Step up to Serve, campaign for

youth social action

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

CHRIS Blythe Chief Executive, Chartered Institute of Building

CHRIS Sivers Director of People, Swansea City and County Council

CHRISTA O’Leary Founder and CEO, Home in Harmony, Inc. international design & lifestyle firm based in Boston, Massachusetts

Accompanied by: Leif O’Leary

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

DAN Mobley Director of Corporate Relations for Diageo,

Europe, a global leader in beverage alcohol

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

GEOFF McDonald Global Advocate and Campaigner, seeking to end

the stigma of depression and anxiety in the workplace

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

largest energy company

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

JANE Frost Chief Executive, The Market Research Society, UK

regulator and the world’s leading research association

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JANET Hill Programme Director, Civil Service Diversity and

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

KRYSIA Hudek Senior Partner, Open Agenda and Society

Facilitator

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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 Davis Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Director of

International Programmes, the university of West

Alabama

MARK Panay Co-Founder and Managing Director, Simpleweb

Ltd, Venture Tech for early stage startups

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

company based in San Francisco

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

NIKKI Flanders Chief Operating Officer, Opus Energy, the largest

non-domestic UK energy company outside the Big Six

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

AILSA Rutter (tbc) Director, Fresh-Smoke Free North East

AMANDA Nobbs Chair, Thames Regional Flood and Coastal

Committee

BEN Kernigham Deputy Chief Executive, Leap Confronting Conflict

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

DANIELA Barone Soares

CEO, Granito Group

DEBBIE Forster Director, Novel Design Ltd.

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

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JILL Shedden Group HR Director, Centrica

LIANE Langdon Chief Officer, NHS North Lincolnshire CCG

POONAM Gupta Chief Executive, PG Paper Company Ltd

Accompanied by: Puneet Gupta

ROSY Greenlees Executive Director, Crafts Council

SABOOHI Famili Chief Executive, Epping Forest College

SARAH Atkinson Director of Policy and Communications, Charity

Commission

TANYA Castell Chief Executive Officer, Changing the Chemistry