programme

Day One – Wednesday 8 September

10.00am-5.00pm

HR Business Leaders’ Big Day Out [Invitation only]

9.30am-11.00am

Registration

10.00am-11.00am

Branch time
A chance for committee members to share experiences

10.00am-11.00am

Professional Membership Workshop

11.00am-12.30pm

Fringe Workshops

F1 Change
Next Practice for Shifting Goalposts
Jon and Yoshimi Brett, Directors, TetraMap International

F2 Creativity
Creating Safe Space
Alastair Rylatt, Director, Alastair Rylatt Consulting

F3 Certainty
The Power of the Strategically Balanced Organisation: turning laggards into leaders
Dave McMillan, Director, Simply Strategic Limited

12.30pm-1.30pm

Regional lunch

1.30pm-2.30pm

Fringe Workshops

F4 Change
What Role Should HR Take in Change?
Suzie Sauer (nee Nell), Change Management Consultant, Johnston Penno Ltd

F5 Creativity
Bringing Spirit to Work
Leanne Holdsworth, Director, Holistic Business Solutions

F6 Certainty
Diversity Management: a generation cohort perspective
Kristin Lyon, HR Advisor, Royal New Zealand Plunket Society Inc

2.30-3.30pm

Fringe Workshops

F7 Change
Think Like a Winner
Wendy Betteridge, Principal, Lasting Impact Limited

F8 Creativity
Modifying the Pattern on our Woven Pathway: the Formway Story
Paul Mather, Director Innovative Manufacturing, Wellington Institute of Technology

F9 Certainty
Reinventing the Manager
David Rock, Managing Director, Results Coaching Systems

3.30pm-3.45pm

Coffee

3.45pm-5.00pm

Conference Weaving
Taking Stock – Setting the Scene
Mary-Alice Arthur

Welcome Reception – networking

7.00pm-10.00pm

Professional Members’ Dinner

Day Two –Thursday 9 September

8.00am

Registrations open

8.00am

Expo opens

9.00am-10.30am

Conference Opening

Opening Keynote Address
Transforming Organisational Culture through Complexity
Dave Snowden, Director, Cynefin Centre

10.30am-11.00am

Expo break

11.00am-12.30pm

HR Interactions

A1 Change
Driving Successful Change
Justine Reese and Mike Stenhouse, Sheffield

A2 Creativity
Fostering Creativity: one idea at a time
Ed Bernacki, Director, The Idea Factory

A3 Certainty
Reinventing Ourselves and Others
Andrea Thompson, Director, Catapult

12.30pm-1.15pm

Members Forum

1.15pm-2.00pm

Lunch and Expo

2.00pm-3.30pm

Conference Weaving
Brainworking
Mary-Alice Arthur

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Master Class
Learning Strategies, Management and Systems
Bill Farrell, IBM Business Consulting

3.30pm-4.00pm

Expo break

4.00pm-5.15pm

Keynote Address
Grey Matter Matters: preserving critical knowledge
Eric Lesser, Associate Partner, Institute for Business Value, IBM

5.15pm- 6.00pm

Networking at the Expo

7.30pm-late

Ultimate dinner and party

Day three – Friday 10 September

8.00am

Expo opens

8.00am-9.00am

Breakfast Plenary
Thriving on conflict: a communication competency approach for cultural transformation
Peter and Susan Glaser, Directors, Glaser & Associates

9.15am-10.15am

Conference Weaving
Where the Thinking is Heading
Mary-Alice Arthur

10.15am-11.15am

HR Interactions – Workplace Winners

B1 HR Initiative of the Year
Evelyn Gates, McDonald’s

B2 HR Person of the Year
Catherine Taylor, Kiwibank

B3 Unlimited Best Places to Work
Bede Ashby, Momentum

9.15am-11.15am

Master Class [By invitation only]
Cynefin Tools and Techniques
Dave Snowden, Director, Cynefin Centre

11.15am-11.45am

Expo break

11.45am-12.45pm

HR Interactions – Change, change and more change

C1 Change
Changing your Thinking to Improve Your Performance
Dr Tom Mulholland, Director, The Attitude Doctor

C2 Change
HR’s Contribution to the Business: creating a winning customer experience
Marsha Sussman, Global Partner HR Transformation, Mercer Human Resource Consulting

C3 Change
The HDS Experience: an unconventional case study
Wayne Norrie, Chief Enthusiasm Officer and Minister of Culture, Hosting & Datacentre Services Limited

12.45pm-2.00pm

Expo, lunch and prize-giving

2.00pm- 3.00pm

HR Interactions

D1 Change
Building the Heart of a Communications Matrix: the Tabnet case study
Inez Romanos, Intranet Publisher; Lynley Sinclair, HR Manager;
Malcolm Perry, IT Manager; Pete Evans, eBusiness Project Manager;
New Zealand Racing Board

D2 Creativity
Developing Peoples Capability in NZ Organisations: what’s happening now and what’s next
Prof Mary Mallon, Professor of HRM, Massey University and Jane Bryson, Senior Lecturer, Victoria University

D3 Certainty
Winning the Knowledge Game: measuring and managing know-how
Alastair Rylatt, Director, Alastair Rylatt Consulting

3.00pm- 4.00pm

Closing Keynote
Increasing Leadership Skills Using Emotional Intelligence
Professor Con Stough, Director, Organisational Psychology Research
Unit, Swinburne University

4.00pm-4.15pm

Conference closes