Our Speakers:
Valerie Garrow is Associate Director at the Institute for Employment Studies, leading the HR research and consultancy team. Valerie has recently joined IES from Roffey Park where she was Head of Research. Her research interests include the people aspects of mergers, acquisitions and partnerships and the impact of major change on the psychological contract. She has been involved in research, training and consultancy in this field for over 10 years and, amongst her other publications, has co-authored Reaping the Benefits of Mergers and Acquisitions published by Butterworth Heinemann. She also has experience in developing leadership frameworks and talent management strategies.
Denise Harnin: Starting her career in private sector, Denise has 25 years experience as a generalist Human Resource Practitioner. Transferring to the Health Sector in 1988 she has managed significant services change, re-organisations and mergers, in partnership with Trade Unions and professional organisations. Denise has more recently contributed at national level working on Department of Health Policy and Strategy before returning to an Acute Hospital as part of an Executive Team established to deliver financial turnaround and long term viability.
Linda Jones is Head of the Employment Group in Birmingham. She advises on a wide range of contentious and non contentious employment matters. She has particular expertise in large scale redundancies and reorganisations, TUPE (in the public and private sector) and executive severance arrangements. Prior to entering the legal profession, Linda worked in the human resources department of a major international oil company. Linda is a frequent speaker at seminars and conferences on employment law issues and contributes regularly to the legal and HR press.
Mark Mansell is a partner at Allen & Overy LLP and has been a partner in the Employment, Pensions and Incentives department since 1992. He qualified as a solicitor in 1985 and from 1985 to 1987 he was legal adviser to the CBI Employment Affairs Directorate. He advises on all aspects of both contentious and non-contentious employment law matters. These include issues on the transfer or takeover of businesses, contracts of employment and employment policies, restrictive covenants, employee representation and trade union issues, dismissals and redundancies, and discrimination.
David Whincup is a partner in and Head of the Human Capital (Employment) practice at Hammonds LLP. His particular expertise covers a wide variety of employment-related issues, including, in particular, recruitment issues, drafting contracts of employment at all levels, disciplinary and grievance procedures, redundancies at individual and collective levels, and the defence of employee discrimination claims and other litigation. Non-contentious experience includes all employment aspects of corporate transactions, advising on TUPE, warranties and indemnities and union-related matters.
Lucas van Wees MBA MBT holds an BSc in Tourism & Leisure and Masters in Social Sciences Telecommunications in the Netherlands and Business in Switzerland. He worked for Philips, Shell and KPN in HR, management and commercial jobs. Since 2001 he has been Vice President HR Commercial and Global for KLM which merged mid 2004 with Air France.
Van Wees has co-authored or edited for four books and published various (international) articles a.o. for Personnel Journal, the International Journal of Career Management and the Journal of Management Development. His contribution to a European book, describing HR practices in 13 European countries, is expected to be published in 2008 by Routledge, Taylor & Francis (ISBN 978-0-415-44761-4).
He is a member of the Board of the Dutch Association of Personnel Management (NVP) and, on behalf of the NVP, delegate for the European Association of Personnel Management (EAPM). He is chairman of the Jury of the first European HR Award 2009 in which some 20 European countries will participate. This Award will be granted at the EAPM-congress on 11-13 June in The Hague.
David Yeandle OBE is the Head of Employment Policy of EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, which has a membership of some 6,000 manufacturing, engineering and technology-based businesses in the UK, having joined EEF in February 1995.
His main responsibilities are the development and representation of EEF's policies on employment, employee relations and pension’s issues to the UK Government and European Union and advising EEF member companies on the practical implications of these policies.
He was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he obtained a degree in economics, and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a Fellow of the RSA. He is a member of the Executive Council of the Involvement and Participation Association (IPA), a Director of the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI), a member of the National Employer Advisory Board for the Reserves of the Armed Forces (NEAB), a member of the Advisory Committee of the Industrial Relations Research Unit at Warwick Business School and a member of the Advisory Board of UKWON (the UK Work Organisation Network).
In January 2004, he was appointed to the DTI’s Age Advisory Group which was responsible for assisting the Government with the implementation of the age discrimination aspects of the EU Employment Directive.
In June 2008, David was awarded an OBE for services to engineering and manufacturing employers in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
