CIPD Northern Area Partnership Conference “Positive People - Engaging for Success"

The theme is “Positive People”; so far the following speakers have agreed to talk:

• Nita Clarke - Director of the Involvement & Participation Association (IPA) and vice chair of the Macleod Review on employee engagement - Co-author of “Engaging for Success”, and our key note speaker
• Phil Willcox – DPG- "Recruiting and retaining positive people in your organisation"
• Chris Kelly - Voice Works
• Paul McGee - the SUMO guy
• Terry Gillen – author, trainer and consultant
• Olive Strachan on FISH!
• Tom Watkins – Director Dickinson Dees
• Prof’ Beverley Alimo-Metcalfe – Professor of Leadership at Bradford University
• Krista Powell Edwards on NLP
• Chris Fairhurst – Dale Carnegie – How to develop positive attitudes in ourselves & others
• Sarah Kreutzer – ‘the horse whisperer’
• Steve Head – HeadStart – inspirational speaker, trainer & coach
• Karen Callaghan – Director of HR - Innocent
• Stephen Moir – Executive Director of Workforce & Strategy, Yorkshire Ambulance Service
• Mandy Adams Global HR Director Reckitt Benckiser and Antony Shearn of H2H Learning Genius
• Bjorn Risi - Princes Trust
• Dean Royles - Chair of CIPD Executive Board
• Sonia Saxton – Director Saxton Partners

The Northern Area Partnership that comprises members from the Committees of the ten Northern Branches, is pleased to confirm that this year’s conference will take place in York at York Race Course from midday on Friday 22nd June through until 4.45pm on Saturday 23rd June 2012.

Supplier Exhibition, more details to follow.

On the Friday night there will be a Conference dinner and with Awards and supplier exhibition throughout the weekend.

The conference is priced at only £160 plus vat, which includes the Friday night dinner. Dinner only is £35 net and anyone want just one day, either Friday or Saturday only £95 + Vat. (all earlybird bookings have been subscribed to thanks)

• Email Gary Hewins