Speaker Profiles
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This conference took place on 21st June 2005. If you would like to order copies of the speaker's slide presentations, you can still do this using the booking page here.
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Chairs and speakers include: (Click on name to jump to profile)
- Colin Grange
Chair, EAPA UK
- Rebecca Thornley-Gibson
Head of Employment Law, asb Law
- Linda Hoskinson BSc (Hons) CEAP
Managing Director, People Resolutions Group Ltd
- Dr. Ian Wright
GlaxoSmithKline
- Rebecca Kettell
Associate, Shadbolt & Co LLP
- Professor Duncan Lewis
ACAS Professor of Workplace Futures & Head of the Department of Strategy, University of Glamorgan
- Barry Winbolt
Head of Training & Consultancy, PPC Worldwide
- Alastair O'Riordan
Manager - Employee Relations, Cummins
- Penny de Valk
Managing Director HR, Ceridian
- John Maynard PhD, CEAP
CEO, International EAPA
- Leonie Nowland
Head of Vocational Rehabilitation Services, ICAS
- Trevor Merriden
Editor, Human Resources
Profiles:
Alastair O'Riordan, Manager - Employee Relations, Cummins
 Alastair O'Riordan became Manager - Employee Relations for Cummins in 2002. Cummins is a corporation of complementary businesses that design, manufacture, distribute and service engines and related technologies, including fuel systems, controls, air handling, filtration, emission solutions and electrical power generation systems. He has been responsible for development of an Employee Relations strategy that will meet the company values and move beyond compliance with the I&C Directive.
Alastair was previously European HR Director for Penske Logistics, a partnership with GE Capital. Alastair is a history graduate from York University and in the early stages of his career he worked with the TUC in the development of the training curriculum for Trade Union representatives.
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John Maynard PhD, CEAP, CEO, International EAPA
 Dr. John Maynard is currently CEO of the International Employee Assistance Professionals Association (EAPA), the world's oldest and largest membership organization for employee assistance professionals, with nearly 5,000 members in more than 30 countries.
Long recognized as one of the world's leading consultants and thought leaders in the employee assistance (EA) field, Dr. Maynard began his career as a psychotherapist. In the 1970s, he founded and built one of the first successful EA companies in the U.S. During the 1980s, he served as vice president for behavioral health services for a major U.S. hospital system. From 1987 until 2004, he was president of SPIRE Health Consultants, Inc., a global consulting firm specializing in EA strategic planning, program design, and quality improvement.
Dr. Maynard is known for his insightful, entertaining, creative and content-rich keynotes. He has made hundreds of presentations to corporations, professional meetings, and conferences in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia . He has been interviewed on both television and radio, has written chapters for several books, authored numerous journal and magazine articles, and is quoted often in newspapers and magazines.
In 2001, John was awarded the prestigious EAPA Member of the Year Award for lifetime achievement and contribution to EAPA and the employee assistance profession.
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Rebecca Kettell, Associate, Shadbolt & Co LLP
 Rebecca is an Associate in Shadbolt & Co's Employment Group, providing a full service employment law practice for employers and employees. Since qualifying in 1998 Rebecca has been involved in all aspects of contentious and non contentious employment work including drafting employment documentation, advising on termination of employment, redundancy and post termination issues, developments in Employment legislation, and TUPE.
Rebecca advises on and negotiates severance packages for senior executives on behalf of either the employer or the employee. She has extensive contentious experience including representing employers and employees in the Employment Tribunal and County Court in relation to unfair dismissals, breach of contract claims and claims for race, sex and disability discrimination. She conducts her own advocacy in the Employment Tribunal where appropriate. Rebecca also has experience advising in relation to employment issues arising out of commercial transactions.
Rebecca works closely with Human Resources departments as an extension of the in-house team, drafting employment contracts, disciplinary and grievance procedures, and handbooks, advising on employment relations, implementation of policies and procedures, consultation issues and managing change in the workplace including restructuring and reorganisation.
Rebecca speaks regularly at conferences and seminars and is a contributor to various publications.
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Professor Duncan Lewis, ACAS Professor of Workplace Futures & Head of the Department of Strategy, University of Glamorgan
 Professor Duncan Lewis is the ACAS Professor of Workplace Futures at the Business School of the University of Glamorgan in South Wales. Professor Lewis is an international authority on workplace bullying which was the subject of his PhD at the University of Wales.
Professor Lewis has researched and published widely in the field of workplace bullying for over ten years. His most recent work has concentrated on the impact of shame and bullying and ethnicity and bullying. He has organised and delivered symposia throughout Europe, delivered keynotes as far a field as Australia and for organisations such as ACAS and the Equal Opportunities Commission. Professor Lewis is a regular and frequent contributor to written and broadcast media on the subject of workplace bullying.
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Barry Winbolt, Head of Training & Consultancy, PPC Worldwide
 Barry Winbolt is Head of Clinical Practice, Training and Consultancy at PPC Worldwide. For more than 20 years he has advised employers and staff in many cultures on how to improve their working relationships, and provided training in conflict management, communication skills, solution-focused mediation, enhancing performance and improving working relationships.
He was co-founder of the European Therapy Studies Institute in 1993 and there developed a cross-discipline training programme in therapeutic communication, and subsequently set up a company that provided training for up to 25,000 people a year, mainly from the public sector. He is a regular presenter at international psychology conferences, author of two books, a practicing psychotherapist, and a leading trainer in the field of Solution Focused Brief Therapy and therapeutic communications.
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Penny de Valk, Managing Director HR, Ceridian
 Penny de Valk is a recognised pioneer of work/life balance and diversity in the UK business community. She has worked with blue-chip organisations, including LloydsTSB, Shell, B&Q, HSBC and GlaxoSmithKline, to create leading-edge, yet pragmatic and impactful programmes addressing women's advancement, work/life balance and flexible working.
De Valk currently sits on the UK board of Ceridian Centrefile and heads up Ceridian's consulting business. Prior to that she ran one of the UK 's first work/life consultancies, Ceridian Performance Partners, formerly Work Family Directions (WFD).
With a BA and an MBA, de Valk has been in senior executive roles in both large and small organisations for 15 years. Before moving to London six years ago she was Chief Executive of the New Zealand Institute of Management in Auckland where she brought a thought-leadership agenda to management best practice. Before that her career spanned consultancy and general management roles in the fields of professional services, retail, insurance and publishing.
De Valk has also worked alongside not-for-profit organisations, supporting the development of the Employers for Work/life Balance and the Global Work/life Summit held at Downing Street in 2001.
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Linda Hoskinson BSc (Hons) CEAP, Managing Director, People Resolutions Group Ltd
 Linda is Managing Director for People Resolutions Group providing UK employers with prevention and resolution for workplace disagreements and grievances, and offering HR teams access to independent and specialist workplace mediators, investigators, consultants and trainers.
Linda is also an impartial and professional Employee Assistance/counselling service consultant . She designs tailored counselling/welfare services and Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs) for major UK and International organisations, consults on the implementation of the larger services and conducts independent audits for employers.
She has developed leading-edge approaches to business behavioural risk management, setting standards for the delivery of all services - uniformly and consistently throughout the UK .
Linda has a background in HR Management and as a Director of an external EAP provider. She is a former UK EAP Association Chapter Chair, a member of 2 EAP standards committees and she re-qualifies regularly as CEAP-I, the international version of the US -based 'Certified Employee Assistance Professional'.
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Leonie Nowland, Head of Vocational Rehabilitation Services, ICAS
 Leonie has qualifications in counselling with individuals, families and organisational teams, especially around issues of stress and strain.
She joined ICAS in 2003 as manager of Case Management Services. Leonie has extensive experience managing EAP providers in Australia and has specialised in working with the public sector on issues pertaining to organisational culture and occupational stress from a risk management perspective. She is also a skilled trainer and has provided training for line managers in team building, managing change and managing occupational stress issues.
Leonie worked for 3 years as an academic in New Zealand, and her research interests are in occupational stress and resilience. She is now heading up the ICAS Vocational Rehabilitation Services department to deal with the risk to organisations due to increasing absence in the workplace.
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Trevor Merriden, Editor, Human Resources
 Trevor Merriden has been editor of the Human Resources group of magazines since July 2002. After beginning his career as an international economist at the Bank of England, he moved into journalism at the Economist Group, before arriving at Haymarket Publishing on Management Today and Internet Business magazines, before taking up his current position.
Trevor is the author of three business books and has written, lectured and broadcast on a wide range of business and economic issues for media in Europe, North America and Australasia.
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Rebecca Thornley-Gibson, Head of Employment Law, asb Law
 Rebecca heads up the employment practice at leading southern law firm asb law. She has experience of many industry sectors, both private and public, and advises on a wide range of issues, with particular expertise in the employment aspects of restructuring, and in executive termination packages. She has been published in a variety of business publications and is a regular speaker for CIPD.
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Dr. Ian Wright, GlaxoSmithKline
Dr Wright qualified in medicine at the Middlesex Hospital, London, in 1976. Following a period in hospital based medicine, he became a partner in a general practice on the south coast of England in 1980.
Shortly after starting in general practice, he became medical officer to a local factory. This stimulated his interest in Occupational Medicine, and he developed an increasing 'sideline' providing a service to several local companies. In 1988 he made the decision to leave general practice and concentrate on occupational medicine, taking up the post of Corporate Medical Advisor to a Defence Electronics Company.
In 1993 he joined the Corporate Health Management function of SmithKline Beecham, taking up the role of Occupational Medical Director, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Worldwide. In 1995 he became Senior Occupational Medical Director, responsible for the delivery of Corporate Health Management services to all UK sites.
During the merger of SmithKline Beecham and Glaxo Wellcome in 2000 / 2001 Dr Wright was heavily involved in planning the integration of the two occupational health services of the heritage companies. Since the merger, Dr Wright has been appointed Director, Health Planning and Analysis, for the Employee Health Management function of GlaxoSmithKline. In this role he is responsible for the strategic planning of Employee Health Management services, and their integration with HR, Benefits, and Safety policies and services.
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