Workforce Management
Speakers
Lord McKenzie of Luton Lord Bill McKenzie was appointed as the Department for Work and Pensions Lords Minister on 8 January 2007. He became a life peer in July 2004, and in May 2005 became a Government Spokesperson in the House of Lords for the Treasury and a Whip for the Department of Trade and Industry. He was an adviser to Labour’s Shadow Treasury team for a number of years, and was a member of the original Fabian Society Taxation Review Committee. Lord McKenzie was an elected member of Luton Borough Council from 1976 to 1992 and from 1999 to 2005. He was Leader of the Council until May 2003 and contested Luton South for Labour in the 1987 and 1992 General Elections. He covered a number of roles during his Council service, particularly relating to local governance finance. He was also Chairman of London Luton Airport. Born in 1946, Lord McKenzie’s accountancy career began in 1968 when he joined Martin Rata and Partners as an articled clerk. He moved to Price Waterhouse in 1973, where he became a partner. He worked for them in many locations, including London, Hong Kong and Vietnam up to 1998. |
Dame Carol Black Professor Dame Carol Black is the National Director for Health and Work, Chairman of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and Chairman of the Nuffield Trust, and maintains a deep interest in both the clinical and research aspects of connective tissue diseases. Spearheaded by Carol Black as National Director, Health, Work and Wellbeing is a joint initiative across government to improve the health and well-being of working age people. |
Lord Archy Kirkwood, Member of the House of Lords and Archy Kirkwood was MP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire for 22 years, standing down He served on the House of Commons Audit Committee and on the House of Commons Commission and was knighted in 2003 for services to Parliament. Archy was made a life peer in 2005. He is currently head of external relations at the office of the Liberal Democrat Leader. |
Jonathan Russell Jonathan joined DWP in April 2007 as Director of Health, Safety and Wellbeing. Jonathan has responsibility for developing and maintaining policies and procedures that promote a safe, healthy and supporting environment for all DWP people. Jonathan is highly experienced in Health and Safety work. He previously worked in HSE from 1988 as an inspector and after various postings, covering a wide range of sectors he moved into policy work. His first post was in health policy where he was responsible for the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations. Other policy posts have included work on: Transport of Dangerous Goods (negotiated international agreements at the United Nations), Agriculture, Welfare, Leisure including fair grounds and swimming pools, International work negotiating EC Directives, transposing into UK Law. In HSE he had policy responsibility for, amongst other topics: the Health and Safety Commission's Enforcement Policy Statement; the Work Related Deaths Protocol; HSE's input on Corporate Manslaughter proposals, alternative penalties, and was the Programme Manager for the Business Involvement Programme. He is a member of the Association of Chief Police Officers Homicide Working Group, and he is a Corporate Member of IOSH. |
Peter Brown Peter is currently the Head of the Health and Safety Executive's Health and Work Division which aims to reduce occupational ill health within the UK economy. He has been a civil servant since 1987, holding a wide variety of posts in the Department of Employment and HSE, including work related to health and safety within the construction, public administration and railway sectors, as well as working as a member of HSE's team during Lord Cullen's Inquiry into the rail accident at Ladbroke Grove. Between 2003 and 2005 he represented the UK at the Luxembourg Advisory Committee on Health and on the Board of the Bilbao Health and Safety Agency. |
Dr Olivia Carlton FRCP, FFOM Dr Olivia Carlton is an Occupational Physician. She has worked for Transport for London (formerly London Transport) for twenty years. She advises Transport for London (TfL) and in particular London Underground’s Board on occupational health policy and strategy. Olivia heads up TfL’s multidisciplinary occupational health team which includes medical and nursing advisers, a counselling and trauma service, a drug and alcohol assessment and treatment service and a physiotherapy service. Integrating the physical, mental and social aspects of good occupational health management has been a focus for this team for some considerable time. She held the position of Registrar of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine from May 2003 to May 2007. |
Penny Tamkin Penny is Programme Director of Management and Leadership Research and joined The Work Foundation in 2007. Penny has more than 20 years experience in HR issues and before joining The Work Foundation undertook a wide range of research assignments for policy makers, employer bodies and individual employers. Penny has considerable experience of researching management and leadership issues including the importance of management capability and its measurement, the impact of skills and development on individuals and organisations and wider human capital investment and its link to business performance. Penny is currently managing a large scale, three year project exploring the characteristics that associate leadership with high performance. |
Sarah Messenger Sarah Messenger has lead responsibility for national negotiations within the Local Government Employers (LGE) and has a number of corporate responsibilities as a member of the senior management team within the LGE. Her key responsibilities include: Developing the strategic direction and priorities of the LGE to meet the employment challenges and objectives of the employers we represent including Local Authorities, Fire Authorities, Police Authorities and Education Authorities; Representing Local Government at the Public Services Forum with ministers and trade union leaders and providing advice and guidance to employers on a number of different employee relations issues. Her previous experience includes working for the National Trade Union official with UNIFI and as a Regional Official with The National Union of Teachers and as an associate consultant with the TUC Partnership Institute, responsible for working with managers and trade union representatives to build partnership working. |
Rod Weston Rodney Weston is Head of Occupational Health and Safety at De Montfort University, Leicester. Before joining the university health and safety department his background was in training and microbiology. He has just completed the second survey of university staff using the HSE Tool and is working to relate the results to symptoms reported by staff as part of health surveillance. |
Fiona Narburgh Fiona’s the enthusiastic improvement driver on the management team. Wychavon was last years Council of the Year and, according to the Times survey, the second best council to work for and top for leadership. Fiona is a champion for clear communication, wins CIFPA awards for telling people how their council tax is spent and believes all councils can do so much more to “tell it and sell it” well. She’s one of the authors of the LGA’s Reputation pack, designed the LGAs 2007/08 Annual Report to Shareholders and is working with the IDEA on a project to share innovations in staff engagement between the private and public sectors. Life before Wychavon saw Fiona getting her hands dirty – literally. Her first job was planting trees with young offenders for Worcestershire County Council. She climbs mountains for fun, has run 4 half marathons (and one day will do the full thing!), enjoys London clubbing and lives the good life. |
Julian Topping Julian worked in the “real” world running child care facilities and adventure playgrounds for over twenty years before becoming a civil servant in his late thirties. He then worked in a local benefits office for the Benefits Agency before moving into the Department of Health headquarters in London. He moved to Leeds on promotion twelve years ago with the Department and remained with them until he transferred to NHS Employers in 2004. He is now Head of Workplace Health and Regulation covering a wide remit of occupational health, health and safety, mental health, health work and well being, regulation and a range of other employment issues that impact on NHS staff. |