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Geraldine Lavin, Institute President
Geraldine is a founding director of 3rdi Ltd, providing IT and business development solutions to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and not-for-profit organisations. A business development consultant with over 13 years experience, she provides business development, strategy and personal development resources to a wide range of businesses.
Geraldine is a guest lecturer at a number of third level institutions including DCU, UCD, DIT and NUIM. She is also engaged in a number of research projects in the areas of enterprise development, competency based management and consultancy practice. Geraldine holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Masters in Business Studies from UCD, as well as a postgraduate Certificate in Training and Continuing Education from NUI, Maynooth.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Sue Stockdale, Businesswoman, Author and Explorer
Sue is a combination of business woman, author and record breaking explorer. She held a senior role in corporate training and development in British Gas and worked for a period with the United Nations in the former Yugoslavia. In 1997, she founded Mission Possible - her company which is now focusing on inspiring women to achieve their goals.
Sue has an MSc. in Quality Management and Improvement, an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Business Venturing and is author of Kickstart your Motivation and Secrets of Successful Women Entrepreneurs.
In addition, Sue is an accomplished athlete, representing Scotland in 3000m and cross country events. Sue was runner-up in Channel 4's Superhuman where she undertook some of the toughest tests ever seen on TV including escaping from a crashed helicopter submerged under water, and appeared on BBC1's Test the Nation as part of the winning Explorers team.
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Alan McGilton, Group Head of Business Development, OSG
Alan is now Group Head of Business Development for OSG (Outsource Services Group), Dublin.
He also co-founded Integrated Governance, Risk and Compliance Limited in 2007 with the view of creating a network of GRC professionals following a series of regulatory compliance seminars when working as the principal of McGilton & Associates.
He has extensive experience over 24 years, up to senior corporate level, of working in all areas of the insurance market in Ireland and UK. He spent 16 of those years with Aviva’s Hibernian Insurance and now provides profitable industry solutions especially in product management, compliance and business development.
Alan holds a Masters of Business Administration Degree from Henley Management College, Oxfordshire, England and is a member of the MBA Association of Ireland. Other memberships of Professional Bodies include The Insurance Institute of Ireland and Associate Membership of IMCA (Institute of Management Consultants & Advisers)
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Kathy O’Reilly, Lecturer and Programme Director, UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School.
Kathy currently teaches a number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses at UCD, including International Business and Diagnostic Techniques in Management Consulting. She is the Academic Coordinator of UCD’s popular MBS in Management Consulting, and a Programme Director in Executive Education. Recently, Kathy launched the Garda Executive Leadership Programme, providing leadership training to senior officers within An Garda Síochána.Prior to joining UCD, Kathy worked for GE Capital, as the Training & Education Manager for GE Insurance Services, and later as a Consultant in the Government and Public Sector practice of PA Consulting. Kathy holds a BA from the National University of Ireland, and an MBS in International Business from UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School. She is also a member of a number of professional bodies, including the Irish Institute of Training and Development (IITD), the Institute of Management Consultants and Advisors (IMCA) and the Institute of Business Analysis and Consultancy (IBAC).
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Mr. Michael Cullen, CEO, Beacon Medical Group
Michael is Chief Executive and co-founder of Beacon Medical Group (BMG), which was founded in 2002. BMG developed Beacon Medical Campus in Sandyford, Dublin, which includes Beacon Hospital as well as Beacon Consultants Clinic, Beacon Renal, Beacon Dermatology and Beacon Consultants Concourse.
Beacon Medical Group has won three HSE issued tenders for the development and operation of three co-located private hospitals on the site of public hospitals in Beaumont, Cork and Limerick and is shortlisted to develop a similar facility on the site of AMNCH in Tallaght.
BMG has also recently submitted a planning application for Women’s and Children’s Hospital adjacent to Beacon Hospital.
Michael is a commerce graduate of University College, Dublin. He is a finalist for the 2008 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
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Adrian Beggan MBA, MSc, MA, BSc, ADip Director, Sales and Market Intelligence, Google
Adrian presently works as a Director for Google, based in Dublin, where he is charged with implementing a common sales and marketing targeting platform for the EMEA region. Directly prior to this, he was director of business intelligence with Dell for the EMEA region, his 7 year career at Dell culminated in establishing EMEA as the global template for the marketing database and business intelligence function.
During his 14 year career, Adrian has plotted a course to maximise his potential to work for organisations who seek to maximise the integration of Sales and Marketing targeting through the use of data and to ultimately be at the forefront of an organisations strategy and its implementation in this field. He has actively sought and served out time in the IT, Sales, Marketing and Finance functions. He believes this has been critical to ensuring maximum impact / value can be generated and leveraged from the business analysis functions he has lead over the last 7 years. It is an ethos he believes all those within the business analyst profession should embrace at some level, not only to move beyond the traditional business analyst type role, but to keep apace with the new paradigm evolving around the business analyst function, which he sees as only gathering momentum within the current economic climate.
His early career included pivotal periods with Allied Irish Bank and Guinness Ireland in business / marketing analyst roles, where his organisational leadership was actively engaged in establishing integrated execution of sales & marketing actions through data.
A graduate of TCD, UCD and DIT he is presently engaged in postgraduate studies at Harvard. He is a strong advocate of ongoing education for both personal and professional development and believes that "in order to have a career driven by design and not by chance all leaders must actively engage in developing and promoting a culture within their teams and organisations to have dynamic education paths for those working in the business analyst field".
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CHAIRPERSON and WORKSHOP FACILITATORS below
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CHAIRPERSON: Jim Aughney, Business Journalist
Jim is a business journalist with over 30 years experience primarily on the Business Pages of the Irish Independent.He is a regular personal finance contributor to RTE Radio 1's ''Drivetime with Mary Wilson'' programme and is also a contributor to Business Plus, Sunday Independent and The Markets. Jim also works as a media consultant to a leading fund manager in Ireland.A native of Co Carlow, Jim has a Bachelor of Commerce from UCD and trained as a Chartered Accountant before entering the journalism profession.
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FACILITATOR Workshop 1: Liz Barron , Director, Best Outcomes
Liz originally hails from Wexford, Ireland and has now (almost but not quite) gone native in Dublin. She has worked in the area of business and IT change projects for almost twenty years, though she doesn’t usually admit to it. Over that period, Liz has held a wide variety of roles including business analyst, software developer, trainer, project manager and consultant – not generally all at the same time! She has worked with leading organisations in the public and private sector to improve their approach to managing change and has delivered training in these areas. Liz is a certified PRINCE2 Project Management Practitioner and seasoned workshop facilitator.
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FACILITATOR Workshop 2: Jeremy Heaven, Senior Manager, Distinct Business Consulting
Jeremy Heaven is a Senior Manager with Distinct specialising in Customer Experience and Process Improvement. He is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt, with a passion for advanced creativity and lateral thinking techniques.
Jeremy has over 8 years experience in Customer Research, insight and the development and delivery of iniatives and prior to joining the Company, he held senior positions in Telecommunications with a focus on delighting the Customer and generating true Customer Loyalty.
Within Distinct Jeremy's focus is to advance clients’ performance via the definition, design and implementation of a sustainable Customer Experience Programme
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FACILITATOR Workshop 3: Ann Greene, Director, Allagi Consulting
Ann is an independent consultant with over ten years’ experience in Human Resources, specialising in Organisation Development. Ann has worked in the hospitality, pharmaceutical and financial services sectors and she now specialises in facilitating business transformation through people, processes and structures.
Ann’s expertise is in team development and she founded Allagi Consulting in 2005 to coach teams in maximising their effectiveness and delivering their business goals. She designs and runs offsite events for senior management and leadership teams that want to challenge themselves to achieve their maximum potential. She is licensed in the use of a range of psychometric instruments, which she uses in both individual and team coaching and facilitation. She has a Master’s degree in Human Resource Management and is a Chartered Member of the CIPD.
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