CONSULTANCY AND BUSINESS SUPPORT - FACE THE FUTURE - GROWTH THROUGH THE CHALLENGES

Looks like an interesting one Jeni.  Here is some info on the speakers for those interested.

Mick James: Contributing Editor 'Top Consultant' magazine and Editor  'Recruitment Today’ and Conference Chair. 

Guto Bebb: MP for Aberconwy, former Management Consultant and Institute of Consulting member, Guto is ideally placed to answer the day’s opening question: “What is the economic and political context for consultancy services in the UK and what are the challenges and opportunities ahead?”

Dr Joe O’Mahoney: Lecturer in Management Consultancy at Cardiff University.  Currently a Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management investigating management innovation in the consulting profession.  Joe will update us on how innovation is changing and offering new challenges for the future of the profession.  Joe has recently published a book with Oxford University Press based upon his research and interest in the profession.  Joe will also be leading an after-lunch workshop featuring successful projects funded by LMW 

Calvert Markham writer and acknowledged expert on the consultancy profession, Calvert will provide practitioners – large and small - with strategies to transform and sustain their business in times of change, challenge and business opportunity.  President of the IoC in 2004, Calvert is also a fellow of Chartered Institute of Personnel Development, a Visiting Professor in the Practice of Management Consultancy at Cass Business School in City University, Vice Chairman of the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes and President of the Richmond Group