Who’s who at the New Intermediaries Breakfast Party

09.00-11.30, 17th November 1999

 

Andy Harmon

Ask Andy about his experience of sending scores of PWC consultants ‘Into the Danger Zone’, what stage fighting has to do with selling and how an Actor’s Mind can help consultants to get real with their clients

Anita Harmon

Find out how Anita helps people to be spontaneous, creative and intelligent improvisers, why she thinks play is a good idea and her plans for life after PWC

Anne Radford

Find out about Anne's international work with Appreciative Inquiry, about her network and the jazz event she recently held at the Groucho Club.

Annika Ratcliffe

Find out about the merger Annika is living through at OSI Group, and about how she challenges the senior managers she is working with in the water board, the finance company, the merchant bank and in OSI itself!

Christine Dhawarkar

What sort of non-prescriptive training is Christine introducing in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and how is this contributing to…well…the culture change there? How many of the 189 countries where the FCO is represented has Christine worked in so far? Is Dhawarkar spelt right, and is this really a Welsh name?

Colston Sanger

Find out about Colston's work with Tomorrow's Company and the British Deming Association, and about his experiments with "Fast Dialogue".

David Billingham

What is it like to be caught in the middle of a huge change programme in Britannic Assurance? Is David tempted to go back into consultancy or is it more fun being a client?

David Carter

What is David's practical approach as a mentor with his clients….and what did the Daily Telegraph have to say about him recently? How does he want to develop his business? How is he balancing work with a demanding home life?

David Webster

What sort of coaching work is David now involved with at The Industrial Society's School of Coaching? Find out why David has moved into coaching from his previous client development role and where he wants to take this.

Deborah Tom

What are Deborah's ambitions for Human Systems? How does she bring psychology to business for example at Whitbread? What on earth has she been doing with the BBC? Will she turn up?

Denis Roberts

Find out about Denis's interest in consulting, therapy, about his learning set/network group and the online world he is creating in The Networking Firm and Internet Business Builders.

Eva Beazley

Find out about Eva’s experiences with the RSA Tomorrow’s Company Inquiry and her heroic struggles to get the Leadership Alliance off the ground. If you’re a woman ask her about the PWDC

Fiona Coffey

Why did Fiona really leave Price Waterhouse…and why did she move into change management? What has her work with Sainsburys and the Home Office this year taught her? What impression is psychosynthesis and the world of therapy making upon her? Does she always have flipcharts all round her lounge walls and a house full of people? Was she up all night preparing the food? Does she still think this party is a brilliant idea?

Garth Spiers

Ask him about his recent trip to Burma, about mediating with the UN in the worlds hot spots, about Chinese medicine and occupational health programmes.

George Binney

Find out about the forthright conversations George (who wrote best-selling management book Leaning into the Future), has had in his time with McKinsey, Ashridge, Tomorrow's Company and more recently through his independent strategy consulting.

Ian Holder

What is an ex Finance Director, ex dancer and psychosynthesis student doing building a house in an Egyptian Oasis? Find out about Ian’s plans to develop his ‘Relationshift’ workshops

James Souttar

What is the link between the art of conversation and graphic design? Ask James about his work as a designer and writer and express sympathy for a recent nasty attack of bronchitis. How is Fiona’s new stationery shaping up?

Janetta Hamilton-Brown

What is Janetta's role in running FutureStep, the online service at Korn Ferry for execs too busy doing their job to find their next job? Why might you and your clients be interested? Who is her ex-brother-in-law?

Jeremy Raymond

What does being Managing Director of the Piper School involve? How has Jeremy been helping to put the taste back into life at Sainsbury’s? And what are his plans for doing something similar in Central Government?

John Scott

Why does John have a reputation for exceptionally forthright facilitation? Who are Best People? What has he been doing at Birmingham Midshires and Axa, and who is he working with next?

Julian Burton

What is Julian doing with the Complexity Group at the London School of Economics? Why does he think it is important to bring a visual dimension to OD work and how does he do this in practice?

Matts Thorin

What is it like working with a husband and wife team? How do PWC new graduates cope with 'Interpersonal Sky Diving' with Matts? What are his plans for the future?

Maziar Raein

Ask Maziar about his roles as a design educator at Central Saint Martins, film-maker and artist? What might he enjoy about being part of this network?

Michael Bryant Mole

Ask Mole about his recent involvement in a huge change programme at British Aerospace, why he requested Ready Brek to be served at this party and his interest in ‘green’ consulting

Keith Jones

Why would a consultant psychotherapist working in the National Health Service now be working with KPMG, Roffey Park and British Airways, and co-hosting a New Intermediaries party?

Peter Critten

What is the uniquely innovative personal and organisational development programme that Peter helped to set up and ran for several years? Who goes on it and what are they learning?

Philip Gibson

What is Philip’s exciting new internet project which is ‘close to his heart and very exciting? Is he still planning to work in corporate communications? What does taking an indefinite sabbatical from Greenly’s mean?

Peter Edwards

What is Peter learning about the supply chain/e-commerce revolution through his research at Cranfield? How can he make this knowledge available to firms like Kingfisher threatened by the arrival of Wal-Mart?

Phil Mix

Since leaving Kinsley Lord several years ago, what is Phil up to now? Is he still working with Shell on change management? Is he still deeply interested in personal development?

Robert Bean

What are Robert’s views on brand management? How is he working to engage employees in thinking about brands? What are his plans for developing BANC?

Richard Kluczynski

Find out Richard's side of the story: what was it really like developing the New Intermediaries website? How long did it take? Why might it be a path worth going down? And find out about Richard's new role, after Visionary Solutions with Entity.

Sophie Grenville

Find out about Sophie’s exciting creativity workshops and her work on defining brand essence. How did she get Sainsbury’s managers to listen to their customers? And when is her husband’s next exhibition?

Tessa Bradon

What is Tessa learning from her work with M&S? What did she learn from a recent seminar at the Tavistock with Larry Hirschhorn? How does she use Myers-Briggs in her work? Will she get round to writing that book on coaching?

Theresa Barnett

Find out about the varied jobs Theresa has done in her career to date, about her current work in Lloyds TSB, how she rescued the Solihull management college and challenges the bank's senior management to be emotionally intelligent. What is the new direction she is taking later in the year?

Tim Simmons

Is it a culture shock for Tim to be back in the Foreign Office after a year’s secondment to PWC? Is he tempted to send the Foreign Office into the Danger Zone? Ask about his exciting plans to change the way in which FO people reach the top

Tony Page

Why is Tony doing another prison visit even though the Home Office job is over? How many hours has he spent on the website so far? What is the title of his next book? What made him think of New Intermediaries and does he think this party is a good idea after all?

Tony Williams

What is it like to be a business change manager in one of the biggest, most traditional Departments of State? What did he say when Michael Howard stepped into the lift at the Home Office?