18.30-19.30 

Drinks Reception , Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel
Presentation of the 2011 Philip Baxendale Awards supported by EOA

Delegates are invited to attend a FREE reception for the presentation to the winners of this year’s Philip Baxendale Awards – created by the Baxi Partnership and supported by EOA - to reward individuals and companies excelling in employee ownership.

08.30-09.15 

Registration for breakfast briefing

09.15-10.15 

Coffee and conference registration

09.15-10.05

BUSINESS BREAKFAST BRIEFING

How to be the best: lessons from Sunday Times Top 100 Companies
Learn from EOA members who won rankings in the prestigious annuals listing

Philippa Holland, Bluefin Solutions, Mike Thompson OBE, Childbase, Herman Kok, Lindum Group

10.15-10.25 

Conference Chair’s welcome to Plenary Session – Simon Fowler Chair, Employee Ownership Association

10.25-10.45 

PLENARY
Patrick Burns, Employee Ownership Association.
Celebrating 60 years as a Commonwealth - Richard Stillwell, chairman, Scott Bader

10.50-11.35 

SEMINARS and ROUNDTABLES (For more information on these sessions go to our Seminars and Roundtables page)

SEMINARS

Seminar 1: EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP CULTURE
How John Lewis achieves efficiencies and savings through co-ownership
Andrew Murphy, John Lewis

Seminar 2: COMPANY PERFORMANCE
Who’s with me? A masterclass in inspirational leadership in employee ownership
Chris Dunlop and Jacqui Mitchell, Baxi Partnership
Sponsored by Baxi Partnership

Seminar 3: MOVING TO EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP
How do employees become owners?
Robert Postlethwaite, Postlethwaite & Co
Sponsored by Postlethwaite & Co

Seminar 4: PUBLIC SERVICE MUTUALS
Real life stories: public sector spin outs
Dr Linda Harris, Spectrum Community Health, Lynne Woodcock, Anglian Community Enterprise

Seminar 5: CO-OWNERS’ VOICE
Informing and consulting in employee owned firms
Lesley Doran, W T Burden, John Eckersley, Castlefield Capital, Jim McManus and Stuart Todd, Clansman Dynamics

ROUNDTABLES

Roundtable 1: GENERAL INTEREST
Employee ownership – the story so far
Discussion leader: David Erdal, author of ‘Beyond the Corporation: humanity working’

Roundtable 2: SMALLER FIRMS
When the going gets tough: How employee owned SMEs faced recession
Discussion leader: Adrian Grant,The TAS Partnership

11.40-12.25 

SEMINARS and ROUNDTABLES (For more information on these sessions go to our Seminars and Roundtables page)

SEMINARS

Seminar 6: EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP CULTURE
Fair remuneration in a co–ownership culture
Professor Andrew Pendleton, York Management School
Sue Senior, School Trends

Seminar 7: COMPANY PERFORMANCE
Attracting & retaining key people
Chris Parr, Tullis Russell Group

Seminar 8: MOVING TO EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP
Will you still love me tomorrow? Collaborative routes to becoming employee owned
Peter Stocks, Jacqui Mitchell, John Alexander, Baxi Partnership
Simon Gallier, Baxi Partnership Healthcare
Sponsored by Baxi Partnership

Seminar 9: PUBLIC SERVICE MUTUALS
Choosing the best fit model for public sector mutuals - addressing the key legal and tax challenges
Graeme Nuttall and Neil Palmer, Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP
Sponsored by Field Fisher Waterhouse

Seminar 10: SMALLER FIRMS
Going for growth: How small businesses meet the challenges
Stuart Robertson, Woollard and Henry

ROUNDTABLES

Roundtable 3: CO-OWNERS’ VOICE
Achieving employee voice
Discussion leader: Ruth Yeoman, EOA

Roundtable 4: GENERAL INTEREST
Next steps for EOA
Discussion leader: Simon Fowler, EOA

12.25-13.25

LUNCH and an opportunity to network and visit the exhibition stands

13.25–14.10

SEMINARS and ROUNDTABLES

Choose from of 7 simultaneous strands;

• 2 general and
• 5 interest/network groups linked to areas of work – discuss key issues and solutions with your professional counterparts from other companies.

SEMINARS

Seminar 11: HR/PERSONNEL, TRAINING, PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT COMMUNITY
Raising the benefits of EO from higher staff engagement
Cathy McNulty, Arup

Seminar 12: EMPLOYEE OWNERS
Employees on the Board or Employee Councils – what works best?
Mike Kirby, Highland Home Carers, Elected Director and Jocelyn Mitchell, Trustee, Employee Benefit Trust, Highland Home Carers, Samantha Britt, mercury representative and Alison Goodrum, mercury representative and CASP director, Childbase.

Seminar 13: LEADERS
Building the best executive team
Mike De Luca, Chief Executive, Coverdale Organisation Ltd.
Sponsored by Coverdale Organisation Ltd.

Seminar 14: GENERAL INTEREST
Is EO a key to a better well-being for employees?
Professor Ron McQuaid, Employment Research Institute, Edinburgh Napier University Business School.
David Hall, Golder.

Seminar 15: GENERAL INTEREST
The next big thing in employee ownership
Will Davies reports on his research into current developments in employee ownership
Will Davies, University of Oxford

ROUNDTABLES

Roundtable 5: COMPANY SECRETARIES COMMUNITY
Encouraging and managing healthy share dealing
Discussion leader: Geoff Miller, Tullis Russell Group

Roundtable 6: FINANCE AND ADVISERS COMMUNITY
Communicating value: making information accessible to employee owners
Discussion leader: Kelwin Heighton, School Trends

14.10-14.30

TEA and networking

14.30-15.15

SEMINARS and ROUNDTABLES (For more information on these sessions go to our Seminars and Roundtables page)

SEMINARS

Seminar 16: EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP CULTURE
How Waitrose builds partnerships with suppliers
David Jones, Waitrose

Seminar 17: COMPANY PERFORMANCE
All together now: A masterclass in strengthening employee engagement to drive performance
Annette Rowe and Chris Dunlop, Baxi Partnership
Sponsored by Baxi Partnership

Seminar 18: MOVING TO EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP
Transition: What will it look like and how will we get there?
Colin Abrahams and Martin Benson, Baker Tilly
Sponsored by Baker Tilly

Seminar 19: PUBLIC SERVICE MUTUALS
Changing the culture from public to mutual
Andrew Burnell, City Health Care Partnership, Jo Pritchard MBE, Central Surrey Health

Seminar 20: CO-OWNERS’ VOICE
Reshaping the company’s values
Caroline Lewis, Scott Bader

ROUNDTABLES

Roundtable 7: GENERAL INTEREST
Why entrepreneurs sell or gift to staff - The Gripple Story
Discussion leader: Hugh Facey MBE, Gripple

Roundtable 8: SMALLER FIRMS
Daring to be creative: structuring business creatively
Discussion leader: Carol Costello, Edward Cullinan Architects

15.20-16.30

PLENARY – Chaired by Mike Thompson OBE, deputy chair of EOA
Keynote Speaker – Tristram Hunt MP
Keynote Speaker – Charlie Mayfield, John Lewis Partnership

Question Time Panel Session
Chair – Joe Lynam, BBC News
Panel

• Peter Stocks, Baxi Partnership
• Jo Pritchard MBE, Central Surrey Health
• Will Davies, Oxford University
• Tristram Hunt MP
• Charlie Mayfield, John Lewis Partnership

Presentation of an iPad to the winner of the Exhibition Treasure Hunt

EOA would like to extend their sincere thanks to John Lewis for kindly donating the iPad prize.

16.30

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