Speakers
Calvert Markham
Calvert Markham has been a management consultant since 1974 and now runs Consultancy Skills Training Ltd, a small company specialising in training consultants. He is a Past President of the Institute of Management Consultancy, Calvert is a Visiting Professor in the practice of Management Consultancy at Cass Business School and has been a member of the Christians in Consultancy group for the past 5 years. He is the author of several books including Practical Management Consultancy (3rd ed.1997), How to be your own Management Consultant (2000) and The Top Consultant (revised ed.2001),
Andrew Mayo
Andrew Mayo is a consultant, speaker, writer and facilitator in international human resources management. After nearly thirty years in major international organisations, he now runs - with partners - consultancy company, MLI Ltd (Mayo Learning International), and also has academic appointments. He is the author of five books, and President of the UK based HR Society. Married to Elisabeth for 40 years, he worships at Spicer Street Independent Chapel in St Albans and is a lay preacher to small chapels in the area.
Phil Taylor
Phil is a Programme Director / Manager with extensive commercial experience from a career of 19 years of corporate employment and 12 years of independent consultancy and interim management. He has led and delivered major programmes and project portfolios in Telecoms, Finance, Regional and Local Government, Media, Systems Integration, Healthcare NHS, Energy utilities and, with security clearance, Defence. He and his wife Karen also support charities and are involved in local community development programmes and other church initiatives.
Through Profound Solutions three principal project related services are provided:
- Executive - get a job done, a project delivered
· Consultative - explain how to manage and do things better, much better
· Remedial - restore errant projects or recover from crises of confidence.
Novel approaches and methods have been freshly developed and are unique - they are tool makers.
Prabhu Guptara
Professor Prabhu Guptara is Executive Director, Organisational Development, Wolfsberg (a subsidiary of UBS - one of the largest banks in the world). He is also Freeman of the City of London and of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, and Chartered Fellow of the of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development; he is also Fellow: of the Institute of Directors, of the Royal Commonwealth Society, and of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts Commerce and Manufactures; and he continues to supervise PhD research at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) as well as to be Visiting Professor at various Universities and Business Schools around the world.
Beverley Shepherd
As a training consultant Beverley is involved in varied and demanding work with a range of non-Christian organisations. Her courses include leadership, team building and stress management. The encouraging and equipping of Christians in the workplace is one of her passions. She is an associate speaker for LICC; part of the Women’s ministry team at CWR and a regular speaker at both New Wine and New Horizon. Beverley’s style is engaging and fun whilst her content is Biblical and challenging.
Her books include Insight into Stress and Seasons of the Spirit. Outside of work her time is enjoyably spent salsa & ballroom dancing, seeing friends and eating chocolate!
Richard Higginson
Richard has been on the staff of Ridley Hall Theological College since 1989. He combines the role of teaching Ethics and leadership to Anglican ordinands with directing the Ridley Hall Foundation, an ongoing project which relates Christian faith to the business world. He is co-editor of the quarterly journal Faith in Business, which is jointly published by the Ridley Hall Foundation with the Industrial Christian Fellowship. He is author of several books including Called to Account: Adding Value in the Business World (1993), Transforming Leadership: A Christian Approach to Management (1996) and Questions of Business Life: Exploring Workplace Issues from a Christian perspective (2002).
In 2004 Richard was ordained and he is now a non-stipendiary curate at St Philip’s and St Stephen’s Church, Cambridge.