Andy Salmon CMG OBE

ANDY SALMON CMG OBE

Without the right culture it’s difficult to execute strategy.  So if you don’t have one, then you need a plan to build one.  Andy will share with you his experience of being part of a high performance culture based on the Royal Marines Commandos. He then discusses what happens when that culture hits reality and how it morphs into something better.  Finally, as a senior leader from that environment, what happens when you have to deliver in a complex and hard environment?   Reflecting and learning from conflict, Andy will provide insights into the critical elements of success for leaders and teams who want to create better futures

Andy Salmon works on high performance culture and senior leadership in challenging environments. He spent over 35 years in the Royal Marines and has just retired as a Major General. His commando service included several tours of Northern Ireland, the Falklands War (1982), Northern Iraq (1991), Angola (1992), Sierra Leone (twice in 2000), Baghdad (2003) and latterly as Commander Coalition Forces in Basra, South East Iraq (2008/9). He was Commander UK Amphibious Forces and Commandant General Royal Marines, before moving to NATO, where he was responsible for generating and preparing NATO forces for operations worldwide, including Libya. He built NATO’s new Comprehensive Crisis Operations Management Centre.

His Whitehall experience included procurement, policy advisor to the Chiefs of Staff for the Kosovo crisis (1999) and Director Balkans for the Macedonian crisis of 2001. He also worked with the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia and on responses post-9/11. He created the new front-line HQ for the Royal Navy in 2004-6 and was Commandant of the Commando Training Centre, introducing a comprehensive coaching system into the Royal Marines, 2006/7.

He was a special advisor to the Human Security Study Group set up by Javier Solana in 2004, and sits on the practitioners’ advisory board of The Journal of Global Policy. He is a member of Mary Kaldor’s advisory board for ‘The Security Gap’, is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, and teaches at the Human Security and Civil Society Research Unit. He is the President and Founder of the C Gp charity, which inspires business to support Royal Marines in need, a founder member of The Leaders Club and a Fellow at the RSA. He loves sport and music, writes and blogs occasionally, and speaks on a variety of subjects from contemporary stability to leadership, learning and high performance.

He is an alumnus of Warwick University, King’s College London, the Royal College of Defence Studies, and Higher Command and Staff Course.

Brendan McCarron

Brendan McCarron

Brendan McCarron is an experienced, internationally known, consultant and facilitator specialising in leadership, strategic performance metrics, process improvement and project management.

Through his company, McCarron Heal Limited, Brendan works with organisations in the private and public sector in the UK, USA, Europe, China, Asia and North Africa. He is a visiting faculty member of the Centre for Excellence in Finance in Ljubljana, Slovenia, an Honorary Senior Fellow by the University of Birmingham and an associate with Governance International specialists in co-production.

He has written a numerous high profile articles and books, including: Business Process Management in Legal and Professional Services, 2012 for Winmark Europe; “The Performance Pulse: Managing Performance to Achieve Strategic Outcomes” for the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), which is a digest of his work around balanced scorecards, strategy mapping and outcome measurement and which was published in April 2011.

Recent consultancy assignments include work for Aviva plc, on leadership in Operational Risk; Watson Marlow Bredel Pumps Inc, the world’s largest manufacturer of peristaltic pumps, on an international ERP programme including developing the risk, stakeholder management and benefits realisation programmes, and; Rolls Royce plc, where he designed and ran their Project Sponsor Training programme. In the public sector, he has worked with the London Fire Brigade, on developing their forward strategy; he designing and leads the Chief Financial Officer Leadership Academy for CIPFA, and; designed and delivered a multi-partner process improvement/lean implementation in transactional services on behalf of the East Midlands Centre of Excellence.

He is a senior member of the American Society of Quality (ASQ), a member of the Performance Management Association (PMA) and a past chairman of the British Quality Foundation Local Authority Sector Group a member of the Institution of Royal Engineers a licensed member of the Engineering Council. His non-work related appointments include serving as a school governor, chairman of a Police Authority Statutory Standards Committee and as a parish councillor.

Commonwealth Club, 25 Northumberland Avenue, London, WC2N 5AP

Founded in 1868 as an international meeting place for the exchange of ideas, this unique and historic venue continues its mission in a thoroughly modern way behind a deceivingly traditional façade. The Commonwealth Club is a private members’ club but also home to the Royal Commonwealth Society that celebrates diversity and promotes education and multiculturalism.

The Linked In Man

The Linked In Man

With over 26 years of sales experience, and more than seven years on LinkedIn , I am the leading provider of sales and commercial LinkedIn training and consultancy for business professionals trying to make more sales and make LinkedIn work for them.

Since I started using LinkedIn in corporate life as a Sales Director it enabled me to build new relationships, remind clients of breadth of value, and get engagements worth over £10 million in sales in my first six years alone.

Enjoying a successful career in a diverse array of industries has allowed me to understand how to make LinkedIn work: what matters and what doesn’t if you want to grow a flourishing business through relationships.

I now help companies of all sizes across the world from leading corporations such as IBM and Dell to small businesses.

I focus on the practical and tactical skills needed to succeed when using LinkedIn.

Christopher Barrat

Christopher Barrat

Christopher is an international speaker, author and consultant in communication and commercial skills. His knowledge is based on genuine experience in the real world where he has been a

>Sales Manager
>Business Manager
>Purchasing Director

This gives him enormous credibility in the work he delivers and a unique insight into ‘both sides of the table’ from a commercial perspective.

He has wide international experience, his business speaking and development engagements have taken him all over East and West Europe, The Far East, Latin America, USA, Australia and the Caribbean.

He has co-authored a book commissioned by the major US publisher John Wiley & Sons ‘Buying for Business’ and has a second book ‘Mosaic Management’ to be published shortly. Having graduated in Law as an LLB Hons he then worked in Australia for Rank Xerox, and returned to the UK for a wide ranging career with the Blue-chip company ICI. For the last 11 years he co-founded and is a director of the Greystone partnership.

The topic of ‘networking’ is a perfect blend of commercial and communication skills and he brings a practical, amusing and informative slant on how you can be effective in developing your own network.

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Dr James Alvarez

Eamonn Cheverton

Kevin Perrett

Nick Hewer

Peter Dunne

Richard St Clair Quentin

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