Sebastian Coe is the UK’s most prolific world record setter and arguably the greatest runner to compete for his country. As a former Olympic athlete, an MP, and chairman of London 2012, Seb has the experience and advice for future generations on pushing the boundaries of your career, building resilience in a team and leading the way to victory.

Lord Coe will talk you though:

- The challenges and achievements of his multi-faceted career and his advice to future generations

- Building resilience in teams, having observed and selected world class athletes

- Learning to trust and empower your team

- Managing continuity and legacy within an organisation using examples from the 2012 Olympics

- Leading from the front and the importance of maintaining a consistent vision in times of crisis

There will be time for Q&A at the end as we close the first day of the Engage Europe conference.

While we can’t celebrate our winners’ achievements in person, let’s come together virtually, where we will literally take to the ‘Floor’ virtual event platform, to acknowledge and applaud those shortlisted, finalists, and winners.

This platform is very interactive by way of joining a table for a drinks’ reception, socialising, and networking with likeminded professionals, ahead of the main event, also looking up individuals to chat.

John Young - famed TV news reporter, with more than 30 years’ experience at the BBC, will host the ceremony.

CIMA President Nick Jackson FCMA, CGMA, will be ‘present’ to give a welcome address to guests and nominees and, make virtual award presentations.

For each winner, our award category judges will be on hand to share what clinched it for each winner to receive the category award.

We can applaud the winners once they take to the stage, and send them emojis to show them support, as they deliver their thank you speech.

So, with drinks and nibbles at the ready, do join this prestigious event, to give the winners a most memorable evening.

We’re sure all nominees would appreciate and enjoy having family, friends, colleagues, clients, etc, along to their special evening.

Leading in challenging times can be daunting, exciting, frustrating, demoralising and liberating all at the same time. As founder of MOBO, Kanya King CBE knows how hard it is to lead from the front and the mindset needed to follow the relentless pursuit of your goals. Kanya will tell her personal story and talk about how the right attitude, passion, persistence and self-discipline will help you succeed and thrive.

• What are the common, manual processes/challenges that finance teams face?
• How can these processes be automated?
• How finance teams can spend their time better - what additional (new) value they can provide to their organization

Driving Business Growth Through Automation

Is your company positioned to maximise growth even as market volatility continues? Or are you spending too much time focused on short-term, day-to-day thinking? As executives push for weekly or even daily reports and forecasts, finance teams struggle to make sense of massive data volumes, often lacking the tools necessary to quickly access accurate data and extract insights.

The result? Your best people spend too much time on repetitive, manual processes rather than driving value. In this panel discussion, we’ll address these challenges head-on by providing examples on how you can eliminate repetitive, manual processes, improve forecasting and drive growth through automation. You’ll learn:

• What are the traits that separate higher-performing finance teams from the rest
• How automation can help you eliminate upstream bottlenecks in finance processes to support more frequent and more precise reporting, planning and forecasting
• How to leverage your financial and operational data to uncover insights to improve operations efficiency and identify new revenue opportunities.

By automating as many mundane, repetitive tasks as possible, you can make everyone on your team more efficient, so they complete tasks faster and more accurately, while strengthening financial controls and leaving them with more time to focus on higher value activities.

As a Leader it is important to learn how to work effectively with others. It is commonly recognised people like working with ‘people they like’ and like working with ‘people like us’. Having attended this seminar, you will understand:

• What makes an effective team and team player. 
• What are the strengths and weaknesses of your team by undertaking a Team Audit. 
• Identify preferred leadership style and when and how to adopt a range of leaderships styles (telling & directing; selling & coaching; motivating & supporting, delegating & observing) to get the best out of your team and leadership situations. 
• How to use the GROW coaching model to help improve individual performance. 

The workshops will be fun, interactive and will be practical with lots of opportunity on the day to reflect, discuss and contextualise how they will use this new learning back in the workplace

Have you ever wondered what the real differences are between coaching and mentoring? Have you been ‘sponsored’ in the workplace? 

During these uncertain times career support has never been more necessary. So, if you want to know how to access a coach or mentor, or implement a scheme to empower your team and help them find focus, here’s a great opportunity to learn more!

Sally will clearly differentiate between the three practices, enabling you to decide if you need support and how best to get it. She will guide you through the art of ‘informal coaching’, therefore giving you the tools to support others. She will also outline the attributes necessary to be a good mentor, and help you understand the career advancing benefits of sponsoring.

If you’re ready to seek and give constructive feedback, but also to actively listen, enabling your own growth and the growth of others, then this webinar is a perfect place to start.

This session will focus on helping organisations navigate the potential cyber security vulnerabilities and threats that face their business in the hyper-connected world we operate in today.

Owing to current circumstances more and more staff are having to work at home to keep business going but this can also present additional security risks to the organisation.

Key Features

Cyber threats to your business

Examining the current cyber-attacks (phishing and ransomware)

Secure use of VPN’s

Choose your web browser wisely

Using encryption and multi factor authentication

Mobile device management

According to the International Labor Organization, nearly 21 million people across the globe are victims of forced labor, a form of enslavement that encompasses labor, child, and sexual exploitation.  

Novel U.S. and international legal requirements, such as those found in the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act and Executive Order Strengthening Protections Against Trafficking in Persons in Federal Contracts, and the proposed federal Business Transparency in Trafficking and Slavery Act, the UK Modern Slavery Act, as well as coordinated consumer and advocacy group pressures, impose unique compliance and third-party due diligence obligations on the global business community.  

This session will not only cover those key regulations that today's compliant (and consumer-facing, ESG-focused) companies must follow, but will also provide real-world, practical tips on what companies can do to steer clear of enforcement, regulatory, consumer group, and advocacy organization pressures.