Friday 19 October 1:30pm – 6:00pm Norton Rose Fulbright LLP 3 More Riverside London SE1 2AQ Programme

13:30 – 14:00 Arrival and registration

14:05 – 14:10 Welcome from Norton Rose Fulbright, Unify and HouseProud

14:10 – 14:20 Key Note Speaker Stephen Burns Executive Director for Care and Communities Peabody

14:20 – 15:05 Break out session one, select from below:

1a) Developing your 1b) Recruitment and 1c) Surviving and 1d) Career career through how to stand out to thriving during a development Board membership potential employers merger? through coaching and mentoring Charlotte Paxton Dawn Matthews Elizabeth Froude Moreen Pascal Interim Change Senior Consultant HR Deputy CEO Mentoring Project Management & Recruitment Coordinator Morgan Sindall Campbell Tickell Housing Diversity Property Services Network Gera Patel John Mayford Partner CEO Campbell Tickell Olmec

15:05 – 15:25 Break

15:25 – 16:10 Break out session two, select from below:

2a) Developing your 2b) Recruitment and 2c) Surviving and 2d) Career career through how to stand out to thriving during a development Board membership potential employers merger? through coaching and mentoring

16:10 – 16:40 The power of networking Richard McKenna Inclusion and Diversity Director Inclusive Employers

16:40 – 16:55 Closing Speaker Paula Kahn Chair Metropolitan Board

16:55 – 17:00 Close from Unify and HouseProud

17:15 – 18:00 Refreshments and Networking with Pride and Origin (LGBT & BAME networks – Norton Rose Fulbright) Speakers

Stephen Burns Richard McKenna Executive Director for Care and Inclusion and Diversity Director Communities Inclusive Employers Peabody Richard is a founder of Inclusive Employers and has Stephen is responsible for Peabody’s Care and been the MD since the summer of 2012. Inclusive Support business and extensive community Employers is the UK’s first and leading membership investment programmes. Stephen is the Chair of organisation for employers looking to capture the Peabody’s Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion Group commercial advantage that comes from building and a trustee of three charities – Trust for London, truly inclusive workplace cultures. Resource for London and United St Saviours. Moreen Pascal Elizabeth Froude Mentoring Coordinator Deputy CEO Housing Diversity Network Notting Hill Genesis Moreen joined HDN as Mentoring Programmes Elizabeth is the organisational lead for the Integration Coordinator in 2018. She has responsibility for Programme at NHG. Prior to this role, she worked staff programs in the East of England and Midlands at Genesis Housing delivering the Genesis Way and supporting board excellence and mentoring transformation programme and had various positions projects in the London area. She previously culminating in her role as Deputy CEO. worked as training manager and organisational development consultant in the local government, Paula Kahn business support and charity sectors. Chair Gera Patel Metropolitan Board Partner Paula has been Chair of Metropolitan since 2013. Campbell Tickell Metropolitan is one of the UK’s leading providers of affordable housing and care and support services. Gera has worked in the social housing sector for She is currently Treasurer of the Association more than 25 years and joined Campbell Tickell’s of Charitable Foundations and the Stuart Hall employment as a Senior Consultant in 2008 and Foundation, and a Trustee of the Cripplegate is now a Partner. She leads the practices’ HR & Foundation. recruitment business and usefully combines her HR and recruitment work with her wider consultancy Dawn Matthews experience. Senior Consultant HR & Charlotte Paxton Recruitment Interim Change Project Campbell Tickell Management Dawn joined Campbell Tickell’s HR and recruitment Morgan Sindall Property Services team in December 2017. She is responsible for the oversight of in-house support on all permanent Charlotte is Chair of Hyelm and non-executive recruitments, as well as all HR and a member of Housing Diversity Network (HDN) and organisational development projects. She is an South Board Mentoring Steering Group. Charlotte accomplished practitioner with more than 16 years’ is also an HDN programme speaker and mentor. experience in all aspects of HR and OD. Charlotte’s career spans the private and voluntary sector with extensive experience in business change John Mayford and project management. CEO Olmec

John has been CEO at Olmec for 8 years and has over 25 years of experience in the third sector. His expertise includes business planning, project management, product development and fundraising. He possesses extensive experience and knowledge of the equality and advocacy sectors. Brought together by

HouseProud was established in 2014 for LGBTQ+ employees working in social housing UNIFY are a collection of BAME with members from over 50 groups working together across organisations. the housing sector to; share information, promote initiatives, HouseProud supports members host BAME network events, in their personal and career pooling resources to maximize development and raises awareness impact and increase BAME senior of LGBTQ+ issues across the management opportunities sector. It influences policy and through cross housing BAME decision makers, with leading mentoring and coaching. academic research with the aim to improve the experience of UNIFY currently includes LGBTQ+ customers. HouseProud four London based housing works in partnership across the associations: Clarion, Notting Hill housing and diversity arenas. Genesis, Peabody, and L&Q.

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Norton Rose Fulbright is a global law firm with more than 4000 lawyers and other legal staff based in more than 50 cities across the world. Recognised for industry focus, it is strong across all the key industry sectors: financial institutions; energy; infrastructure, mining and commodities; transport; technology and innovation; and life sciences and healthcare.