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As a business leader, what are you (and your business) doing to measure, manage and mitigate cyber risk? Ollie Whitehouse, the CTO at NCC Group posed this question to guests at our most recent breakfast seminar event.
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Our CFO lunch came at the end of a tumultuous week in politics last week so there was only one topic of discussion to be had….’Brexit’…this week is continuing to be another strange week in Parliament. Who knows what will transpire over the coming weeks?
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At our latest CEO lunch we asked our guests to share their thoughts on the following questions: “What is your organisation doing to ensure it becomes or remains an employer of choice in such a competitive market?” and “How challenging are you finding it to hire high calibre people in the current market?”
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We were very keen to table a discussion topic at our Chair / NED lunch in December that would keep us away from Brexit but was equally high priority for Boards’ consideration. #MeToo and banter vs bullying seemed sufficiently topical and the general anecdotal contributions on the day proved this to be the case.
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The accountancy profession is under fire as rarely seen before. At our recent CFO lunch, we asked our guests: “How has the role of the profession changed?” and “why is it no longer as attractive a career option as it used to be and how can it be improved?”
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Here in the UK, we are increasingly bombarded with negative messages and news from all media channels, highlighting we are living in uncertain times. Against this backdrop, at our recent CEO lunch we asked our guests “As business leaders, what are you doing to send positive messages to your staff and stakeholders to keep them motivated and inspired? And of the potential threats, what opportunities are there for business?”
Read More →With our most recent leaders lunch in Birmingham coming so close to the 10th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, which marked the start of the Global Financial Crisis, we decided to reflect across the decade and discuss how things had changed.
Read More →With so much coverage in the last 2 years around Brexit and the UK vs the rest of Europe we tabled the topic “Business in the North” at our most recent leaders lunch in Manchester.
Read More →Our most recent NED & Chair lunch generated some really good points of view regarding the role of the NED; the calibre of existing NEDs, questioning where the next generation of NEDs will come from and generally who’s going to ensure they are fit for purpose?
Read More →Over breakfast in May, we hosted our latest Cyber Risk event, led by our guest speaker, Tim Roberts – VP, IBM and global leader for their Security Strategy, Risk and Compliance practice. Cyber Risk is the topic of our time, and our discussion highlighted a number of insights.
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