19 January 2012   |   Kinnarps, Central London

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Speakers and discussion leaders at this training seminar include:

Lottie Crumbleholme, Research Associate
RCA Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design

Lottie graduated from Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College in 2005 with a degree in Graphic Design and Advertising. She went on to work in corporate communications for two years before studying Communication Art and Design at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 2009. Since then she has been working as a freelance graphic designer and a university lecturer.

Julian Feasby, Head of Sustainability
Environment Agency

Julian joined the Environment Agency five years ago and is responsible for leading the reduction of the organisation's environmental footprints, as well as ensuring compliance with environmental legislation. The Agency's management system is accredited to both ISO 14001 and EMAS.
As a large employer with over 12,000 staff spread all around England and Wales, there are numerous ways in which the Environment Agency impacts on the environment. Given the nature of the business, you might think that getting the right behaviours for greening the workplace should be easy? People are people wherever you go and well informed people are sometimes the hardest to change. The Agency recently won a Sunday Times Green Business Award for employee engagement as well as numerous fleet and mileage reduction awards - so things are heading in the right direction.
After 10 years in the water industry in operational management roles and then as Customer Services Director in the USA, Julian then became Head of Customer Services at Arval PHH, the car fleet services provider. He is no 'obsessive greenie' but approaches environmental improvements in the same way he approaches improvements in any other business.

Martin Greaves
City University London
and Winner, British Psychological Society's Occupational Psychology Best Research Project Award 2010

Martin Greaves works at a large public sector organisation where he is responsible for improving usability, reliability and availability of technology used throughout the organisation. He also leads a working group charged with reducing the environmental impact of all technology used across the organisation. Martin has a keen in interest in how behaviour change can improve an organisation's environmental performance, triggered by original research conducted as part of a masters in organisational psychology into how organisations can improve their environmental performance though employee behaviour change. This research enabled the participating organisation to identify and implement a range of interventions to improve environmental behaviour among its workforce.

Catherine Greene, Research Associate
RCA Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design

A graduate from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Catherine moved to London to work for BT initiative, iOGlobal. Following this Catherine completed an MA in Product Design from the Royal College of Art in 2007. Since then she has worked at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design on a variety of academic and commercially partnered projects including projects on the aging workforce, knowledge work and technology.

Mindy Hadi, Lead, Sustainable Business Team
BRE

Mindy Hadi is an Occupational Psychologist who has worked for BRE since 1999. Her work within BRE's Sustainable Futures team focuses on the social aspects of sustainability, underpinned by her background in organisational development and behavioural science. Particular areas of interest are the links between the working environment and occupant satisfaction and productivity, engaging building occupants in pro-environmental behaviour and the business benefits of corporate social responsibility. She has published a number of articles and reports including The Business Benefits of Low Carbon Buildings for the Carbon Trust and The Move to Low Carbon Design: Are designers taking the needs of building users into account? for the BRE Trust.

Read a short interview with Mindy.

Ben Kellard, Principal Sustainability Advisor
Forum for the Future

Ben advises partners on the organisational change and leadership development aspects of sustainable development. While helping senior managers to agree strategic priorities and then working out how to implement them, he helps leaders to find the confidence and capability to lead on sustainability. Ben also provides leadership and change advice across Forum's public and private sector partnerships. He has worked with the executive teams from the construction, media, FMCG and telecommunications industries.
Before joining the Forum, Ben worked as a consultant for an international business school, where he assisted a number of European blue chip organisations in strategy, leadership and change. More recently, Ben worked as a consultant for a large UK bank, where he collaborated with senior managers and directors to identify and deliver organisational development projects during a time of unprecedented change. He also ran their innovative in-house master's degree, based on live strategic issues. Ben is a chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, has an MSc in philosophy from the University of Edinburgh and a BA in politics, philosophy and economics.

Kathryn Kneller, Senior Communications Manager
Nokia

Kathryn has led global communications efforts for Workplace Resources at Nokia for the past three years, developing communications strategies and materials for projects as diverse as workplace sustainability, office relocations, employee engagement and culture change. Before joining Nokia, Kathryn held marketing and project management roles at Cadbury in the UK and CarlsonWagonlit Travel in Paris. A graduate of Cambridge University and Nihon University in Tokyo, Kathryn is passionate about industry's responsibility to make a positive difference to the world, and believes that the only sustainable change is one which unites senior leadership and employees in pursuit of a shared vision.

Max Luff, Sustainability Manager
Swiss Post Solutions Ltd

Max Luff is Sustainability Manager at Swiss Post Solutions Ltd, a leading provider of document and information management solutions operating throughout the UK and Ireland. With a background in market research, Max has brought a strong project and communication focus to the topic of Sustainability. Since joining SPS Max has overseen the launch of a number of key initiatives, including the flagship 'Focus 5' programme, which applies a coordinated Sustainability focus across an extremely diverse organisational terrain.
Max has also been closely involved in establishing performance monitoring systems, target setting and the on-going development of SPS' ISO14001 certified Environmental Management System. Employee engagement has been a key theme in Max's work, helping to promote sustainable working practices, developing local champions and supporting the implementation of employee led schemes.
Max was a contributor to the launch of the British Institute of Facilities Management's 'Sustainability in FM' initiative and is keen to pursue a deeper understanding of the evolving relationship between how we access and interact with information and the physical environments in which we work.

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