Our Key Speakers:

Dr. Bramwell Osula is Assistant Professor of Leadership and Professional-in-Residence at the School of Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship, Regent University (USA).
In the late seventies Dr. Osula served as an adviser for the Canadian University Services Overseas. A former performance consultant in Chicago and Director of Business Development for an IT firm in New Jersey Bramwell has spent many years championing strategic initiatives in leadership, the environment, education, human resource development, health, and communication.
Dr. Osula earned numerous leadership awards and is listed in Who’s Who Among Americas Teachers. He has taught at institutions, including the City University of New York, College of Saint Elizabeth, Oakwood College, and Regent University and led workshops and seminars in Indonesia, Peru, Canada, Bermuda, the UK, Bolivia, St. Lucia, Canada and the United States.
He is a much sought after performance and leadership consultant and is actively engaged with a variety of private sector, institutional, and government clients.

Zoe Hoppe – Entrepreneur & Professional Coach
Zoe’s professional career spans over 35 years as a social worker, counsellor, business entrepreneur and senior executive in the voluntary, public and corporate sectors. While her work with the Scottish Prison Service, Forestry Commission and Scottish Hydro Electric gained her an exceptional reputation as an acute coach and trainer, Zoe has also developed two separate local community charities into multi-million pound organisations. Zoe is creative, colourful and caring, measuring her achievement by the extent to which her clients achieve success, by their own definition, whether personal or organisational.
Zoe is a member of the International Coach Federation and Association for Coaching (AC) and holds CPCP, CWC and ACT accreditation

Anna Bastek - Entrepreneur & Swansea Bay Business Woman of the Year 2009
Anna is the co-founder of Wolfestone Translation Ltd, a rapidly growing and multi award winning international translation company.

Anna has wide ranging management and strategic experience and impressive track record building start-up companies and accelerating revenue. Anna’s career so far has included being a Marketing Manager for an Electronics Design Company, has also set up several companies whilst Wolfestone has turned out to be hugely successful. She has been awarded the title of "Swansea Bay Business Woman of the Year 2009" and the overall title of “Swansea Bay Woman of the Year 2009”

Wolfestone has invested heavily in technology which will help the company expand internationally as well as grow its core team in Swansea. As well as its rapidly growing team in its Welsh HQ, Wolfestone has additional staff working from its US and German offices plus a network of 6,000 translators across the globe. Within the next year Anna sees expansion into the Middle East, South East Asia and Russia as the next steps.   

Anna holds a Master's Degree in Marketing, an Engineering Degree in Production Systems Management, ILM Certificate in Management and the CIM e-Marketing Award. Anna is very keen on constantly developing her business skills by reading business books and training. Anna’s ambition is to write a book and share her experience in business and encourage people to follow their dreams, as well as become a venture capitalist and help people commercialise their ideas.

Joy Ogeh-Hutfield – Motivational Speaker & Professional Coach

Joy is Director of Training & Development with ‘Lamajo Education and Training Consultants’and a Professional Coach accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) with extensive experience in the area of personal motivation, confidence and assertiveness and relationship building. Core elements of the business include Organisational Consultation, Design and Delivery of Equality and Diversity Training programmes; and the Provision of in-house Training Workshops and Seminars (including Harassment and Bullying, Teambuilding, Leadership, Confidence Building, and Management Skills).

Having graduated with a degree in Theatre Studies/Drama and Psychology Joy extended her skill base with a P.G.C.E. (F.E), and lectured at West Thames College in ears. Her career developed through practical experience gained with leading training consultancies delivering a variety of training projects.

Joy has worked with some of the leading organisations in the UK, including BBC Wales, Welsh Development Agency, Various Regional Police Forces, South Wales Magistrates Courts Committee, and The National Assembly for Wales, The Probation Service, The Prison Service, and Barnardos.

Joy has previously worked on the ‘High Potential Development Scheme, and ‘Strategic Command Course’ as a Programme Co-ordinator and Course Tutor, at The National Police Leadership Centre (Centrex).

Joy has been active in the area of Equality and Diversity and Management Skills training for 15 years, designing and implementing projects for a large number of organisations in both Wales and England. Joys key specialist area is in the field of Race Equality, Disability and BME consultation. Joy has also featured regularly on BBC TV, HTV and Radio Wales in a diverse range of programmes including News, Dance, Performance and Arts reviews.

She is an inspirational motivational speaker with ‘maximum impact’ and has been invited as guest speaker at many major conferences and events including the British Association for Women in Policing (BAWP), Chwarae Teg Networking Event, Nottinghamshire Women Police Conference, South Wales Female Police Conference, The Chinese Mental Health Conference and the Association of Translation Companies’ annual conference .

Joy has also hosted the ‘Wales National Diversity Awards’, the ‘One World Day’ and The Chinese International New Year Celebrations’.
As a gifted speaker with an infectious personality, Joy has also featured regularly on BBC TV, HTV and Radio Wales in a diverse range of programmes including BBC Wales ‘X- Ray’ and ‘The One Show’.

WORKSHOPS

" Personal Development- The Successful You" Success is whatever you want it to be, it is yours to define. Everything you need, to be whoever you want to be, lies waiting and within you. You can achieve success because you are alive, right here, right now - Alive in the rich tapestry of life.

Zoe Hoppe

DIVERSITY - THE BUSINESS CASE VERSUS THE MORAL DUTY

In our 21st century multicultural Britain, businesses that do not maximise the wealth and assets that diversity brings will be left behind. The world’s increasing globalisation requires more interaction amongst people from diverse cultures, beliefs and background than ever before.

Since managing diversity and leading a change agenda remains a significant organisational challenge, leaders must learn and harness the skills needed in a multicultural environment.

As individuals we are conditioned to see the world through our own narrow vision. This can sometimes exclude others and could be detrimental to the actions we take or the decisions made on behalf of others. When we value and respect difference, our narrow vision is exchanged for a much broader view and appreciation of diversity and the richness it brings.

The power of change will increase work performance and customer service. It will empower individuals and organisation in an era where creativity and flexibility are keys to unlocking potential.

with Joy Ogeh-Hutfield and Alistair Lawson

THE ROLE OF THE ENTREPRENEUR IN THE COMMUNITY - ENTREPRENEURS IN TOMORROW’S WORLD

Workshop Statement In the last ten years, the winds of change have literally swept across our communities. They have reshaped the once familiar landscape of the economy and have forced communities to rethink their priorities. These changes have occurred at a speed that has left many individuals and organizations behind. This workshop focuses on the urgent need for increasing entrepreneurial capacities in your community. What do entrepreneurs do? What difference can they make to the vision of the future? The workshop looks at the building blocks of entrepreneurial leadership, and reconnects the community to the marketplace. The workshop explores the need for developing community entrepreneurs who are flexible and agile in adapting to change. Do you have a capacity for risk taking, for imagination, and a tolerance for unfamiliar and uncertain territory? Be an entrepreneur for your community’s sake!

Dr. Bramwell Osula

TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP - LEADERSHIP IN TIMES OF CHANGE

When was the last time you felt in charge or in control of anything? In a fast-paced and increasingly uncertain world what will it take to not only survive but thrive? Transformational Leadership starts with the development of a vision, a view of the future that will excite followers. This workshop on transformational leadership explores opportunities for developing your leadership potential. Through understanding the leader within, developing unique emotional and technical skills, and empowering others we ignite transformational capacities and become more effective leaders in a global tomorrow. Accepting that nothing remains the same for very long this workshop focuses on the critical ingredients of a dynamic, fast-paced leadership that allows you to reclaim the center of your life not just today, but for the future.

Dr. Bramwell Osula

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The Power of Change forces us to confront the hard questions and come up with practical solutions. How do we increase work performance and customer service? How do we empower individuals and organisation in an age where creativity and flexibility appear to be in short supply?

The Power of Change conference promises to be an awesome day with great minds and thinkers, problem solvers coming together to lay a solid foundation and set a positive course of change in the 21st century.

Keynote speakers & Interactive workshops exploring :

• Leadership
• Personal Development
• Economic development
• Entrepreneurship
• Diversity

How do we increase work performance and customer service?

 

How do we empower individuals and organisations in an age where creativity and flexibility appear to be in short supply?

When you look at me, what do you see?

This is the unspoken question asked by many. And the answer received is not always favourable. As far as life goes, few questions could be more important than: Who Am I? or What am I? These are the basic questions of our life that make us pause and take another hard look at ourselves. It doesn’t really matter what our background might be. The same nagging questions unite us, whether we are in business, are community workers, budding entrepreneurs, or are generally involved in leadership.

How we answer these basic questions will vary from person to person. The key in any response though is to see the self as valuable. When I look at me, what I see should be something that I value. If contemplation of Self leaves me fearful, uncertain, or simply unfulfilled, then something is clearly wrong. We dare not admit it, but for most people, these are precisely the sorts of reactions we get when we start thinking about who we are. We basically don’t see a lot of value in the person reflected in the mirror. This is where taking leadership of our lives becomes so vitally important.

True leadership pushes us in the direction of an inside-out approach to sorting through the puzzle of our lives. By learning to respect and value ourselves as beings, we begin to cultivate strengths and skills that will contribute to our own slow transformation. And the transformation we release in ourselves, we are able to communicate to others. Respecting and valuing ourselves, increases the possibility of our respecting and valuing others. Over time we begin to build up networks of trust and respect that rely on groups of transformed individuals coming together in energized relationships. All of a sudden When I look at me, I smile. Something hopeful has happened. I have taken leadership control of my life. What occurs for me; I openly share with you.

Leadership is about representation, representation of self and others. As individuals we are conditioned to see the world through our own narrow vision. This often masks the significance of others and can be detrimental to the actions we take or the decisions we make on behalf of others. Learning to represent others accurately and fairly deepens our understanding of life and our role in it. By valuing and respecting the tremendous differences that are a natural part of the cultural landscape, we exchange our narrow vision of the world for a much broader one. For the first time perhaps we come to appreciate the real meaning of diversity and celebrate the richness it brings to life.

In all this, we embrace the importance of looking beyond self. Transformational leaders are always other-directed. Their fulfilment is found in enabling others to be all that they can be. The transformational mandate is based on a mutual exchange, a respect for the needs of the other.

Understanding is everything. What does the other aspire to be? What tools or skills does the other need to take full advantage of available opportunities? What social, cultural, economic and emotional steps are involved? The ordinary man or woman will look at a leader and feel at ease, because their deepest needs are being met. The clear message exchanged between the leader and follower is simple. It says, ‘I value and respect you’ or ‘ I see the uniqueness in you’. There’s nothing pre-scripted or “standardized” in this message. It is a personalized expression of the relationship that can be read through the eyes and felt in the warmth generated by a reassuring smile.

In the 21st century we can no longer afford to separate leadership from other important sectors of life, including diversity. The two are intimately connected. The key ingredient is ‘people’.

Unless we appreciate the differences that make us unique we cannot lead..
In managing diversity and leading change, we must develop the necessary qualities that allow us to move from ordinary to extraordinary leaders. This process begins with the development of confidence, self-belief and a passion for people. The leader’s heart is located in the community.

This is what they understand when they hear the word ‘serve.’ Leadership, community, and people are all linked to things like commitment, integrity, and vision that ultimately creates a living legacy of hope.