A Consultancy Career – Why, How, When?

In an ever-changing world, non-executive directors must be digitally competent. A holistic approach, termed Digital Common Sense by Bob Barker, provides both personal and organisational benefits.

Join us to learn how being curious, capable and confident with technology can set the tone from the top, boosting productivity, aiding digital adoption and stabilising staff retention.

Bob will outline 7 main areas of digital common sense, drawing on over 35 years' experience working with some of the world's biggest organisations.

Following the presentation there will be an interactive Q&A session.

Advisory boards can be the difference between success and failure at the start up phase of any business. In Touch has partnered with start up expert and seasoned advisory board member, Joe Norton, alongside 2 startup Co-Founders who have successfully built a startup board, Mike Lombardo and Kayvon Jahanbakhsh, to deliver a comprehensive guide to how an advisory board can benefit your business and how to create and effectively manage your board.

The webinar will present an engaging discussion on the benefits of establishing a diverse advisory board, as well as how this raises your own profile as an entrepreneur. Our speakers will share valuable insights from both the recruiter and candidate positions, providing you with a complete understanding of how the process should be conducted.

Discover where to find influential people to help grow your organization, how to demonstrate the potential of your vision and why you should set up an advisory board.

Communicating your personal branding on LinkedIn is essential as being active makes you more likely to get hired.

There are a multitude of benefits to harnessing the power of LinkedIn when embarking on or building a non-executive career.

Personal branding, updating your profile and keywords are all strategies that can get your profile noticed by recruiters on LinkedIn and in this webinar you will discover how to harness the power the platform can have on your career.

Join us for this highly informative 45-minute webinar focused on the value that females can bring to all levels of an organisation and how you, as an HR Director or senior business leader, can encourage more women to stay and progress within your firm.

The session will be hosted by Ros Taylor, CEO of RTC Leadership & Coaching, UK and international psychologist, executive coach, accomplished author, and TV and radio presenter. Throughout her presentation, Ros will share a whole host of useful insights and practical advice on the ways in which organisations can get the most out of their female employees. She will also explain why females often work better when coached or mentored by or with other females, and the results that can be achieved when this is implemented.

During the main presentation, Ros will explore the following:

-What makes women want to stay?
-The value of having women at all levels of your organisation, particularly board-level
-Ways in which organisations can empower their female employees
-Tools and techniques to instil confidence in your future female leaders
-Proven methods that have worked for other organisations

Viewers will then have the invaluable opportunity to ask any questions they may have during a live Q&A with Ros. This is the perfect chance to discuss any obstacles you may have faced from a coaching and development perspective and how to ensure your female employees feel empowered and ready to progress.

Networking is not something that you should act on when you require something from someone. Networking should be a consistent habit you priortize each week.

Hosted by C-Suite People & Culture expert and established career coach, Samantha Pitre Quillen, this informative webinar reveals the power of networking and which strategies you should be implementing throughout your executive career to redeem the benefits.

Throughout the 60 minute session, Samantha will uncover the myths behind networking, discuss optimal strategies for time-limited executives and share tips to relieve you of your biggest networking concerns. The presentation will show you how to become an optimal networker who expands your connections, allows you to make meaningful introductions to your colleagues and strengthens the depth of your relationships.

Drawing on her expertise in guiding professionals to leverage their network for success, Samantha will share how you can build your strategy to gain the multiple rewards from effective networking and harnessing the power in stronger relationships.

How to pass on the wealth you create in your lifetime is becoming harder to plan and manage. From multiple marriages, to divorce and taxes, your estate can easily end up in the hands of someone you never thought could inherit.



We look at some of the challenges that can affect succession planning and look at the reason why a simple will fails to deliver for the modern family!



In this informative webinar, we explore the issues that arise and take a look at some of the solutions we use with our clients to ensure their wishes become reality on death



We will also look at the issues that surround property ownership and investment when it comes to succession planning. How the way in which you hold and maintain your investment properties can actually provide different options of mitigating taxes on death, while being able to maintain control of the rental income as well as the capital and ensure your lifestyle remains unaffected.



Finally, there is the myth of the Million Pound Inheritance! As we enter the tax year where the threshold for your estate before Inheritance Tax reaches the promised seven figure sum, we explore the reality. How being successful could actually cost your estate £140,000 in death duties and how the ownership of certain assets, or assets held in the wrong name can cost your children thousands of pounds.

Agenda:

• Who are The Calder Group

• Succession Planning and Wealth Succession for the Modern Family

• Rental Property Portfolios

• The Truth behind the Million Pound Allowance

• Q&Q



Who will benefit from this presentation?

Business Owners

Property Investors and Landlords

Those with estates above £1,000,000

Anyone looking to protect their estate for their children and grandchildren

In this informative webinar, David Jeffries of Adastral Consulting will explore how to protect your board and your business from financial crime, especially that committed from within your organisation. Focusing on mitigating risk through robust governance, establishing and monitoring policy and having a comprehensive response plan in place, you will learn how to minimise your chances of falling victim to financial crime as a non-executive.

This presentation will be followed by an interactive Q&A session.

In Touch member, experienced non-executive and chairman, Stephen Moss CBE is set to host ‘Governance for NEDs - What you need to know’. The webinar will be invaluable for both aspiring Non-executives and for those who are pursuing additional positions as governance is constantly evolving.



Throughout the 45 minute session, Stephen will explain what boards expect non-executives to know in terms of governance, what good governance looks like and he’ll also share his own personal experiences of governance at board-level. Stephen has a wealth of knowledge on the topic having spent 12 years as a non-executive director and chairman, plus 30 years running highly successful businesses, including being the MD of BCP Airport Parking.

Sharon Nash, Independent HR & OD Consultant, Leadership Coach and Non-Executive Director will examine the factors which contribute to dysfunctional leadership and offer personal insights into the process of self-inquiry and how it can help to uncover the blind spots which may keep us stuck in unhelpful patterns of behaviour as leaders. This will be invaluable to anyone with responsibility for leading others, either as an executive or non-executive.

Research shows that it takes only seven seconds for someone to make a solid first impression of you, and even less time to identify certain traits that could make you a character worthy of their time, patience and attention.

Non-verbal communication counts for up to 80% of the impact made when meeting someone, highlighting the importance of ensuring your exterior profile connotes exactly what you want to portray. During this webinar, our expert presenters will share valuable advice to help viewers recognize how to leverage their image, both online and in-person, to be interpreted as the elite professional they are.

During the presentation, hosts Tania Sterl, Image Consultant and Alyssa Peek, Personal Branding Photographer, who both work with corporate executives and board members will share their insights on how to build your brand and elevate your image through style, body language and more.

Join us for our upcoming webinar, ‘Business Opportunity: Realise your true potential’ hosted by Nick Tubb, Head of Partner recruitment & Chris Aston, Marketing Director, Auditel.
Auditel is currently expanding its network of franchised consultants and is looking for business professionals who want to develop a new consulting career or add additional services and income streams to their current portfolio.

This informative, free 60 minute webinar will explore the changes and trends in procurement and supply-chain management. It will then highlight the opportunity to become an Auditel customer advisor, detailing the benefits of the role, training you will receive and income potential.

The full agenda for the session is detailed below:

- How the 4th Industrial revolution is changing the face of procurement and supply-chain-management.
- Overview of Auditel’s Procurement and Business Transformation solutions.
- Benefits of being an Auditel franchisee and supporting business owners as a trusted advisor.
- Training support and coaching provided.
- Investment required and income potential.
- Next steps

Cybersecurity is increasingly reported as one of the largest threats internationally across multiple industries. Cisco reported that 31% of organizations have, at some point, encountered cyber-attacks on their operations.

Hosted by FBI Special Agent, Miguel Clarke, the session will share valuable and vital information on how to avoid attacks and lower the threat level posed to your organization. Having assembled and led a successful National Security Cyber Squad, SA Clarke has exceptional experience in investigating and deterring classified threats.

The National Cyber Security Centre stresses that the protection of organizational information is a board-level responsibility, requiring a proactive approach to managing the allocated responsibilities, security policies and assessing vulnerability. Drawing on his expertise, SA Clarke will share his insights on the importance of managing, and tips on how to reduce your threat to cyber security.

This highly informative and practical webinar will explore how to excel as an independent director. In Touch coach and non-executive Karen Moore will identify the behaviours, skills and knowledge required of a non-exec and assess the different expectations placed on directors in both the public and private sectors.

This webinar will help you to ensure you add maximum value to any board and cement your place at the table.

After the presentation there will be an interactive Q&A session.

As 2019 draws to an end, ask yourself if you have achieved all you wanted to and whether you are motoring ahead with your professional goals.

Whether you are chasing your first board role or establishing your portfolio career, give yourself an early Christmas present to reflect on how you are going to change direction, aim for new career goals and develop a new road map to future success.

Hosted by In Touch Executive Coach Kate O'Sullivan, a board director who herself has developed a portfolio career, this will be an engaging and thought-provoking webinar focussed on how you can develop that road map for 2020 success.

Drawing on her own journey to portfolio success, Kate will help you to identify your goals and how to achieve them.

Hosted by accredited In Touch coach, Sharon De Korte, and In Touch President, Naomi Kent, this informative webinar encourages you to engage, and become proficient, in boardroom mindsets and behaviors.

Throughout the 45 minute session, Sharon and Naomi will discuss the requirements and responsibilities associated with a board position, delving into topics such as rules in the boardroom, what makes an effective board member and the attributes hiring organizations are actively searching for in board candidates. Drawing on their expertise, Sharon and Naomi will share a comprehensive breakdown of the mindset and behaviors that should be adopted in order to excel within the boardroom.

Throughout her coaching career, Sharon uses an innovative approach to help leaders develop effective strategies by exploring challenges, becoming open to opportunities and having the confidence to accomplish further in their careers.

Join us for our upcoming webinar, ‘Preparing for the Future of Work’ hosted by Adam Turner, Business Development Manager, Spherica Business Solutions and Karl Nicholson, Chief Information Officer, Synaptek. Discover how automation and AI can empower your business and your workforce like never before.

Topics to be covered in this engaging webinar will include:

- Without a strategy, AI isn't that intelligent. How businesses fail to harness the benefits of technology.

- How automating manual, repetitive processes can empower your workforce to focus on more value-added tasks.

- Harnessing the power of AI and Machine Learning to improve ways of working, reduce costs and make businesses more sustainable.

- Engaging real-life use cases.

- Q&A.

Hosted by In Touch coach, experienced non-executive and trustee, Jonathan Rennison, this informative and engaging webinar will cover the fundamentals of preparing yourself to secure the first role of your portfolio career.

Throughout the 45 minute session, Jonathan will outline the knowledge and skillset needed to become a successful non-executive, covering topics such as building your network, harnessing the power of your online presence and how to impress at interview. Drawing on his professional and coaching experience Jonathan will provide a comprehensive toolkit for a successful transition into the next stage of your career.

Jonathan is an experienced charity trustee, non-executive director, psychologist and coach. His clients include King’s College London, the Natural History Museum, University of Northampton, Business Link Japan and a range of leaders in national charities and small to medium sized businesses across the UK.