This is a simple list of some of the activities I have been engaged in over the last three and a half years. I am using my experiences, and the important lessons learned, to consult, advise and educate as many people as I am able to reach; addressing senior managers from a variety of industries, policy makers, academics, sixth formers and university students.
My objective is to ensure that my society, and especially business, designs, operates and monitors systems which encourage behaviours that help us all meet our social contracts. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you would like to have a conversation about what we can do together.
| Date | Location | Type | Notes | Resource Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 20, 2015 | Sucden Financial London and South East | Market Abuse Training - Sucden Financial Workshops | 4 full day workshops with the traders, salespeople,executives, risk managers and compliance at Sucden Financial. Focus was helping to guide positive behaviours within the FCA Market Abuse regime. My contribution was to help in the debate bringing compliance frameworks into real life cases studies and then help the traders build an emotional bond with the lessons learned. In between days full for prep work and reflection with Paul Whitaker. Sessions were powerful and well received by Sucden. See testimonial document. | |
| November 30, 2015 | Camden School for Girls, London | Life Choices in a Future Without Certainty - Lecture/Q&A - Camden School for Girls | Talk to the Sixth Formers at Camden School for Girls. A great reminder of what it means to be full of hope, idealism and expectation. To meet so many young adults asking such deep and powerful questions of their world reminded me the importance of helping our young learn from my expeirences. The world needs to hear what our young people think and help them understand their value in helping us resolve our current and future challenges. | |
| April 13, 2016 | International Compliane Association Annual Conference, London | Keynote Fireside Talk/Q&A - ICA Conference | Keynote Speech at the International Compliance Association. Lessons from the frontline with guidance for the delegatges on how to protect their institutions from cultural and systemic failure. | |
| June 2, 2016 | Sainsbury's Bank, Edinburgh | Lecture/Q&A - Sainsbury's Bank Risk Away Day | Conversation with the Sainsbury's Bank Risk Teams to help them consider how to understand how nobody is immune from the challenges of risk culture failures in everyday business but specifically in times of stress or change. Key lesson is to focus on rich risk conversations between risk takers and controllers. | |
| August 25, 2016 | NHK TV, Filmed in Edinburgh | TV Interview - NHK Japanese TV | Interview for 3 part NHK TV Programme: "The Money World; the Future of Finance" | |
| September 6, 2016 | Sky Arts TV, Filmed at St Pauls in London | TV Interview - Sky Arts TV | William Hogarth South Sea Bubble - Parallels and Lessons for Today | |
| September 7, 2016 | BBC Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London | TV Interview - BBC Hard Talk | Interview about banking practices, pressure to make profits, have bank bosses done enough to change their companies’ cultures, what I can teach fellow bankers, my future. | BBCHard Talk |
| September 22, 2016 | Edinburgh University Business School, Edinburgh | Lecture/Q&A - Edinburgh University | A Cautionary Tale - Edinburgh University Lecture - Advice and guidance for the new intake of MSc Business and Finance students. Gave an insight into my career and the lessons learned in the 15 years since I began work as an intern and after the tragic events of 2011. I tried to help inspire them to understand their future value to the institutions of which they will undoubtedly be future elite members and how to avoid the outcomes we faced at UBS. | |
| October 12, 2016 | We are Social, London | Lecture/Q&A - We Are Social Lunch and Learn Session | Talk with "We Are Social" - a young social media/marketing company about my plans for contributing to cultural and systemic change in the finance industry and drawing parallel lessons to culture and systems in marketing and tech industries. | |
| October 13, 2016 | London Fraud Forum Conference, One Great George Street, London | Keynote Speech and Q&A - London Fraud Forum | The London Fraud Forum was setup to promote change and forge on open anti-fraud culture in our society. At this 10th anniversary conference, as keynote speaker, I was asked to speak from my experience and use the platform to begin to discuss the real cultural and systemic change required to reduce the risk of cultural and systemic institutional change in our critical institutions and society. Policy/practice gap central to this conversation. | |
| October 17, 2016 | Gulf One Investment Bank / PRMIA / Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance, Manama, Bahrain | Special Skype Lecture/Q&A - Dubai | A talk to address the question of whether as an industry, regulators, governments and individuals can afford not to take valuable lessons from events such as the one leading to the 2011 UBS Loss. The message I was asked to deliver is that our actions (and inactions) define organisational cultures for which we must all be accountable whilst also providing the tools that will help everyone understand how to contribute to positive cultural and systemic change in their societies and institutions. | |
| October 20, 2016 | CFA London Charter, America Square Conference Centre, London | Fireside Talk/Q&A - CFA London | A focus on the importance of critical thinking, dealing with blame culture, industrial learning systems and how to make personal and institutional changes that will allow the space that everyone requires to avoid compromising their personal ethical values. | Fireside Talk - CFA London |
| October 31, 2016 | CFA Edinburgh Charter in Conjunction with The Library of Mistakes, Edinburgh | Fireside Talk/Q&A - CFA Edinburgh | A focus on the importance of critical thinking, dealing with blame culture, industrial learning systems and how to make personal and institutional changes that will allow the space that everyone requires to avoid compromising their personal ethical values. | Fireside Talk - CFA Edinburgh |
| November 15, 2016 | Financial Times Global Banking Summit, Four Seasons Hotel, Park Lane, London | Speakers' Dinner - FT Global Banking Summit | Dinner and Conversation about the Impacts of Risk and Brexit | FT Global Banking Summit |
| November 16, 2016 | Financial Times Global Banking Summit, Four Seasons Hotel, Park Lane, London | Lecture/Q&A - FT Global Banking Conference | Keynote speech from my perspective on the banking industry - where it's gone astray, where it's going in the right direction - set against my personal story with tools for cultural and systemic change | FT Global Banking Conference |
| November 17, 2016 | Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland | Special, Lecture, Q&A and Panel Discussion - FinTru | Financial Crime and Industrial Culture seminar for the employees of FinTru Financial Services/Students at Queens Univeristy Belfast | Queens Uni Belfast - FinTru |
| November 19, 2016 | CapitOx Conference, Oxford Studients Union, Oxford | Lecture/Q&A - Oxford Union Capitox Conference | A focus on the future of finance and the cultural changes required and opportunities to rebuild after the failures of the past Oxford Union | Oxford Union - Capitox Conference |
| December 7, 2016 | Sainsburys Bank, Edinburgh | Lecture/Q&A - Sainsbury's Bank Senior Leadership Group | A follow up talk to the risk management teams focussing on lessons for risk takers and senior leadership. | |
| December 8, 2016 | Edinburgh University Business School, Edinburgh | Public Lecture/Q&A | An incredible conversation with Joris Luyendijk. Culture in the industry from the point of view of an anthropologist outsider and an insider. https://soundcloud.com/uoebusiness/banking-isnt-a-job-its-a-cult | Edinburgh Uni - Public Lecture |
| March 1, 2017 | Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool | Lecture/Q&A - Liverpool John Moores University | Liverpool Racquet Club Talk - Risk, Culture, Systems and the Law | Liverpool John Moores - Lecture |
| March 2, 2017 | Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool | Lecture/Q&A - Liverpool John Moores University | 2 Hour Lecture to Regulatory Risk MSc/Undegrad Students | Liverpool John Moores - Lecture |
| January 12, 2017 | Financial Times 125 Forum, Dunster Hall, London | Fireside Talk/Q&A - FT125 Group | A consideration of the lessons to be learned from the UBS loss | Fireside Talk - FT125 |
| January 24, 2017 | Edinburgh University Economics Society, Edinburgh | Lecture/Q&A - Edinburgh EconSoc | Preparing for a future in corporate enterprise | |
| February 8, 2017 | Yorkshire and Humber Fraud Forum, Leeds | Special Master Class/Q&A - Yorkshire and Humber Fraud Foundation / Addleshaw Goddard | 2 Hour Master Class on Culture and Systens in the Finance Industry and the risk of failure | |
| February 9, 2017 | Ackworth School Sixth Form Special | Lecture/Q&A | Let your life speak! Life choices in a future without certainty… this was possibly the most moving and empowering moment of this entire 15 year journey. It was an honour to be welcomed back to my school and to have a chance to inspire the sizth formers. It was like coming home for the first time in 15 years. | Ackworth School - Lecture |
| February 15, 2017 | Stirling University Business School, Stirling | Lecture/Q&A - Sterling University Talk | Sterling Universtiy Lecture to MSc students | Stilring Uni - Lecture |
| March 21, 2017 | ACFE 2017 Europe Conference, London | Lecture/Q&A - ACFE Conference | Risk, Culture and Systems Failure | |
| March 22, 2017 | Cambridge / Welcome Genome | Master Class/Q&A - Forward Institute Residential | With Margaret Heffernan. 2 Hour Session on Culture, Systems and Failure and how to create the freedom to innovate whilst empowering your people to understand risk and self control. My job in this special session with Forward Institute Delegates was to help them understand how easily any of them could end up in the same position we did at UBS. | Cambridge / Welcome Genome |
| March 28, 2017 | Fraud Advisory Panel, ICAEW London | Breakfast Briefing/Q&A | Panel discussion with Rachel Sexton (EY), John Mongelard (ICAEW), David Clarke (FAP).. On the true drivers of increasing frequency of cultural and systemic failure and how to reverse this trend by addressing those drivers at a cultural and systemic level. This conversation led to an incredibly powerful collaboration and ultimately the July 2017 production by FAP: "Business Behaving Badly" | |
| April 21, 2017 | MBTN, London | MBTN Lecture/Q&A and Networking | Organised by Adabara Abdulahi - ACS/West African Networking Session - Culture, Systems and the Social Contract | |
| April 26, 2017 | Quintus Supper Club, London | Quintus Lecture/Q&A | Evening dinner and talk - Culture, Systems and our Society | |
| June 15, 2017 | RSM, Birmingham | EBM (Effective Board Member) Training Course | Executive Course for the EBM Program with Karl George | |
| October 26, 2017 | Effective Board Member Book Launch, Hyatt Regency, Birmingham | EBM Book Launch Event | Helped to launch this book for which I wrote a testimonial. | |
| October 28, 2017 | Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool | Lecture/Panel Discussion/Q&A - Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation Conference | Timeliness and timelessness - corporate governance and regulatory challenges after the financial crisis of 2007 - 2009 and Brexit. It was a truly incredible conference bringing together some leading academics to discuss new thinking on legal, regulatory and corporate governance issues | Liverpool John Moores - Lecture |
| October 9, 2017 | Edinburgh University | Lecture/Q&A | Ethics and Guidance in the Corporate World - A Lecture to this years MSc Class. | |
| November 15, 2017 | Essex University, Colchester | Lecture/Q&A | Think! Seminar Series at Essex University with Matt Loder | Essex Uni - Lecture |
| December 5, 2017 | RiskMinds International Global Conference, Amsterdam, Holland | Lecture/Panel Discussion/Q&A - Risk and Financial Regulation Conference | The world’s largest risk management event bringing together 650 leading academics, CROs, regulators academics and risk experts from around the world. Other keynote speakers at this years conference will include: Howard Davies, Chairman of RBS; Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller, former Head of MI5; Andrew Gracie, Executive Director for Resolution at the Bank of England; and Guy Verhofstadt, Brexit Negotiator for the European Parliament. | RiskMinds - Lecture |
| December 12, 2017 | Exeter University, Exeter | Lecture/Q&A (With Lindsay Fortado, FT) | Ethics and Corporate Governance | |
| January 29, 2018 | CSFI Round Table Discussion | Lecture/Panel Discussion/Q&A | Conduct in wholesale markets: A round-table discussion with Kweku Adoboli, Gerry Harvey (FMSB), Stefan Stern (High Pay Centre) and Simon Webley (IBE). Have regulators done enough to avert another financial crisis and where should we be placing our focus if we wish to be prepared, avert and recover from the next crisis. | |
| February 02, 2018 | Browne Jacobson Lecture and Panel Discussion | Lecture/Panel Discussion/Q&A | Keynote and panel discussion culture and systems in large financial institutions. What do we change, where do we focus, how do we bring our focus to people and change systems to allow them to achieve more purposeful outcomes and and meet the social contract. | |
| February 03, 2018 | Edinburgh University | Conference Speech / Panel Discussion | Scottish Universities Economics Conference... Theme was "a brave new world". Other speakers included: Mark Carney, Chariman of BoE; Martin Weale, CBE, previously member of BoE Monetary Policy Committee and Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research | A brave new world |
| March 05, 2018 | Gresham/Cognizant Panel Discussion | Lecture/Panel Discussion/Q&A | City focussed panel discussion. Other keynote speakers included Simon Haggerty (former global head of securities operations for UBS IB). | |
| April 26, 2018 | Forward Institute/Welcome Genome Campus | Residential/Seminar/Round Table Discussions | Full two day residential with Forward Institute Fellows | Full Residential |
| May 31, 2018 | "Dare to Do" - Play and Discussion | Lecture/Panel Discussion/Q&A | Post play Q&A to discuss cultural relevance of required within the finance, criminal justice and immigration legal worlds. | |
| June 06, 2018 | Forward Institute Wiston House Residential | Three day residential / In depth problem solving and discussions | Three day residential with current and former Forward Institute Fellowes and Faculty. Discussion focus was Brexit / Social Order / Failure of Carrillion / PFI / Guerilla Methods for Achieving Impossible Goals | |
| June 13, 2018 | RGL Morning Seminar | Lecture/Panel Discussion/Q&A | Keynote and panel discussion culture and systems in large financial institutions. What do we change, where do we focus, how do we bring our focus to people and change systems to allow them to achieve more purposeful outcomes and and meet the social contract. | |
| June 21, 2018 | IIA Midlands Birmingham | Lecture/Panel Discussion/Q&A | Corporate governance and risk. Focus was local housing association executive members and auditors. Post Grenfell this was a high priority event focussing on how to mitigate risk and recognise failures in feedback loops that result in uncontrolled risk increase and catastrophic systems failure. | |
| September 7, 2018 | Barclays UK ELT / Hyde Park | Full day leadership seminar test event with new Forward Institute structure | A full day leadership seminar led by me and senior Barclays leadership group. Audience was the full senior leadership team at Barclays UK. With over 80 Senior Leaders and fast rising talent. | |
| August 28, 2018 | SAS / UK Special Forces Counterterrorism Unit / Herefordshire | 3 Day leadership programme. Annual Officer Development Course. | Focus was risk taking in the gray zone, diversity recruitment, reaching the next generation of UK Army considering cultural changes, and learning from failure. | |
| August 31, 2018 | BBC Radio Scotland / Livingston | TV and Radio Interview | 1 hour interview with Douglas Fraser BBC Scotland | BBC Scotland |