Securing the Future: The Isle of Man Conference 2017

For ten years until 2014, Chris was Director of Corporate Governance at the UK’s Financial Reporting Council. He was responsible for developing and promoting the UK Corporate Governance Code – one of the earliest and most influential codes for companies. The practices he introduced include board effectiveness reviews and public reporting on the management of significant risks. Chris was also responsible for introducing the first national stewardship code for investors in the UK in 2010. Similar codes have since been introduced in many other countries. More recently, Chris was the FRC’s Strategy Director and was responsible for developing their overall strategy for 2016–19. He established, and chaired for eight years until 2015, the European Corporate Governance Codes Network. Chris has also worked with bodies such as the European Commission, OECD and World Bank in advisory roles, and is a regular presenter and moderator at international conferences.

Peter is responsible for developing the profile of the Institute to members, regulators, policymakers, employers and other stakeholders by delivering thought leadership and lobbying campaigns aligned to ICSA strategy and promoting strong governance as the vital ingredient for success in organisations. Peter has 30 years' experience of the share registration industry, gained at Lloyds TSB Registrars and subsequently Equiniti and Equiniti David Venus amongst others. He is a member of the CBI Companies Committee, the QCA Corporate Governance Expert Group and the Shareholder Voting Working Group, as well as being an Alternate Member of the Takeover Panel and a past chairman of the ICSA Registrars Group.

Dennis Tourish is Professor of Leadership and Organization Studies at the University of Sussex. He is the editor of the journal Leadership, and a Fellow of the Leadership Trust Foundation. He has published widely on leadership issues, and is the author of The Dark Side of Transformational Leadership, published by Routledge in 2013. Dennis has been interviewed frequently on TV about leadership issues, including by the BBC, ITV and Sky News. He is currently completing a project looking at hubris in the banking sector, and will be sharing some of his findings from this during his presentation. His interest in dysfunctional leadership was stimulated by growing up in Northern Ireland, where (unfortunately) he had the opportunity to observe it at close range. His presentation will discuss how we can spot dysfunctional leadership before it gains too great a hold on our organizations, and what we can do about it.

Dina was formerly the Director of Intellectual Capital at AIT Group plc, and has held a number of non-executive director roles including a 10 year tenure as a Governor of Middlesex University and a long term role as the Non-Executive Chair of the international Regional Advisory Boards for the Innovation Group. Due to a varied career including life as a British army officer, a variety of roles in the IT industry including Director of Intellectual Capital for AIT Group plc Dina’s interests are now focussed on how a company can best develop and implement its strategy and use its resources to become more effective and deliver better value. In particular Dina works with companies to look strategically at how an organisation can excel through exceptional strategic implementation by applying mindful business techniques to organisational development.

Dina has recently published a book entitled Measurement Madness – Recognizing and Avoiding the Pitfalls of Performance Measurement