Format
The morning plenary session, our panel of expert speakers
will explain why becoming more resilient and embracing reinvention is not only
attainable but are vital skills to acquire for achieving success in 2024 and
beyond. The afternoon session will be run and delivered by the District
Societies.
This conference will be delivered via Zoom on 19 September
2024 from 9 am to 12 pm and from 1pm to 5.15pm (end time varies depending on
District Society location). The Zoom link will be emailed to participants the
day before the course is due to take place.
Who should attend?
This course is suitable for accountants, and other business professionals, at
all levels and from all sectors, given the scope, agenda and fast-moving pace of
the sessions.
Course Overview
Morning Plenary Session:
Opening Address
Barry Doyle - President, Chartered Accountants
Ireland
Beyond Resilience: How to Use Adversity as
Fuel for Growth (Brian
Pennie, founder of Change is Possible)
Learn how to use life's
challenges to our advantage, and ultimately, using adversity as our fuel for
growth. By combining his own lived experience of turning anxiety into a
superpower, Brian will deliver a series of evidence-based tools to help you to
transform life's inevitable challenges into a way to learn and grow.
Stronger Together…building resilience through a
network (Maria O’Connell, Experienced NED and Board
Governance Consultant)
In this session you will hear how building solid
relationships and nurturing a strong support network were key enablers in
developing resilience to successfully carve out a highly rewarding and
fulfilling career. Maria will relay her personal experiences and career
progression, all filtered through the lens of resilience and
reinvention…detailing the many challenges she has overcome, and how she overcame
them.
Applying Resilience and Reinvention in the
Real World: A Case Study: (John O’Neill, Tickets.ie)
John returns to this year’s
Virtual CPD update session after speaking about the challenges his business
faced during the pandemic at our 2021 conference. In this year’s session John
will provide an update on his business activities since 2021, the challenges
and obstacles overcome and what he had to do to ensure his business continued
to survive.
Embracing Reinvention: Take That Leap and
Achieve Your Highest Potential (Charlotte Rose Keating, Act On It Coaching)
Pursuing a goal, embarking on a new challenge and
stepping out of your comfort zone brings excitement, but let’s face it—can also
be terrifying. Becoming all that you are meant to be involves an element of
risk. Scary stuff, right? Instead of leaping recklessly into the unknown or
waiting for that proverbial net to show up before you make your next move, what
if you could be your own safety net as you take charge of your future?
Join us for an empowering session where we'll explore how to take control of
your journey, become the architect of your own safety net, and transform your
dreams into reality with courage and confidence!
Building Resilience by Managing Your Defences
(James McSporran, McSporran Leadership Development)
There's no avoiding it, change and complexity can bring
out the worst in us. Many of us will have been left with regrets in the past
about how we handled hard situations, unexpected change or difficult team
members. Who do you become when the world doesn't go the way you'd like it to?
This session will help you understand the psychology behind how your defence
mechanisms might actually be stopping you from building resilience. You'll leave
with practical tips on how to develop your self awareness, look for
opportunities to grow and thrive as a professional in an ever changing
landscape.
Afternoon Sessions
1pm - 3pm
Leinster Society:
Transforming accountancy with AI: from automation to innovation
- Mark Kelly AI
transformation expert and author of the acclaimed "AI Unleashed"
series.
Cyber risk – the balance between risk management and
insurance
- Martin Flanagan
Corporate Account Director
with Arachas Corporate Brokers and cyber risk expert. Cork Society: Embracing digital transformation: strategies
and small steps for SMEs to thrive
- Sean O'Rourke Managing Partner,
O'Rourke & Co Chartered Accountants.
- Fiona Woods
Associate Director, KPMG.
North West Society -
Remote
working cross border on the island of Ireland - what employers and employees
need to know - Dr. Seamus Mc Guinness -
ESRI.- Rose Tierney
Tierney
Tax.
- Orla Rafferty Orla Rafferty Consulting.Ulster Society:
Building
tomorrow's workforce: strategies for attracting, retaining and developing
talent- Andrew Toogood
- Proclaim
Consulting.
3.15pm - 5.15pm
London Society -From meetings to mastery: boosting
your gravitas, productivity and creative problem solving skills
- Carmel Moore
One Moment Company.- Catherine Casey Director, Mentor and Coach.
Western Society - Tax issues: business succession in 2024
and beyond
- Laura Lynch Tax Partner, L&J
Tax.
- Emer Joyce Tax Partner, L&J Tax.
Maria O’Connell
Experienced Non-Executive Director & Board
Governance Consultant. Maria is a fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland with
extensive experience in asset management and investment funds developed over a
30 year career. She qualified with PwC, working in Ireland and Italy, before
moving into a managerial operational role at JP Morgan in Milan, Italy in 1992.
This move marked the start of a successful career journey in financial services
which rarely followed the traditional accountancy career pathway. Maria has held
Senior Executive, Leadership and Regulatory roles in global facing
organisations, including State Street Global Advisors, Irish Funds and Bank of
Ireland Asset Management. She is an experienced Non-Executive Director and has a
highly successful track record in effective and efficient Board Governance
design and implementation. Maria has considerable experience in successfully
leading on regulatory, governance, strategic and business critical initiatives,
working alongside Boards of Directors, CEOs and C-Suite Executives. Her most
recent role was Vice President - Business Strategy and Governance at the State
Street Global Advisors Europe Limited. Maria is a committed and
enthusiastic mentor and a firm believer in the power of our networks in building
and fostering resilience throughout our career journey.
James McSporran
James McSporran has 15 years of qualified facilitation & coaching experience across all leadership levels. His unique method blends ideas from psychology, executive education and performance coaching, allowing for genuine personal and team development.
He regularly works with executive leadership teams to deliver workshops, keynotes & 1:1 coaching.
With a relational style, he helps clients explore issues while intelligently offering challenge, provocation, and an alternative perspective.
Clients include BP, Nestle, YPO, Barclays, NHS, RBS, Sellafield, Alvarez & Marsal, Grant Thornton, Caffè Nero, Scottish Water, Sainsburys, Queens University Belfast.
Half of his work is also in the creative industry, working closely with talent in TV, Film, Media, Music and Advertising
John O'Neill
John is the Founder and CEO of Tickets.ie/Oshi Software Limited, which specialises in the development of innovative and highly scalable ticketing software solutions. He is an Internationally recognised expert in ticketing technology and pricing discovery and optimisation systems. He is also technical adviser to a number of start-ups in fintech, live streaming and ecommerce
Brian Pennie
Brian Pennie is a former heroin addict turned doctor who's
on a mission to show people that change is possible. Since embracing his second
chance at life in 2013, he has become a doctor of neuroscience and psychology, a
lecturer at the top two universities in Ireland, an executive coach to some of
Ireland's most senior leaders, and a consultant to some of the world's largest
organisations. He is also a keynote speaker, author, and founder of Change is
Possible, where he has reached millions of people with his online content at
www.brianpennie.comIf you have any questions regarding this or any other CPD course or
requirements, please feel free to contact the team here or call us at (+353) 01 523 3930
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