18 May 2021
Please note that this webinar is cancelled. Please contact Bonni at [email protected] for any questions.
Speakers:
Alison McLaughlin, ACC (ICF), Consultant and Coach, Populus HR
Kathryn Weaver, Partner, Head of Employment Law, Head of the Hong Kong Office, Lewis Silkin
Victoria Coplans Hope, CEO Hope Communications
Moderator:
Adrian Warr, CEO Hong Kong & Taiwan, & Market Growth Thailand, and APAC Head of Employee Experience, Edelman
Businesses around the world are struggling with the economic downturn caused by the pandemic. Despite the introduction of vaccine programmes, it will be some time before the economy returns to pre-Covid levels. Many firms are considering redundancies to ensure their survival and for some employers and employees it will be the first time they go through this difficult process.
For Employers: Redundancies are fraught with risk for any organisation – legal, reputational, employer brand, productivity, and attrition risk. The panel will share their considerable experience in this area, providing their recommendations on best practice for redundancies, minimising your risk and how to ensure that all staff are treated with respect and dignity.
For Employees: Losing your job unexpectedly is stressful and it’s important that you know your legal rights and ensure that you receive the right severance package. But it’s even more important to understand what your next steps should be. The panel will explore the best ways to look after your mental health and turn the situation into an opportunity to explore new career horizons.
Details on how to join will be sent via email by 5pm the day before the webinar.
About the speakers
Alison is a true HR Leader, Consultant and Coach, with multi-cultural experience across a wide range of business sectors. With excellent communication, project management and interpersonal skills, Alison has a “hands on”, operational approach, working with business leaders on initiatives focused on driving cultural change through people, organization development and strategic HR projects.
Alison is an accredited coach, providing executive and leadership coaching and is an experienced trainer and facilitator. She has been a Senior Consultant with a well-established management consulting firm for over 20 years providing training and coaching to a wide range of finance/banking institutions, merchandising, manufacturing and engineering companies.
With a degree in Hospitality Management from Manchester Metropolitan University, and a Diploma in HR Management (IPD) from Middlesex University, Alison is also accredited user of assessment tools such as MBTI, Harrison Assessment and LEA 360, and is a channel partner for The Ken Blanchard Company. She has ACC (ICF) status with the International Coach Federation.
Kathryn manages Lewis Silkin’s Hong Kong office and heads up its employment practice.
Kathryn advises clients in the technology, financial and professional services, retail and advertising sectors on the full range of employment issues in Hong Kong, including complicated terminations, negotiated separation agreements, restrictive covenant disputes and litigation, defending claims in the labour tribunal and courts, discrimination issues, grievances and disciplinaries, performance issues, sickness absence, redundancies and restructuring, and data privacy.
She also undertakes a broad range of cross-jurisdictional work in Asia Pacific, such as implementing partnership programmes, coordinating global employee handbook reviews and the drafting of template employment documents, overseeing litigation, coordinating multi-country data privacy projects and cross-border restructuring, carrying out disciplinary and grievance investigations, and advising on senior ex-pat relocation packages.
Kathryn is dual-qualified in Hong Kong and England & Wales and listed as a recognised practitioner for Hong Kong employment law in Chambers and Legal 500 and is recommended in Who’s Who Legal.
Victoria is Founder and CEO of Hope Communications. She specialises in employee engagement & experience strategy, employee research, internal & change communications, leadership communications coaching including personal brand, and redundancy communications advisory. She has 25 years of experience working across a range of industries including finance, insurance, aviation, hospitality, the UK government and oil & gas. With a background in IT and Economics, she has spent the past 15 years focusing on Integrated Communications and Government Affairs.
Victoria is equally passionate about helping businesses achieve their strategic goals and building engaging work environments which provide exceptional employee experience.
Born and raised in Asia, Victoria has spent the last decade in Hong Kong working in multinational matrix organisations. She was most recently Global Head of Employee Engagement for Shangri-La Group and prior to that led Employee Communications for HSBC’s Retail Bank & Wealth Management business in Asia Pacific.
Victoria is passionate about Diversity & Inclusion and is currently working with The Women’s Foundation as a mentor in their highly acclaimed annual mentoring programme.
Victoria holds an MSc in Politics from the University of London, an MSc in Business Systems from Monash University, an MA in Classical Archaeology from the University of Leicester, as well as a BA (History & Archaeology) and a BComm (Economics). She lives in Hong Kong with her husband, son and daughter.
About the moderator
Adrian leads Edelman Hong Kong and Taiwan as well as the newly formed Thailand office. He is a communications consultant whose work in New York, London and Hong Kong with some of the world’s best consultancies has given him experience in corporate, crisis, branding, marcomms, employee engagement, public affairs and digital marketing.
Adrian has been lucky enough to work with amazing people whose names he will happily drop at the first opportunity, including the leaders of companies like HSBC, Cathay and Mars as well as individuals such as Kofi Annan, Cherie Blair and Princess Christina of Spain.
Over the years his clients have included Samsung, Google, Coca-Cola, Tencent, Pepsi, Cathay Pacific, United Airlines, BAA, Warner Music, CLP, MTR, London 2012, The UN, Wrigley, KFC, McDonalds, Pizza Hut, EY, GE, American Express, ArcelorMittal, DLA, KPMG, and Boston Consulting Group.
After years of foolishly attributing his few successes to talent, Adrian is now fully aware of his white, male privilege and has become committed to addressing gender inequality, both personally and professionally. He is Co-Chair and a founding member of The Male Allies, a charity which aims to leverage the influence of male business leaders to achieve gender parity in the workplace. He also works pro bono for The Women’s Foundation and regularly speaks and writes on gender.
Adrian is also on the board of The Hong Kong International Literary Festival.
An Oxford graduate in modern languages and literature, Adrian has a BA and MA in French and Italian. Which is, admittedly, of limited use in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Thailand.
Pricing
- Non-profit, SME & Start-up Member: HK$95
- Member: HK$140
- Non-Member: HK$250
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