Networking with NEDs event booking

Event details

Date	Thursday 27 March 2025
Duration	08:45 - 11:00am
Location	Farrer & Co. LLP, Lincoln's Inn, London
Cost	£55 + VAT (Non-refundable tickets)

Cranfield invites both existing and aspiring non-executive directors to join us to hear two experienced coaches share their advice on how to operate effectively within the boardroom. This is also an opportunity to meet other professionals interested in learning more about the role of non-executive directors.

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About this event

We are pleased to welcome Helen Hopper and Joy Harcup as our keynote speakers for our next Networking with NEDs event, discussing the topic of courageous, curiosity and challenge in the boardroom. NEDs are uniquely positioned to sensitively help boards draw out valuable insights, challenge strategies and explore commercial assumptions. Utilising coaching skills such as careful questioning, challenging, listening and supporting, NEDs can get the best from the executives they work with, and from one another.

HELEN HOPPER co-founded leadership consulting firm HCubed in 2010, after training in management consultancy with Accenture and in occupational psychology with SHL. HCubed's mission is to stimulate growth through learning and Helen works with individuals, teams and organisations as a coach, facilitator and consultant. She advises on organisational and leadership development, mainly in the UK and Europe, for professional services firms, global corporations, fast growth start-ups and social enterprises. She has degrees in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (Oxford University), and in Psychology (The Open University), and is an active supporter of mental health charities, most recently as COO of The Listening Place, and Trustee at Mental Health Innovations.

JOY HARCUP is an executive coach with the international coaching firm, Praesta LLP, working with individuals, top executive teams and boards. She has 20 years’ leadership coaching experience with clients including in the FTSE 100, professional services, public and not-for-profit sectors. Joy was President of the UK Board of the International Coaching Federation, the largest global professional body for coaches. She has also sat on boards in the educational and not for profit sectors. A former lawyer specialising in dispute resolution, she has previously published academic research on the impact of coaching, following her MBA from Bath University.

Joy and Helen are co-authors of The Secret Life of Boards: The Art and Psychology of Board Relationships, published by Routledge in September 2023.

Agenda

08:45	Arrival and registration - Farrer & Co, 55-56 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3AA
09:00	Breakfast
09:30	Introduction - Ian White, Programme Director for The Non-Executive Directors Programme
09:45	Keynote speakers - Helen Hopper and Joy Harcup
10:30	Networking with fellow NEDs
11:00	Departure

We look forward to seeing you there!