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• HARNESS the concept of innovation to become moreefficient in the delivery of services

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General Counsel are playing more business-centric roles and looking for ways to add greater strategic and commercial value to their organisations. At the same time, questions of economic, social and environmental sustainability have risen to prominence in boardrooms around the world and are becoming a more explicit influence on corporate strategy, governance and decision-making.

Being an effective General Counsel therefore requires not just legal expertise, but a real understanding of a business’ objectives and the commercial dynamics that surround you. When it comes down to it, you really need to understand the holistic dimensions of a business’s activities, only then will you be in a position to provide the best counsel, team leadership and grow the business to its optimum.

Following the success of last year’s GC Leadership Forum we’re delighted to bring to you Practical Law’s 2nd GC Leadership Forum: Developing you and your team to enable business growth, for the GC who wants to become a business leader, deliver efficiencies across the business and have a real impact at the top table.

This year’s Forum will enable you to develop the business and leadership skills you need to make you and your team a success. We’re not going to cover the legal aspects but focus on what you need to do to take an on-going active leadership role across your organisation and how you have a real impact at the top table. Hear practical case studies from companies who have success stories to tell in talent management, continual improvement, accountability, innovation, business and succession planning.

I very much look forward to seeing you on March 17–18 2015.

Yours faithfully

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PROGRAMME DAY ONE, TUESDAY MARCH 17 2015

08.30am REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

09.15am INTRODUCTIONS AND WELCOME FROM CHAIR AND PRACTICAL LAW EVENTS

THEME 1: THE BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE

09.30am READING THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT TO OPTIMISE YOUR ROLE IN GROWING THE BUSINESS

• Defining the role of the GC in the context of the business and the wider external factors that may impact it• How do you help protect the business?• Understanding the role of the GC when it comes to board and non-exec expectations of GCs • How do you deal with major international incidents in countries such as Ukraine and Syria, as part of your role as a GC?

10.10am ALIGNING YOUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT FUNCTION WITH OTHER BUSINESS FUNCTIONS

• How do you run your department like the rest of the business?• Dealing with different areas of the business effectively

– How do you ensure your business and your function is aligned to the business strategies and is focused on the areas the business thinks is important?

– How do you position yourself against your peers? – Ensuring you can add value

10.50am MORNING COFFEE

11.20am MAXIMISING BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES WHILST MINIMISING RISK. FINDING THE BALANCE

A growing proportion of GC’s work is not strictly involved in legal matters but in com-mercial decision making, especially in the area of business and risk management. • Identifying different types of risk to your company; legal risk mapping and

understanding the framework of risk• Ensuring your risk calculations are correct • How do you help balance the opportunities to drive growth with the inherent

risks associated with them?• Assessing where you and your legal teams should be accountable in managing

associated risks• What processes need to be put in place to enable your teams to effectively

deal with managing business risk, and how do you help your team do this?• If you operate out of a number of different countries, how do you manage

your risk strategies?

THEME 2: YOU, YOUR TEAM AND ENGAGEMENT ACROSS THE BUSINESS

12.20pm HARNESSING THE CONCEPT OF INNOVATION TO BECOME MORE EFFICIENT IN THE DELIVERY OF SERVICES

This session will look at the concept of innovation and how GCs can innovate and leverage both their in-house and external resources and capability. As lawyers you need to be increasingly innovative in how you deliver services to the business. Hear what practical steps our panel have taken to make this happen across their organisations. This session will offer you insights on how to stand out from the crowd and inspire loyalty.

1.20pm LUNCH

2.05pm SKILL WORKSHOP 1: THE GC TOOL-KIT TO DELIVER CORPORATE CULTURE AND VALUE AND AN APPROPRIATE BRAND ACROSS YOUR TEAM

BEING A BUSINESS ENABLER• Aligning your goals with the business and delivering on them • Positioning your team as pro-active commercial enablers• Gaining trust from your team and the business

CULTURE & LEADERSHIP• Playing a part in shaping great corporate culture• Casting a trusted & authentic leadership shadow• Promoting wide recognition of team value

KATE CHEETHAMDeputy Group General Counsel

LLOYDS BANKING GROUP

ALISTAIR ASHERGroup General CounselCO-OPERATIVE GROUP

DARAGH FAGANGroup General Counsel & Company SecretaryRENTOKIL INITIAL

FRANK DASSLERGeneral CounselADIDAS GROUP (GERMANY)

HELEN BRADLEYPartnerBAKER & MCKENZIE

PAUL VAN REESCHLegal and Company SecretaryCOCA COLA ENTERPRISES

SARAH NELSON SMITHLegal DirectorKENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN & PIZZA HUT UK & IRELAND

SUZANNE WISEGroup General Counsel and Company Secretary NETWORK RAIL

JOSÉ RAMÓN GONZÁLEZ Chief Legal OfficerQBE INSURANCE, (USA)

ANDREW J SIMPSONVice President and Senior CounselAMERICAN EXPRESS

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2.05pm SKILL WORKSHOP 2: SUCCESSFULLY INTEGRATING LEGAL TEAMS POST-ACQUISITION OR MERGER• Capturing the strengths of both companies• Aligning two (or more) different cultures• Alignment of legal functions and rationalisation of legal spend• Ensuring people, culture, and leadership are the  game makers

2.55pm AFTERNOON TEA

3.25pm SKILL WORKSHOPS: Business expertise and numeracy, as well as legal skills are the basic foundations for a successful General Counsel role. Choose from one of our interactive business workshop sessions.

WORKSHOP 1: HOW DO YOU RUN YOUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT LIKE A BUSINESS?

This workshop will offer you• Top tips for interpreting profit and loss

accounts balance sheets and cash flow statements

– Business planning – Reading a balance sheet – Top 10 tips for preparing an

effective budget – Managing your internal and external

budget like the rest of the business – Demonstrating value to the business

using KPIs and ROIs

WORKSHOP 2: DELIVERING EFFECTIVE PRESENTATION, COMMUNICATION AND NEGOTIATION SKILLS TO THE BOARD AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

• Ensuring your message is received in the way it was intended

• Using the right language and the right message for your target audience

• Deploying effective negotiation skills to win the hearts and minds of the board

WORKSHOP 3: DEPLOYING EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGY TO DELIVER VALUE ACROSS THE LEGAL TEAM AND THE BUSINESS

This session will give you the opportunity to fully understand how you source, install and budget for new technology. • Identifying technology needs• Where do you go and how do you choose the

right technology for you?• What’s out there? • Effective deployment tactics

4.15pm BECOMING AN EFFECTIVE LEADER OF TOP TALENT: RECRUITING AND DEVELOPING EMPLOYEES TO MEET BUSINESS GOALS

Delegates will have the opportunity to exchange views round their tables during this plenary session:

• Building growth and career development in the context of businessstrategy and plans

• How can you recruit top talent and retain them?

• Training and personal development including soft skills

• What are the behavioural types that work well for your legal team to develop in your lawyers?

• Building a superior team of people who will create and execute a legal strategy that generates value for the business

• Keeping skills current and allowing them to move out of your team

• How do you provide career progression and retain engagement with those located regionally and internationally?

5.10pm NEW: CONCLUDING INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE SESSION AT END OF DAY ONE

• What did delegates gain from Day One of the Forum?• What are the remaining key challenges facing them they would like to hear

tomorrow?• What should be discussed at tomorrow’s Forum?

5.40pm CONCLUSIONS FROM CHAIR FOLLOWED BY DRINKS AND DINNER

NICOLA WILLIAMSGeneral Counsel and Company SecretaryDŴR CYMRU WELSH WATER

SIMON NEILLAssistant General Counsel EMEAJOHNSON AND JOHNSON, (BELGIUM)

VERITY CHASEDirector of Commercial ContractsMARKS AND SPENCER

SUSAN CRICHTONGeneral CounselTSB BANK

ROSE SINCLAIRHead of LegalSIMPLYHEALTH GROUP

JOANNA DAYDirector of Legal ServicesSANTANDER UK

PROGRAMME DAY ONE, TUESDAY MARCH 17 2015 (CONTINUED)

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PROGRAMME DAY TWO, WEDNESDAY MARCH 18 2015

09.30am RECAP FROM YESTERDAY

09.45am HOW DO YOU EVOLVE YOUR ROLE WITHIN THE BUSINESS

• How as a general counsel do you define your function, shape your ambition and have the courage to follow through?

• Changing your function to ensure it is still aligned to the business• How can you demonstrate value and encourage people to join new things?• How do you expand into new areas? Ways of shaping policy and avoiding

mistakes

10.30am MORNING COFFEE

11.00am BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND: MOVING FROM A GENERAL COUNSEL ROLE INTO A NON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CEO OR CHAIRMAN’S POSITION

This session will give you the opportunity to hear from the co-chair of the GC100 committee looking at career progression and a current general counsel and company secretary about what led to their perspective of the opportunities in the market and their appointment as a NED. You will get to understand how and why it happened. You will also gain a clearer understanding as to what is hindering lawyers from getting to the top roles and what can be done to move them in the right direction.

• What are the inhibitors to transition and what can you do for your team’s long term development?

• Making the most of the role • Building it into your team development and succession planning• At what point in time should general counsel and company secretaries address

the possibility of moving to another executive level or board level position?• Are lawyers the next CEOs or the next COOs?• What can be done to change the future role of general counsel and company

secretaries?

11.50am LEADING VIRTUAL TEAMS WITH MEMBERS BASED IN MULTIPLE LOCATIONS

• How do you create a legal network or legal family in an organisation which is cross-borders?

• Securing buy-in and engagement from the team• Creating a cohesive team proposition across international boundaries • Effectively organising your department’s structure and reporting mechanisms

across regions• What knowledge management systems are used to link departments together? • Ensuring you have the right balance of skills and influence across a multi-level,

multi-disciplined global organisation• How do you create an effective network where you don’t have line management

responsibility?• Understanding cultural and behavioural expectations across different countries

12.40pm NEW FORMAT: CONCLUDING INTERACTIVE ROUND TABLE SESSIONS

Delegates will be able to discuss on their tables they have learnt from this year’s event and what they will take away with them.

1.10pm CLOSING COMMENTS FROM CHAIRMAN FOLLOWED BY LUNCH

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