Rob Atkinson
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As head of Productivity and Technical support, I am responsible for leading a $5billion productivity improvement strategy for the group and partnering with our Product Groups to reduce material risk. Also in this role, I am accountable for providing global mining, processing, asset management and infrastructure technical support along with the development of global automation and innovation strategies for Rio Tinto.
During my near 25 year career with Rio Tinto, I have held various senior roles including Chief Operating Officer – Copper and Chief Executive - Energy Resources of Australia and several senior operational leadership roles across Iron Ore, Energy and Aluminium.
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When I’m not working, you’ll find me spending time with my family, walking the dog, running or playing golf.
Penny James
Penny James is currently Vice President Operations, Innovative Medicines and Early Development (IMED) AZ and has more than 20 years' experience working in Pharmaceutical and Chemical industries. In her current role she leads a function of 180 people delivering: Project and Portfolio management for the IMED drug project pipeline, Facility Management of four global R&D locations and multiple cross IMED strategic initiatives.
Penny has worked closely with both manufacturing and R&D teams at all organisation levels during her career to drive process efficiency and effectiveness and enable them to achieve their goals. She has led Lean Sigma programmes at Eastman Chemical company - working at sites and with management teams all over Europe and the US. Penny has delivered more than $30M in cost savings over her career through a variety of change projects - including organizational transformation from internal to global external CRO resourcing models. Penny also spent 10 years working as an industrial statistician - consulting in manufacturing and product development - and is a Chartered Statistician, Lean Sigma Master Black Belt and holds an MSc in Medical Statistics.
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Dr Hamid Mughal
Hamid is an internationally acclaimed Manufacturing Leader with over 32 years of experience in the Automotive and Aerospace Sectors. During this period he has held senior positions in a number of disciplines including, Product Engineering, Operations Management, Manufacturing Engineering & Technology, Supply Chain Management and Product Development of large scale programmes.
Fran Millar
Fran Millar holds a dual role as both Director of Business Operations
and Head of Winning Behaviours at Team Sky. Returning to head up
all the team’s “off bike” functions in 2015, her responsibilities include
overseeing the team’s marketing and communications strategy,
stakeholder management, and all the commercial and legal aspects
that come with running the world’s number one cycling team.
Faye McGuinness
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I joined Mind in 2015 to lead on the development and implementation of a Cabinet funded programme to address the mental health of emergency services employees. The Blue Light Programme now in its 3rd year, has delivered a range of interventions to staff and volunteers from ambulance, fire, police and search and rescue services across England and Wales. Now, as Head of Workplace Wellbeing Programmes, I not only lead on the strategy and development of Mind’s Workplace Wellbeing programmes but lead on one of our biggest employee mental health programmes to date. I head up the Heads Together Workplace Wellbeing programme at Mind, with funding from The Royal Foundation, The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry. This iconic programme looks to provide employers with easy access to best practice employee mental health resources and to empower employees with the tools they need to support themselves in the workplace. I am also leading on Mind’s response to the Stevenson-Farmer review of mental health and employers ‘Thriving at Work’, and am supporting a number of employers on how best to implement the core and enhanced standards, including the NHS.
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I am a huge music fan and can usually be found dancing at live gigs across the country, usually with many family members who are all just as music obsessed as me!
Emily Hutchinson
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I’m a Chartered Occupational Psychologist. I have my own business and provide consultancy to a range of organisations, but I feel very fortunate to have had a long-term partnership working with Atkins. I have always been interested in how organisations can create cultures which work with human nature rather than against it, whether that’s to improve safety, wellbeing, inclusivity or productivity. I hold academic positions alongside my consultancy, as I believe that staying in touch with the rigor of my profession is important to the quality of what I bring to clients.
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I started my working life as a computer programmer for John Lewis – I failed the aptitude test, but they liked me in interview, so I got the role (but I think the aptitude test was right!). Feeling in the ‘wrong job’, although I loved the organization, led me to leaving after three years to pursue my career in Psychology.
