Assignments and adventures

Unconscious Bias and the Management Consultant

The City Values Forum worked to embed the principles of trust and integrity in the financial and business services sector and to improve business cultures and behaviours.  It was formed in 2011 on the initiative of the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants, to deliver the recommendations of The Lord Mayor’s Initiative ‘Restoring Trust in the City’.  It was constituted as an informal working group reporting to successive Lord Mayors during their year in office.   The City Values Forum had three main priorities namely to:

John Watson reports:  "A wide audience from our own and other livery companies were privileged to hear contributions from two eminent speakers at our virtual Faith Group event on 23rd June.  We had thoughtful reflections by Bishop Graham Tomlin and Rabbi Jonathan Romain, both of whom spoke on the subject of “the longer-term impacts of the pandemic and the contribution that faith communities can make.”

Master Denise introduced the speakers and Bishop Graham kicked off, focusing on 4 areas where faith communities could have a role:

Nick Bush recalls the Master Elect's rock’n’roll years (and his):

On the 16^th July, several members, including the Master Elect, all of whom had been involved in various initiatives at Cass Centre for Charity Effectiveness (Cass CCE) over the past few years attended a Company sponsored reception at this Conference. Alex Skailes describes the whole conference:  

Frank Brown Reports on the recent FSG trip to China:

Therapy for wounded ex-service people, plus job assistance for those leaving the military...

My family lived in an apartment in an old 3-storey mansion in the school grounds...

And so a very seductive invitation from Patrick Chapman [Past Master and current Pro Bono Chairman] to something billed as a ‘Shop Talk’...

Reporting on the fun and learning of my first year of getting stuck in...