WELCOME This event brings together a number of speakers from academia and industry. During the event there will be a mix of academic and practical workshops. Each session will explore a different aspect of leadership. There are two streams: Energy and Enterprise / Entrepreneurship. MBA students will attend the Enterprise / Entrepreneurship stream and the MBA Oil and Gas students the Energy stream. The event will be hosted in the modern facilities at Aberdeen Business School, Garthdee and the Faculty of Health and Social Care.

MBA SYNOPSIS OF EACH DAY:

May 20 17:00-19:00 H123 Allan Scott Welcome and Introduction

May 21 09:00-18:00 225 Allan Scott and

LeadCentric Leadership and Team Building

May 22-23 08:30-17:30 225 Phil Burge Business Simulation

Game

May 24 09:15-10:00 10:00-12:00 13:30-16:00 16:30-18:30

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226 226 225

Dr Rob Smith Ian Woodcock Gregor Rae Brian Nixon

Assignment Briefing Leadership Insights

May 25 09:15-10:00 10:00-12:30 13:30-15:45 16:30-18:00 19:00-22:30

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226 226 225

Professor David Gray Sara Budge Jeanette Forbes Tom Smith Trevor Garlick, President BP UK

Dissertation Briefing Leadership Insights Leadership Dinner

May 26

09:30-17:00 16:30-18:00

H223

H223

Professor Dennis Tourish / Professor Owen Hargie Dr Chris Gentle

Leadership, Communication and Change Leadership Insights

May 27 09:30-17:00 H223 Professor Owen Hargie /

Professor Dennis Tourish Leadership and Communication

May 28-29 09:00-17:30 225 Phil Burge Business Simulation

Game

MBA OIL AND GAS MANAGEMENT SYNOPSIS OF EACH DAY:

May 20 17:00-19:00 H123 Allan Scott Welcome and Introduction

May 21 09:00-18:00 225 Allan Scott and

LeadCentric Leadership and Team Building

May 22-23 08:30-17:30 225 Phil Burge Business Simulation

Game

May 24 09:15-10:00 10:00-12:30 14:00-16:00 16:30-18:30

225

225 225 225

Phil Burge Luca Corradi Richard Selwa Brian Nixon

Project Briefing PT and DL Leadership Insights

May 25 09:15-10:00 10:00-11:15 11:30-12:45 13:45-15:30 16:30-18:00 19:00-22:30

225

225 225 225

Dr Rob Smith Matthew Anderson Malcolm Webb Simon Seaton Tom Smith Trevor Garlick, President BP UK

Assignment Briefing Leadership Insights Leadership Dinner

May 26

09:30-17:00 16:30-18:00

H223

H223

Professor Dennis Tourish / Professor Owen Hargie Dr Chris Gentle

Leadership, Communication and Change Leadership Insights

May 27 09:30-17:00 H223 Professor Owen Hargie /

Professor Dennis Tourish Leadership and Communication

May 28-29 09:00-17:30 225 Phil Burge Business Simulation

Game

May 21 LEADERSHIP and TEAM BUILDING

09:00 ARRIVE ATRIUM

09:00 Welcome and Briefing - Matthew Anderson

“Leader/Follower Dynamics: Role of Perception Phenomena”

10:00 Team Activities

12:15 Lunch

13:15 Team Activities

17:00 Grand Finale

17:30 Reflection

Participants should bring warm outdoor clothing and appropriate footwear. It may rain.

May 24 IAN WOODCOCK

‘Venturing East of London’

Described as a serial entrepreneur Ian is an ex–paratrooper who has a long history of working in the high tech sector in the emerging economies of Russia and India. Companies he has founded include Sterilox (now Puricorp plc), Firestop, Hardide plc, Keronite and Intellikraft – (now Oxis Energy) and Flintstone (now Proventec plc). Three of the above have subsequently listed on the London Stock Exchange. He was Founder and Chairman of Ultra Motor Company Limited, a UK based electric vehicle company with a wholly owned Indian operation having 145 stores across India, winning the UKTi award for best new company entrant. Although now exited from UMC Ian has remained in India, lives in Delhi and is focusing on Indian start up and capital investment opportunities in the renewable energy space A persuasive communicator and inspirational team leader, Ian’s entrepreneurial drive and energy ensure a directed and disciplined approach to driving business partnerships. A charter member of Tie (The Indus entrepreneurs) Ian thoroughly enjoys the challenges of creating new businesses in exciting marketplaces. www.sterilox.com www.hardide.com www.proventecplc.com www.ultramotors.co.uk

MAY 24

RICHARD SELWA

‘Investment Den’

Richard has 20 years oil and gas experience. He is a serial entrepreneur who has started, built and successfully sold companies. Over the years Richard has raised over £30m from institutions and lenders. Richard is currently Chairman and CEO of R&A Energy and Chairman and Founder of Unmanned Production Buoy (UPB) Limited. Richard previously founded the Oil and Gas conglomerate Vienco Group Ltd which included Altra Energy Limited, Vienco Hydrocarbons Limited, Oilflow Solutions Limited (co-founder in JV). Richard has also founded and chaired various industry bodies: OCA SME Group, IChemE Aberdeen Branch and LOGIC. He was also instrumental in founding Aberdeen University’s Chemical Engineering School and UK Norway Advisory Group. Richard’s first degree was in Chemical Engineering from the University of Bradford. He obtained an MBA from the Robert Gordon University / Aberdeen University in 1995.

May 24 GREGOR RAE

‘The Art of the Pitch: From Hollywood to Holyrood’

Chairman and CEO of BusinessLab (And graduate of the Robert Gordon Institute of Technology)

Gregor Rae is a strategist with over 20 years experience in corporate and product positioning, marketing and communications. He has worked extensively in sectors such as energy, food, finance, engineering, transport, retail and education in the UK, Scandinavia and North America. He has also advised governments in the UK and overseas on competitive strategy and public private sector partnership. In his presentation Gregor will examine the thinking behind some of the great pitches of our time. Drawing on his own wide ranging business experience in marketing, design and competitive strategy over 30-years, Gregor will describe both success and failure along the way. As the founder of three groundbreaking businesses, Gregor has been involved in pitching a myriad of concepts and campaigns - from politics to products; from services to solutions: from companies to communities. Gregor will share with us some of his thoughts on what it takes to create a compelling, memorable and effective pitch. For information about BusinessLab go to http://www.businesslab.co.uk/ <http://www.businesslab.co.uk/>

May 24 LUCA CORRADI AND JULIE ADAMS, ACCENTURE

‘Building trust and closing gaps between NOCs and I OCs’

JULIE ADAMS

Julie Adams leads Accenture’s Energy Global Research team, and also directly supports client work for national and multinational oil companies. Julie has authored and co-authored a number of articles on the oil and gas industry, and has extensive worldwide oil and gas experience, including strategic work with major, national and independent oil and gas companies around the world.

LUCA CORRADI

Luca Corradi leads the Accenture Aberdeen Energy practice. He has an extensive background in management consulting for Upstream Energy companies globally. He lived and worked in many oil producing countries helping both IOCs and NOCs managing transformational change projects.

May 24 BRIAN NIXON, DECOM NORTH SEA

‘Decommissioning by Consensus in the North Sea’

Brian Nixon’s career i the energy industries spans more than 25 years with private sector engineering organisations, including Motherwell Bridge and Wood Group. Brian also has 9 years of public sector experience which started with an UK industry secondment as 1st Secretary, Oil & Gas, to the British Embassy in Angola in 2001, followed by a long period as Director of Energy with Scottish Enterprise. He accepted his role as Chief Executive with Decom North Sea at the beginning of 2010. Brian is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and a Fellow of the Energy Institute.

May 25 MALCOLM WEBB

‘Leadership Challenges for a Trade Association’

Malcolm Webb is the Chief Executive of Oil & Gas UK. A graduate of Liverpool University and a lawyer by profession, he has extensive senior management experience in both the upstream and downstream oil industry, gained in the UK and abroad. Malcolm began his oil industry career with Burmah Oil in 1974, and went on to work in a series of senior roles for the British National Oil Corporation, Charterhouse Petroleum Plc and PetroFina SA. Prior to joining Oil & Gas UK (then called UKOOA) in February 2004, Malcolm spent three years as Director General of the UK Petroleum Industry Association, representing the UK oil refining and marketing sector. Since joining Oil & Gas UK he has led the organisation through two major change programmes to enable it to become the leading trade association for the UK offshore oil and gas industry. Malcolm Webb is a member of PILOT, the Government / Industry forum which aims to secure the long-term future of the UK upstream oil and gas industry. He is also a director of OPITO (the UK oil and gas industry skills academy) and chairman of Common Data Access Limited (the UK industry body which facilitates access to UK geo-technical data). He divides his time mainly between London and Aberdeen.

May 25 SARA BUDGE

‘Public-Private Leadership Challenges’

Sara Budge, formerly Director of Company Growth, Innovation and Commercialisation with Scottish Enterprise ( Aberdeen City & Shire) , was appointed as Project Director Energetica just before Christmas 2010. An economics and politics graduate of the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Sara completed her education with a 2 year self funded 'on a shoestring' world tour, followed by an MBA. She married a handsome Scotsman and moved to Aberdeen and the village of Footdee in 93 / in the 90s. She has over 20 years experience in both the private and public sectors. Before joining Scottish Enterprise she was involved in multimillion partnership projects as a Senior Business Director with BT Global Services. She has held senior positions in ICT, local government, health and education fields. The drivng force of her career - being passionate to make a difference and bring real and lasting change.

May 25

SIMON SEATON

‘Business Ethics: Some Cases from Halliburton’

Simon Seaton is Halliburton’s Country Vice President for the U.K. Based in Aberdeen, Scotland, Mr. Seaton is responsible for daily leadership and operations including Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) issues and for sales and service delivery across the country. Prior to his current role, Mr. Seaton served as director of Project Management within the Software and Asset Solutions product service line. Since joining Halliburton in 1990 as a drilling fluids engineer in Aberdeen, he has held technical, business development and management positions in Aberdeen and Houston, as well as in Port Harcourt and Lagos, Nigeria. In 2003, he established the Surface Solutions sub-product line within Baroid Fluid Services and, during that time, he completed two acquisitions as part of the development of that new service offering. He later served as the director of marketing and development for the Fluids Division. Mr. Seaton graduated from the University of Wales in Cardiff with a degree in chemistry and is a 2006 graduate of Halliburton’s President’s Leadership Excellence Program. He is also an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and, over the course of his career, has authored more than 18 technical papers and trade journal articles on diverse subjects such as drilling fluid technology, environmental issues and knowledge management.

May 25 MATTHEW ANDERSON

Matthew is the founder of LeadCentric, a leadership development and organisational behaviour consultancy supporting the Energy, Defence, Public, Academic and third sectors, from London to Azerbaijan. He also runs the Executive Leadership retreat at the Chateau de Beaulieu in South West France. Matthew is a former Officer in The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) and has served in Northern Ireland, Iraq, Cyprus and Africa. He was several times Royal Guard to HM The Queen. Latterly, Matthew’s Army career focused on training, as a Master Coach and Head of Training at a Junior Leaders College. He has delivered successful training programmes from Cambridgeshire to Basra. Matthew is an Associate Lecturer at The Robert Gordon University in the field of Leadership Studies. Matthew also supports senior management at the university in the design and implementation of leadership themed initiatives.

May 25

JEANETTE FORBES

‘An Entrepreneurial Spirit’

An ex-Aberdeen College student, whose enthusiasm knows no bounds, is a shining example of a woman who has had to fight to get where she is and work harder than her male equivalents to prove she can do the job. Jeanette started her working career as a receptionist, gained promotion to secretary and by the time she reached the position of personal assistant, was already identified as a person who was reliable and ‘got things done’. She was eventually promoted to systems administrator and soon proved herself to be extremely competent, but in order to be considered for further promotion, Jeanette realised she would have to gain qualifications. Jeanette ended up attending college one day a week to obtain her degree and going back into work on a Saturday to make up the time for her employer. Once qualified, Jeanette was head-hunted by a number of organisations and earned the reputation of being honest, committed and most of all efficient at getting projects finished ahead of schedule, finally ending up as IT Systems Manager for ESL Group, in charge of multiple sites between Inverness and Newcastle. Jeanette was made redundant in 1999 when the offshore sector suffered a downturn and made the decision, with the backing of her family and business advisors, to start her own business. Initially working from home it soon became apparent that the business was too much for one person so she decided to expand and employ full and part-time staff. Today PCL Group is a total IT service provider to four main industry sectors, Offshore, Marine, Commercial and Industrial and has recently completed work scopes associated with Renewable Energy. Their work includes a number of onshore and offshore based projects working with “blue-chip” companies.

Hard to believe but when PCL Group was incorporated she had £100 in her pocket and no access to a computer due to financial hardship and worked from the Aberdeen City library inserting one pound coins into the workstations to gain access to the various websites to register the company with companies house, purchase the domain name portlethen.com and complete work scopes which were beginning to emerge through her existing reputation in the IT sector. Jeanette continues to manage PCL Group and appreciates that she has a very loyal and committed team of staff providing her with the support she needs to develop the business even further. Jeanette Forbes has achieved a significant amount of local and national industry awards throughout the 11 years she has been in business and is recognised as a leading woman in the field of Science, Engineering & Technology winning the Prowess award for SET in 2008 for the UK followed one year later by receiving the award for Enterprising Woman for SET for the UK in 2009. Jeanette is Chairperson for the Children 1st Business Group a charity which works to give every child in Scotland a safe and secure childhood, she is a board member for Aberdeen Foyer, a member of the Business Committee for TechFest and a partner of the Women into ICT project with Aberdeen College. Firmly believing that PCL Group should put something back into the community from which they take a living. In 2008 Jeanette was selected and awarded by the Scottish Chambers of Commerce and the First Minister Alex Salmond as a “business champion” for the mentoring program and is currently mentoring 3 fledgling companies including Pixie Productions a company owned by singer Fiona Kennedy. Jeanette Forbes is a management team member of ACSEF Aberdeen City and Shire Economic Forum working with the business leaders of today to shape the city and business community for tomorrow and encourage entrepreneurial excellence. She was made an honorary member of the Nautical Institute last year for her work associated with the marine industry in-particular offshore supply vessels in Scotland and other parts of the world and was received as a Burgess of the City of Aberdeen in December 2010 by the Lord Provost and the Dean of Guild. As a “woman working in a man’s world” Jeanette firmly believes that at all cost you should aspire to become “a first class woman and not a second class man.”

May 25 TOM SMITH

‘Leadership Challenges at NESSCO’

Tom is the Executive Chairman and a founder of Nessco Group Holdings Ltd – one of the UK’s largest independent providers of telecommunication services and solutions to the global O&G industry. Nessco Group’s headquarters is in Aberdeen but also has operations in Baku, Azerbaijan and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The company employs over 140 staff from its custom built premises in Westhill which also accommodates Nessco’s Satellite Earth Station providing Vsat links to numerous offshore locations in the UKCS and far beyond. Nessco is active in projects across the globe and is currently delivering complex telecom networks on and offshore in locations such as Brazil, Peru, Australia, West Africa and the Middle East. Tom was born and educated in Aberdeen – and qualified in Electronics from Southampton. He began is career as an Electronics Officer in the Merchant Navy before moving back to participate in the then emerging offshore O&G industry in the late 1970’s. He was co-chair of Oil & Gas UK - the industry’s representative body and also a former member of the Government/Industry body PILOT, charged with optimizing oil and gas production in the UK. Tom is also a non executive director of Univation Ltd, the commercial arm of The Robert Gordon University.

Tom was previously President of the Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce. He was awarded the Regional Director of the Year award by the Institute of Directors for 2006 and was also awarded the Sir Alick Buchanan-Smith Award – for Personal Achievement in the Scottish Offshore Achievement Awards in Feb 2005. In November 2008 Tom received an honorary doctorate in Technology from The Robert Gordon University. He also became Aberdeen’s first Oil Baron in 2007 In 2008 he became Chairman of ACSEF (Aberdeen City & Shire Economic Future), the public-private sector partnerships charged with delivering economic development in the North East of Scotland. Tom is involved with several charities namely : CLIC Sargent, CLAN (Cancer Link Aberdeen & North) and Cash for Kids (CFK).

May 26 CHRIS GENTLE

Chris Gentle is Partner in Charge, Research (EMEA) at Deloitte -- the global professional services firm. Based in London, he is responsible for research operations across Europe, Middle East and Africa and globally for financial services. He specialises in financial services, M&A and offshoring and European competitiveness. Prior to Deloitte, Gentle held the position of Director, Research and Strategy at KPMG. He has consulted for many large corporations including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Unilever, IBM, Philips, GM, Nestle, Diageo, Lloyds Banking Group and Prudential. He is on the board of the British Swiss Chamber of Commerce, and has also been non-executive board director at IFA Promotion, Director of Financial Services at The Henley Centre and a consultant to the European Commission. Author of two books- the Financial Services Industry (Avebury) and After Liberalisation: a vision of Europe (Macmillan) and over 450 articles, he is a frequent commentator contributing to CNN, BBC, CNBC, Bloomberg, Financial Times, The Economist and the Wall Street Journal. He holds a BSc (Hons) from Manchester Polytechnic, a doctorate from University of Newcastle and was a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and Moscow State University.

May 26 and 27

PROFESSOR DENNIS TOURISH

‘Leadership and Change’

Dennis Tourish is a Professor of Leadership and Fellow of the Leadership Trust Foundation at Kent Business School. He has published over 60 papers and book chapters, and co-authored or co-edited six books, in this area. He has worked at several Universities in his career, and has regularly consulted with senior management teams on leadership, strategy and communication issues.

PROFESSOR OWEN HARGIE

‘Leadership and Communication’

Owen Hargie is Professor of Communication at the University of Ulster. He is also Associate Professor at the University of Chester and Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is an Associate Fellow and Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society, a founding Executive Council Member of the European Communication Association, and an Elected Member of the exclusive Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. He has published 20 books, 50 book chapters and well over 100 major papers on communication and has presented at numerous international conferences. Owen is widely regarded as one of the foremost authorities on communication in Europe. He has worked with many companies on communication and leadership issues during his career.