Live Webinar – February 25th 2021 7:30 am – 8:30 am EST
Live Webinar – February 25th 2021 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

By attending this webinar you will gain information on two case study projects in depth, Heathrow Expansion Programme and the Policing Uplift Programme (PUP), to demonstrate practical examples of inclusive working and project planning and delivery.

This session will open with a welcome from Karina Singh, Director of Transformation.  Following this welcome you will hear key information from;

Heathrow Expansion Programme

• Jenny McLaughlin, Project Manager

Policing Uplift Programme

• Alex Platts, Programme Manager Home Office
• John Chadwick, Home Office
• Janette McCormick, Deputy Chief Constable, National College of Policing

On the completion of these insights you will have an opportunity to ask the panel your questions.  The panel includes Karina Singh, Jenny McLaughlin, Alex Platts, and Janette McCormick

Presenters:

Karina Singh, (LinkedIn profile) Director of Transformation  joined the Civil Service in 1990. Her career has spanned a range of policy, front-line operational, change management and corporate roles in HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and HM Treasury, where she was head of the VAT Policy team. Karina has been involved in change delivery for the last 15 years, which has included setting up new teams and functions, organisation design changes, and leading a national transformation programme for a private sector engineering firm. Most recently, Karina has been Transformation Director at the Valuation Office Agency, where she led a complex five-year transformation portfolio of change.

Jenny McLaughlin, (LinkedIn profile) Project Manager / Lead for Heathrow’s Disability Network has worked within the airport industry for over 18 years. This began at East Midlands Airport as an Environment and Safeguarding Officer achieving ISO14001. The last 12 years have been at Heathrow Airport in a number of departments including Environment, Airside and now Infrastructure as a project manager. She has delivered a number of business changes, processes, & applications, to building a remote coaching gate in the middle of a live terminal.  Jenny is dyslexic and was recently diagnosed with ADHD and believes that “the way that my brain is wired differently is an asset”.

DCC Janette McCormick (LinkedIn profile) QPM Programme Director for the national PUP. She has previously worked in the College of Policing as Head of Standards and prior to that was Chief Constable at Cheshire Constabulary. She has served in Greater Manchester Police and Cheshire in a variety of operational and strategic roles. This has included leading on a number of change programmes including the development of shared services across forces and implementation of merged collaborative Police and Fire corporate services.  She sits on the national policing forum for Equality, Diversity and Human Rights and is spokesperson for Gypsies and Irish Traveller issues and until recently, Disabilities.

Alex Platts, (LinkedIn profile) Programme Manager and Deputy Head of Unit,  has been in the Civil Service for just over four years, with most of that time spent in project delivery at the HO. He has worked on IT projects, service transformation and delivery, as well as a stint on EU Exit No-Deal planning for the HO.  His first role in the Civil Service was in Operations Management with the CPS. Prior to that he was in the Army.  His role as the Programme Manager means coordinating the delivery of the PUP across the three constituent organisations: the HO; the NPCC; and the College of Policing. He also leads on policy for the future years of the programme, a great opportunity for a project professional.

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Embedding Inclusion Into Projects:
Heathrow & The Policing Uplift Programme (PUP)

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