CISHRP Annual Conference
Friday, May 20th, 2022
Kimpton Seafire Resort & Spa
As the largest gathering of HR Professionals in the Cayman Islands, the CISHRP Annual Conference delivered yet another unforgettable experience where attendees had the opportunity to learn, grow and network with their peers. Attendees had the opportunity to listen to renowned international speakers and local speakers, where they learned from each other during educational sessions, networking breaks and closing reception.
This year’s conference was designed to benefit HR Professionals from all businesses and all industries across the Cayman Islands. This year’s focus was on ‘The Great Re-‘ , where the topics covered how HR professionals can re-design, re-align, re-frame, re-invent, re-imagine, and re-focus HR in the Cayman Islands.
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Meet the Speakers
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Speaker - Ormond Williams
Ormond A. Williams, is a banker by profession with extensive retail and commercial banking experience. His 37 years multi-jurisdictional banking experience covered St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Belize and the United Kingdom with Barclays Bank Plc and the Cayman Islands with a Cayman National Bank. In both organizations, he has served at senior/executive management levels, including President/CEO and Executive Director. He holds an MBA from the University of Liverpool, UK. His banking, management and business qualifications are from the Chartered Institute of Bankers, UK (now London Institute of Banking and Finance where he is a Fellow), the University of Manchester, UK and the University of the West Indies, Barbados respectively. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management, UK and holds the Accredited Director designation from the Chartered Governance Institute of Canada. He sits on various local boards and commissions.Mr Williams is the Founder, Managing Director and Principal Consultant of OAWilliams Consulting, a boutique management consulting company focused on leadership and people development consulting, training, assessment and coaching. OAWilliams Consulting is the exclusive International Partner in the Cayman Islands for FranklinCovey and the Authorized Partner in the Cayman Islands for Everything DiSC™, PXT Select™ and The Five Behaviors™, Wiley brands. Mr. Williams is also a John Maxwell Team certified coach, trainer and speaker.
Speaker - Lorna Murphy
Lorna Murphy is a Personal and Business Coach and Learning & Development specialist with over 20 years of experience in both the public and private sector.With a passion for human development, motivation and success, she has trained in Psychology, Personal and Business Coaching, NLP, Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy in an academic and practice career spanning more than two decades. Lorna is the President of the board for CIPCA – the Cayman Islands Professional Coaches Association – which seeks to increase the awareness and professionalism of the coaching profession in Cayman.
An advocate for Mental Health awareness and the provision of services to support each person’s inner challenges, Lorna seeks to change the perceptions and reduce the stigmas surrounding mental illness through her work with ‘I Am Here’. Lorna has an innate passion for coaching and training, weaving together theories in neuroscience, psychology, coaching and her own diverse personal experience. She tailors each program to encourage others to find their unique purpose and relieve them of their perceived limitations. Throughout her career she has focused on the importance of implementing structures within the work environment including group and individual training and coaching, motivation, and leadership development whilst imparting the importance of corporate cultural evolution to provide the best possible experience for those working within each company so they can best advocate to their clients.
Lorna is a member of the International Coaching Federation, a graduate of the University of Liverpool, holds Coaching certifications from the Neuroleadership’s Brain-Based Coaching and the Irish Lifecoach. She has a teaching qualification from Cambridge University and is a certified facilitator for ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ through associateship with OAWilliams Consulting, the FranklinCovey Authorized Partner in the Cayman Islands.
Speaker - Amrita Bhalla
Amrita is an accomplished HR executive with over 20 years of experience. In 2015, Amrita founded A.B. Consulting, specializing in HR advisory services across a multitude of sectors, including hospitality and tourism. The company’s portfolio also specializes in workforce development initiatives for the Caribbean. Her professional background includes executive HR roles in the luxury hospitality industry with Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Oberoi Hotels and Resorts and Belmond Hotels. She has lived and worked in Canada, Bermuda, United Kingdom, Thailand and India and has a broad range of geographic experience.Amrita sits on the Advisory Board Member for Women in Tourism and Hospitality in Canada (WITH.org). She is a Board Member for the Caribbean Hospitality and Tourism Association Education Fund (CHTAEF). Amrita is also a mentor with Ignite Bermuda, a local entrepreneurial accelerator. She is also Board President of the Rosedale – Moore Park Association (RMPA), a Toronto not-for-profit that supports children’s education, sports and recreational programming.
Amrita joined the Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism at Ryerson University in 2015, teaching Human Resources Management, Organizational Behaviour and Strategic Hospitality Management. Amrita holds a Masters in Industrial Relations (MIR) and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Queens University, Canada. She is based in Toronto, Canada.
Speaker - Helen Goodier
Helen Goodier began her career with the multinational Unilever in communication/marketing, before moving to SMEs. She became an Executive Director (C-Suite) of several SMEs, and later took on leadership roles with not-for-profit organisations.Helen qualified as a Leadership Coach 15 years ago and works with global leaders. Throughout her career she has been passionate about Gender Equality at work and co-authored the second edition of Coaching Women to Lead (Taylor Francis), which was published last month (featured by HR Magazine on International Women’s Day).
Helen is also a global mentor for a program for young entrepreneurs around the world.
Speaker - Eric Jenkinson
Eric has worked in the field of business improvement for the past 30 years. He provides support and guidance in organisational culture, change management and Leadership skills development and has worked throughout Europe, North America, Bermuda and the Caribbean in both the Private and Public sectors. He brings drive, energy and strong Emotional Intelligence skills to each project that he facilitates.Eric is highly experienced in the use of Business improvement models and in particular the Investors in People Framework. His successes in Cayman include CUC Gold level Accreditation, DCI Cayman Government Gold level Accreditation and Steppingstones Recruitment Platinum level Accreditation and winner of International I.I.P. ‘Best Small Platinum Company in the World Award’.
Eric is Ambassador for the Amy Foundation a Cape Town based charity which provides after school education and meals to over 2,000 underprivileged children and youths every day. The charity provides education on Drug Awareness, HIV Aids, Social Skills, Sport, Arts and Crafts and Skills for Employment.
Speaker - Itiel Dror
Itiel Dror (Ph.D. Harvard) is a cognitive neuroscientist who is interested in the cognitive architecture that underpins learning and development, decision making, and human performance –specifically, how we can impact human behavior and increase performance. Dror’s research, published in over 130 research articles, demonstrates how judgments and decision are made and why ‘smart people do stupid things’. He has worked in a variety of domains, from HR, banking and finance, to policing, aviation, and medical decision making, showing that even hard-working and competent professionals can make unintentional errors. Dr. Dror translates cognitive neuroscience academic knowledge of the brain to practical everyday problems in the real world.More information is available at: www.cci-hq.com.
Speaker - Brian G. Bachand
Brian G. Bachand is living proof that life is an evolution.His own journey from being a priest to then an executive in New York City, Toronto and now founder of his own company evolution evolution.
He inspires professional leaders and organizations to shift from a believe of “what is the work” to “what is the mission” before them. He engages with leaders who feel isolated to align fully with clarity. His expertise in team management and recruitment of top-tier talent brings a refined insight on how to build a conscious culture within organizations.
Brian served as Executive Director at both NYU Langone Health and University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, raising millions from investors. As Partner in Executive Search his mandate was on global recruitment for VP – CEO roles within NFP and Private Sector. His own firm, evolution evolution unites it all.
Speaker - Steve McIntosh
Through the lessons learned during his own 20 year career as a globe-trotting chartered accountant, HR professional and entrepreneur, Steve McIntosh, CEO of CareerPoint.com, explains the eight “atomic elements” of value that boost or limit our professional career success.
Steve McIntosh is a chartered accountant (ICAEW), HR professional (GPHR) and MBA (University of Oxford). After starting his career with global accounting firm KPMG in 1998, Steve founded offshore financial services recruitment firm CML in 2004. In 2020, he founded CareerPoint.com, a virtual coaching platform that helps companies and their people get ahead of the curve.
Meet the Panelists
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Speaker - Nancy Barnard
Nancy Barnard is from Montego Bay, Jamaica, and has lived in the Cayman Islands since early childhood. She is Deputy Chief Officer for the Officer of the Commissioner of Police and Manager of the Secretariat for the Police Services Commission. In the private sector previously as the Business Development & Marketing Manager at Mourant, Nancy has principally been a public servant, serving for 18 years variously as Deputy Chief Officer for the Ministry of Health, Environment, Culture & Housing, Acting Director at the Mosquito Research & Control Unit, Director of the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands, and Assistant Social Worker.She has a Master of Arts from the University of Leicester, England, a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University, Canada, and her teacher’s certification/DipEd from the University College of the Cayman Islands, where she also served as an Adjunct Professor of the Visual Arts.
A long-time mentor annually with the Chamber of Commerce’s programmes Mentorship Cayman and Leadership Cayman (Class of 2012), Nancy developed the Internship programme at the Ministry of Health and is passionate about the development and leadership capabilities of youth. Nancy previously served as the Focal Point for Health and Climate Change for the Cayman Islands and served on the boards of several organisations including: the Health Services Authority, the Health Insurance Commission, the National Gallery, the National Cultural Foundation, the National Museum and the Tourism Attraction Board.
Nancy is passionate about health/wellness, the arts (and where these two subject fields intersect), culture/heritage, the environment and generally “living lighter on the earth”, the rights of women and children, reading and writing. She is strongly family-oriented, is married to Ian and they have two children, Luke and Jade.
Speaker - Louise Reed
Louise Reed, Managing Director of CML Recruitment is a recruitment industry professional with over 22 years of experience in HR, talent acquisition, training & development and career guidance/development. Louise’s successes have allowed her to expand the CML Group with the founding of both Nova Recruitment in 2016 and, most recently, co-founder of Connect by Nova in 2020, a NPO focusing on career development and training for the local community in Cayman.Louise has a Bachelors degree in Business and Finance, as well as completing executive programmes in Leadership at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School
Louise is passionate about diversity and inclusivity and is committed to supporting the talent development and retention of aspirational individuals. She was the founding member of NPO Gender Equality Cayman and served with the CISHRP Board for six years.
Speaker - Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson is the creator of “The Bhranding Equation” (Branding + HR = “Bhranding”), a custom business framework designed to help companies tear down the silos between their branding and HR teams and replace those silos with powerful organizational synergies.Ron is also the author of the book Tighten Your Shoelaces and the co-founder and Managing Director of Blueprint Creative, the world’s first “Bhranding”, communications and design agency.
Ron has coached business professionals in Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, The Cayman Islands, The US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, The USA, Mexico and Malaysia.
Under Ron’s leadership, Blueprint Creative has won several awards (including two “Best of Print” awards) at the Caribbean leg of the American Advertising Awards, and three Barbados’ Best Employers Awards for its highly engaged company culture and HR practices.
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