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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brian G. Bachand is living proof that life is an evolution.
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.
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.
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.
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.