MBA Leadership Week 2012

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

MBA OIL AND GAS MANAGEMENT

SYNOPSIS OF EACH DAY:

SYNOPSIS OF EACH DAY:

May 18 17:00-19:00

ABS

Allan Scott

Welcome and Introduction

May 18 17:00-19:00

ABS

Allan Scott

Welcome and Introduction

May 19 09:00-18:00

225

Allan Scott and LeadCentric

Leadership and Team Building

May 19 09:00-18:00

225

Allan Scott and LeadCentric

Leadership and Team Building

May 20-21 08:30-17:30

225

Phil Burge

Business Simulation Game

May 20-21 08:30-17:30

225

Phil Burge

Business Simulation Game

May 22 09:00-9:45

226

Allan Scott

Dissertation Briefing (DL/PT)

May 22 09:00-9:45

225

Dr Rob Smith

Assignment Briefing

10:00-12:30 14:00-16:00 16:30-18:00

226 226 225

Matthew Anderson Fraser Moonie Sir Ian Wood

Leadership Insights

10:00-12:00 14:00-16:00 16:30-18:30

225 225 225

Dave Workman Luca Corradi & Melissa Stark Sir Ian Wood

Leadership Insights

May 23 09:00-9:45

226

Dr Rob Smith

Assignment Briefing

May 23 09:00-9:45

225

Professor David Gray

Project Briefing (DL/PT)

10:00-12:00 14:00-15:15 16:30-18:00

226 226 225

Neil Poxon Hamish MacLeod Jim Milne

Leadership Insights

10:00-12:00 14:00-16:00 16:30-18:00

225 225 225

Paul De Leeuw Bob Lauder Jim Milne

Leadership Insights

May 24 09:30-17:00

H223

Professor Dennis Tourish / Professor Owen Hargie

Leadership and Change

May 24 09:30-17:00

H223

Professor Dennis Tourish / Professor Owen Hargie

Leadership and Change

H223

Professor Owen Hargie / Professor Dennis Tourish

Leadership and Communication

H223

Professor Owen Hargie / Professor Dennis Tourish

Leadership and Communication

Leo Koot

Leadership Dinner

19:00-23:00

Leo Koot

Leadership Dinner

Phil Burge

Business Simulation Game

May 26-27 09:00-17:30

Phil Burge

Business Simulation Game

May 25 09:30-17:00

19:00-23:00 May 26-27 09:00-17:30

225

May 25 09:30-17:00

225

MAY 19

MAY 22

LEADERSHIP and TEAM BUILDING

MATTHEW ANDERSON

09:00 ARRIVE ATRIUM

Leadership Consultant

09:00 Welcome and Briefing - 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.

“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

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.

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

MAY 22

MAY 22

FRASER MOONIE

DAVE WORKMAN

Managing Director, Bibby Offshore

Chief Operating Officer, Stork Technical Services

Fraser was born just outside Motherwell in 1969. A product of Dalziel High School Fraser attended Glasgow Caledonian University where he gained a BSc Degree in Quantity Surveying.

Dave Workman has held a number of senior positions in both exploration and production companies and contractor organisations. He was a founding director of Tuscan Energy and was chief executive of PGS Production.

Dave has provided management consultancy support to a number of oil and gas companies including Cairn Energy.

Following graduation in 1991 Fraser joined the onshore construction industry as a Quantity Surveyor where he worked for a number of years before entering the Oil and Gas industry. In 1996 he became a Chartered Surveyor after being accepted as a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. In 1997 Fraser joined major subsea contractor Technip working predominantly in the commercial aspects of the business and laterally as Manager of Tendering.

In 2003 Fraser joined Bibby Offshore as Commercial Manager, being promoted quickly to Commercial Director then Managing Director in 2010 responsible for the management of trading businesses. Fraser also sits on the board of the industry body; Subsea UK. Fraser obtained his MBA from Robert Gordon University in 2011.

Dave became chief executive officer of RBG in 2009. RBG was a leading multidiscipline support partner to the global energy industry, delivering tangible value to operators and contractors through the construction, upgrade, maintenance, operation and abandonment phases of energy assets. In 2010 RBG had revenues of c.ÂŁ300 million.

In 2011 RBG was acquired by Stork Technical Services. Stork Technical Services, part of the Stork Group, is a global provider of knowledge-based Asset Integrity Management services for the Oil & Gas, Power and Chemical sectors.

STS employs 15000 employees worldwide and has footprints in the UK, Mainland Europe, Americas, Middle East and Asia Pacific.

MAY 22 MELISSA STARK Clean Energy Lead, Accenture Energy Melissa Stark is the Clean Energy lead for Accenture’s energy industry group. She has 18 years experience in working across all sectors of the energy industry. She now focuses on investment and decision support and supply chain in alternative transportation fuels and renewable energy including bioenergy, electrification of transport, offshore wind and carbon management.

Melissa is currently Assistant Chair to the Technology Task Group of the National Petroleum Council’s Future of Transportation Fuels Study commissioned by Energy Secretary Chu. The study is technology focused looking at different engine/platform/fuel options for the United States to 2050 including advanced engines and platforms, biofuels, electrification, natural gas, and hydrogen and fuel cell vehicles. She will also Chair the Biofuels session at the World Petroleum Congress in Doha in December 2011.

Melissa has also authored numerous studies including “The National Oil Company- Transforming the Competitive Landscape for Global Energy” published in 2006. She authored Accenture’s two biofuels studies, “Irrational Exuberance- A Supply Perspective” published in 2007 and “Biofuels’ Time of Transition - Achieving High Performance in a World of Increasing Fuel Diversity” published in 2008. In 2009, she published, “Betting on Science. Disruptive Technologies in Transport Fuels” - a study that compared a number of competing technologies, the companies bringing the technologies to market and the alternative energy activity in 10 countries. Earlier this year, Melissa’s latest papers “US China Race to Disruptive Technologies” and “Changing the Game” (examination of electrification pilots) were published. In 2010, she filed a patent for the methodology and tools developed by her team on valuing technology uncertainty using “Real-time S-curves.”

Melissa has a MBA with Distinction (Honours) from J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management with an emphasis in Transportation Management (Transportation Management is programme with McCormick School of Engineering). She was the recipient of Transportation Management Top Student Award. She also has a Bachelor in Science (Honours) in Finance from the Haas School at the University of California at Berkeley. She was the recipient of the Finance Award.

LUCA CORRADI Partner, Accenture Energy 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 22 SIR IAN WOOD, CBE, BSc., LL.D, DBA, DTech, CBIM, Fscotvec, FCIB Chairman, John Wood Group PLC Born and educated in Aberdeen, Ian Wood graduated from Aberdeen University in 1964 with a First Class Honours Degree in Psychology. In 1984 he was awarded an Honorary Degree of LL.D from Aberdeen University, an Honorary DBA from Robert Gordon University (RGU), Aberdeen in 1998 and in 2002 an Honorary Doctor of Technology from Glasgow Caledonian University.

Chairman and Chief Executive, John Wood Group PLC since January 1982 and Chairman since January 2007, the company is quoted on the LSE and employs 39,000 people in 50 countries worldwide with annual sales of US$6bn. Chairman of J W Holdings Limited, one of Scotland’s largest fishing groups and Chancellor of Robert Gordon University.

Current and past appointments: membership of PILOT (joint Government/Oil & Gas Industry Initiative) and joint Chairman of the Oil & Gas Industry Leadership Team; Chairman of Scottish Enterprise; Chairman of the British Trade International Oil & Gas Export Board (previously OSO); member of the Scottish Sea Fisheries Council.

Awards: Joint winner of Scottish Business Achievement Award Trust in 1992; winner of the Service Category Award in 1992 Corporate Elite Leadership Awards: Elite “World Player” Award from Business Insider in 1996; Chief Executive of the Year Award from Business Insider/PriceWaterhouseCoopers in 2003; Entrepreneurial Exchange Philanthropist of the Year award in 2008; inducted into the Offshore Energy Centre’s Hall of Fame, Houston in 2009; awarded the Energy Institute’s Cadman Medal in 2010; and received the SCDI President's Award in November 2011.

He was awarded the CBE in the 1982 New Year's Honours List and a Knighthood in 1994.

Chairman of The Wood Family Trust, established by Sir Ian and family in 2007, a Scottish-based charity with a global outlook.

MAY 23

MAY 23

PAUL DE LEEUW

NEIL POXON

Strategy Director, Centrica Energy Upstream

Managing Director, ITF

Paul is the strategy director for Centrica Energy upstream.

Neil graduated from Sheffield University in 1988 with an honours degree in Chemical Process Engineering with Fuel Technology.

The upstream arm of Centrica Energy was created in January 2010. It has a growing business in the UK, Netherlands, Norway and Trinidad primarily focused on the consolidation of mature and orphaned assets. Centrica Energy are the 7th largest producer in the UKCS and hold the 3rd largest net acreage in this region.

Centrica Energy produce about 150,000 boe/d.

Over the next 3 years Centrica Energy have a potential ÂŁ2 billion new investments.

After university he joined TR Oil Services as the company's first graduate employee. In 1989 TR posted Neil to the Middle East and in 1990 Neil joined Baker Petrolite where he rose to the position of Middle East District Manager, before leaving to become Middle East Regional Manager for Champion Technologies.

In 2000 Neil returned to the UK as Regional Manager of CETCO Oilfield Services. As the only UK based employee Neil was tasked with launching and developing the business in the UK, as well as creating a wider Eastern Hemisphere market for the US based company. In 2006 CETCO Oilfield Services had 42 people based at its regional HQ in Aberdeen servicing clients in the UK, Norway, Kazakhstan, Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific Regions.

In June 2006 Neil was appointed Managing Director of ITF. Established in 1999 ITF identifies the exploration and production (E&P) technology needs of its members and helps foster the development and implementation of new technologies into the oilfield through JIPs with up to 100% funding available for successful, innovative technology proposals. In the six years since Neil joined ITF he has been responsible for bringing a global vision to ITF, successfully creating and delivering a service company engagement programme, increasing ITF membership by more than 50% and pro-actively ensuring ITF effectively delivers its members technology needs. Neil has also been instrumental in raising the profile of ITF and ensuring the organisation is recognised as an authoritative voice on technology development for the oil and gas industry. Neil is also a Subsea UK board member.

MAY 23

MAY 23

BOB LAUDER

HAMISH MACLEOD

Health and Safety Policy Manager, Oil & Gas UK

Head of Integration at Lloyds Banking Group's Insurance Division

Bob is the Health & Safety Policy Manager with Oil & Gas UK. He has worked in upstream oil and gas safety since leaving the Fire Service in 1977. He spent 13 years in offshore safety roles with Operators and a Drilling Contractor before moving into an onshore supervisory position in 1990. From 1994 to 2008, Bob held HSE management positions with two operating companies and a major engineering contractor. In 2008 he moved into independent safety consultancy where his prime client was Tullow Oil based in London. During that period Bob provided direct support to the Tullow senior leadership team and also supported major development projects in Ghana and Uganda. Bob joined Oil & Gas UK in January 2011.

In his current role Bob provides a key communication link between the industry and the Regulator. He also leads the activities of the industry Health & Safety Forum and the Major Hazards Forum. Bob led the development of recent OGUK publications on Ageing & Life Extension and Operational Risk Assessment.

Hamish has a BSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Glasgow.

He served in the British Army from 1973 to 1999 as a commanding officer.

After leaving the Army Hamish became a consultant and through this roll helped a number of companies including the Royal Bank of Scotland, ntl/Telewest, UK Ministry of Defence, Metropolitan Police Service, BAE Systems, Scottish Media Group and the BBC. Hamish is currently the head of integration at Lloyds Banking Group’s insurance division.

MAY 23 JIM MILNE Chairman and Managing Director, Balmoral Group Holdings Ltd Balmoral Group is an Aberdeenbased polymer engineering company. A respected international entrepreneur, Jim founded the company in 1980.

Employing approximately 400 people the privately owned Group provides design and manufacturing solutions to the subsea, energy, civil and environmental engineering sectors.

Born in Aberdeen in 1940, Mr Milne was awarded the CBE in 1994; received an honorary doctorate from Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University in 1999 and was made Burgess of Guild in the City of Aberdeen during 2004. Mr Milne became Deputy Lieutenant of Aberdeen City in January 2007 and received a Degree Honoris Causa from the University of Aberdeen in 2008. In 2011, he was inducted into the Entrepreneurial Exchange’s Hall of Fame.

Mr Milne is a member of the Entrepreneurial Exchange, a member of the Northeast Committee and Fellow of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry and Chairman of the Friends of ANCHOR, a fundraising body which supports cancer care and research at Grampian University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Balmoral Group Balmoral Group was established in 1980 with five employees, designing and manufacturing glass reinforced plastic products. Today, Balmoral is recognised as a leading global energy, environmental engineering and tanks manufacturing company.

The Group has a global payroll exceeding 360 and its turnover for year ended 31 March 2011 was £73.4m, approximately 85% of this being realised through exports.

Mr Milne is a firm believer in using technology to keep ahead of the markets.

Substantial research and development investments have been made over the years resulting in innovative materials and unique processes being developed by the company. He also believes staff development is fundamental to business success and it is his philosophy to encourage employees to develop self-belief in addition to professional work skills.

Synonymous with Aberdeen and the Scottish manufacturing industry, Mr Milne’s travels have taken him around the globe many times. A respected international entrepreneur and businessman he is renowned for his straight talking and for extolling the virtues of north-east Scotland.

MAY 25

MAY 24 and 25

LEO KOOT

PROFESSOR DENNIS TOURISH

Managing Director of TAQA Bratani

‘Leadership and Change’

Leo Koot was born in the Netherlands on 6th March 1963. After completing a Masters Degree in Petroleum Engineer at Delft University, Leo joined Shell International as a Petroleum Engineer, quickly working his way to a senior position with project management in UK, Holland, West Africa and the Far East.

He joined the Shell & Halliburton JV, Well Dynamics in 2000, with responsibility for the portfolio in Europe, the Former Soviet Union and the Middle East, before moving to EDP as Chief Executive Officer, establishing the company as a private equity energy fund and an E&P operator in the UK. Early 2007 Leo joined TAQA Bratani Limited, a fully integrated upstream Exploration and Production company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PSJA (TAQA). He has managed the transition of four major UKCS offshore North Sea operated assets from Shell U.K. Limited and Esso Exploration and Production (U.K.) Limited into the TAQA portfolio and has taken the company from a small office with 7 personnel to purpose-built headquarters in Aberdeen now employing some 2000 personnel, directly and indirectly.

TAQA aims to become a leading upstream company in the UK by building a balanced portfolio of initially upstream oil and gas assets, unlocking their true potential through the recruitment of the highest calibre of industry professionals.

Leo lives in Aberdeen and Amsterdam with partner Els Wittebol.

Dennis Tourish is a Professor of Leadership and Organisation Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. 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.