Professional Development • Lunchtime Seminars

2008 Lunchtime Seminars - coming up and previous

  The next NZSRM lunchtime seminar -

 2 September 2008  12.15 p.m. - 1.00 p.m.

An organisational development approach to risk management using survey-guided feedback.

How to engage managers and staff in risk problem- solving and prioritisation.

This seminar, presented by Dr Dean Myburgh, will outline the advantages of adopting both a "hard" and a "soft" approach to risk management and organisation resilience. The "soft" approach incorporates organisation development techniques that facilitate organisational thinking about risk processes, practices and culture. The process of engaging management and staff in 'Whole-Brained Thinking' about risk will be also be discussed.

The seminar will be presented from Auckland and audio-linked to the following venues:

Wellington - Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management, Level 9, 22 The Terrace (entry from Bolton St), Contact: Allan Price executiveofficer@risksociety.org.nz  Tel 027 6161 300

Auckland - URS New Zealand, Level 6, URS Centre Cnr Gudgeon St & College Hill, (near Victoria Park Market), Contact: Stacey Duggan-Andrews Stacey_duggan-andrews@urscorp.com  Tel (09) 355 1329

Christchurch - URS New Zealand Level 5, Landsborough House, 287 Durham Street, Contact: Sioban Hartwell Sioban_hartwell@urscorp.com Tel (03) 374 8546

Palmerston North - Pandemic Planning Centre (south entrance, behind helipad facing Tremaine Ave), Palmerston North Hospital, Contact: Chris Stevenson-Wright chrissw@midcentraldhb.govt.nz  Tel 027 446 8777

Hamilton - Aon NZ Ltd, Level 1, Corner Tristram & Thackeray Sts, Hamilton, Contact: Peter Hughes peter.hughes@aon.co.nz  Tel (07) 834 6561

Timaru - Timaru District Council, King George Place, Timaru, Contact: David Allen , Allen_dr@xtra.co.nz, Tel (03) 688 5959

Cost: $5.00 for members, $10.00 for non-members (cash at door)

About our speaker:

 Dean Myburgh entered consultancy in 2006 after working at director level in local government for 14 years. He holds Directorships in two consultancies, 80-20 Options NZ Limited and Emergency Planning Limited. Dean is a Fellow of the NZ Institute of Management, and has held senior leadership roles in public and private sector organizations, both within New Zealand and abroad. He has also provided both internal and external consultancy services to organizations and was a member of the Committee that prepared the NZ Handbook Risk Management for Local Government (SNZ HB 4360:2000) for the Standards NZ Council.

Acknowledgements & notices:

The Society gratefully acknowledges the sponsorship support of URS, Aon, MCDEM, MidCentral DHB and Timaru District Council for providing venues for this seminar.  

  Previous 2008 lunchtime seminars

• 5 August 2008 - A brief summary of issues concerning trading in emissions units. John Peterson, MinterEllisonRuddWatts Lawyers.
• 27 July 2008 - Security Governance for Enterprise Level Security (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) - Jason Brown, Thales Australia. 
• 3 June 2008 - Update on Waste Minimisation Bill. Rachel Devine Partner, Minter Ellison Rudd Watts.
• 1 April 2008 - International Risk Management Activities: Case study on chemicals management. Donald Hannah, ERMA. [Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals report available here.]
• 11 March 2008 - The global economy and risks. Grant Andrews, NZIER.
• 12 February 2008 - Imagery support to risk management. Dave Ashton, Global Intel Solutions Ltd.