Bookings for this year's DairyLeader Forum entitled 'One Team, One Goal' are now open.
Taking place in Edinburgh on 7th & 8th November, this event enables you to connect with the most progressive and successful British dairy farmers.
The DairyLeader Forum is designed to inspire your thinking and mind-set around the themes of leadership, growth and resilience whilst networking with like-minded DairyLeaders.
Whilst understanding and effectively managing cows will always be a key focus in your business, it is likely that understanding and effectively managing people is becoming ever more important. No doubt the greatest gains can be made by aligning your team with your ambitions and that’s why this years’ Forum is titled One Team, One Goal
If you consider yourself to be a progressive dairy business; a DairyLeader, then you need to reserve your place today…!
The Venue
This year's event takes place at the Novotel Edinburgh Park who have offered a preferential room rate for DairyLeader Forum delegates of £80 (inc VAT) for accommodation only as a networking breakfast is included with the conference.
Your levy covers the cost of the forum and evening meal, however, attendees are asked to fund their own accommodation.
There are a limited number of rooms at this rate, which is only available until Wednesday 26 September.
To book accommodation please call the hotel on 0131 619 2802 and quote 'AHDB DairyLeader Forum'
What to expect
In a change to the usual format, this year’s conference will be held over two days to allow you more time to meet and network with fellow DairyLeaders.
- Day one begins with lunch at 12:00 and runs through until around 17:30, giving you time to catch up and relax before a three course evening meal with an inspiring after dinner speaker.
- Day two starts at 9:00am and finishes at lunchtime giving you plenty of time to visit Edinburgh or make your journey home.
Meet our speakers
The speaker’s content will provide concepts, skills and learnings which are directly transferrable to your business.
Sir John Jones – Sir John draws upon his educational background and experience in inspiring even the most resistant, to talk about driving business progress and growth through effective leadership and nurturing a growth mind-set in both yourself and your team. He will set out how a clear business vision and understanding the "WHY" results in employee engagement and how you can capitalise on this to manage change and drive continuous improvement.
Dr. Jolanda Jansen – Jolanda will describe how you can use social science knowledge and techniques to instigate behavioural change in yourself and your team. In particular how you can ensure effective communication to influence and motivate your team by understanding the science of the brain and using the R.E.S.E.T model.
Steve Brown – Our after dinner speaker is well placed to talk about personal resilience, determination, team work and adopting a "glass half full" approach having completed a 900 mile journey across Vietnam with five other physically disabled people and as captain of GB’s wheelchair rugby team at the 2012 London Paralympics.
Ed Salt – As Managing Director of Delamere Dairy he has grown a small dairy business into one with a turnover of £25 million. Ed attributes this growth and success to creating a working environment where the team of less than 25 people are bought in to the core business values and actively involved in the decision making process in addition to developing a robust scalable business model which allows them to seek out and seize opportunities.
Spaces are limited and are available on a first come first served basis
If you have any further questions please contact Jenna Porch on jenna.porch@ahdb.org.uk
