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7th Annual Great Place to Work® Institute Conference 2009
DCU Business School, Tuesday 26th May 2009

Detailed list of speakers

Professor Patrick Flood

Michele Ryan

Emmet Wrafter

Paul Rellis

Dr. Aoife McDermott

Gary Keegan

Lucy Fallon Byrne

Bob Lee

Cathal Divilly

Mary Geoghegan

Rachel Farrell

Yann Ricourt

Tracy O'Brien

Katherine Dalton

Cathal Quigley

Dr John Loughran

Lucy Fallon Byrne

NCPP

Director of the National Centre for Partnership and Performance

Lucy Fallon Byrne

Lucy was appointed Director of the National Centre for Partnership and Performance on its establishment in 2001. The NCPP is the Government agency charged with promoting partnership-led change and innovation in Ireland's workplaces. Lucy provides strategic direction and oversees the delivery of an extensive work programme, which covers a broad range of workplace-related research and advocacy activities. Key milestones for the NCPP include the Forum on the Workplace of the Future (2003-2005), whose final report was adopted by Government as the National Workplace Strategy. Together with Enterprise Ireland, the NCPP also manages a new Workplace Innovation Fund, which provides financial support for workplace innovation in Irish companies.

 

Lucy is a member of the Executive Board of Trócaire. Prior to joining the NCPP, she served as Assistant Chief Executive of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment where she oversaw the development of the new Primary School Curriculum. Lucy holds a MA in Political Science, and an MBA from the Michael Smurfit School of Business at UCD. She began her career as a primary school teacher and principal.