Conference 2025

Join us on 30th April and 1st May 2025 in Manchester, UK.

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Meet the 2025 Conference speakers:

Neil Fachie OBE, Paralympic Cyclist and Business Coach

Neil Fachie OBE is a Paralympic cyclist and performance business coach. He has represented Great Britain and Team Scotland at multiple Paralympic, World and Commonwealth Games, winning a total of 36 medals to date, 26 of which are gold. He currently holds two World Records and was awarded an OBE for services to sport in 2022. Neil also works with individuals and teams from a variety of industries, sharing insights and lessons from the world of elite sport, to help drive their performance. In 2020 he published a best-selling book on the topic, ‘Earn Your Stripes: Gold medal insights for business and life’.

 

Arne Knaben, Managing Director, Volvo Construction Equipment, Norway

Arne Knaben is currently the MD for Volvo Maskin AS; the dealer for Volvo Construction Equipment in Norway, as well as being Vice President Marketing for Volvo India LTD. In his 30 years with Volvo Group, Arne has held senior positions across the globe, including President and CEO of Volvo Group Australia and MD of Volvo Group Trucks UK & Ireland. Currently based in Norway, he has also worked in Denmark and the Middle East and North Africa (MEENA) region.

Arne has a long history of working in the truck industry. Starting out as an agricultural mechanic, he did his compulsory military service in Norway on the Russian border. At the age of 20, he obtained his truck driver’s license so he could drive trucks and work as a mechanic. He went on to further his education by completing a Mechanical Engineering and Economics degree.

Anne-Lise Cousin, Senior Manufacturing Leader, Celanese Ltd, Switzerland

Anne-Lise has 17 years’ experience in the Chemical Industry and has held impactful and leading roles in Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands, in both major strategic projects and Operational Leadership in Manufacturing. Anne-Lise has a strong reputation within Celanese as an excellent leader and enjoys developing others and teams to achieve their goals, with clarity and efficiency.

Her conference talk will discuss her perspectives, techniques, and how she builds high performing teams going through strategic major changes.

Garry Sanderson, Managing Director, Visualyze

Garry supports progressive leaders to adapt their organisations, positively influencing their people and customers. Garry's expertise allows clients to implement solutions which deliver results in the rapidly changing business environment.

Bruce Faulkner, Director, 3 Simple Rules

Bruce is Director of 3 Simple Rules, where he helps anyone feeling like their career has stalled. Bruce works with individuals, sharing insights and innovative ways to help them reconsider and unlock potential.

Rachel Edwards, Director, Hollin

Rachel has a wealth of experience in upskilling leaders and teams through Behavioural Leadership courses and workshops, as well as 1:1 coaching.

Howard Lees, Founder, Hollin

Howard Lees spent four decades in Civil Engineering and Project Management. He is a chartered civil engineer and Fellow of the Institute of Civil Engineers (FICE). He founded Hollin Ltd in 2004, where he and his team deliver executive coaching, training courses and surveys to clients on four continents.

Bryony Sherry and Laura Wilson, Hollin

Bryony and Laura will be facilitating the conference day, bringing energy and enthusiasm to the Hollin Conference.

Meet the 2025 Workshop Facilitators

Tommy Taylor, Professional Rugby Player, Sale Sharks Rugby Club

Tommy will share knowledge garnered from his career playing and coaching professional Rugby. He will share advice on giving feedback, and making changes to create a high-performing team.

Rachel Edwards, Director, Hollin

Rachel will be reflecting on the behavioural approaches shared during the course of the conference. Using these approaches, Rachel will support attendees to consider how they can make tangible improvements within their own workplaces.

Howard Lees, Founder, Hollin

Howard has spoken at every Hollin Conference and Workshop, each time sharing success stories from projects which have been delivered on time, under budget, safely. In this workshop, Howard will be sharing his secrets to creating a high-performing alliance between project parties.

Bryony Sherry, Consultant, Hollin

As a Hollin Consultant, Bryony has plenty of supporting leaders to identify improvement areas, and implementing behavioural tools to improve workplace culture and performance.

Bryony's workshop exercise will focus on getting the most out of your teams, in moments where the team is under excessive pressure.

Laura Wilson, Consultant, Hollin

Laura will utilise her teaching experience to help attendees consider coaching styles and implementing strategies which increase collaboration and teamwork.

Book Your Place Now - 30th April & 1st May 2025

What our delegates say...

Here's what some of our previous conference delegates thought about the event.

"I enjoyed the content of the presentations - from latest research and "academic" to applications in business and school settings. The mix of speakers is good - real human beings with weaknesses trying to be better. The event has a good mix of formality and informality. The pace of the day is very well managed. The venue is a good location with good facilities."

"Excellent speakers, thought provoking and challenging to listen and hear insights into challenging the norm and utilising a simple science which is focused on people to make a difference in both life and business and importantly a science which works!!"

"The balance between Experienced Leaders from industry, Current academic thinking and some thinking around applying Behavioural management techniques was perfect. It was good to here the consistent themes running through the day I have been to several conferences and feel really privileged to hear some of the big hitting speakers from Industry you are able to persuade to speak."

"Good speakers, diverse attendance, good networking opportunity, content thought provoking and ability to be deployed practically."

"Interesting topics delivered in fun dynamic way."

“The seminar refreshed some dormant knowledge and gave me an insight to apply behavioural science techniques in to other processes such as planning and incident investigation. The speakers were excellent throughout the day. I can certainly use what I have learned at this seminar immediately in our own organisation.”

"I liked the format of short, informative talks which kept my attention even after an excellent lunch!"