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On Friday 21st May FWB Park Brown hosted the inaugural session of our COP26 leadership series, leading up to the Climate Change Summit in Glasgow in November. Our speaker was Juliet Davenport, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Good Energy Plc – a renewable energy company with a mission to power a greener, cleaner future […]

On Wednesday 28th April FWB Park Brown’s Aberdeen office hosted a virtual leadership forum. Bob MacDonald, Chair of energy storage, remote power generation and clean energy systems experts, EC-OG, spoke on the energy transition, followed by a Q&A facilitated by FWB Park Brown Director, John Cameron. The forum brought together 30 senior leaders from the […]

On Thursday 1st April, FWB Park Brown’s Aberdeen office hosted a virtual Leadership Forum, facilitated by John Cameron, Stuart Cochrane and Nia Lynch-Cryle. The discussion focused on sharing issues and learnings from a year with Covid-19, and what these mean for both the current and future business landscapes. The topics discussed included: The “new normal”, or […]

Chair and Non-Executive Director Forum with Fiona Hyslop MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Fair Work and Culture, Scottish Government Facilitated by Willie Finlayson     Represented on the forum were c.50 companies, with over 100,000 employees. Some of the themes which were developed included; Recognition of the scale of the crisis and also the stress […]

The Executive Women In Leadership (EWIL) Network and the Scottish HR Leadership Group We were delighted to welcome Ruth Davidson MSP as a guest speaker at our joint session this week. Ruth shared stories, experiences and advice from her outstanding career and took the time to answer all the questions we bombarded her with fully […]

Last Tuesday evening, FWB Park Brown hosted its annual Leadership event, this year ‘online’ for 90 of Scotland’s most influential business leaders. We had keynote contributions from Iain Mackay (Group CFO of GSK plc) and Doug Gurr (Head of Amazon UK, former President of Amazon China and newly appointed Director of the Natural History Museum) […]

On Monday 22nd June, Judy Wagner and Ailsa Sutherland hosted a virtual Female Leadership Forum with guest speaker Denise Wilson, CEO of The Hampton-Alexander Review. The Hampton-Alexander Review (the review) is an independent review body which builds on the excellent work of the Davies Review to increase the number of women on FTSE 350 boards. […]

“And, just as the first world war challenged outdated notions about the work that could be done by women, Covid-19 is busting myths in financial services — from the trading floor to the boardroom — about the ability of employees to work productively and effectively from home.”  Jenny Grey writing for the Financial News. Jenny is […]

In response to the Covid-19 Health and Developing Economic Crisis FWB Park Brown (FWB PB) is working closely with the Scottish HR Leadership Group to provide constructive support which also includes discussion forums and Q & As. [divider line_type=”Full Width Line” line_thickness=”1″ divider_color=”extra-color-gradient-2″] On Friday 22nd and 28th May, Alix Meekison facilitated two specialist HR […]