Date: Tuesday 24th June 2025
Time: 8:30am – 10:00am
Topic: HR Jedi Moves: Ditching Drama & Mastering SLT Conflict Like a Boss
Objectives:
- Understand the dynamics of workplace conflict and drama triangles.
- Identify strategies for diffusing tension and fostering resolution.
- Equip HRDs with tools to coach employees out of destructive patterns.
Mark Fletcher
Mark advises HR teams, in-house legal teams, and boards of directors in relation to their HR strategies and day-to-day HR issues. He is a Partner in Evershed Sutherland’s Employment, Labour and Pensions group and heads up the Nottingham office.
Mark has been an employment lawyer for over 25 years and has bags of experience working with clients across a number of different sectors, dealing with a broad range of contentious and non-contentious work.
Mark can advise you in relation to any area of employment law and works with businesses to help them with their HR initiatives and projects. He works closely with HR teams, in-house legal teams and boards of directors. Mark has particular experience in the area of TUPE and is very experienced in advising on the employment aspects of outsourcing projects, as well as corporate and commercial transactions.
Nicola Forbes-Taylor
Nicola is a people aficionado; a student of human interactions and dynamics, FCIPD executive leader, founder of The A List: Development for Senior HR Leaders and ILM Qualified Executive Coach.
She brings perspective from her work with leaders in London tech start-ups, and scale-ups and her experience as an executive leader in said start-ups. She also brings insight through her background of working in corporates including O2, Stella McCartney Italia, Utilities and Engineering throughout her 20 year career.
Her work is focused on leadership effectiveness and creating cultures to enable high performance through an engaged team. She has led change and growth in successful startups including Nutmeg, Clausematch and Onfido, as well as coaching leaders across tech, consulting, energy and other sectors.
She specialises in working with leaders driven by growth and a desire to be consciously impactful. She has personally created and facilitated bespoke leadership programmes throughout her career, impacting more than 300 delegates across sectors and industries.
Her coaching and facilitation approach will enable you to reflect, discuss and engage with challenges and topics in a straightforward way.