Dr Arlene Egan

Chief Executive Officer - Roffey Park Institute

Arlene has twenty-five years-experience working in leadership and management development. Her experience in delivering development excellence spans executive education, higher education, sport, and local government sectors both in Ireland and internationally. Arlene was awarded a PhD from University College Dublin in Psychology for her work on designing, implementing and evaluating initiatives to enhance critical thinking. This work which built on her MLitt in Sport Psychology provides Arlene with a unique perspective on the link between thinking and performance and provides her with a deep understanding of how thinking can be optimised to promote focused performance.

Arlene has designed and delivered bespoke programmes to enhance leadership practice and organisational function. Her specialist areas include team development, leadership development and performance, motivation, change management, innovation, creativity and critical thinking and has recently released a book aimed at third level educators entitled ‘Confidence in Critical Thinking’. As a consultant, Arlene has worked with Boards, C-Suite, Senior and leadership teams. She specialises in strategic thinking and top team design. She advises on organisational performance and culture and identifies the right learning environment to promote engagement and development within organisations.

Arlene has held Non-Executive Director positions, and volunteers to work with social entrepreneurs. She has a passion for learning, leadership and transformation and remains an active researcher and writer in these areas.

Optimising Talent Potential: A leaders perspective

Optimising talent potential: A leader’s perspective, this talk is delivered through the lens of strategic leadership and considers the following four ideas:

1) how can a skills-based approach to talent benefit and organisation

2) what are the real benefits of intergenerational learning?

3) How can we make the most of effective work practices?

4) How can leadership lead and evolve?

This talk examines current research and practice to support leaders and talent managers to think critically about aspects of their organisations and evaluate what is helping and what could be improved.