Impact Lawyers - Directors’ Duties for HR
The Post Office Scandal highlighted what happens when boards lack legal knowledge, moral courage, or both. HR plays a key role in building cultures of integrity, escalating concerns, and embedding ethical leadership. This webinar is a must-attend for HR leaders, especially those working with boards, managing senior stakeholders, or those responsible for ethics, governance, or compliance. It will raise HR’s strategic capability and ensure the function plays a central role in keeping the organisation safe, fair, and forward-thinking.
Ensuring the HR function plays a central role in keeping organisations safe, fair and forward-thinking, Nick and Pam’s webinar will cover:
Outline of Directors' Duties and the role of the Board.
Focus on promoting the success of the Company and what that means.
The role of reputation.
Liabilities and Legal Compliance.
Conflict of Interest.
The role of HR in driving corporate ethics and common sense.
Nick Gould, Impact Lawyers Ltd
Nick is a highly experienced and respected corporate lawyer.
Nick started his career at a Magic Circle firm and has since been a partner at various other law firms. Until recently, Nick spent 5 years assisting several sub postmaster clients and victims of the Post Office Scandal as one of the very few corporate lawyers involved.
From that experience, Nick has sparked a passionate and renewed interest in the laws around directors and their duties as well as corporate governance, particularly for smaller companies, including training on Director Duties.
Nick has worked with the Institute of Directors on various projects and supplied a detailed paper to the Post Office Enquiry on some of these topics. He has also written short and longer papers on topics ranging from directors' duties to helpful tips for start-ups; why keeping paper trails is crucial; and the value of a written contract. Most recently Nick has co-authored two short papers about business and ethics.
Nick is a modest lawyer who is committed to providing high quality legal work to those who need it.
Pam Cannell, Impact Lawyers Ltd
As a Global HR Director, Pam Cannell leads the delivery of tailored HR consultancy services, addressing both strategic initiatives and day-to-day HR challenges. A chartered member of the CIPD, Pam is a senior international HR professional with over 25 years’ experience designing and implementing people strategies within organisations across a breadth of sectors, including engineering, information services, telecommunications and banking. Leaving the corporate world in 2019, Pam now specialises in supporting businesses to develop robust and sustainable growth strategies. She is also highly sought after for her forensic approach to the investigation and resolution of complex, ambiguous and high-risk employee relations cases. Pam has a reputation for being pragmatic and commercial, for operating with honesty and integrity, and for delivering at pace in extremely complex environments.