Devonshire House Network

Devonshire House is a people-focused membership club for Director-level professionals in leadership roles
who have an instinctive focus on the human side of enterprise. Our purpose is to create, for our members,
thinking time and space for key business issues and where people make the difference.

UPCOMING EVENTS MEMBERSHIP

At the heart of Devonshire House are senior decision makers keen to discover and explore original thinking and information generated from all the Events we promote.

Our purpose is to create for our members thinking time and space for key business issues and where people make the difference. Delivered primarily through our broad range of high-level Speaker Events, Directors Forums, our Summer debate and peer-to-peer networking, our Members – and Members’ guests – discover more about organisations and how the effectiveness of their people can be nurtured and grown.

BENEFITING OUR STAKEHOLDERS

Devonshire House exists for the benefit of its Stakeholders

These are Partner Firms, Sponsors, Reciprocal Arrangements, Corporate Members and Personal Members – and to these, Devonshire House offers another route to market. We also go out of our way to benefit Members Guests and our Speakers where mutual opportunities arise. Our aim is to cover our operations and development costs.

Past Speakers

Recent

Full Speaker list for 2018 can found here

Lord Browne of Madingley
Helen Boaden
Professor Douglas McWilliams
Claire Fox
Anthony Hilton
Amanda Blanc
Sir Steve Webb

2016

Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint
Anthony Thomson
David Campbell Bannerman
Mark Prisk
Dr Peter Ammon
Baroness Neville-Rolfe
Paul Walsh
Stefan Stern
The Rt Hon Patrick McLoughlin

2015

Christine Blower
Angela Knight
Professor John Womersley
Dr Tim Hands
Jon Moulton
Len McCluskey
Andy Haldane
Giles Dilnot
Tim Skeet
Hugo Dixon
Jon Moynihan OBE
Matthew Elliott

2014

Michael Portillo
Keith Williams
Terry Scuoler

2013-2010

George Galloway
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Nigel Farage
Alan Milburn
Sir Alistair Graham
David Blunkett
Paul Kenny
Angela Knight
Justin Urquhart-Stewart
Baroness Margaret Ford
David Smith (The Sunday Times)
Michael Crick
Stephen Bungay
Brenden Barber
Patricia Hewitt
Lord Hutton
Viscount Thurso
Trevor Phillips
Gill Rider
Luke Johnon
Lord Smith of kelvin
Bob Wigley
Nick Fry
David Tyler
Dame Jenny Abramsky
General Sir Richard Dannatt
Lord Justice Elias
Mike Bowron
Carolyn Downs

Earlier

Lord Archer
Rt Hon Lord Ashdown
Professor Sir George Bain
Martin Bell
Sir Ian Blair
Tony Blair
Virginia Bottomley
Professor Sir Alan Budd
Vince CableMP
Sir Adrian Cadbury
Bishop Richard Chartres
Kenneth Clarke
Lord Currie
Sir Howard Davies
Mervyn Davies
Greg Dyke
Archbishop Robin Eames
Sir Tom Farmer
Niall Fitzgerald
Lord Fowler
Frank Field
Anna Ford
Michael Grade
Professor Lynda Gratton
Lord Haskins
Lord Heseltine
Patricia Hewitt
Anthony Hilton
Lord Hurd
Will Hutton
General Sir Mike Jackson
Alan Johnson
Luke Johnson
Lord Digby Jones
Sir Terry Leahy
Oliver Letwin
Sir Pat Lowry
Francis Maude
Kelvin MacKenzie
John Monks
Sir Bill Morris
Jon Moulton
Rabbi Dame Julia Neuberger
Dame Pauline Neville-Jones
Lord Patten
Sir Brian Pitman
Lord Puttnam
John Redwood
Alex Salmond
Prunella Scales &Timothy West
Archbishop John Sentamu
Clare Short
Stefan Stern
Andy Street
Sir John Sunderland
Sir Clive Thompson
John Towers
Lord Adair Turner
Professor Laura Tyson
Ruby Wax
Patience Wheatcroft
Jasmine Whitbread
Ann Widdecombe
Baroness Williams
Chris Woodhead
Tony Woodley

We are very proud of our long list of influential national leaders who have spoken to us at Devonshire House. Browse through our annual programmes going back several years.

Exciting plans for 2018!

10.10.18 Director Forum – Professor Robin Stuart-Kotze

By IainQ

We are delighted that Professor Dr Stuart-Kotze will be leading and managing this important Director Forum Event on 10.10.18 at a central London location - to be announced shortly – talking initially about his latest book but keen to generate an enthusiastic and interactive debate around the key issues raised in the book.

18.09.18 Speaker Event – Rt Hon John Redwood MP

By IainQ

We are delighted to welcome John Redwood to Devonshire House as our Speaker on 18.9.18. John has chosen “ Innovation and the Global Economy” as his topic. In many ways, John Redwood has an unusually unique and powerful profile as a national figure of major political and business influence. Delivered through forceful brisk persuasion and impeccable logic the consistent volume of his written and spoken words has been phenomenal - and for such a long time.

The Devonshire House Autumn Review of Corporate Governance

By IainQ

DHN and Genius invite you to attend the Debate which will focus on Corporate Governance, identifying successes, understanding failures, learning lessons to deliver high-quality successes. The evening will allow for audience participation.

24.04.18 Speaker Event – Ann Francke – CEO of the CMI

By IainQ

We are delighted that Ann Francke, the CEO of the CMI, will be joining DHN on 24.4.18 to talk with us. As most of us will know, the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) is an accredited professional institution for management based in the UK. It is the longest established and is, by most metrics, the largest.

17.04.18 Director Forum – Areiel Wolanow – Finserv Experts

By IainQ

This important Director Forum Event – hosted by Moore Stephens at their London offices – will be led and presented by Areiel Wolanow at 4.30pm to 6.30pm on 17.4.18.

27.03.18 Speaker Event – Jeremy Hughes – CEO Alzheimer’s Society

By IainQ

With an income of £104m (reported as triple the average growth rate for the sector) and just over 1243 full-time employees, the Alzheimer’s Society has as its Mission… to transform the landscape of dementia forever.

20.03.18 Director Forum – Living in a Weinstein World

By IainQ

You are invited to an important DHN Director Forum Event hosted by leading international law firm, Taylor Wessing LLP, in their London office,s 5 New Street Square, London, EC4A 3TW from 4.30pm to 6.30pm on Tuesday 20th March 2018.

19.03.18 Director Forum – Sharon Constancon – Genius Methods

By IainQ

In the wake of a growing number of corporate failings, including the Carillion collapse, the role and responsibilities of Board members is prominently in the news. Culture and Transparency being key.

By IainQ

Professor Vernon Bogdanor is arguably the most foremost constitutional expert in the UK of the current generation. He was for many years Professor of Government at Oxford University, where he was Senior Tutor and Vice-Principal at Brasenose College.

30.01.18 Ben Page, CEO, IPSOS MORI, speaks at Devonshire House

By Peter Barnett

Date: 30th January 2018 Time: 6.00pm – 9.00pm Location: Royal Thames Yacht Club, 60 Knightsbridge, London, SW1 1XF. IPSOS, with its HQ in

Friends, Partners and Sponsors

Devonshire House Network is pleased to have mix of management, advisory and financial support from the following organisations.