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.

UPCOMING EVENTS MEMBERSHIP

Our purpose, at Devonshire House, 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, Director Forums, DHN Debates 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.

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.

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 seeks to offer 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.

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 2019!

09.10.19 Speaker Event – Charles Moore – Journalist

By Devonshire House Network

Charles Moore is a journalist. He is also the widely-acclaimed former editor of The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and The Spectator. He now writes for these publications. He also does interviews on TV and radio and elsewhere. We have been exchanging good-natured emails with Charles Moore since October 2016 about speaking to us at Devonshire House. He has allowed us to pencil in October 2019. Charles’s ongoing priority – in addition to his insightful writing and forceful journalist work - is to finish his Margaret Thatcher biography – which, of course, we would be delighted to promote as vigorously as we can – at that time and before.

10.09.19 Panel Forum – Facing the talent and skills crisis in TECH businesses

By Devonshire House Network

This important Urgent Issues Panel Forum explores current approaches to talent management and retention in Science, Technology, Engineering and Manufacturing businesses. It is about creating a better understanding of this crucial area and identifying key development areas. Its starting assumption is that Government appreciates this – and is taking some action – but there is a need for more momentum, more input, more information and accelerated support from all stakeholders which would be strengthened through collaborative action.

25.06.19 Summer Panel Debate – “Should NEDs stop things going wrong?”

By Devonshire House Network

A collaboration with Genius Boards – will be held on Wednesday 12th June 2019 September at 6pm till 9pm at a venue in Central London – to be confirmed. “Should NEDs stop things going wrong?”

22.05.19 Speaker Event – Craig Donaldson – CEO of Metro Bank

By Devonshire House Network

We are delighted that Craig Donaldson, CEO of Metro Bank, has kindly indicated that he’d be happy to speak at Devonshire House in 2019 and we are currently talking about what form this might take and a date (22.05.19 pencilled in).

30.04.19 Speaker Event – Tim Roache – Gen Sec of the GMB Union

By Devonshire House Network

The GMB is a general trade union in the UK with more than 631,000 members who work in nearly all industrial sectors, in retail, security, schools, distribution and the utilities, social care, the NHS, the ambulance service and local government.

27.03.19 Speaker Event – Helen Dickinson – CEO of the British Retail Consortium

By Devonshire House Network

We are delighted that Helen Dickinson, CEO of the British Retail Consortium, will be speaking at Devonshire House on 27.03.19.

27.02.19 Speaker Event – Ann Francke – CEO of the CMI

By Devonshire House Network

We are delighted that Ann Francke, the CEO of the CMI, will be joining DHN on 27.2.19 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.

12.2.19 Panel Event – A Revolution called Artificial Intelligence

By Devonshire House Network

This Panel Forum is a collaborative, practical, knowledge-generation think-tank of senior sector professionals brought together by Devonshire House Network, Finserv Experts and Moore Stephens. As with all frontier technologies, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technology is expanding at an astonishing speed, delivering a host of exciting ideas, possibilities and more questions than answers as well as an increasing number of useful deliverables - but also creating some disappointments and debris of different types.

28.11.18 Speaker Event – Nick Bitel – Sport England

By Devonshire House Network

We are delighted to welcome Nick Bitel to Devonshire House on 28.11.18 as our Speaker. Nick Bitel is Chairman of Sport England and also Chief Executive of the London Marathon. The role that Sport now plays in the business and social fabric of the UK – let alone the world – is immense.

30.10.18 Speaker Event – Rt Hon Mark Lancaster, TD, MP. Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)

By Devonshire House Network

We are delighted to welcome Mark Lancaster to speak at Devonshire House on 30.10.18. “Well Done to Mark, now second in command at Ministry for Defence.” Is how the Milton Keynes Conservative Party’s website described Mark Lancaster’s appointment in July 2017. Mark is also Conservative MP for Milton Keynes North.

Friends, Partners and Sponsors

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