2005 Events

"The Customer Journey" with Jill Hincks, Passion for Creative - Tower Hotel - October

Jill Hincks - formerly Creative Director of one of the Manchester’s top agencies - set up a new consultancy in Waterford in 2004.

n a highly successful career of 23 years, Jill has helped to create campaigns for an impressive array of clients, including Woolworths, Argos, B&Q, Homebase, GUS, Marks & Spencer, The Royal Mint, Littlewoods, MBNA, Royal Bank of Scotland, CIS, Blackpool Tourism, Wimpey, Bovis and construction company Dandara.

Feng Shui - Our Own Energies, Personalities & Characteristics, Tower Hotel - September

Following the success of last year’s event on feng shui and crystals, we were delighted to welcome back Nina Kati of Working Wonders, Interior Designers, Feng Shui Consultants & Trainers.  Her talk for this event covered our own energies, personalities and characteristics.

Feng Shui is about balancing energies in the home and this can extend to matching the energies of the occupants of the home as well.  This year, Nina’s talk will focus on our own energies, personalities and characteristics including Chinese horoscope signs.  Part of the talk will look at communication skills, forming instant bonds, relationships, early morning versus late night people and how to find the best time of day for your work output.  After the presentation, there will be a Feng Shui Clinic for you to find out about topics you’re interested in.

Nina specialises in combining feng shui with interior design as a central theme in her projects to create balance and harmony, and this powerful combination makes her work rather unique.  She has been featured in the Irish Times, Sunday Times, Waterford at 8 TV, and regularly on WLR FM’s Property Program.

To close the evening Norren Pender gave an insightful demonsatration of the way crystals can be used in Healing, the Crystals were provided by Edrina Briscoe-Conway, City Jewellers.

"On being you, living your moment" with Stan Phillips, Tower Hotel - June

What do you really want in life? Stan Phillips will guide you to look inside to find the essence of being you. Stan Phillips has worked as a professional Clairvoyant, Hypnotherpist, Counsellor and psychotherapist for 15 year.

He is well known in Waterford for his weekly column in the Waterford Today newspaper.

15 Success Factors for Every Business with Brian O’Kane, Oak Tree Press - May

Brian O’Kane, Managing Director of Oak Tree Press, shared relevant and practical advice on getting on the road to and keeping success.

Brian O’Kane is managing director of Oak Tree Press, Ireland’s leading business book publisher. He is the author, co-author or editor of over a dozen books, including Essential Finance for Journalists and key Irish business planning texts: Starting a Business in Ireland and Starting Your Own Business: A Workbook, and lectures widely on business planning, strategy and financial matters.

Brian is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland. He is also a member of The Marketing Institute of Ireland, The Institute of Business Advisers and The British Association of Communicators in Business.

Introduction to LMI and a short talk on Time Management with Martin Byrne.

How do we use our time? What outside influences affect your performance? Do you spend the right amount of time on each task that you do? Martin Byrne of Leadership Management Ireland presented a short talk on courses offered by LMI and a basic introduction to Time Management, including sample exercises, taken from LMI’s Effective Personal Productivity course.

Martin Byrne, MBS (LMI) has a background in People Development. He spent 17 years in the Defence Forces before resigning as a Captain in 1998. He subsequently spent 6 years in the Human Resources sector – both private and public sectors - before joining LMI in May 2004. He has a Masters in Business Studies from UCD that he obtained in 1995 specialising in Management and Organisation Studies.

“Whose Life are you Living? - DR. TONY HUMPHREYS, Clinical Psychologist and Author - April

We are not born bad, ugly, stupid, average, superior or inferior, yet these and other labels plague our adult lives. Why, then, do we pigeon-hole ourselves and put limits on our abilities? Our desire to be accepted by friends, family and the world at large forces us to bow to society’s demands, and shackles our true selves. Today’s world worships at the altar of success. Magazines and television constantly offer us the chance to be somebody, anybody, but who we really are. We follow someone else’s ideal until we end up with no idea of the person we were before we started.

Whose life are we living? By giving up our freedom, we no longer belong to ourselves. We belong to those who have influenced and altered us. Question the way we approach our lives; emerge from the darkness that has hidden us; embrace the adventures that life offers.

Dr. Tony Humphreys is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Author and National and International Speaker. He has become Ireland’s most influential psychologist, working with individuals, couples, families, schools, local communities and the business community. He is a specialist lecturer on education, communication and self-realisation in University Colleges, Cork and Limerick, and Senior Fellow at National College of Ireland, Dublin and is a regular guest lecturer in other third level colleges both in Ireland and internationally, including several European countries and South Africa.

He is the author of eleven best-selling books. His best known books are ThePowerof ‘Negative’Thinking; Self-Esteem, the Key to Your Child’s Future; Work and Worth,take back your life; Myself, My Partner; Leaving The Nest and Whose Life Are You Living. His books are currently in 25 languages. His new book All About Children is now available in the shops. He has recorded tapes and CD’s on such topics as embrace failure, self-esteem, work-balance and effective parenting.

PAT LYNCH – How Wealth Is Created, and a short guide to the Stock Market - March,Tower Hotel

In 1999 Cork accountant Pat Lynch started a specialised laundry in Cork, MicroTech Cleanroom Services. He later sold the business to invest the proceeds in high potential start-up companies requiring seed finding.

At this stage, he added the concept of property to the earning formula of playing the stock market and investing in companies.

Pat believes that everyone should have written goals that are achievable, realistic and measurable. If your wealth is the same as it was five years ago, there is a good chance that it will be the same in five years time, and he takes great delight in showing others how a greatly increased income is achievable.

"New Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004" - February, Tower Hotel

Understand the key issues facing you as an employer with the new Safety Bill with Mary Darlington, Darlington Consulting, FIOSH, RSP, FCIPD. Mary expertly addressed all the key issues of the Safety Bill which became law in March 2005.

Jane Perrella, Ecoflow, opened the event with an introduction to magnets and their use in health and safety.

Introduction to Network - Goal Setting - New Year, New Start - January, Tower Hotel

We were delighted to have two wonderful speakers at this event, Elizabeth O'Mahony, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Pauline Bracken, Life Coach.  The evening started with an Introduction to Network and the benefits of membership, followed by a talk on Goal Setting, which is especially important for the start of a year.

For a number of years, Elizabeth, right, was a mentor in the women’s Business Growth Programme. Due to her success, she was chosen to appear on a video to promote the mentoring scheme, and this video was a pilot scheme to encourage other like schemes in countries such as Holland, Greece, Austria and Wales. Elizabeth is a former national President of Network Ireland

Pauline Bracken has worked in many disciplines, and currently she lectures in French in the school of Education & Professional Development in W.I.T.

She is a qualified Life Coach and has set up a coaching practice in Waterford. Pauline is a regular contributor to the Connect Newsletter. As at every meeting - light refreshemnts at the end of the evening provided a chance to relax, meet new members and catch up.