Dr Cath Bishop-Olympic success to a new understanding of high performance

Date: Thursday 7 March 2024

Time: 17:00 - 19:30

Location: Wellcome Collection,183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE.

OVERVIEW

Join Dr Cath Bishop, a triple Olympian, former British diplomat, leadership and culture coach, as she shares her thoughts on how we need to reframe the concept of high performance and success in our organisations. Drawing on her book ‘The Long Win’, one of the FT’s top 10 Business Books of 2020, Cath will reflect on the need to move away from a short-term way of thinking and towards a broader and deeper understanding of meaning and purpose.

Networking: You also have an opportunity to meet other leaders attending this event with time at the beginning and end of the event to network.

SPEAKER SCHEDULE

Host

Professor Ciara Eastell OBE, Professor of Practice , University of Exeter Business School

Keynote

Dr. Cath Bishop, triple Olympian, former British diplomat, leadership and culture coach

Panel

Erika Brodnock MBE, award-winning entrepreneur, philanthropist, and angel investor.

Melanie Keen, director, Wellcome Collection.

Karen Squire, Senior Curriculum Lead for Degree Apprenticeships (Centre for Degree Partnerships, University of Exeter) Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter Business School.

Sam Mukhopadhyay, Head of COP28 UK Pavilion, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.

SPEAKER B IOGRAPHIES

Dr. Cath Bishop triple Olympian, former British diplomat, leadership and culture coach.

Dr Cath Bishop is a triple Olympian, former British diplomat, leadership and culture coach. Cath teaches on Executive Education programmes at the Judge Business School, Cambridge University and is the author of an acclaimed book, ‘The Long Win’, one of the FT’s top 10 Business books of 2020.

Cath competed in rowing at 3 Olympic Games, winning World Championships gold in 2003 and Olympic silver in Athens 2004. As a diplomat for the British Foreign Office for 12 years, Cath specialized in policy and negotiations on conflict issues, with postings to Bosnia and Iraq.

Cath now works as a leadership and culture consultant, executive coach, speaker, facilitator and author. Cath is a member of the Executive Education faculty at the Judge Business School, Cambridge University. She works with leaders across business, education and sport to develop high performing teams, resilient and inclusive environments, sustainable performance and cultures where people can thrive. Her approach is one that both challenges and supports leaders to think differently, to trust and to adopt a human centred approach.

Cath speaks at events globally on topics of leadership, learning and cultural change in business, sport and education. Cath is an Independent Advisor to British Gymnastics on cultural reform and writes on topics relating to culture in sport for The Guardian. Cath is also Chair of Love Rowing, British Rowing’s charitable foundation that raises funds for projects to increase access to rowing and an Advisor to The True Athlete Project, a non-profit organisation which provides holistic development programmes in sport. Cath is a Steward of Henley Royal Regatta and Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Erika Brodnock MBE award-winning entrepreneur, philanthropist, and angel investor.

Erika Brodnock is an award-winning entrepreneur, philanthropist, and angel investor. She is also an MBA, a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London, and a PhD candidate in the Inclusion Initiative at the LSE. She authored Diversity Beyond Gender and co-authored the TRANSPARENT Framework and Better Venture - Improving Diversity, Innovation, and Profitability in Venture Capital and Startups.

Erika is Sky News’ resident parenting expert, co-founder at Extend Ventures, The Black Funding Network, and Kinhub, providing data-driven coaching and personalised employee support. She is one of 16 Black women in the UK that has raised more than £1m in startup funding. Erika is also a Non-Executive Director of The Good Play Guide; and serves on the APPG for Entrepreneurship advisory board.

Melanie Keen Director, Wellcome Collection.

Melanie Keen is Director of Wellcome Collection, London, which aims to challenge the way we think and feel about health. Her intention is to give voice to radical imagination on what health is and what it could be. She is committed to reshaping our cultural assumptions around race, disability and gender, and the human relationship to planetary health. A graduate of the RCA (Royal College of Art), Melanie has worked as a curator, in arts policy and funding at the Arts Council England.

Prior to joining Wellcome Collection, she was Director and Chief Curator at pioneering arts organisation Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), where she was instrumental in the revitalisation of Iniva’s mission and vision by making the Stuart Hall Library its creative hub. She is passionate about civic responsibility and was a school governor in Hackney secondary school for five years (2017-2021). She is an advisor and a trustee at the Government Art Collection, the Board of Visitors of Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford; the British Council Collection; and Raven Row gallery, London. She was also part of the Diversity Art Group (2020-2022) which advised Freelands Art Foundation and was a member of their Advisory Board until early 2024. In 2022, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of the Arts London (UAL) for her contribution to curation and arts management.

In 2019, she was shortlisted for the H100 Awards for her achievements in Arts and Crafts. She was an advisor for the 2017 Suffrage Statue Commission for the Mayor of London which commissioned a sculpture by the first female artist; she was on the selection committee for the British Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2019 and a judge for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2020. She was a nominator and a judge for Kleinwort Hambros Emerging Artist Prize in 2020 and 2021 respectively. In 2023, she was on the jury for the Turner Prize held at Towner Gallery, Eastbourne.

Karen Squire, Senior Curriculum Lead for Degree Apprenticeships (Centre for Degree Partnerships, University of Exeter) Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter Business School.

Karen is Senior Curriculum Lead for Degree Apprenticeships in the Centre for Degree Partnerships at the University of Exeter and a Senior Lecturer in the University of Exeter’s Business School where she teaches post and undergraduate students on modules focusing on Developing Leadership Behaviours.

Karen is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. She was awarded these fellowships in recognition of her work championing Degree Apprenticeships and in her teaching of applied leadership and management.

Karen is passionate about how degree apprenticeships can widen participation has presented the work of the Centre for Degree Partnerships in this area at the University Vocational Awards Council (UVAC) annual conference and the Annual Apprenticeship Conference.

Sam Mukhopadhyay, Head of COP28 UK Pavilion, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.

Sam is the Head of COP Planning and Engagement for UK. She has a background in climate diplomacy, international planning, and multilateral engagement. She is the co-chair of the ethnic minority network in Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Ethnic Minority Women’s group with a passion in leadership, creating opportunities for collaboration and working across public and private sector.

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VENUE

Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE.

How to find the building:

It is a big white marble building on Euston Road, almost opposite Euston train station. You will see banners hanging from the building that advertise current exhibitions. Entry is either via two revolving doors or via the accessible door in between them.

By Tube or Train:

Find out the best way to get to us by Tube or train with Transport for London’s journey planner.

The nearest stations are:

• Euston Square
• Euston
• Warren Street
• St Pancras
• King’s Cross

By Bus

The bus stop outside the building is currently out of use, but these buses stop close to the main entrance at 183 Euston Road:

•18, 30, 73, 205, 390

London buses have space for a wheelchair user, low floors and an access ramp. Find out more about accessible journeys from Transport for London.

By Bike:

There are bike stands near the main entrance at 183 Euston Road and on nearby Gordon Street.

There are also bike docking stations nearby.

By Car:

There is limited parking available for Blue Badge holders. Please contact info@wellcomecollection.org to book.