Speakers

Miriam Levin, Director of Participatory Programmes, Demos
Miriam Levin was the Chief Executive of Engage Britain until their merger with Demos, Britain’s leading cross-party think tank. She is now Director of Participatory Programmes at Demos. Prior to that she was Engage Britain’s Programme Director and led their work to build solutions to health and care challenges from the grassroots up.
Miriam has also worked for the UK government as Head of Community Action, where she led the government’s first deliberative democracy programme, and was Head of Outreach at English Heritage.

Ola Lagunju, storyteller, activist and social scientist
Ola is a storyteller, activist and social scientist who is interested in liberating the freedom of the human spirit and helping people be seen, heard and understood in organisations and society. She specialises in bringing unconventional and sometimes messy thinking to the world of diversity, inclusion and belonging and brings simple lenses and language to enable people to experiment and make their own unique discoveries.
Ola has a deep expertise in human systems dynamics, organisation development and organisational culture and as a trained biochemist and bio pharmacist, brings the curiosity and experimental philosophies of a scientist to her work. She has worked with the likes of Starbucks, UBS, Sky, BP, The Guardian, HSBC, Oxfam, Network Rail and the NHS and is a visiting faculty on a number of culture change and leadership educational programmes.
Panellists
Panel: Understanding the new Care Quality Commission (CQC) Assessment and Inspection Process
Chair: Sarah-Jane Dale, Chief Operating Officer AOD | Director of Development Skills for Care, AOD | Skills for Care
Tim Coolican, Partner, Anthony Collins Solicitors
Rob Hargreaves, Information Service Manager, Skills for Care
Karen Pogson, Registered Manager / Director, Active Social Care
Debbie Dry, Registered Manager, Windsor Lodge
Panel: Green Care
Chair: Liz Jones, Policy Director, National Care Forum
Beth Finch, Communities Development Manager, MHA
Aiden, Volunteer GrowWild Outreach, MHA
Caroline Strudwick, Senior Sustainability Manager, Bupa
Anthony Flatt, Energy Manager, Bupa
Mark Thomas, Sustainability Manager, St Monica Trust