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Management Society Europe Conference
Speakers
Keynote Speaker
Kenneth Johnson has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 1990. Since 2010 he as been an emeritus general authority.
Johnson was born in Norwich, England. He joined the LDS Church after having been introduced to the church by Pamela Wilson; he was baptized by Wilson's father Tom. Johnson married Pam Wilson and they have one son Kevin.
Johnson was first employed as a printer but switched to being an insurance broker.
For a time, Johnson served as president of the LDS Church's Norwich England Stake. He then served as a Regional Representative of the Twelve, was called to the Second Quorum of the Seventy in 1990 and then to the First Quorum of the Seventy. He was made an emeritus general authority in 2010.
Business Panel
Ron Gardner attended BYU where he graduated in business management with an emphasis in finance and banking. He began his career as an investment and insurance broker, followed by a period in the computer industry. In 1977, he was invited to join the commercial property and casualty insurance industry; he eventually retired as Vice President of Fred A. Moreton & Company an insurance brokerage firm. Following his time as mission president in Argentina Cordoba (2004-2007), he worked for The Buckner Group, another large brokerage firm.
Ron believes in giving back so he has always looked for opportunities to serve. He has served as president of the Utah Chapter of the CPCU (Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters), on community boards, and on several advisory boards in the BYU Marriott School. He is currently the chair-elect of the global steering committee of the BYU Management Society.
Ron and his wife, Wendy Richards, are the parents of four daughters, and have 20 grand-children. They live in Bountiful, Utah, USA.
Kevin will host the busioness panel on moral and ethical leadership. He is currently the CEO and principal consultant at OnTrack International, a global learning consultancy working with some of the most successful organisations in the world.
At OnTrack, Kevin is responsible for Leadership, Sales Management, Stakeholder Management, Supplier Engagement, Problem Solving and Critical Questioning, Leading International Teams.
He has a background in sales and sales management prior to his consulting career. He has an inspirational, engaging facilitative style of delivery that has helped him to work successfully at all levels including main board directors. He has worked with many well know organisations including Barclays Bank, BP, BT, Ford Motor Company, GSK, Kimberly Clark, Royal & Sun Alliance, Vodafone and many others.
Kevin has also created and contributed to many of OnTracks internationally acclaimed models. A client recently reported 1200% return on investment from one of his development interventions.
Kevin currenlty serves in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as bishop of the Cambridge ward.
Charlotte is a commercial-chancery barrister at 10 King’s Bench Walk Chambers based in Inner Temple, London. She was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn. She has acted in both the High Court and County Court in disputes across various areas including: commercial and consumer contracts, insolvency and bankruptcy, mortgages and security, wills and probate and commercial and residential landlord and tenant. She has also successfully represented various commercial clients in mediation.
Charlotte currently chairs the United Kingdom Chapter of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society and since assuming the role in 2012, has overseen membership growth of over a third. The members of the Chapter are drawn from the spectrum of the legal profession (some also hold local government positions) and are men and women of faith. They include two members who act in a judicial capacity, magistrates, barristers, solicitors in private practice, industry and local government, including several US qualified lawyers, an adjudicator at the Financial Ombudsman Service, legal executives and law students. Student members study at leading universities across the UK.
Charlotte studied law at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, attaining a Distinction for her LLM in International Commercial Law at the University of Nottingham and ranking second in the year. Her dissertation on commercial insurance law was requested by the Law Commission as part of their on-going insurance contract law review.