NCPP director Lucy Fallon-Byrne will be the keynote speaker at a conference on workplace strategy taking place in Galway next week.
‘Workplace Strategy — how it can contribute to building competitive organisations’, organised by CIPD, will take place in Covidien, formerly Tyco Healthcare, on Wednesday November 26 from 6.30pm.
Lucy Fallon-Byrne was appointed director of the NCPP on its creation in 2001 as the Government agency charged with promoting partnership led change and innovation in Ireland’s workplaces. She provides strategic direction and oversight in the delivery of the NCPP’s work programme, which covers a broad range of workplace related research and advocacy activities.
Key milestones for the NCPP include the Forum on the Workplace of the Future (2003-05 ), whose final report was adopted by Government in 2005 as the National Workplace Strategy, and the Workplace Innovation Fund, a new financial instrument to support workplace innovation in SMEs.
Ms Fallon-Byrne is also a member of the executive board of Trócaire. Prior to joining the NCPP, she served as assistant chief executive of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment. She holds a MBA from the Michael Smurfit School of Business at UCD, and began her career as a primary schoolteacher and principal.
The event is open to CIPD members and non-members, and admission is free.
