The Master is holding a series of seminars over the next few months

The first seminar will be held at the offices of Fox Williams on Thursday 16th May and the guest speaker will be Professor Laura Empson from Bayes Business School.  Professors Empson’s Biography can be found below.

The title of the presentation is – “Power and leadership in professional organizations: Navigating through ambiguity“.

Arrive for registration, coffee and refreshments at 1800.

The seminar will formally begin at 1830 with a presentation and an opportunity for questions.
Following the seminar at 1930, there will be a networking opportunity with drinks/canapies.
The event will end at 2030

The venue is

Fox Williams LLP
10 Finsbury Square
London
EC2A 1AF

There is no charge as such for this event as such, however we would ask all those attending to make a £10 donation to the HR Charitable Trust.

Biography of the Speaker

Laura Professor in the Management of Professional Service Firms at Bayes Business School, University of London, and holds Research Fellowships at both Harvard Law School and the University of Cambridge.

She has dedicated the past 30 years to researching professionals, professionals, and the professions, and is a globally recognised expert in their leadership and governance. Laura’s research, funded by a series of prestigious awards from the EU and UK government, also explores organisational, cultural and identity change; growth and leadership transitions, mergers and acquisitions; professional careers; partner evaluation and reward systems; and the changing nature of professional work.

In addition to dozens of publications in leading academic journals, she has published several books with Oxford University Press – her latest is Leading Professionals: Power, Politics, and Prima Donnas (reprinted in paperback, 2022).

Laura writes regularly for Harvard Business Review and presents the podcast series, Leading Professional People. She has been nominated for the Thinkers 50 Leadership Award for her research on collective leadership.

She advises many of the world’s leading law, accounting, and consulting firms. From 2013 to 2016 Laura served on the Board of KPMG LLP (becoming Chair of the Independent Non-Executives).

She was previously Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Before becoming an academic, Laura worked as an investment banker and strategy consultant.

She has a PhD and MBA from London Business School. www.lauraempson.com