We are delighted to welcome Ellen Leith, Managing Director, at Purchase to Pay Network, Susan Ní Chríodáin Leadership Development - Facilitation & Coach at Beyond the Numbers and Alison Smith, Speaker, Trainer, Breakthrough Coach, Author & Podcaster at Landscaping Your Life who will be hosting a session to explore 'Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Finance and Procurement' on Friday May 19th at 10am.
ELLEN LEITH
The Purchase to Pay Network was founded in 2008 in response to a growing need for an easily accessible information base covering the whole procure to pay process, including procurement, AP, finance, supply chain and analytics.
Managed, driven and directed by Ellen, PPN gives best practice advice, offers benchmarking results, conducts market research, industry news, white papers, jobs, the annual P2P Summit, roundtable events and webinars. PPN also offers its sponsors a chance to connect with new channels and enjoy being a part of a real P2P community.
Specialties:
• Analytical and critical thinking
• Copywriting, blogging and editing
• Purchase to Pay
• Turning tech talk to impactful copy
• Keen eye for partnership opportunities
• Engaging and driving teams
• Tenacious sales negotiator
• Effective and targeted event management
• Results driven marketing/demand generation
• Social media and new tech
• Technology, financial, supply chain, business
• SEO
https://www.linkedin.com/in/el...
SUSAN NI CHRIODAIN
Susan founded Beyond the Numbers to work with teams and individuals in organisations who know that putting people first generates the greatest return. Her experience and business acumen stem from a wide variety of commercial and non-profit operational, project and financial roles. For over 20 years she led and managed teams in Europe, Africa, Asia, in-person and remotely. An FD at 33 she learnt that to have an impact required you to be brave, bold and to build strong working relationships. Technical excellence wasn’t enough; the ability to interact and influence others was key. She has a practical, no-nonsense approach to understanding and facilitating others to resolve their workplace issues no matter how intractable they might seem. Susan hosts Life Beyond the Numbers podcast for people who are curious about having a more fulfilling work-life
https://www.linkedin.com/in/su...
ALISON SMITH
Alison Smith’s university career’s adviser said procurement would be the perfect career for her and 38 years later she still agrees.
After a more traditional career in direct and indirect procurement she’s now a procurement coach, trainer, and speaker.
In addition to her technical category management knowledge, she adds her soft skills and creative thinking expertise to her work.
It’s during the merger between Halifax building Society and Bank of Scotland over 20 years ago that Alison first started using metaphor in her work to improve performance of the merging procurement team.
The effectiveness of metaphor to facilitate change led to Alison writing Can’t see the wood for the trees – landscaping your life to get back on track with many of the examples shared involving her work with procurement or business teams.
Alison is especially passionate about bringing our humanity into business not leaving it at the door and is looking forward to discussing ethical leadership and decision making in Finance and Procurement.
