Innovation Group’s Gary De Groot hosts an interactive roundtable session on what the future of attracting talented people could look like and the pressures we are facing within the industry. Gary is joined by colleagues; Craig O’Driscoll, Rob Angus and Jo Doyle.
During this session we will be looking into the challenges that we face as an industry when it comes to recruiting new talent, and how we will look to achieve this moving forwards. The panel will discuss the everyday issues we face such as an aging workforce, appealing to the “new” graduates of today, and of course the ever-adapting technology – Tech vs Human…
The widening skills gap and changes to ways of working have handed candidates a major “power shift” and a more competitive approach to retaining employees and recruiting new talent is needed now more than ever. The pandemic has caused a number of people to evaluate their career and consequently employees are being selective about roles and responsibilities, and is it up to the industry to step up to these individual requirements.
Learning Objectives
By the end of the session, delegates will:
- Be able to identify where we see most gaps as an industry
- Understand what we can do better as an industry to retain and attract talent
- Have an insight into what the future of employment could look like
- Understand how to establish a culture of learning
About the speakers
Gary De Groot, Business Development Director, Innovation Group
Gary is Business Development Director at Innovation Group having joined the business in January 2019. He has worked his whole career in claims, having performed a number of roles across Claims Handling, Account Management and Sales.
Gary has worked alongside some of the UK’s largest motor and property MGAs and has detailed insight into what makes many of them so successful.
Craig O’Driscoll, Director of UK Property Services, Innovation Group
Craig is a motivational and inspirational leader and is responsible for our property operation.
Working for a Tier 1 Insurer, Craig developed high performing regional and national Field teams. His ability to remain proactive and strategically focused whilst delivering tactical solutions is an inevitable skill that Craig has brought to Innovation Group.
Craig has over 25 years of experience dealing with subsidence claims and has lived through many general peril and subsidence surge events!
Rob Angus, Head of Specialist Services, Innovation Group
Rob has 24 years in subsidence and extensive experience managing various areas of the business.
Rob is Head of Specialist Services, which includes Arb, The Soils Labs, Root and Timber Lab, Specialist groundworks and implementation of alternative solutions.
Having a very people led approach and simplifying processes wherever possible, Rob has been heavily involved with our new Initiative, Elevate.
Jo Doyle Head of HR, Innovation Group
Jo is a MCIPD HR professional with over 11 years HR experience. Jo strives to add value and is passionate about the development of people.
Jo is commercially focused with experience of working with multi-national clients, at all levels, and building effective relationships with both internal and external stakeholders to achieve success.
In her role as Head of HR, Jo works in partnership with business leaders to drive the people agenda to support business strategy, and successfully deliver on upon organisational goals and performance. People are at the heart of Innovation Group, attraction, retention, and development are key to creating an engaged workforce and creating an environment where people want to work.
