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Conexion.ie - Connection, Leadership and Talent

Speaking

Corporate and Industry

A human resource management postgraduate of University College Cork, subsequent to initial roles in travel and retail Dave joined global biopharmaceutical Eli Lilly in 1999 for thirteen years across human resources, lean six sigma, finance, and three Cork sites.

Keen to diversify via leading in other sectors, Dave left Lilly in 2011 and following a Dublin telecoms project role joined cybersecurity leader Trend Micro in Cork in 2013 as head of HR – EMEA operations centre/Ireland and interim southern Europe.

Passionate about strategic talent management and the connecting of unjoined dots to achieve same, Dave left Trend in 2016 to first consult in life sciences including an HR leadership secondment to BioMarin in Cork, prior to establishing own consultancy Conexion.ie® in 2018.

In addition to professional speaking on connection, leadership in the era of AI and life/work, and hosting corporate, HR or other events, Dave champions Cork business and its Chamber Skillnet and advocates Alicante MICE tourism.

Dave A. Barry

Keeping Work Human

Dave A. Barry

Speaker/MC, Founder & Chief Connection Officer and Coach

Alicante City  |  Online  |  Cork

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3

keynote series, nine talks

28

organisations spoken at, hosted or moderated

2

countries: Ireland and Spain, and online anywhere

Keynote Speaking Series

Three series, each with a Signature keynote, a Thought talk and a Deep-Dive session. Every talk can be given at a conference, a company event, or online.

Join the Dots

a connected organization series

Signature

‘Join organizational dots, bringing you higher’

  • Culture for connection, strategy for leadership, people for Talent

Thought

‘Please please never have accidental managers’

  • The right managers in the right roles, modeling company values throughout, and continously developing emotional intelligence

Deep-Dive

‘Value talent, with strategic end-to-end focus’

  • Attracting and hiring for speedier productivity
  • Managing for optimized business, developing for flexible capability
  • Engaging for increased productivity, retaining for reduced turnover
Put People First

an AI & digitalization series

Thought

‘Empower people to partner on AI’

  • Augmented intelligence: designing tools to support, rather than replace
  • Purposeful automation: reinvesting time into creativity, learning and meaningful work
  • Reskilling and upskilling: continuous training programmes to understand, guide and govern

Signature

‘Swiftly shift to adaptive leadership style’

  • Connected values: trust, honesty and integrity, and authentic wellbeing focus
  • Unlearning culture: cultivating psychological safety for continuous learning
  • Balanced judgement: agile decision making with ethical guardrailing

Deep-Dive

‘Focus on what machines cannot replicate’

  • Cognitive supervision: critical thinking, guiding, validating
  • Ethical oversight: bias prevention, privacy monitoring, values
  • Relationship building: deep listening, empathy, team dynamic
Prioritize Towards Joy

a talent coaching series

Deep-Dive

‘321 to move from work/life to life/work’

  • Three current-year positives, two lessons learned, one clear need

Thought

‘Transformedly change your work or life’

  • Opportunity/goal/scope, improving or redesigning, actioning and sustaining

Signature

‘The bring-me-joy scale of life and work’

  • Bring Me Joy, See When See, No Longer Connected

Previous Speaking Engagements

Conferences, awards, chambers and company events across Ireland and Spain.

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