SPEAKING

Dave A. Barry, Keeping Work Human

Speaker/MC, Founder & Chief Connection Officer, and Coach

Alicante City  |  Online  |  Cork

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, people-first and life/work, and hosting corporate, HR or other events, Dave champions Cork business and its Chamber Skillnet and advocates Alicante MICE tourism.

Keynote Speaking Series

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: 'Put your people first with strategic talent 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: 'Organizations, empower people to partner with you 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: 'Leaders, 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: 'Talent, 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 start moving from work/life to life/work' 
- Three current-year positives, two lessons learned, one clear need

Thought: 'Lean six sigma transform 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

- 24 Stories (Cork, speaker)

- Alicante Nomad Summit (MC and speaker)

- Alicante Startups (speaker)

- Bright Horizons (Ireland, speaker)

- CIPD Ireland Student Conference (repeat MC)

- Cork Chamber Skillnet (recurring speaker, MC and moderator)

- Cork Entrepreneurs Network (repeat speaker)

- Customer Contact Management Association (Ireland, speaker)

- Department of Defence (Ireland, speaker)

- EmployFlex (Cork, speaker)

- Family Friendly Ireland Awards (speaker)

- International Society of Automation (Ireland, MC and moderator)

- Irish Institute of Continuing Professional Development (speaker)

- it@cork (speaker)

- Local Enterprise Office Cork City (speaker)

- Local Government Management Association (Ireland, speaker)

- Network Cork (speaker)

- Public Affairs Ireland (repeat speaker)

- Rezoomo (Ireland, repeat speaker)

- Republic of Work (Cork, repeat speaker)

- Retail Ireland Skillnet (speaker)

- Saros (Ireland, speaker)

- Skillnet Ireland (speaker)

- The Sweeney Show (Cork, speaker)

- Talent Summit (Cork, speaker)

- Teagasc (Ireland, speaker)