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Alan Hutchinson, Facilities Director, Howard Kennedy LLP
Charles Siddons, Head of Operations, NHS Property Services
Darren Miller, Head of EMEA Facilities Operations, PayPal
Ian Wade, Head of UK Estates, British Medical Association
Lucy Hind, Senior FM Lecturer, Leeds Beckett University
Marie Johnson, Head of Workplace & Wellbeing, Nominet
Russell Wood, Facilities Manager at Dentsu Aegis Network
Russell Burnaby, Head of FM, Regeneration and Environment, Brent Council
Simon Francis, Principal Lead, Estates and Masterplanning, ZSL
Simone Fenton-Jarvis, Workplace Consultancy Director at Relogix
Stephen Bursi, Facilities Lead, BAE Systems
Stephen Vagg, Head of Estates and Strategy, National Express Group PLC
Vicky Thorp, Head of Facilities Management, CLSH Management
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In this month’s issue we’re pleased to publish our fi rst
live conference report (page 10) since early 2020,
which coincidently, was also an FM Futures event.
What came through strongly during FM Futures 2022 is both
the undiminished positivity amongst FM thought leaders for
the facilities management profession and a renewed energy
to not just settle for where we were pre-pandemic, but strive
to embrace new opportunities.
The event demonstrated that far from being preoccupied
with dealing with the a ermath of the pandemic, and all the
disruption it has wrought, FMs are already turning to the next
big challenge, which is helping organisations achieve ESG
goals. O icially defined as using Environmental, Social and
Governance factors to evaluate companies and countries on how
far advanced they are with sustainability, ESG’s birthplace, as
Guy Battle, CEO of the Social Value Portal explained was in social
value. It now encompasses all the many areas which are crucial
to facilities management; meeting net zero targets, achieving a
level of compliance within an organisation and supporting the
rest of your supply chain to do the same.
This was the basis of our interview on page 40 with Helen
Jones, COO for Corporate /Enterprise clients at workplace risk
management provider Alcumus. She believes that ESG is the
next big growth area that organisations are going to need to get
their arms around, but she agrees many are confused about
where to start.
There is a lot of help out there, from Alcumus’ new standardsbased
Environmental, Social and Governance platform, to
IWFM’s new measurement framework for social value, designed
specifically for the workplace and facilities management
profession. But as James Bradley, COO Churchill Group
suggested in his presentation at Futures, the challenge now
for FMs is in creating the right culture and mindsets, engaging
people, and reinforcing the right behaviours to achieve
sustainable results.
As always, we’d welcome your feedback about any aspect of
the magazine, together with your insight into what’s happening
in the FM sector.
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