Events
Leading Your Team Through Change
Date: 22/10/2025
Venue: Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Dublin 8
Speaker(s): Anne Graham, John Geary, Paul Reid
‘Leading your Team Through Change’ was the topic of our October briefing which took place in Dublin on Wednesday, 22nd October.
Our guest speakers Professor John Geary, UCD, Director of Academic Centre – Employee Relations & Organisational Performance Centre, Paul Reid, former HSE CEO and Anne Graham, ACESA Alumnus led an insightful discussion on how members can navigate leadership in times of change.
Among the topics explored were the current working trends in Ireland, including the impact of AI, navigating leadership of a growing organisation and the impact of Covid on the workplace.
Thank you to John, Paul and Anne for sharing their expertise and honest advice at what was an excellent event.
John Geary is Full Professor of Work and Employment Relations at the School of Business, University College Dublin and Honorary Professor at the Marco Biagi Foundation, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy. Currently, John is the principal investigator of the Working in Ireland Survey series. John obtained his doctorate from the University of Oxford where he studied at Nuffield College. In the past, John worked at Warwick Business School in the UK, held visiting professorships at the University of Jena, the University of Louvain, the University of Trento, the University of Bologna, the University of Oslo, and was Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence. He was the first Director of UCD’s College of Business and Law Graduate School and was also Director of Doctoral Studies at the UCD School of Business.
Anne Graham was appointed as Chairperson of the Road Safety Authority in February 2025 and a member of the Governing Board of An Coimisiún Pleanála in June 2025
Anne was Chief Executive Officer with the National Transport Authority (NTA) for 10 years up to December 2024. The NTA is responsible for the provision, regulation and integration of public transport services, the provision of supporting infrastructure for sustainable transport and for driving the greater use of sustainable transport as a mode of choice. She previously worked with the NTA as Director of Public Transport Services and Director of Corporate Services.
Prior to joining the NTA, she worked for over 20 years in the Dublin local authorities as a chartered civil engineer in the drainage, roads and traffic divisions; as a project manager on the redevelopment of Dublin’s O’Connell Street area and as an Area Manager in the South West area of the city.
Paul Reid was CEO of the Irish Health Service, HSE, from May 2019 until December 2022. In this period, he led the health service through the Covid-19 global pandemic and a potentially catastrophic criminal cyber-attack. He was key in communicating health service advice to government and the public in general.
From 2014 to 2019 he was Chief Executive of Fingal County Council, one of the largest Local Authorities in the state.
Between 2011 and 2014, Paul worked as the Chief Operations Officer in the Department of Public Expenditure & Reform, where he was responsible for leading a whole set of reforms across the public service.
From 2010 to 2011, Paul worked as Head of Corporate Affairs with Trócaire, the Irish International Aid Agency.
Paul’s previous career (1982-2010) was as the Executive Director of Networks & Operations with eir.
Paul holds a Masters in Business Administration from Trinity College and a BA in Human Resources and Industrial Relations from the National College Ireland. He has received honorary fellowships from the National College of Ireland and Griffith College for his commitment to public service.