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Prospectus congratulates David Breslin (Consultant), who was recently awarded the Gold Medal for the ‘Gaisce – Presidents Award’ at an awards ceremony in Dublin Castle.   

Gaisce - the President’s Award is Ireland’s National Challenge Award, the country’s most prestigious and respected individual award programme, representing a challenge from the President of Ireland to young people between 15 and 25 years of age.  It involves completing four sections: Community Involvement, Personal Skill, Physical Recreation and Adventure Journey. 

To achieve the Gold Medal, David coached and trained a local youth football team each week for approximately three years(obtaining an F.A.I. youth coach qualification); he graduated from the Moonrose Guitar Academy and is now a competent guitar player; he participated in fitness training sessions each week over the course of the two years; and finally, at the culmination of the award, David and two other Gold Award hopefuls completed the ‘Adventure Journey’, which entailed hiking 80km around the Wicklow Way over four days and three nights.

Congratulations to David for this tremendous achievement.

Vincent Barton chaired the 7th National Health Summit at Croke Park Conference Centre, Dublin, on Tuesday 25th January 2011.

The continuing crisis in Ireland's public finances is the backdrop to this timely event.  The Minister for Health has conceded that cuts of close to €1billion will have to be made in the Health Budget in 2011.  November 2010 saw the publication of a 4-year fiscal correction plan for the country setting out detailed budgetary plans not just for 1 year but for the next 4 years. What will be the impact on health and social care services?

Topics include:

•         Confronting the Crisis: The Public Expenditure Challenge facing the health service
•          Turning Reforms into Hard Cash: Where will the savings be found?
•          Delivering Change: The Leadership Challenge of delivering change through Employee Engagement
•          Technologies that are transforming healthcare and its delivery
•          Innovative Financing Models for technologies that will transform healthcare
•         The Challenge of Financing Healthcare: Is there a case for Universal Health Insurance for Ireland?

For further information, please go to www.healthsummit.ie

Executive development programmes now available in the areas of

strategy design and implementation, and personal effectiveness.

Register now for courses starting January 2011.

Prospectus Executive Development (1.0 mbs)

Prospectus Strategy Forum

The Prospectus Strategy Forum on STRATEGY IN CHALLENGING TIMES was held in January 2010 and was attended by over 50 individuals in leadership positions in their respective organisations representing many of the key sectors of the economy. The event included ideas and insights from Prospectus and a keynote address from Shane O'Neill- Chief Strategy Officer of Liberty Global.

A copy of the output of the Forum is available on request from strategy@prospectus.ie  

The 7th Eurogroup Consulting Alliance Bank University was held in Paris on the 8th & 9th of June 2006. The Bank University was jointly organised by eight European consulting firms, including Prospectus, all members of the Eurogroup Consulting Alliance.

The objective of the University was to provide an opportunity for senior banking and finance professionals from across Europe to meet and share their experiences and views on key banking issues.  This year the specific theme was "Innovation in the banking and finance industry" and three large Irish financial service institutions were guests of Prospectus at the university.

David W. Duffy spoke on The Role of Chairperson: New Challenges at the Inaugral Forum for Chairpersons of Publicly Funded Bodies, 26th April 2006, Dublin

The Role of Chairperson (659 kbs)

Justine McCarthy spoke on The Importance of Governance in the Voluntary Sector at the Carmichael Centre Conference on Corporate Governance, 26 January 2006, Dublin

The Importance of Governance in the Voluntary Sector (356 kbs)