Summer Evening 2024#Event 2: 08 August 2024
Conversation and Communication
Speakers: Sherry Moran, Nigel Pate and Bartholomew O’Toole
What are good conversation and effective communication? How important are these routine tools of life?
All will be explored in a three-way conversation, followed by questions and conversation with all present.
Sherry Moran
In her 40 years with SPES, Sherry has tutored Philosophy 1-12, wrote and directed the 10-minute History of the School video, and ran the Ceramics section of the Art In Action festival. On its closure, Sherry launched Celebrating Ceramics, a 3-day summer festival at Waterperry Gardens.
Sherry’s career has evolved from running the internal communications department of a global investment bank to founder/director of two communications and documentary video businesses, to her current role as founder/director of a pharma technology company.
She has been a member of the Executive since 2020, is on the Waterperry Gardens Limited Board, and her most recent appointment is on the Board of Open Style Lab, a non-profit organisation committed to making style accessible to everyone regardless of their physical or cognitive abilities.
Nigel Pate
A student in the School in Midlands, Wessex, St Albans and London, since the mid-80s, and leader of the St Albans Branch since 2009, Nigel has tutored groups at every level, online and in person.
Following a career first in marketing, then in change management and employee communication for companies such as British Gas and HSBC, he retired as global head of communications at HSBC Asset Management in 2019.
His expertise in communication remains in high demand. For the last year he has worked at the heart of a successful campaign for change: to elect a new MP in his Hertfordshire constituency.
Bartholomew O’Toole has attended the School since childhood and tutored for many years in the first year Philosophy classes, and arranged and introduced these summer series of lectures for some 35 years. His career as a barrister continues, specialising in criminal law from leading Chambers in the Inner Temple.