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Rep.of Ireland
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  • Barry Phillips BEM
    Barry Phillips BEMChairman
    Legal Island

    Barry Phillips (CEO) BEM founded Legal Island in 1998. Since then, the company has become the leading workplace compliance training company in the island of Ireland. He was awarded a British Empire Medal in the New Year’s Honours List 2020 for services to employment and equality.

    Barry is a qualified coach and meditator and a regular speaker both here and abroad.  His Tedx Talk featuring his contrarian view that it’s time to ditch open door policies in the workplace can be accessed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-ryMjGTPj4).

    Barry is also an author, releasing his first book titled 'Mastering Small Business Employee Engagement: 30 Quick Wins & HR Hacks from an IIP Platinum Employer' in 2020 alongisde Legal Island MD Jayne Gallagher - you can view the Kindle Version here.

    Barry has worked at the European Parliament, the European Court of Human Rights and the International Labour Organisation in Geneva before qualifying as a lawyer in 1993.

    He has travelled extensively and lived in a total of eight different countries considering himself to be a global citizen first, a European second and British/Irish citizen last of all.

    He lists Russian language and wild camping as his favourite pastimes.

    Connect with Barry on LinkedIn 

  • Jayne Gallagher
    Jayne GallagherManaging Director
    Legal Island

    Jayne joined Legal Island in 2008 and as Managing Director drives the company’s strategic vision. With a passion for people and culture, Jayne is responsible for managing the team and the company towards continued growth and profitability.

    Jayne is also an author, releasing her first book titled 'Mastering Small Business Employee Engagement: 30 Quick Wins & HR Hacks from an IIP Platinum Employer' in 2020 alongside Legal Island Chairman Barry Phillips - you can view the Kindle Version here.

    Connect with Jayne on LinkedIn

  • Kerry Murphy
    Kerry MurphyEvents Director/ Acting Managing Director
    Legal Island

    Kerry joined the company in 2008.  As the Events Director Kerry is accountable for the overall growth, development and management of all Legal Island's events.  She also oversees the Customer Service function, which is the first and last touch point of all our delegates and is a very important part of the overall customer experience.

    Kerry has recently taken on the role of Acting Managing Director as Jayne is off on Maternity Leave.

    Connect with Kerry on LinkedIn

  • Debbie Wilson
    Debbie WilsoneLearning Client Executive
    Legal Island

    Debbie joined the company in March 2011.  As Legal Island's eLearning Client Executive, Debbie heads up all sales of eLearning and manages the eLearning support team.

    Connect with Debbie on LinkedIn 

  • Donna Kirkpatrick
    Donna KirkpatrickOffice Manager
    Legal Island

    As Office Manager Donna's role is large and varied, covering everything from buying the birthday buns to carrying out the risk assessments, staff management, management of the Legal Island Training Centre and the daily running of the office. With Legal Island since 2008, Donna has a passion for helping people and feels her role at Legal Island helps channel this passion, keeping  our employees happy within our office environment. 

    Connect with Donna on LinkedIn 

  • James Dyer
    James DyerFinance Manager
    Legal Island

    James is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, and has been with the company since 2006 heading up the finance function.  Reporting to the Managing Director, James is responsible for providing financial information and analysis to enhance value, communication and trust within Legal Island.

    Connect with James on LinkedIn

  • Nikki Paterson
    Nikki PatersonEvents Manager
    Legal Island

    We are delighted to welcome Nikki Paterson as our new Events Manager. Nikki was the former Senior Events Planning Manager at Titanic Belfast, where she was responsible for the leadership and management of the 5-Star Events Planning Department. Nikki oversaw and managed all aspects of client communications, planning, logistics, budgeting, and profitability for a wide range of event formats including conferences, awards ceremonies, large scale, and multi-site events for a domestic and international client base. And now she’s bringing those skills to Legal Island events near you from September 2020! 

    Nikki will, for obvious reasons, be focusing on online events at Legal Island for the foreseeable future. She’ll be looking forward to welcoming you at all of our events, both online and in-person, this autumn and beyond.

    Connect with Nikki on LinkedIn.

  • Peter Fitzpatrick
    Peter FitzpatrickMarketing Manager
    Legal Island

    Peter joined Legal Island in 2010 and heads up the marketing department. Reporting to the managing director, Peter is responsible for managing our day-to-day marketing activities and developing Legal Island's long-term marketing strategy.

    Connect with Peter on LinkedIn 

  • Scott Alexander
    Scott AlexanderHead of Learning & Development
    Legal Island

    Scott joined Legal Island in 2006 having worked for the Labour Relations Agency in a variety of roles including collective and individual conciliation and enquiry point manager. With over 30 years’ experience in HR and employment law fields, Scott is responsible for the employment law and HR output at Legal Island. Scott designs most of our event programmes and ensures information held on our employment law hub is accurate and up to date. Scott chairs many of our events throughout the island of Ireland and is a regular presenter on employment law matters, as well as an accredited mediator. Scott is a member of the CIPD, a certified member of the Mediators’ Institute of Ireland and a member of the Association for Coaching Ireland.

    Connect with Scott on LinkedIn

  • Alison Townley
    Alison TownleyMarketing Officer
    Legal Island

    Alison joined the team in June 2019 as a Marketing Intern as part of her MSc Marketing degree at Queen's University Belfast before becoming a full time member of staff in September. Alison is responsible for the marketing of Legal Island events in both Northern Ireland and Ireland. Alison's day to day role involves the creation of event pages, designing brochures and marketing on social media.

    Connect with Alison on LinkedIn 

  • Arnold Majcher
    Arnold MajchereLearning Deployment Coordinator
    Legal Island

    Arnold is responible for the technical side of all Events, the Legal Island App, Webinars and Podcasts.

    Connect with Arnold on LinkedIn 

  • Barbara Craig
    Barbara CraigCredit Controller
    Legal Island

    Barbara joined the team in 2015 and is responsible for the accounts function of Legal Island. With a background in finance and credit control, Barbara ensures all outstanding monies are received in a timely fashion, keeping the company's credit risk to a minimum.

  • Glen Bell
    Glen BellMarketing Officer
    Legal Island

    Glen joined the company in April 2018.  Glen is responsible for marketing within eLearning and deals with all sponsorship and exhibition for Legal Island’s events throughout the year.

    Connect with Glen on LinkedIn

  • Jenny Flanagan
    Jenny FlanaganHouse Keeper
    Legal Island

    Jenny has been with the team over 6 years and is the face of the Legal Island training centre, supporting customers and events held there.

  • Julie McCloskey
    Julie McCloskeyFinance Officer
    Legal Island

    Julie has worked for Legal Island since 2009. Her responsibilities include ensuring day to day tasks are carried out in the Finance department from processing and paying supplier invoices to reconciling bank accounts and assisting the company accountant in the preparation of monthly accounts.

    Connect with Julie on LinkedIn

  • Kellie Shields
    Kellie ShieldseLearning Operations Executive
    Legal Island

    Kellie has been with Legal Island since May 2015.  As eLearning Operations Executive Kellie's day to day role involves the design, development and deployment of the Legal Island suite of eLearning courses.

    Connect with Kellie on  LinkedIn 

  • Louise Keenan
    Louise KeenaneLearning Support Executive
    Legal Island

    Louise joined Legal Island in 2015. As the company's eLearning Support Executive, Louise provides technical support to customers using our eLearning courses, from on boarding right to through to course completion, general upkeep of our Moodle site and dealing with customer queries. 

    Connect with Louise on LinkedIn 

  • Rolanda Markey
    Rolanda MarkeyLearning & Development Officer
    Legal Island

    Rolanda joined the Learning and Development team at Legal Island in March 2019.  Prior to that she worked for the Labour Relations Agency in Belfast for 17 years as an Employment Relations Officers working in both Advisory (good practice) Services and Dispute Resolution.  Before joining the Labour Relations Agency, she worked in Human Resources in a range of public and private sector organisations.  She is a Chartered Member of the CIPD and has an MSc in Occupational Psychology. 

    Connect with Rolanda on LinkedIn

  • Sarah Teare
    Sarah TeareAssistant Events Manager
    Legal Island

    As Assistant Events Manager, Sarah’s main responsibilities include working with the Events Team to organise and deliver Legal Island’s vast programme of events. Hosting events on the day, Sarah ensures all delegates get the true first class Legal Island experience and looking after all their needs. In addition, Sarah is responsible for looking after and processing application submissions that are sent in for the Legal Island Irish HR Awards and NI Diversity & Equality Awards Gala.

    Connect with Sarah on LinkedIn

  • Scott Reid
    Scott ReidHub Client Executive
    Legal Island

    After embarking on an academically challenging and stimulating journey at Ulster University and securing a first class honours degree in Marketing, and a Diploma in Professional Practice, Scott has joined Legal Island’s dynamic marketing team as Hub Client Executive, where he is responsible the marketing, sales and administration of the Employment Law Hub.

    Connect with Scott on LinkedIn

  • Vanessa Porter
    Vanessa PorterSenior Customer Service Advisor
    Legal Island

    Vanessa has been with Legal Island for 10 years since moving to NI from London. Her responsibility is all customer service for Legal-Island events - bookings, invoicing and any customer queries.

    Connect with Vanessa on LinkedIn 

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