Building Belonging through Allyship webinar

APM Greater Bay Area Branch invited Kevin O’Brien (CEO of Gammon Construction Limited) to discuss the topic of “Building Belonging through Allyship” on 8 December 2022.

Kevin kicked off the discussion by walking through his career path in the construction sector. He shared the operational experience of diversity and inclusion. When Kevin moved to Gammon, he helped Gammon to establish the Diversity and Inclusion Council (D&I). This Council is responsible for project “D&I sustainability” which has four-stages in planning:

Construct the foundation for action
Building the infrastructure
Gain momentum & deeper integration
Best in class/ leading Edges

This four-stage plan targets to deliver benefits in five aspects:

Compliance
Discovery
Committed
Championed, and
Innovation

In the discussion, Kevin shared his views and inspirations on being a male ally. He highlighted the following key points for audiences’ understanding on allyship:-

What is an ally?
Why are they important?
What impact can allies have?
How to be a good ally; and
Do and don’ts of being an ally.

In the Q&A session, audiences raised meaningful questions for the implementation and development of D&I consideration. At the end, it was good to see audiences reflect their takeaway for this webinar.

Here the GBA branch would like to thank Kevin for spending time with us on sharing his professional views on building an inclusive culture in the construction sector. The branch appreciates our committee member SS Wong on the coordination and arrangement for this successful webinar.

For 2022/2023, GBA Branch would continue to invite market professionals and practitioners to deliver different project management and industry related topics through webinars. The branch is open to any suggestion on webinar topics and speakers. Please feel free to contact us and join our upcoming activities and webinars.

Jim Pippin
Greater Bay Area Branch Chairman

Kevin O'Brien, Chief Executive, Gammon

Kevin joined Balfour Beatty, a shareholder of Gammon, in Hong Kong in 1996 and moved to Gammon in 2004 where he held a number of senior roles. Kevin was then appointed Chief Executive of The Jardine Engineering Corporation in 2018 where he was responsible for all businesses across Asia. He re-joined Gammon as the Chief Executive in 2021.

Kevin has over 30 years’ extensive management experience in the construction and engineering industry covering both the private and public sectors. He is a fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors. He is the Chairman of the Business Environment Council.

Kevin has very kindly allowed his presented material to be made available for viewing. The slides on Slideshare and the webinar recording on YouTube is now available in our APM resources area and also embedded below for reference.

This event is suitable for professionals with any level of experience.

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