Building a Culture of Empowerment at BM Silo

Webinar with Dorte Martinsen and some of the BM Silo workforce: 7th September 2021

A ‘virtual visit’ inside the BM Silo factory in Denmark, meet Dorte and a cross-section of employees discussing the company’s transformation and the leadership approach that made it happen…… The result: a return to pre-2009 levels of employment, a remarkable throughput time of 3 hours from order to completion, and a profitable increase in exports from 50 – 90%.

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Speakers

Dorte Zacho Martinsen
Co-owner and Chairman Of The Board, BM Silo

Roxana Vasiliu
Sales and Marketing Manager
BM Silo

Berith June Borregaard Thulesen
Purchaser, BM Silo

Facilitators

Dr Peter Totterdill
Founding Director
Workplace Innovation Europe

Dr Peter Totterdill is a Founding Director of Workplace Innovation Europe CLG, a not-for-profit organisation created to help public and private sector organisations achieve enhanced performance and better working lives. A leading European expert in workplace innovation, Peter’s career has focused on building bridges between research and practice. He has led many successful innovation and change initiatives in both private and public sector organisations. Peter was previously a Research Professor at Nottingham Trent University, and has held Visiting Professorships at Kingston University London and Mykolas Romeris University Vilnius.
Rosemary Exton

Rosemary Exton
Founding Director
Workplace Innovation Europe

Rosemary Exton is a Founding Director of Workplace Innovation Europe CLG. Her experience of workplace innovation dates back to 2002, and builds on many years’ experience as a clinician, manager and trade unionist in the UK’s National Health Service where she instigated, drove and delivered many complex change and improvement initiatives. Rosemary has played key roles in several international research and development projects, whilst simultaneously delivering leadership development programmes and facilitating organisational change in diverse companies and public sector organisations across Europe.

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