North West Sustainable Business Quarterly
‘Realising a Green Economy – the social challenges’
Thursday 14th June 2012
Bruntwood, City Tower, Piccadilly Plaza, Manchester, M1 4BT
Speakers
LUKE WILDE, DIRECTOR, TwentyFifty Ltd
JOHN ATHERTON, DIRECTOR, The Stable Trading Company
About our speakers
Luke Wilde has worked in business, leadership and organisational development for over 15 years, with a specific focus in the last decade on business intersection with society and impact on human rights. In the late nineties, he was a senior management adviser to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, and helped establish the Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights.
In 2004, he founded TwentyFifty Ltd, a social sustainability management consultancy which works with global companies in the food, finance, mining and industrial sectors. TwentyFifty has offices in the West Country and in Berlin, Germany, and its work now largely focuses on businesses seeking growth in the emerging economies and developing nations.
John Atherton co-founded The Stable Trading Company in 2007, which was established as a Community Investment Company (CIC). It has since set up several sites locally with the dual purpose of growing and processing a range of food for to promote the local economy, and to provide training opportunities for people who are disadvantaged in a range of different ways.
The Stable Trading Company is now a multi-faceted business incorporating education and training in all its commercial projects that develop the skills and confidence of disadvantaged individuals, and empowering them to become more included in society.
John studied Rural Estate Management at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester and is a Chartered Surveyor. He set up Athertons Chartered Surveyors in 1994 and remains a director of the multi-discipline practice which covers East Lancashire.
The format for the evening will be as follows:
- 5.30 – Registration and networking
- 6.00 – Specialist speakers
- 6.30 – Q&A
- 7.00 – Round table discussions
- 7.45 – Networking
- 8.30 –Close
Roundtables
Stakeholder communications
Who needs a sustainability report when you can tweet? Sustainability reports in the social media era.
Sustainability strategies
Size doesn’t matter – you can be small and sustainable too!
Resource efficiency
How to engage your employees in resource efficiency
Social responsibility
Realising a Green Economy – the social challenges
Supply chain
Supply chain responses to the social challenges of the Green Economy
Sustainable buildings and technologies
The Green Deal – how will it be received and how will it affect business?
Please state the roundtable you wish to attend. You can register for the event here
North West Sustainable Business Quarterly – Thursday 13th September 2012
Bruntwood, City Tower, Piccadilly Plaza, Manchester, M1 4BT
5.30 – 8.30 pm
Speakers
DR TERRY GIBSON, OPERATIONS DIRECTOR, Global Network for Disaster Reduction
Second speaker – TBC
About our speakers
Dr Terry Gibson is Operations Director of the Global Network for Disaster Reduction, leading over 500 member organisations in 70 countries at local and global level, to improve the resilience of communities in the face of increasing vulnerability to disasters. His work reflects a career focus on communications, having led companies concerned with corporate and broadcast communications before focusing on applications of communications in sustainability, and international development.
He leads the global action research programme ‘Views from the Frontline’ for the Global Network, has undertaken major projects for DfID and Tearfund, as well as contributing to sustainability programmes for SAB Miller, Kingfisher and B&Q.
You can register for the event here
North West Sustainable Business Quarterly – Thursday 13th December 2012
Bruntwood, City Tower, Piccadilly Plaza, Manchester, M1 4BT
5.30 – 8.30 pm
Speakers
DR ALAN KNIGHT, SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTOR, Business in the Community
MIKE BERNERS-LEE, DIRECTOR, Small World Consulting
You can register for the event here
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