During the month of March, we tackled business critical conversations with outstanding speakers who provided insights, top tips, practical advice and stimulate innovative ideas and thinking.
These thought leadership events offered continued learning, knowledge transfer and personal development are key for any successful organisation, you can catch up on week 2’s conversation, Sustainability here.
Catch up on the Sustainability conversation from Leadership Month 2022. Our speakers this week engaged us with personal stories and anecdotes around implementing a sustainability strategy that works, ESG, B-Corp, and Ethical Banking and Investments.
Walking The Talk with Ecotricity & FGRF
Gary Thomas, Head of Sustainability at Ecotricity
Gary shared with us the ‘How To’ in starting and implementing a sustainability strategy that works! ‘The Guide to Going Green’ . Top tips and practical advice from the best in sustainability.
ESG The Impact of Your Investment Choices
Janet Mui, CFA, is Investment Director at Brewin Dolphin
The world has changed and has made many customers acutely aware of how employees are treated and how businesses affect their environment, and top talent cares about employers’ ESG reputation. Your people want to be part of something worthwhile, get behind something they believe in. It’s not enough to turn a profit your people and your customers want to know where your money is being invested and is it making a difference?
Janet gave us an overview of the current markets and the growing trend toward ESG investments.
Aren’t We All Bankers?
Zoe Sear – Head of Marketing & Communications, Triodos Bank
We live in unprecedented times. The climate emergency, a global health pandemic and the call for greater social justice Banks shape the world we live in. What banks do with our money requires our full attention. Now is the time to consider our complicity in accepting the banking status quo and remember the power that is in our hands
Recommended Reading
- Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead co-written by Sheryl Sandberg & Neil Scovell https://leanin.org/book
- Nicola Whiting MBE https://www.nicolawhiting.com/published-work/
- 5 Voices by Jeremie Kubicek & Steve Cockram https://5voices.com/
- The Go Giver by Bob Burg & John David Mann https://thegogiver.com/
- The Change Catalyst by Campbell MacPherson https://www.changeandstrategy.com/books/
- The Power to Change by Campbell MacPherson https://www.changeandstrategy.com/books/
- You: Part 2. Thriving in the second half of your life by Campbell MacPherson & Jane MacPherson https://www.changeandstrategy.com/books/
- Building the Best by John Eades https://learnloft.com/building-the-best-book/
- The 10 Minute Life Coach by Fiona Harrold https://www.circle2success.com/motivational-month-another-great-book-to-read/
- Who moved my Cheese? By Dr Spencer Johnson https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4894.Who_Moved_My_Cheese_
- Will it Make the Boat Go Faster? by Ben Hunt-Davis & Harriet Beveridge https://willitmaketheboatgofaster.com/
- Taming Tigers by Jim Lawless https://tamingtigers.com/
- Black Box Thinking By Matthew Syed https://www.matthewsyed.co.uk/resource/black-box-thinking-the-surprising-truth-about-success/
- Hope in Hell by Jonathon Porritt http://www.jonathonporritt.com/hope-in-hell/
- Sandler Enterprise Selling by David Mattson & Brian Sullivan https://www.sandler.com/programs/enterprise-selling/
- The Future Leader by Jacob Morgan https://thefutureorganization.com/