Thank you all for attending our Social Enterprise event in October! Below is a summary of the main highlights and topics discussed at each table. Recruitment – Tom Rippin The need for  talent management How and where social enterprises can find talent What On Purpose (and others) often look for in applicants How to reward [...]

If you are interested in participating in this course please e-mail: hello@idealmedia.org.uk Sustainable Business: Leading the Change Sustainable business in 2010 means working with the bigger picture and aligning business goals with social and environmental objectives. The UN mandated UPEACE Centre for Executive Education is visiting London to deliver a workshop on corporate responsibility (CR). [...]

Also, the launch of the Net Impact London Professional partnership with The Hub. Top entrepreneurship author and professor, John Mullins, presents his book Getting to Plan B with two leading low carbon entrepreneurs.  Mark Chadwick of Carbon Clear and Sue Igoe of RecycleBank. For more details and sign-up links, please see http://lowcarbonplan.eventbrite.com

Net Impact London Professional is pleased to wish everyone a happy New Year and to announce an exciting event in February 2010: Retail – Meeting the Sustainability Challenge. The event will take place at the PwC offices with registration at 6:00pm for a 6:30pm start to the panel session. The evening will take the form [...]

The London Net Impact Professional Chapter is pleased to invite you to the latest event in our business speaker series. Guy Battle is an entrepreneur with over 20 years experience in the sustainable construction industry. In 2006 Guy founded dcarbon8, a carbon and sustainability consultancy, whose major clients include Sainsbury’s, ProLogis, Land Securities, and Masdar [...]

Many people agree that the way forward for sustainability in businesses is not by creating bigger sustainability or CSR teams, but by empowering and enabling staff in all roles throughout the business to meet sustainability goals as core business goals. But how feasible is this? When there are so many core business goals to pursue, [...]

If you would like to attend this event, please RSVP here Jonny Goldstone had a passion to set up a business with a minimal impact on the environment, and two and a half years ago he did just that. greentomatocars launched in March 2006 as London’s first environmentally friendly car service. Now boasting a fleet [...]

It is imperative that organizations incorporate the principles of sustainability beyond their business practices, by incorporating it into their communications strategies, as transparency is coming to define consumer trust and purchasing behaviour. Inconsistencies and cynicism occur when tactical efforts are used to promote initiatives; tactics cannot convey the long term commitment required to actively contribute [...]

Gib Bulloch is Director of Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP), a new not-for-profit consulting group whose clients include Oxfam, CARE international and The World Bank. Prior to taking on this important role, Gib’s 15 years of professional experience combined roles in a variety of large private sector companies (Mars, BP) with strategy consulting at Accenture and [...]

Daniela Barone Soares is Chief Executive of the Impetus Trust. Impetus is a venture philanthropy organisation targeting strategic finance and expertise at charities to enable them to achieve a high social return on investment. Impetus has raised £3.5m in its first fund.

Dr. Katy Emck is executive director of Fine Cell Work, a social enterprise which trains prison inmates to do high quality tapestry and quilting and sells their work. It currently employs 300 prison inmates to hand-embroider cushions, rugs and quilts and has sold their work on three continents, receiving widespread publicity for their beauty and [...]

Shaun McCarthy is a leading advocate of sustainable procurement. In addition to being the Director of Action Sustainability, he chairs theStrategic Supply Chain Group, is a commissioner on the London Sustainable Development Commission, and chairs the London 2012 Sub-Group, the watchdog organisation for a sustainable Olympic project in London. Shaun’s last “day job” was for [...]