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February 8, 2012

Selling your Skills for Sustainability Careers

When: Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Time: 6:30 – 9:00
Where: London Business School
Sainsbury’s Building, Room: LT3 (please note the room change to Lt3)
Sussex Gardens, London
NW1 4SA

Now that 2012 is in full swing many of you are probably in the midst of re-evaluating your career goals. Whether you are looking for a promotion or trying to break into the Sustainability field your skills have to be presented in the right way in order for you to move to the next level. This event is great for all career levels with a special emphasis on those looking to make a transition within their company or industry. The core focus will be on market insight and providing you with the practical tools to get ahead. We have lined up some great speakers for this career workshop:

Shannon HoudeShannon Houde – Walk of Life Consulting – Shannon Houde, MBA, is founder of Walk of Life Consulting, the first international career coaching business focused solely on the environmental, sustainability and Corporate Responsibility (CR) fields.  She also launched and currently runs the Acre Career Coaching service for leading sustainability recruitment company, Acre Resources. Shannon has mentored and trained professionals in the field of CR for more than 10 years with a focus on matching personal values to career paths, writing CVs as marketing tools, and interviewing with impact. She combines a wealth of knowledge from 15 years’ managing cross-cultural teams and CR projects in Asia, Europe, North and South America, in non-profit, corporate and entrepreneurial environments across diverse industries including at Barclays, Deloitte, and WWF.

David MetcalfeDavid Metcalfe – Verdantix – David is the CEO and a founding director of Verdantix. He co-leads the fact-based, forward-looking research conducted by Verdantix analysts that helps energy, environment and sustainability executives to gain competitive advantage through sustainability. David was previously Senior Vice President at Forrester Research, the NASDAQ-listed technology and business research firm. Prior to joining Forrester, he was Head of Analysis and Forecasting at BT Group. He is a co-author of the award–winning book “Negotiation Analysis” published by Harvard University Press.

Event Schedule

6:30-6:45 – Registration
6:45-6:50 – Speaker & Workshop Introduction
6:50-7:05 – Workshop Tools
7:05-7:10 – Top 5 Skills Recruiters Look For & Trends
7:10-7:30 – Breakout session Using the Skill Mapping Tool
7:30-7:45 – Lessons Learned & Wrap-Up
7:45-8:00 – Question & Answer
8:00-9:00 – Networking at Local LBS Pub

This event sold out last year so be sure to get your tickets early.

Start: February 8, 2012 6:30 pm
End: February 8, 2012 9:00 pm
Venue: London Business School
Phone: 020 7000 7000
Address:
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Sussex Place, London, United Kingdom, NW1 4SA

January 14, 2012

Low Carbon Communities: New times, new ways forward

The Low Carbon Communities Network (LCCN) 2012 annual conference will look at new ways forward for community action in a time of significant economic and social change.

It will focus on

  • Community Energy – now and for the future
  • New partnerships to tackle climate change

The event runs from 10.00am to 4.30pm with registration from 9.15. A short drinks reception will follow the formal event. A maximum of 200 places are available.

Attendance is free but a cheque for £20.00 made out to Low Carbon Communitites Network must be recieved within 10 days of registering or the ticket will be cancelled. You will recieve your un-cashed cheque upon arrival at the event. The cheque must be sent to:

COIN,

The Old Music Hall,

106 Cowley Road,

Oxford,

OX4 1JE

Start: January 14, 2012
End: January 14, 2012
Venue: Kings’ Conference Centre
Address:
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Osney Mead, Oxford, United Kingdom, OX2 0ES

January 11, 2012

New Year’s Social – Hot Topics For 2012

 

Date: January 11th, 2012
Time: 6:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: The Marylebone
93 Marylebone High Street
W1U 4RE London

Come celebrate the New Year with Net Impact London Professional.  This social event will be focused on networking, discussion of hot topics in sustainability, and a sustainability focused pub quiz.  We will be breaking out in small discussion groups to discuss the hot topics so please vote for your prefered topic when you register.  Some potential topics include: Was the Durban Climate Change Conference A Success?  Is Microfinance Sustainable?

This is a great opportunity to learn more about Net Impact, network with others and hear about our upcoming events in the new year. Nibbles will be served and alcoholic drinks are available for purchase at the bar.

PS – We have the room reserved at the back of the pub behind the curtains

(Photo credit: Sarunyu_foto – www.freedigitalphotos.net)

Start: January 11, 2012 6:30 pm
End: January 11, 2012 9:30 pm
Venue: The Marlyebone
Address:
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93 Marylebone High Street, London, United Kingdom, W1U 4RE

December 14, 2011

Tinsel, time and treats

Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Time: 6:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: The Hub Islington
5 Torrens Street, 4th Floor
London EC1V 1NQ

Please join Net Impact London Professional for a fun filled evening of giving and good times. This event will be focused on networking and getting to know colleagues in the CSR professional community. Rather than buying a gift, everyone is encouraged to bring an item that they already own or a card with your contact info and a service that you could share with someone. For example, if you are graphic designer, you could offer 30 minutes of design time. Or, if you have a bunch of eco-friendly light bulbs, bring one to share with the group. During the evening our friends from Ecomodo and Spots of Time will share their experiences and help us facilitate the gift and skills exchange game!

Spots of Time – Phillippa Banister, Community Manager – Phillippa has experience of grassroots community building work in rural Cameroon and with the homeless in Bradford.  She is a recent graduate from the prestigious Forum for the Future Masters programme and as part of this has completed projects with Unilever, Fairtrade Foundation and Flintshire County Council. She completed an undergraduate degree in Drama and English and likes working on organic farms.

Ecomodo – Tracy Currer, Co-founder – With twenty years experience designing interactions between people and products, Tracy believes the power of design can find the common ground between the way the mass public want to live and the changes we all must make to create a more sustainable future. Her latest venture, Ecomodo, an award winning social enterprise, helps people consume less, whilst enjoying rich, fulfilling and social lives. Enabling people to share everyday goods, skills and spaces, Ecomodo is recognised as a pioneer in the emerging global market of collaborative consumption. Winner of the 2010 Green Award for the Best Use of Online Media, Ecomodo adopts a combination of gifting, micro-enterprise and fundraising to provide a unique motivation model.

This is a great opportunity to learn more about Net Impact, network with others and learn about our upcoming events in the New Year. Refreshments will be served! Mulled wine will be on sale for £1. We ho, ho, hope to see you there!

PS – Please note that the Hub Islington is a walk up and does not have an elevator.

(Photo credit: Naito8/Freedigitalphotos.net)

Start: December 14, 2011 6:30 pm
End: December 14, 2011 9:30 pm
Venue: The Hub Islington
Address:
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5 Torrens Street, London, United Kingdom, EC1 1NQ

November 24, 2011

International Green Awards – November 24, 2011

The INTERNATIONAL GREEN AWARDS are internationally established as the leading advocate of best practices in sustainability across business, government and citizen initiatives. The Awards canvas the globe for the best in class examples of sustainability, with the aim of sharing the most creative and innovative ideas to inspire change.

In its 6th year, the RSA accredited INTERNATIONAL GREEN AWARDS™ is broadening its commitment to promote best practice in sustainability through a unique membership platform. This platform will draw on a wide range of experts, influencers and professionals in the discipline of sustainability and environment to share a pan-global view on sustainability.

2010 saw the inaugural year of the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ honouring Sir David Attenborough. The search for another deserving citizen continues this year, and also sees the introduction of the ‘Green Celebrity Award’. The latter will be open to public voting, through social networks and the INTERNATIONAL GREEN AWARDS website.

The INTERNATIONAL GREEN AWARDS™ are open for entry in 20 categories, seeking the Best Green Large Enterprise through to Best Sustainable Investment across the world. More information on categories and entering are available on our new website www.greenawards.com

The Award  close for entries in September 2011, with the ‘green carpet’ being rolled out for winners on 24th November at the Natural History Museum, London.

Start: November 24, 2011
End: November 24, 2011
Venue: Natural History Museum
Phone: +44 (0)20 7942 5000
Address:
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Cromwell Road, London, United Kingdom, SW7 5BD

November 9, 2011

Creating Effective Business Charity Partnerships Workshop

Venue: Oasis Church Waterloo, 1 Kennington Road, London SE1 7QP
Telephone: 020 7921 4205

Business charity partnerships are a land of rich opportunities for co-creation and mutual benefit. Yet at the same time they are riddled with conflicting aims and objectives, clashing cultures and other unforeseen challenges, which people on both sides of the partnership have to grapple with on a daily basis.

Join us on 9th November 2011 to experience and explore these issues and opportunities in an interactive, challenging and fun way.

With the help of a business case and role-play developed specifically for our “Creating effective business charity partnerships” workshop, you will explore different stages of partnership development, from choosing a partner to three years into the partnership.

Register by Monday 7th November to have enough time to read the case-study before the event.

Attend this workshop to:

  • find out what the companies and charities can gain from partnerships
  • explore the issues to consider at different stages of partnership development
  • learn how to choose a potential partner with care
  • identify potential risks and learn how to manage your partner’s expectations
  • discover how to build and maintain a successful business charity partnership
  • benefit from real-life examples and have an opportunity to share your experience with like-minded people

You will gain a well-rounded perspective of the complexities involved, while learning from workshop experts representing three sides of a business charity partnership. Tom James, Three Hands, an intermediary in business charity partnerships, will show you how to link business with charities and community organisations for mutual benefit, while Nadia Al Yafai, White & Case, will offer a corporate take on the partnerships and Laura Westwick, Bromley by Bow Centre, will present a charity perspective.

SCHEDULE

6.30pm – Registration and Networking
7.00pm – Introduction
7.15pm – Case study scenario 1
7.35pm – Case study scenario 2
7.55pm – Case study scenario 3
8.15pm – What’s the future?
8.30pm to 9.00pm – Networking

ABOUT THE FACILITATORS

Tom James is a Senior Manager at Three Hands, a company that links business with charities and community organisations for mutual benefit. Three Hands brings together expertise in learning & development and community engagement to deliver experiential learning programmes and innovative community projects. Tom has been in his current role for 2 years working on programmes for BSkyB, British Gas, Morgan Stanley and Lend Lease. Tom graduated in 2010 with a distinction in his Masters degree in Corporate Social Responsibility from London Met Business School and was recently appointed as a Trustee at Emmaus South Lambeth, a charity in South London which provides a home, work and family for homeless people.

Nadia Al Yafai is the Community Affairs Executive at White & Case, one of the world’s leading global law firms, responsible for developing  volunteering programmes and selecting and managing key charity relationships. She designed a unique employability programme ‘Breakfast Club’ with Dress for Success which was run over 12 weeks in  the City and was covered in ‘The Big Issue’. Nadia believes that, as a Corporate Responsiblity professional, it is important to have a strong  perspective from the charity’s viewpoint so she is a Business Advisor to the employability charity,  IntoWork and the Clement James community Centre, the headquarters of IntoUniversity. She works with the charity’s business partners on developing their new programmes, brings on board expert supporters, reviews their community development focus and carries out mock interviews with the charity’s clients. She has also helped set up a social enterprise community cafe including winning funding in a ‘Dragon’s Den’ pitch event. She received a ‘Local  Heroes’ award at the Kensington & Chelsea ‘Make a Difference’ ceremony in June 2011 for, in the words of the charity, ‘her incredible support  and care, her enthusiasm and creativeness and for being a source of inspiration to us all’.

Laura Westwick is the Corporate and Events Development Manager at the Bromley by Bow Centre, an east London charity that helps up to 2,000 people a month to improve their health and skills and move towards and into work. She has responsibility for developing effective relationships with corporate partners, particularly those based in the City and Canary Wharf. Her area of responsibility also involves developing fundraising events ranging from sponsored sporting challenges to arranging formal dinners and auctions. This can mean anything from writing bids for six-figure partnerships, recruiting riders for a 100km night-time cycle ride to helping to organise a corporate volunteer-led summer tea party (complete with cupcakes) in the Centre’s therapeutic garden. Laura has worked in the charity sector for 3 years having previously worked in environmental sustainability.

Image: jscreationzs / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Start: November 9, 2011 6:30 pm
End: November 9, 2011 9:00 pm

November 4, 2011

Vitality, Longevity & Genius Conference World Launch – Starring David Wolfe, Dr John Demartini & Dr David Hamilton

Launching in London, and 3 months later in Sydney, Australia,The Vitality, Longevity & Genius Conference is the first peak performance event of its type in the World, bringing together three highly inspired world-acclaimed speakers, the conference, will bring to life a formidable wheelwork of wisdom, providing an evident blueprint for the generation of your Vitality, Longevity and Genius.

In Association with Stiglitz & Detox Your World, V³ Events brings you a truly inspiring and unforgettable whole day experience, rich with clarity, wisdom, laughter and inspiration, our three larger than life speakers will take you on an enlivening  journey pitched to awaken your true bandwidth and open you up to whole new worlds of the possible. This is a spectacle apt to expand the longitudes and latitudes of your inner vision, towards, as Abraham Maslow articulated, greater dimensions of humanness and self-actualization.
Click here for more details and to register: http://vitalitylongevitygenius.eventbrite.com/
Start: November 4, 2011 8:30 am
End: November 4, 2011 9:30 pm
Venue: Friends House
Address:
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173 Euston Rd, United Kingdom, NW1 2BJ

November 2, 2011

LSx CSR Series #3 – November 2, 2011

 

London Sustainability Exchange is proud to announce the 2011 CSR event series Bringing the Olympics to Business: Playing Your Part partnership with Heart of the City and the City of London Corporation. Kicking off with four seminars and using the Spirit of London 2012 as inspiration, the series aims to show SMEs practical ways to jump-start their Corporate Social Responsibility programme. The seminars will cover core CSR issues, including community investment, employee well-being, mentoring and training, the environment and ethical procurement.Speakers will include Olympic champions, business leaders, CSR professionals and Olympic related organisation representatives. 

Playing Your Part will deliver interactive events, giving attendees real, practical advice and help. This includes the opportunity to receive expert advice on expanding their own CSR programmes, talks from specialist speakers, interactive workshops, and the chance to network with other CSR professionals and community leaders.

For updates on the series watch this space. For speaking opportunities, please contact Sumi Ejiri s.ejiri@lsx.org.uk.

The series:

The Olympics and Ethical Procurement, Wednesday 2nd November, 8am – 10am
Much work has gone into ensuring the Games’ supply chain is ethical, environmental and local, with  world standard ethical procurement policies being developed for the 2012 Games.  Come and get step by step advice from industry experts on how you can make sure that your own supply chain standards are world class and how you can sustain these standards across the rest of your contracts.
Confirmed speakers: Shaun McCarthy, Director of Action Sustainability and Chair of the Commission for Sustainable 2012  |  Cyrus Todiwala, Café Spice Namaste  |  Mark Varney, Business Development Manager at Fairtrade
Venue: TBC

Start: November 2, 2011 8:00 am
End: November 2, 2011 10:00 am
Venue: TBD
Address:
London, United Kingdom

October 21, 2011

The Carbon Show – October 21-22, 2011

The Carbon Show

Gain the tools to allow your organisation to capitalise on clean, green growth at The Carbon Show 2011.

As the only show that covers the full life cycle of carbon, The Carbon Show is a must-attend business event for anyone looking for information on greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy, the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, green technology, carbon management and carbon finance

The show features an informative seminar programme, with top-level speakers discussing current issues in the industry, policy updates, future trends and advice on capitalising on the low-carbon economy.

There are also over 100 exhibitors showcasing low-carbon products and services, debates and report launches on The Carbon Stage, thought-provoking plenary sessions and the new Green Technology Demonstration Stage.

Now in its third year, The Carbon Show continues to grow and 2011 will see the show expand its international focus, with in-depth features on energy efficiency and carbon markets and activity in Europe.

Register for free at www.thecarbonshow.com

Start: October 21, 2011
End: October 22, 2011
Venue: Business Design Centre
Phone: 020 7359 3535
Address:
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52 Upper Street, London, United Kingdom, N1 0QH

October 17, 2011

i.e. Ethical Investing Event – October 17, 2011

i.e. All You Ever Wanted To Know About Ethical Investment

The conference organised by i.e and raising money for TortureCare will give the participants an opportunity to talk to many of the leading figures who are actually practicing ethical investment.

In addition Harriet Lamb Director of The Fair Trade Foundation and Trudy Thompson of Bricks and Bread will be the Key Note speakers.

Start: October 17, 2011
End: October 17, 2011
Venue: London Friends House
Address:
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173-177 Euston Road, London, United Kingdom, NW1 2BJ
Cost: 10
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