“Within the next decade the financial system has to make some progressive moves to protect our way of life, because if we don’t, the economy as we’ve known it for the last 150 years is going to break.”
With the meaning and value of Diversity Equity and Inclusion increasingly undermined, Beth Knight, Head of Social Sustainability at Lloyds Banking Group, shares her lived experience of the necessary and tangible gains made from engaging with underserved stakeholder groups across the globe, in her refreshingly personal, frank and illuminating style, including:
- Career lessons through a social/environmental lens spanning Accenture, E&Y, NGOs to co-ordinating Amazon’s global humanitarian response to the Ukraine War
- The meaning of sustainability and the joy of training cohorts as a fellow of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
- How to successfully host a room of indigenous leaders representing 80% of the worlds biodiversity and 30 financiers possessing transformative power but limited attention spans
- Unpacking the complexities of the critical junctions where equity meets environmental impact
- A cheat code for being a successful CSO
- Why family owned businesses and funds tend to embody exemplary legacy thinking
- The role of finance to enable sustainable livelihoods and the impact of insurance
- How to stay well in a time of upheaval (Spoiler alert: Includes outdoor walking meetings and picking up the phone) and more!….
“The social aspects of sustainability have been mobilised around poverty to a certain extent, but where where equity meets environmental impact is critical”
Links
Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)
Task force for Socially Related Financial Disclosures
The Centre for Synchronous Leadership
Accenture Development Partnerships