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Sustainability Champions Mixer

  • October 29, 2019
  • 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Action Lab 10408 124 Street
  • 17

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Are you concerned about sustainability? Do you often wonder how your initiative or organization can be more sustainable and strategic?

Join us October 29th for an evening social event centered around inspiring and embedding sustainable strategic thinking into non-profit organizations. 

Participants will network, learn from other organizations and hear directly from sustainable strategy expert Bob Willard.

Bob Willard is an expert on leadership, culture change, and organizational development, He is also a sustainability guru. In his talk '7 Habits of Highly Effective Sustainability Champions' Bob will outline a seven-step sustainability change process. Come and learn  how to frame the benefits for culture change; seven leadership practices to use throughout the change process; seven paradoxes that enable successful change strategies; and seven derailers to avoid. In this fast-paced workshop, Bob will distill the steps, practices, paradoxes and derailers into the most essential seven habits of highly effective sustainability champions. 

This mixer is a complement to the NGO Sustainability Champions Workshop: a co-led workshop series for non-profits to: 

  • Build capacity of staff to develop and deliver a sustainability action plan, based on the award-winning Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development pioneers by The Natural Step.
  • Develop an action plan for participating non-profit organizations to improve their sustainability performance.

Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about the NGO Sustainability Champions workshop and preview the upcoming 2020 workshop. 

OUR SPEAKER

Bob Willard is a leading expert on quantifying and selling the business value of corporate sustainability strategies and has given over a thousand presentations to corporate, government, university, and NGO audiences. Bob applies his business and leadership experience from his 34-year career at IBM Canada to engage the business community in proactively avoiding risks and capturing opportunities by using smart environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies.

He has authored six books and was one of five inaugural inductees into the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP) Hall of Fame in 2011, received Clean50 awards in 2015 and 2017, and earned “Best for the World – Overall” awards for certified B Corps in 2013, 2014, 2017 and 2018.

Bob is an ISSP Certified Sustainability Professional and received a PhD in sustainability from the University of Toronto in 2005. 

This opportunity is being offered as part of the NGO Sustainability Champions Workshop Series hosted by The Natural Step Canada in partnership with Edmonton Community of Voluntary Organizations and Edmonton Community Foundation.

THIS PROGRAM WAS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM OUR FUNDERS

                     

The Edmonton Chamber of Voluntary Organizations empowers volunteers and non-profits in Metro Edmonton.

Learn more at ecvo.ca

For membership inquiries, email:

membership@ecvo.ca

or call 780-801-4720

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