CSR Summit 2007

We are delighted to report the 2007 CSR Summit was a great success. And if you missed it, don't worry - you can gain access to speaker presentations, even podcasts of speaker presentations. Click here for an order form.

But don't just take our word for it, here's what some of our delegates and speakers had to say...

"The wealth of knowledge from diverse areas and perspectives was invaluable. It's the fastest way to gain a broad understanding of the industry and issues facing it."
Gabby Moir, Impact Development Training, NSW

"Heaps of practical ideas to implement and progress CSR in our my organisation." 
Chrystle Hay, Western Power, WA

"I picked up a lot of good current insights from several speakers, was able to test the pulse in terms of where thinking is on some of the day to day CSR issues that touch my business, and enjoyed the opportunity to network and make new contacts in this modestly sized but rapidly growing arena. "
Jerry Marston, Positive Outcomes, VIC

"It was my 1st Summit - a real eye opener to the complexity and steps that are available to rectify massive environmental and societal issues. A must for an influential professional to attend if they are not already aware of the necessity of this cause!" 
Travis Murphy, Precise Business Decisions, SA.

"This was great insight into CSR in the corporate sector. Most of my other exposure has been to university CSR, so I enjoyed the mix of presentations." 
Professor Dean Forbes, Flinders University, SA.

"The Summit provides insight into how important organisations see CSR, how many people are involved in trying to find the answers and how complex some of the solutions are. It flaged trends and current mindsets around the issues, and shows that there are pockets of leadership." 
Carolynne Wilson, World Vision Australia, VIC.

"It closely linked with my study and helps me see the real-life side and what's really being done, not just researched. Victoria Smith."
Voice Project, Macquarie University.

"I loved the case studies. Fantastic up-to-date information on the power and benefits of companies investing in CSR." 
Dora Nichols, Prickly Pear PR, NSW.

The 2007 Summit addressed 'Belief + Action' around successfully implementing best practice CSR. It specificaly looked at sustainability in the Marketplace, Workplace, Community and Environment.

To download the full program (as a reference for the podcasts and speaker presentations available) - click here.

International speaker highlights included (click on speaker name to download their bio):
Frank Dixon
CEO Global Systems Change (US)
Sustainability - the next level - Total Corporate Responsibility.

Chris Deri
Global Head CSR Edelman New York (US)
CSR / Sustainability Communications: WHO CARES; WHAT MATTERS; WHAT DOESN'T?

Jonathan Wootliff
International CSR Consultant (Europe)
Sleeping with the Enemy? Why it's essential to find common ground between business and NGO's.

Cheryl Kernot
Former leader of the Democrats now Oxford Said Business School (UK)
CSR & Social Business: The gentle revolution and lessons from the UK

Australian speakers included:

John Meacock Managing Partner, Deloitte
Prof Dean Forbes Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International) Flinders University
Tim Castree CEO Leo Burnett, Nat Director & NSW Chair Advertising Federation of Australia
Phil Hughes Director, Centre of Public Agency Sustainability Reporting
Andrew Beatty  Partner Environmental and Environmental Markets Group - Baker and McKenzie
John Fisher A former senior partner of PWC, now business mentor, strategist & company owner
Scott Delzoppo Sustainability Manager, Fosters Group
Russell Workman Manager Corporate Responsibility and HBOS Foundation, HBOS Australia
Dr Suzanne Benn Assoc Prof School of Mgt UTS & co-author Org Change for Corporate Sustainability
Dani Fraillon Director, Mettle Consulting
Peter David Vice President Sales - EC3 Global
Louise Hicks Partner Environment and Local Government Law Practice, DLA Phillips Fox
Sally Loan Director Media and Public Affairs, Coca-Cola Amatil Limited
Kristene Mullen VP/Director of Public Affairs, McDonald's Australia
Hailey Cavill Director Cavill + Co
Jeremy Nichols Director Australia Consulting, Mettle Group
Bill Hauritz Director of Australia's highly successful Woodford Folk Festival
Jerry Marston Director Positive Outcomes and the London Benchmarking Group
Duncan Power CEO Charities Aid Foundation Australia
Sertori CEO Melbourne Cares
Christian Jensen Portfolio Manager, CVC Sustainable Investments
Roslyn Doyle  Qualatative Senior Researcher Opinion Leaders
Carol Battle Partnership Manager Climate Positive
Damien Wigley Director Ecovantage
Amanda Little MD, Edelman
Jeremy Barker Vice President, Strategy Practice AT Kearney Australia
John Reid Research Director Opinion Leade

 

2007 CSR Summit

Australia's Third CSR Summit was presented by MOSS and hosted by Anne-Maree Huxley at the State Library of NSW from Oct 30 - November 1st 2007.  Once again we had an array of local and international speakers. The program can be found here, and key presentations are available below.  Once again many of these presentations are timeless, so do yourself a favour and download podcasts and speaker notes and enjoy the learnings.

Sustainability - the next level.
Frank Dixon - CEO Global Systems Change (US)
Australia's Inaugural CSR Summit Market Australia, Year: 2007
Hundreds of corporations around the world are gaining major financial and competitive benefits by integrating sustainability into their core business strategies. Yet in spite of this great work, environmental and social conditions are declining rapidly in many areas and driving growing problems for business. This begs the question, what's wrong with the sustainability movement? What else is needed? The answer largely is that much more attention must be given to improving overarching economic, political and social systems that essentially compel all organisations to operate unsustainably.

In this keynote address, Frank Dixon, CEO Global Systems Change (and the former Managing Director of Research for Innovest - the research analytic data provider for the Global 100 - the world's most sustainable companies) describes leading-edge sustainability strategies. He will also unveil a system change-based approach to sustainability, called Total Corporate Responsibility (TCR) - a practical, profitable, collaborative, business-led approach to driving the system changes needed to achieve sustainability. This is the vanguard of the future and a must attend for business, government and community leaders looking for solutions to a sustainable future for business and our communities!
Podcast: Frank Dixon
PDF only: Frank_Dixon_System_Change_The_Next_Level_of_Sustainability

Why non-financial measurement, reporting and management are essential to predicting and managing corporate health.
John Meacock, Managing Partner, Deloitte
Australia's Inaugural CSR Summit Market Australia, Year: 2007 
Deloitte's recent global survey of directors and senior executives found that while boards and top management agree non-financial data was important, firms generally did a poor job in this area. In this session, John Meacock shares how regulators and customers are demanding better non-financial information and how business must now prepare and measure non-financials monthly if they are to predict and manage corporate health and stay on top of the game.
Podcast: John Meacock
PDF only: John_Meacock_Health_of_Business

Whose responsibility is the global epidemic of childhood obesity and diabetes? Is it the consumer or the marketer? Amidst growing health issues - how do the world's biggest brands address growing societal demands to be more responsible?
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Sally Loane - Director Media and Public Affairs, Coca-Cola Amatil Limited.
Kristene Mullen - VP/Director of Public Affairs, McDonald's Australia.
Sally Loane and Kristene Mullen

How aligning culture and behaviour with business strategy builds sustainable companies and feeds the bottom line.
Jeremy Nichols, Director Australia Consulting, Mettle Group. 
Australia's Inaugural CSR Summit, Market Australia, Year: 2007
The debate is over. It has been long proven that culture affects a company's bottom line. Leadership teams create sustainable change by making the link between strategy and culture and creating the impetus for change. In this segment we explore how:

  • Culture determines the extent to which your people lay at their full potential
  • Aligning culture to strategy is the key to success
  • The momentum generated by great leadership creates the platform for that success
  • Permanent change is only achieved when people change the way they think
  • Strategy works best when backed by congruent leadership, behaviour and mindsets, symbols, systems and structure.

Jeremy_Nichols

Grow me the money.
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Associate Professor Dr Suzanne Benn - UTS School of Management and co-author of Organisational Change for Corporate Sustainability.
Professor Dean Forbes - Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International), Flinders University.
We explore how corporations are growing market share, engaging employees and building sustainable businesses based on CR and Corporate Sustainability strategies and values and how universities, as large public-private hybrids (with nationally significant commercial and export interests), are building strategies to improve both environmental and broader sustainability, particularly in the way in which they seek to insert ?community engagement' into their strategies and connect with broader government sustainability thrusts.
Podast: Dr Suzanne Benn and Professor Dean Forbes
PDF only: Dean_Forbes_Grow_me_Money

How to gain management buy-in that there is a better way to run a business by moving from a shareholder single bottom line approach to an all encompassing stakeholder triple bottom line approach and on the flip side, why (if at all) management need to buy in. 
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Andrew Beatty - Partner Environment and Environmental Markets Group Baker & McKenzie (Co-author of Corporate Responsibility A guide for company directors).
Dani Fraillon - Director, Mettle Group.
John Reid - Research Director, Opinion Leaders.

So you have company support for a TBL approach. How do you elevate from belief in what's right to action and get immediate results?
Australia's Inaugural CSR Summit, Market Australia, Year: 2007
Scott Delzoppo - Fosters, Sustainability Manager.
Russell Workman - Manager Corporate Responsibility & HBOSA Foundation Corporate Affairs, HBOS Australia.
John Fisher - a former senior partner of PWC, now business mentor, strategist and owner of several companies including BRW 2007 Fast Starter - Box Built.

Now that climate change is recognised as a major risk to business, how do you elevate from belief to action? In this panel discussion, we will talk about the challenges and benefits of improved environmental management including bio-remediation, carbon trading, systemic change etc.
Environment and community.
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Professor Dean Forbes - Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International), Flinders University.
Peter David - Vice President Sales, EC3 Global.
Louise Hicks - Head of Planning, Environment and Local Government Law Practice DLA Phillips Fox.

Sleeping with the Enemy?
Jonathan Wootliff - International Corporate Responsibility Consultant (Europe). 
Australia's Inaugural CSR Summit Market Australia, Year: 2007

Jonathan examines the relationship between non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and business. He argues that it is essential for these two worlds to find common ground. As an international specialist in helping to build productive relationships between activist groups and corporations, he will explain that there remain some dinosaur companies who perceive NGOs as adversaries while the enlightened parts of the commercial world are increasingly getting in to bed with them.
Jonathan will lay out the business case for NGO engagement. While examining some of the potential pitfalls, he will explore the benefits in both establishing dialogue and creating partnerships. He will show how apparently impossible differences can be transformed into win-win solutions, sharing case studies of how the most unlikely partnerships have been established.

In his provocative style, citing live examples from his work, Jonathan will ask why so many companies find themselves the target of NGO attacks. He will question the ability of big business to sit down and talk with environmental and pressure groups while asking whether the NGO community is sophisticated enough to usefully engage with companies. He will also briefly share his views on the expected outcomes from the Bali Climate Summit and how Australian Business can play a role.
Sleeping with the Enemy?

CSR/Sustainability Communications: Who cares; what matters; what doesn't?
Chris Derri - Global Head CSR, Edelman New York (US)
Australia's Inaugural CSR Summit Market Australia, Year: 2007
During this session, Chris addresses:

  • How multiple stakeholders including business, NGOs, media, government, consumer opinion leaders, the investment community and employees - obtain information about corporations' CSR practices;
  • How these stakeholders use CSR/sustainability information to form judgments about a corporation;
  • The type of information stakeholders are most interested in learning from companies' CSR reporting and communications;
  • The practical actions and elements of a company's CSR communications that lead to either trust or distrust in a company;
  • The best practices, successes and failures, and ongoing challenges of leading multinational companies related to CSR communications.

Podcast: Chris Derri
PDF only: Chris Derri

CSR and social business: the gentle revolution and lessons from the UK.
Australia's Inaugural CSR Summit, Market Australia, Year: 2007
Cheryl Kernot - Former leader of the Democrats and ALP Shadow Minister for Employment has been living and working in the UK since 2001 as Director of Learning at the School for Social Entrepreneurs in Bethnal Green, London and for the last two and a half years at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurs at the Said Business School, Oxford University. She is Program Director of the pioneering Health Accelerator Program preparing health professionals for social enterprise start-ups which deliver innovative health and social care services, both within and outside of the NHS and will share with us her thoughts for Australia's way forward based on lessons from the UK.
Podcast: Cheryl_Kernot
PDF only: Cheryl_Kernot_Thoughts_for_Australias_Way_Forward

How do we show leadership and survive in a carbon restricted world?
Australia's Inaugural CSR Summit, Market Australia, Year: 2007
Tim Castree - CEO, Leo Burnett.
Carol Battle - Partnership Manager Climate Positive.
Damien Wigley - Director, Ecovantage. 
In this segment we take a look at how to go Carbon Neutral (using the CSR Summit as an example). We also take a look at the effects from events such as Earth Hour and how you can influence change and take control of your environmental footprint moving forward.

Action and engagement in the community.
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Four community specialists, share their views and answer your questions on community engagement, corporate-cause partnerships with a focus on brand driven partnerships and corporate citizenship.
Wayne Burns - Director Allen Consulting and Australia Centre for Corporate Public Affairs.
Hailey Cavill - Director Cavill + Co, Australia's most prolific cause partnership broker.
Jerry Marston - Director London Benchmarking Group and General Manager Melbourne Positive Outcomes.
Bill Hauritz - Director of Australia's highly successful Woodford Folk Festival. 

Action and engagement in the workplace. 
Australia's Inaugural CSR Summit, Market Australia, Year: 2007
In this session, we explore how and why the workplace is being transformed by CSR. We explore what works, what doesn't work and the learning's from those who have gone before us and paved the way.
Alec Bashinsky - National Partner People & Performance, Deloitte. (Awarded 2006 National Human Resources Leader of the Year and Best HR Director of the Year.)
Leah Sertori - CEO Melbourne Cares.
Duncan Power - CEO Charity Aid Foundation. 

Action and engagement in the marketplace.
CSR Summit, Market Australia, Year: 2007
In this session, we explore the market benefits of TBL reporting, how integrating sustainability into business strategy is ensuring support from financial markets (particularly the private equity market in terms of acquisitions and mergers), which industries will be most affected by carbon trading, the importance of greening the supply chain and the carbon market opportunities as sustainable investment companies look for the new and clean technologies to drive industry.
Jeremy Barker - Vice President, Strategy Practice AT Kearney Australia.
Phil Hughes - Director, Centre for Public Agency Sustainability Reporting.
Christian Jensen - Portfolio Manager, CVC Sustainable Investments.
Phil Hughes
Christian Jensen

We explore what is driving change in the marketplace, and where there are gaps in an endeavour to understand what Australia needs if we are to catch up to other business centres of the world, reduce risk and sustain ourselves into the future.
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Tim Castree - CEO Leo Burnett, National Director and NSW State Chairman of the Advertising Federation of Australia.
John Meacock - Managing Partner, Deloitte Sydney.
Amanda Little - MD, Edelman Sydney.
Roslyn Doyle - Qualitative Senior Researcher, Opinion Leaders.

 

The 2007 CSR Summit was a carbon neutral event thanks to Climate Positive and Ecovantage.

Sincere thanks also to our many speakers and volunteers who helped make this event a success. Also to our many sponsors and supporters...without your help, this event would not be possible.