Over the past quarter of a century, businesses have shifted from Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to Shared Value and more recently to Flourishing strategies. Commitments of “getting to zero” or becoming a regenerative company are raising investor, customer, and employee expectations at a time when businesses are struggling just to reduce negative impacts. Executives are increasingly caught between wanting to build a better world and the reality of managing value-add activities that continue to harm people and the planet.
What is next for corporate sustainability? The speaker will reflect on changes since the publication of his 2003 book, The Sustainable Company, and two major challenges facing businesses over the next 10 to 15 years. The first challenge is to better distinguish between doing less harm, incremental positive impact, and systemwide transformation. The second is to catalyze transformation through direct-intuitive practices that give a person an experience of wholeness and connectedness. Only by reconnecting business leaders to their authentic selves, others, nature, and the transcendent can businesses meet rising societal expectations for solutions to wicked problems such as climate change and social equity.
SPJIMR's Centre for Wisdom in Leadership (CWIL) aims to supplement traditional leadership development approaches used by corporate learning and development professionals with wisdom traditions from the east and west. The Centre is part of a growing global network of leadership and wisdom centres, scholars, and practitioners. CWIL co-creates and disseminates new perspectives through blog articles, podcasts, training modules, retreats, and conferences.
S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), founded in 1981 in Mumbai, is a premier postgraduate management institute that has been named by the Financial Times Global Rankings as one of India's top two business schools, by Business Today as one of the country's top five business schools, and by the Positive Impact Rating, a Swiss association, as one of the top five business schools in the world in terms of social impact.
A component of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, India's pioneering educational foundation founded in 1938, SPJIMR provides a wide range of management programmes to both individuals and organisations. SPJIMR is an AICTE-approved Tier 1 MBA institute that is accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International) and the Association of MBAs (AMBA), UK.