Length: 57 min
Speakers: Matthew Gitsham, Piyali Sen, Adam Portlock, Sarah Smith
Recorded on November 3, 2023
What's sustainability got to do with HR?
Watch our on-demand webinar to explore how to embed a culture of sustainability in your organization
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Sustainability is an imperative – not just for governments, but for businesses, too.
The scale of the climate challenge the world is facing means that organizations need to place sustainability at the heart of everything they do, but what can HR do to drive change?
Key takeaways
How HR can best influence the organization to achieve one over-arching sustainability strategy
How HR can help manage the seemingly opposite concepts of sustainability and profitability
What practical steps HR and L&D can take to build a culture of sustainability in their organization
Meet our expert speakers
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Dr. Matt Gitsham
Director of the Sustainability Impact Lab at Hult International Business School
Matt is Director of the Sustainability Impact Lab at Hult International Business School. He specializes in sustainable development, human rights and organizational change. Matt has led numerous research projects on business and sustainable development for over a decade at Ashridge.
Matt is a frequent contributor to Hult Ashridge L&D solutions for executive education clients and has led many courses on Business and Global Society, Sustainable Development and Human Rights themes across Hult’s postgraduate and undergraduate courses.
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Piyali Sen
UK&I Head - Sustainability and ESG Business, TATA Consultancy Services
Piyali heads Sustainability and ESG Business for TATA Consultancy Services UK & Ireland’s 200+ client portfolio, responsible across sectors. Navigating the world’s most prominent organizations through the NetZero & ESG maze better, her unit converges the polarity of business & ESG outcomes, emerging technologies, even converges competitors & partners to bring it all together.
Having in past led smart mobility & transportation, and, having previously incubated eco-sustainability consulting as a mainstream business for UK & EU, she finds it rewarding to see TCS accredited as leader in sustainability services and recipient of numerous sustainability tech awards.
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Adam Portlock
President of Hult Ashridge Executive Education
Leading organizations in UK, USA, UAE and Singapore, Adam has over 25 years of global experience across a range of industries including education, aerospace, supply chain and digital consultancy. He specialises in leading strategy, operations, P&L, M&A and go-to-market, with a strong track record of scaling private equity and venture capital-funded businesses, including successful M&A exits, acquisitions, and fundraising.
Adam is passionate about the interplay between high-performance teams in sports and business, with published work on sports business, sponsorship, and ambush marketing. He holds an MBA from Henley Business School, complemented by Executive Education at Harvard Business School.
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Sarah Smith
Global Talent Director, Sustainability, EY
Sarah Smith is the Global Talent Director for Sustainability at EY, and a member of EY’s Global Sustainability Executive. She has over 25 years’ experience as a consultant specialising in workforce advisory and transformational change, more latterly within EY as an HR Executive designing and implementing strategic talent solutions to enable sustainable business growth.
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