Community events
Our in-person community events are designed for professionals from the Geneva region who are passionate about sustainability and motivated to drive change within their organisations, regardless of their formal role. The goal is to share knowledge, connect like-minded professionals, offer a collaborative space for networking and new ideas.
2025 events will be announced shortly.
December 5, 2024
How to keep impact in sight when evaluating sustainability initiatives?
Key takeaways:
- Leverage regulations: Emerging sustainability reporting standards are standardising sustainability performance management.
- Keep impact in mind: while organisations are designing initiatives to improve sustainability performance, it’s important to understand path to impact.
- Become learning organisation: impact measurement helps to measure effectiveness of programs and provide new insights for strategy.
November 7, 2024
How to priorise areas of focus for the sustainability journey?
Key takeaways:
- Leverage peer-learning platforms: Engaging with others in your sector helps to generate new ideas and fuels motivation to take action.
- Refer to sector-specific guidance materials: Ideally those that also include solutions are crucial, especially for smaller organisations
- Seek stakeholder feedback: Both internal and external, such as capital providers and customers are powerful drivers of change.
October 3, 2024
How to secure commitment for change toward sustainability?
Key takeways:
- Increase proximity to impact: Develop narratives that connect social and environmental challenges to our personal and professional journeys
- Showcase success stories: Share concrete case studies of organisations that have taken action and achieved success
- Simplify the message: The current language is complex, even intimidating - more accessible ways to build competencies are needed