The AtKisson Accelerator Workshop on Environmental Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility

INTRODUCTION

Business activities are responsible, directly or indirectly, for most human impacts on the earth's ecosystems - and business operations today are conducted with too little thought as to their sustainability. The term "sustainability," which has both ecological and social components, poses business an inescapable challenge: without sustainability there will soon be no more profits.

With the ever increasing complexity of doing business or running an organisation in today’s globalised world, it vital that companies and organisations have the tools to help them reduce uncertainty in their decision-making and to successfully respond to changing conditions.  Doing Sustainability can improve the management of your business and/or organisation in three fundamental ways; by helping you to protect it, run it and grow it.

OBJECTIVE

Through the workshop’s presentation and interactive exercises, participants will

• have greater understanding of the business case for CSR and Environmental Sustainability and how the private sector is employing approaches to both lower business costs, increase overall profit and decrease adverse effects on the society and the environment.

• have a hands-on experience using the AtKisson Accelerator toolkit in developing, implementing and assessing CSR and Sustainability programmes in a company or organization.

• gain insight into systems thinking,  innovation diffusion and organisation change strategy.

• explore what are elements of good CSR/Sustainability reporting.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• The Business Case for Sustainability

• CSR and Sustainability as a Platform for Innovation

• Building a Sustainability/CSR Programme – Introduction to the AtKisson Accelerator Toolkit

• Sustainability Assessment and Reporting

• Performance Scale and Index for Sustainability Programmes

• Engaging Stakeholders

• Systems Thinking: Understanding Why Things Are Happening

• Strategies for Innovation Diffusion

• Case-studies

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Mid-level managers, planners and other administrative and EHS officers of Singapore-based companies, government departments, corporate green committee members and NGOs to encourage their implementation of sustainable practices that are aligned with the objectives of the Singapore Green Plan (SGP) 2012. 

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Robert Steele is the Director of Systainability Asia, a private consulting firm based in Bangkok Thailand. He has a BSc. in Geology (with a minor in ecology) from Fort Lewis College in Colorado and an MSc. in Natural Resource Management from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in 1997. He has over 17 years experience in experiential environmental education programme design and evaluation, having worked in a variety of countries and organisations. From 1997-2004, he worked as Education and Development Consultant with a Thailand-based NGO, the Thai Environmental and Community Development Association (TECDA). Since 2001 Robert has been an Associate and Senior Trainer with AtKisson Group International. Robert conducts trainings for governments, NGOs, private sector companies and other groups on sustainable development as well as assisting organisations with sustainability-based strategic planning, incorporating systems thinking, sustainability assessment, corporate social responsibility, multi-sectoral agreements and organisational strategic capacity evaluation and assessment utilizing the AtKisson Accelerator suite of sustainability tools.

His clients have included UNEP, ASEAN Secretariat, Singapore NEA, Metso Automation (Thailand), the University of Science Malaysia Regional Center for Expertise for ESD, the University of New South Wales’ Faculty of Built Environment, the Malaysia Federal Town and Country Planning Department, Hanns Seidel Foundation – Indonesia and the Ministry of Environment & Natural Resources – Thailand, Ministry of Environment – Indonesia, LEAD Indonesia, PT ANTAM tbk Indonesia (mining), Indonesia Power and Indah Kiat Pulp and Paper (Indonesia).

Last updated on 25 Jun 08