Sustainability Change Management
To accelerate performance on today's biggest sustainability challenges, understanding the key success factor to implement your sustainability program is crucial. As experienced trainers, Finch & Beak offers programs to maximize the impact and capture the highest value from sustainability. Since 2003, Finch & Beak has collaborated with world class business schools such as IMD Lausanne, INSEAD Singapore and SKOLKOVO Moscow for lecturing, coaching and case writing on the business value of sustainability.
We use these experiences to support teams with the implementation of change programs related to sustainability; for instance on sustainability and innovation, the action planning of CSR strategy and the acceleration of the non-financial reporting process. Finch & Beak is a certified facilitator of Change Pro©, a simulation tool that challenges groups of participants to efficiently and effectively implement a sustainability program.
Are you ready to start implementing and accelerating your sustainability program? Please contact Jan van der Kaaij, managing partner, at jan@finchandbeak.com or +31 6 28 02 18 80 for more information and to find out how Finch & Beak's training programs can help your organization in maximizing impact.
ESG Ratings: Index, Impact or Both?
Just before the results of the 2021 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI), were announced, Finch & Beak conducted an ESG survey among DJSI-eligible companies. In the attached report, you can find the main survey results. The overall conclusion from 143 respondents is that for most of the companies, the undesirable trade-off between index and impact occurs frequently due to mounting workloads to generate ESG data and the absence of standards. The report suggests solutions to avoid the 'reporting trap' by scoping sustainability performance as a supply chain challenge, avoiding over-instrumentalism by engaging closely with stakeholders, and selecting and prioritizing the right ESG benchmarks.
Discussing and exchanging on the expanding spectrum of impact challenges and opportunities
Co-Creating Impact Summit 2021
The Co-Creating Impact Summit, organized by Novartis, gather experts inside and outside of Novartis to continue the company's work of improving its impact on the society and the planet. The summit will bring together thought-leaders and experts from academia, institutions, business, and the financial markets to discuss the expanding spectrum of impact challenges and opportunities. The all-day virtual event will explore ways of reimagining and resetting capitalism, including impact-based decision-making, impact investing, social impact of access to health care, the integration of financial and sustainability reporting, and the crucial role of leadership.
Sign up for IMD’s Winning Sustainability Strategies online program
Designed to integrate ESG in your corporate strategy, the Winning Sustainability Strategies online program from IMD Business School in Lausanne teaches how to build a strong business case for sustainability and how to develop opportunities for innovation. Due to its practical approach, the program has proven to be highly appreciated by executive and senior management level participants. Moreover, it is suitable for larger groups of corporate participants to obtain a more thorough understanding of doing well by doing good.
Register Now for the New ESG Acceleration Webinar Series
Join us for 2021's first instalment of Finch & Beak's ESG Acceleration Webinar series, aimed at speeding up sustainability performance and building resilience in the decade to deliver - especially during these challenging times. In February and March we'll focus on the social aspects of ESG with cases and guest speakers from S&P Global and the postal industry. Join us as we dive deeper into the business case for social impact, Human Resources-related criteria in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index assessment, and the organizational development of ESG.
How to organize ESG responsibility across the company for the best result
ESG Acceleration Webinar: Organizational Development of ESG
We closed this version of the ESG Acceleration Webinar series with a view on the organizational development of ESG. As organizations that have a mature sustainability approach start to decentralize responsibility for ESG, this calls for a discussion on how to drive performance and accountability across departments. Guest speaker Ineke Rampart, Director Corporate Affairs at Telenet shared practical examples.
Forwarding progress to achieve the SDGs by 2030 and leveraging future possibilities
ESG Acceleration Webinar: #BuildingBackBetter in the Decade to Deliver
During this webinar we'll zoom in on what companies can do to emerge stronger and more sustainably from the pandemic crisis, sharing take-aways for businesses from the 2020 Future Possibilities Report. This UN-sanctioned report explores the possibilities of tomorrow, and how countries can leverage them to reset their economies in the post-Covid world.
Second Instalment of the ESG Acceleration Webinar Series
Join us for the second instalment of Finch & Beak's ESG Acceleration Webinar series, aimed at speeding up sustainability performance and building resilience in the decade to deliver - especially during these challenging times. In December, we'll share more practical insights on effective ESG Equity Stories, using DJSI to accelerate performance and #BuildBackBetter to take your sustainability program to the next level.
Building Back Better: How Are YOU Making the Best of COVID-19
As a second wave of COVID-19 is scourging Europe, sustainability keeps climbing on the corporate agenda. But with the many limitations posed by countermeasures, regulations, and health and safety considerations, #BuildBackBetter requires a revised approach. How are sustainability professionals dealing with these growing restrictions for advancing their sustainability programs? Below some of the best practices and easy-to-copy examples from the field are explained.
Updating Your Materiality Matrix Post Covid-19
As the world is in various stages of recovery from the impact of the corona virus, it becomes clear that while there is a ‘new normal’, companies are aiming to go back to business-as-usual as soon as possible. How does Covid-19 affect your company’s sustainability strategy and how should this be reflected in your materiality matrix? Should you discard your old matrix and rebuild from scratch? Should pandemics be featured in it? As is almost always the case in complex situations, the answer is: it depends.
Learn how to embed sustainability into the core of your business
