Sustainable Design Alliance: Business School Outreach Programme 2020-21

The theme for this year is “Using sustainable design thinking as a business advantage”.

Our presenters will be examining how 21st century business is achieving environmental objectives while boosting profits, providing examples from their own work and across industry.

The Sustainable Design Alliance draws on a large number of speakers not just from the global design community (all design disciplines from fashion to UX), but also from research, business, conservation and sustainability.

The online session features 10-minute presentations from a variety of speakers followed by a lengthy Q+A session.

There are two underlying themes to this year’s business school programme:

Active Transparency - the growing business trend of revealing the bad as well as the good in business practice and ethics. We’ll also look at how businesses’ obfuscation can affect their credibility with consumers and investors.

Giving back to Nature - the realisation that business has to protect and nurture the natural world as nature underpins all economic activity (presently worth an estimated US$125 trillion according to WWF estimates). This stems from the IPBES notion of nature's contributions to people (NCP).

• Helen Hartley, Helen Hartley Consulting: ‘The role of sustainable creative thinking in sustainable business’
• Ryan Stodart, Bankers Without Boundaries: ‘Financing Transparency’
• Ana Rapela & Gaby Soler, Zoom Sustentable : 'Circular and Sustainable Design thinking as an opportunity for innovative business. A Latin America approach'
• Paul Foulkes-Arellano, Circuthon Consulting: ‘Why radical transparency and eco authenticity is vital for the bottom line’

Part of the Sustainability Conversations Series

Join us every fourth Wednesday of the month for a guest lecture from individuals and organisations who will be sharing their experience and journeys to embed sustainable development in their personal and professional settings. Providing local, national and international perspectives, you will have a great opportunity to meet and have conversations with a range of experts.