Successful Sustainability

Sustainability has grown in its importance over the past decade or more, with companies and individuals increasingly embracing new approaches to minimising waste and maximising recycling. Using examples from her research and work with, amongst others, the BBC, Hewlett Packard, and Marks and Spencer, Amy will provide the six secrets to successful sustainability initiatives.

Amy Fetzer is a freelance journalist, author and consultant specialising in sustainability. Her new book, Climb the Green Ladder: Make Your Company and Career More Sustainable, Wiley, empowers and inspires readers to make a difference by giving them the tools to change their workplaces from within, to set them on more successful and sustainable paths.

Amy’s work focuses on creating engaging communications - from environmental white papers to magazine articles and workshops - that inspire, entertain and inform. Her goal is to empower individuals and organisations to make positive choices.

Amy studied Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey for a Masters degree. Amy’s clients range from the Department of Energy and Climate Change, the BBC, Green Futures and The Guardian to Hewlett Packard, Sodexho, the Sunday Telegraph and My Weekly magazine.
She is a regular speaker, has appeared at the LSE prestigious evening lecture series, with Jonathon Porritt at the launch of Gloucestershire 10:10, lectures MSc students at the Universities of Surrey and Edinburgh; and provides In-company workshops for Commercial Group and Ecclesiastical Insurance Group.

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Before the Coffee Break:

Draft European Standard for Management Consultancy

00:00 Speaker/ Facilitator: Mr Jeremy Webster

Earlier this year, the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) issued a draft standard for management consultancy. The purpose of this standard is to provide a good practice guideline to improve business relationships between providers and customers across European country boundaries. Various UK bodies (IBC, MCA, CMI etc) have been involved in that process and although closure on the period of feedback came at the end of September, Jeremy who chaired the UK Project Committee is still interested in hearing from Richmond Group Members, ahead of the next European meeting in early December. Jeremy specialises in organisation and people development. He works with Directors and senior managers to devise and implement innovative approaches to improve people’s ability and motivation. He concentrates on dealing with the people implications of change, in both the Public and Private sectors. He has substantial experience of working across government and spent most of 2004 on secondment in the Cabinet Office and Foreign Office. He plays an active role in the UK Institute of Business Consulting (IBC), where he was chair in 2006-7. Prior to holding this position, he was Deputy Chair with responsibility for professional standards and qualifications. He is now a Trustee of the International Council of Management Consultancy Institutes (ICMCI), the body that co-ordinates Management Consultancy standards across the globe.