ESG 101 - A Framework for Purpose & Profit

Businesses are now the most trusted institution in America. 76% of investors say that ESG (environmental, social and governance efforts) are critical to their investment decisions. Procurement officers, customers, employees and communities are all paying attention to the impact your business has in the world (as evidenced by ESG search terms spiking 800% in the last 5 years alone…).

Leaders are now feeling the pressures of new demands to identify and report on social impact and align with ESG efforts, while still creating profit.

Your team needs a robust strategy alongside the culture, competencies, and behaviors to execute.

This talk is designed to get your team quickly up to speed, to understand the challenges, opportunities, and risks that come with ESG, and begin setting a strategy for world-changing impact and profit.

ESG 101 Workshops or Keynotes are ideal for businesses that:

  • Understand that ESG is emerging in their industry and need to educate their teams on the concept.

  • Are feeling pressured to include Environmental, Social and Governance strategies in their long-term plans, but aren’t sure how to balance shareholder and stakeholder needs.

  • Have a board that’s still skeptical or unsure of how purpose and profit can integrate within their own organization.

  • Need to cultivate alignment within the organization before beginning this work.

Topics Can Include:

C-suite/ Board / Team Training on trends and Opportunities within ESG:

o   What is ESG, Anyway?

o   How is ESG Evolving in my Industry?

o   What Will Change in My Role?

o  How Can ESG Drive Profit and Purpose?

o  Where Do I Start?

Leaders will come away with:

o A clear understanding of what ESG is (and isn’t)

o Insights over how ESG showing up in their industry

o Ideas for ways to integrate Environmental, Social, and Governance considerations into their existing business strategies (in a non-political) way

o Clear next steps to begin this work

  • I greatly appreciated that Dora presented on ESG and civic engagement in an apolitical way. Whatever her exact views on ESG are, I did not feel pushed one way or another - I simply understood that: ESG is here, there’s an opportunity to engage in ways that fit with your bank’s mission, vision and markets, and that ESG that can be done in a non-partisan way. 

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