ROI of DEI

Matt Loose is Chief Executive and Founder of Canopy: Sustainability Consulting. He leads a talented team helping clients to accelerate corporate sustainability solutions.

Matt works with ambitious organisations to accelerate corporate sustainability solutions. Matt has advised leading organisations and multistakeholder initiatives across sectors to design, engage with and implement strategies to transform outcomes on the most urgent sustainability issues. Previously Matt was Senior Director at SustainAbility and a co-owner of Stratos. He’s worked in sustainability for Johnson Matthey and Ernst & Young. He’s a member of ACCA’s Global Sustainability Forum.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattloose/

You will find a new way of looking at a business like a planet

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Guy Bigwood is a consultant and speaker on sustainable and regenerative tourism and events. For the past 15 years, he has been helping cities, governments, corporations and associations step up, scale up and speed up their sustainability programmes and practices. He is currently leading the Global Destination Sustainability Movement. It is a transformation platform that engages, inspires and enables destinations to become more regenerative, flourishing and resilient places to visit, meet and live in.

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I promise you will see the energy and enthusiasm to the answers he gives in the podcast.

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Sarah Rogerson is a Lead Research Associate in the project Forest 500. It's an assessment of the 500 most influential companies and financial institutions in forest-risk supply chains. Prior to Global Canopy Sarah has worked on corporate environmental transparency with both CDP and the Climate Disclosure Standards Board, and on domestic recycling and engagement with Keep Britain Tidy. Sarah has a degree in Natural Sciences (Zoology) from the University of Cambridge.

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Here are rankings of companies https://forest500.org/rankings/companies

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His work has involved designing and commissioning complex technology products and solution sales to clients across verticals like Banking, Finance, Retail, Hospitality, Healthcare, Education, Publishing etc. He has successfully set up business operations in new markets and geographies handling various aspects of the business like account management, sales, customer success, partnerships and team building.

Sandeep Prakash worked in Tech but also is a farmer. This is a story of how a new approach to farming can be taken.

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She is a Masters's graduate in Environmental Studies and Resource Management with 2.5+ years of experience. During her short tenure, She has worked with governmental, private as well as not-for-profit organizations - which has given me a wider understanding of how different types of corporations operate.

She has helped develop reports, engaged with clients, researched and analyzed markets and opportunities as well as read and grown herself to understand the basic intricacies of sustainability.

She talks about her experience in finding qualitative insights during her study in India.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/urviyahasan/

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Jonathan Evans is a lecturer at Inholland University of Applied Sciences in Finance and Entrepreneurship at The Hague campus. He has been researching social entrepreneurship and co-creation in the UK with links to other parts of the world. His passion: to engage with and teach value creation, entrepreneurship, international finance, co-creation and engagement on both a practical and academic level.

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Can you share an example of social entrepreneurship and the importance of social enterprises in these crisis times?

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Her passion shines when working collaboratively and effectively with partners in the public and private sector to advance human rights and sustainable practices on a global scale. Her expertise within NGO events and causes sets me apart. The opportunity to handle several projects simultaneously excites and drives her while making me a versatile asset to any team. She learns difficult subjects rapidly and can communicate and present complex problems in a simple manner.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisondaubigeon/

She is a Business Human Right experts with a passion for social inclusion.

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Namit Agarwal works at World Benchmarking Alliance as Asia Public Policy Lead. He leads WBA's engagement with the external policy environment in Asia, focusing on issues that advocate long-term sustainable development, finance and corporate reporting. Namit brings over a decade's experience of influencing public policy, companies and investors on issues of transparency, accountability, human rights and gender.

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He talks about the successful characteristics of public policies.

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Matt Moscardi started Free Float Media to find the narratives in the market. After two decades in #ESG, we wanted to tell market stories through the lens of real people. And make it interesting.

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We talk about two stories in this episode both in a different spectrum of success stories. I really liked the way Matt has seen the ESG space and especially how you can benchmark some success stories and see its impacts on really big companies on this planet.

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Director Of Business Development at Kinnami Software Corporation

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I had an in length conversation with James Burke. In our special 10th episode of Benchmarking Success Story.

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