Building Organisational Capacity for Sustainable Strategy with Professor Sanjay Sharma Is your organisation’s corporate responsibility and sustainability strategy part of core business? Learn how to build your organisation’s capacity for sustainable strategy at this new and ground-breaking workshop.

WHEN AND WHERE:
Melbourne: Thursday 31st July and Friday 1st August
Sydney: Thursday 7th and Friday 8th August

International organisational change expert, Professor Sanjay Sharma, will present this two-day workshop for leaders from business, government and civil society organisations who want to enhance their ability to build organisational capacity for formulating and implementing effective sustainable strategy.

ACCSR is delighted to welcome Professor Sharma, Dean of the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University in Canada, on his first visit to Australia. Professor Sharma is a leading thinker on corporate sustainability change management and has facilitated training workshops on strategic change for sustainability for dozens of private and public sector organisations and international agencies such as the International Finance Corporation and the World Bank.

“Building Organisational Capacity for a Sustainable Strategy” will help you understand the techniques and change processes needed to develop a plan to build capacity for a sustainable strategy within your own organisation. The workshop will help you to:

Please see www.accsr.com.au/learning for more information and to download a registration form or call Camille Aylmer, Acting Program Manager of ACCSR on +61 3 9826 1767.

New Appointments at ACCSR
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Gail Rehbein as a Senior Consultant and Camille Aylmer as Acting Program Manager at ACCSR.

Gail has recently completed a Masters with honours in Professional Ethics and Governance at Griffith University and through her recent postgraduate research brings in-depth knowledge of integrating corporate social responsibility into business. Gail combines this with an extensive commercial background as an executive coach, consultant and Chartered Accountant. She has experience within a wide range of organisations, both public and private sector. She has published and presented regularly on CSR over recent years.

Camille is Acting Program Manager while Kate Niblock-Siddle is on a client assignment for the next two months. Camille has over four years of experience in socially responsible investing (SRI). Previously she was as an equities analyst, project manager and communications manager for KLD Research & Analytics in Boston and its Melbourne-based partner firm SIRIS. At SIRIS, Camille developed internal and external communications programs. With KLD Camille analysed the social and environmental performance of Large Cap companies in the communications and technology industries.

ACCSR Learning News Update: May 2008

Building Organisational Capacity
Reporting CSR Workshop
New Appointments at ACCSR
CSR Events
ACCSR in the Media

Reporting CSR Workshop

ACCSR will hold its next half-day workshop, Reporting CSR, on the 23rd May in South Yarra. To download a registration form please go to www.accsr.com.au/learning

This workshop is all about sustainability reporting, covering the benefits of reporting, the elements of a good social report and the emerging global architecture for reporting and assurance.

CSR EVENTS

Melbourne Cares Supporters Celebration Drinks Reception
Melbourne Cares will be holding a celebration reception for colleagues and supporters with special guest Julia Cleverdon CVO, CBE and Vice President of Business in the Community in the UK. This is a rare opportunity to hear one of the UK’s pre-eminent authorities on responsible business.

The drinks reception, which is being held in association with ACCSR, is on Thursday 22nd May from 18.00 to 19.30 at Melbourne Business School, 200 Leicester Street, Melbourne.

For more information and to secure your place please email Juliet@melbournecares.org.au or call +61 3 9654 5922.

3 Part CSR Seminar Series - La Trobe University, Graduate School of Management
La Trobe University’s Graduate School of Management will be holding three seminars on corporate social responsibility in May and June. The seminars will bring together perspectives of those in business and NGOs to discuss the drivers, practices and results of the CSR agenda.

Seminar 1
Speaker: Dr Noel Purcell, Group General Manager, Stakeholder Communications, Westpac Banking Corporation
Date: Monday 26th May 2008, 10.30am-12.00pm

Seminar 2
Speaker: Graham J Leonard AM, State Convenor and Director, Transparency International Australia
Date: Tuesday 24th June 2008, 10.30am-12.00pm

Seminar 3
Speaker: Maria Simpson, Manager Community Investment and Corporate Responsibility, Telstra
Date: TBC

These seminars are free of charge. Please RSVP as numbers are limited to Randa Rafiq, Business Development Manager, Graduate School of Management, La Trobe University, phone +61 3 9479 3108 or email R.Rafiq@latrobe.edu.au The seminars will be held in Rydges on Swanston.

ACCSR in the Media The Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility appeared in BRW’s Fast Starters list on April 24th as one of the 100 fastest growing start-up companies in Australia. Leeora Black, Managing Director of ACCSR, said that the three secrets of ACCSR’s success are its rigorous methodology, thought leadership and international collaboration with leaders in CSR.