Thursday 13 March 2025 2:00pm
About
Join experts from our Business Sustainability Management online course in a conversation about interconnectedness, urgent actions, system influences, and inspiring success stories from around the globe.
Thursday, 13 March, 2025 - 14:00
The imperative for businesses to address sustainability challenges at a global level is clear. However, the potential solutions and opportunities depend on the context business operates in.
CISL’s 8-week online course on Business Sustainability Management delves deeper into the importance of understanding the unique circumstances shaping the business environment.
Join Bruce Haase, CISL Senior Associate and Head Tutor of the course in a thought-provoking conversation with Patricia Dwyer, Susan Njoroge and Vanessa Pérez -Cirera.
Key topics:
- The interconnected world of business, economy, people, nature and climate
- The urgent need for action: how businesses are turning global challenges into local opportunities and driving sustainable solutions
- The influence of key system forces – business, governments, finance, technology, and citizens – on local markets and sustainability priorities
- Success stories: inspiring examples from around the globe
Whether you're new to sustainability or looking to expand your knowledge, this session will provide valuable insights into the diverse landscape of business sustainability management.
Speakers
Bruce Haase
CISL Senior Associate and Course Convenor of the Business Sustainability Management online course.
With more than 20 years’ experience in international business, Bruce Haase brings both a deep understanding of business sustainability issues and hands-on experience implementing sustainability strategies within commercial organizations.
Bruce's business experience includes 10 years at Canon Europe, where he served as CSR Director for EMEA and complemented by his experience of leading NGO, public-private partnership, and commodity supply-chain initiatives. As head of the Climate Business Engagement Unit within WWF International, Bruce was responsible for the prestigious Climate Savers programme. He has a passion for promoting organisational change and innovative business approaches. He provides his own sustainability consulting and communication services focusing on facilitation skills and the training of Business, NGOs, and multi-stakeholder groups.
Pat Dwyer
CISL Senior Associate and Advisor of the Business Sustainability Management online course.
Pat is the Founder of The Purpose Business (TPB), Asia’s leading advisory and consultancy who guide leaders to evolve business as a force for good – in the region and beyond. She is also is a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and sits on the Global Steering Committee of the Prince of Wales’s Business & Sustainability Programme. She serves as faculty and tutor across the CISL Executive Education programmes. She sits on the Sanofi Shared Care Collective, an advisory board for the leading consumer healthcare group now known as Opella.
Before TPB, Pat worked across international environmental NGOs before moving to the corporate world- pioneering the Chief Sustainability Role for Ayala Land, the Philippines’ most esteemed land developer and then for Shangri-La Hotels & Resorts as the first Global Head of CSR & Sustainability which became the first Asian hotel chain to be recognised in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.
Pat is regular keynote speaker and panel moderator on topics including purpose and leadership, responsible business, women’s empowerment and inclusion. She is World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and remains a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She is on the board of directors of Ignite Impact Fund Philippines and Enrich, a Hong Kong-based charity dedicated to the financial literacy of migrant domestic workers.
Pat holds an MA in Globalisation & Governance, certificates in Transformational Leadership from the University of Oxford and Global Leadership & Public Policy for the 21st Century from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Susan Njoroge
CISL Fellow and Advisor of the Business Sustainability Management online course
Prior to consulting, Susan was Head, Sustainability & Community Engagement, Standard Chartered Bank Kenya. Before this, she worked with Unilever as Head of Corporate Affairs, East Africa and prior to that with DHL Express as Head of Marketing & Communications East Africa. She has held various management roles with DHL in corporate responsibility and communications in Europe and Asia. Susan also worked with CSR Europe, Europe’s leading business network for CSR, as Senior Programmes Manager leading CSR services delivery, project design and management for CSR Europe’s members.
She has over 20 years’ experience working with multinationals in Africa, Asia and Europe in sustainability and communications. Susan has worked in various leadership and management roles, driving national and regional sustainability strategy, programme delivery, multi-stakeholder partnerships, employee engagement and volunteering, external and internal communications, and crisis communications.
Susan is also an Executive Fellow at Strathmore University, Strathmore Business School, Kenya, and an alumna of the CISL Prince of Wales Business & Sustainability Programme, Stellenbosch.
She holds an Msc. Sustainable Development, with the University of London, SOAS. A Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management from Daystar University, Kenya, a Charted Institute of Marketing Diploma in Marketing Communications, a Public Relations Diploma from the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.
Vanessa Pérez-Cirera
Climate and Sustainability Executive and Contributor to the Business Sustainability Management online course
Vanessa is an environmental economist with a doctorate in political economy and over 25 years of experience shaping sustainability strategies at the intersection of business, policy, and economics. She advises businesses, financial institutions and international organizations on climate action, biodiversity, and sustainable finance strategies. Formerly Global Director of the Global Economics Center at WRI and Deputy Lead of the Global Climate and Energy Practice at WWF, Vanessa has supported the design of cross-sectoral sustainable development initiatives at the regional and global levels. Having worked across Latin America, Asia, and Africa, she is particularly passionate in understanding different and evolving regulatory environments across geopolitical contexts. She also teaches public policy for sustainability at EADA Business School in Barcelona.