KEYNOTES, SPEECHES AND WORKSHOPS:
Arrange for a keynote speech or workshop at your company or conference. For more information on the sample topics outlined below, click on the topic links. Sample topics are:
Best Practices in CSR Standards, Reporting, and Performance
- Case Studies from the Future 500
- Drive excellence in corporate ethics, accountability, sustainability, and responsibility
- Eliminate "survey fatigue" and manage multiple standards
- Earn top ratings by SRI and CSR agencies
- World-class measurement and reporting systems
- The "CAP Gap" process used by Future 500 companies
- Real-world examples from Coca-Cola, Nike and others
Best Practices and Biggest Mistakes in Stakeholder Engagement
- Master engagements between corporate and activist stakeholders
- Prevent shareholder resolutions, regulation, and boycotts
- Turn the Battleground to Common Ground
- The Future 500 System: Mapping, Planning, and Engagement for Fun and Profit
- Stories from Coors, General Motors, Mitsubishi, Procter & Gamble, and others
What We Learned in the Rainforest: Business Lessons from Nature
- Harness the power of Feedback
- Drive innovation, growth, and improvement
- Make the Business Case for SRI and CSR
- Convert Social Responsibility into Marketplace Gain and Profit
- Excel in any business cycle - master the four seasons of business
- Be as innovative, adaptive, and resilient as nature
- Examples from business and the rainforest
Future 500 Speakers
Tachi Kiuchi, Chairman, Future 500; Chairman and CEO Emeritus, Mitsubishi Electric America
Bill Shireman, President and CEO, The Future 500
Cate Gable, Senior Consultant and Director, Product Stewardship, The Future 500
Aileen Ichikawa, Director, Corporate Accountability Practice, The Future 500
Alison Wise, Director of Public Policy, The Future 500
Erik Wohlgemuth, Director of Stakeholder Engagement, The Future 500
Formats
Speech |
Inspire, educate, and motivate. Keynote speeches and panel participation for leading conferences. |
Roundtable Discussion |
Practical knowledge to improve team performance. Informal, interactive discussion with key board members, managers, and directors, to work on specific issues, or stimulate creative thinking. |
Workshop |
Comprehensive training. Semi-customized half-day or one-day training. Includes teaching, discussion, and exercises that apply the learning to meet specific needs of the attendees. |
Working Session |
Powerful, transformational change. Fully customized two- or three-day session, with both trainers and facilitators. Designed to cross the knowing/doing divide: to confer not just knowledge of what to do, but commitment to follow through. Creates a powerful shift in the core area of all human systems: mindset. Client participants should experience the process as one of the most intense of their professional lives. On this foundation, specific strategies, plans, and timelines are developed. Results are powerful and lasting. |
Cost: Our speaking fees and expense reimbursement requirements vary depending on the type (NGO vs. Corporate) and scale of the event (panel vs. working session) and the location.
To inquire about our availability and rates, email your inquiry to .
TRAINING: STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT PRIMER:
A fast-paced, interactive training session on best practices in stakeholder engagement.
Customized to meet a company's specific situation, the primer covers fundamentals of stakeholder engagement, the five mistakes most commonly made, and the four steps of the Future 500 system.
It addresses such questions as:
- What is Stakeholder Engagement?
- Who Are Stakeholders: Definitions, categories, and examples
- What is Engagement: Methods and objectives
- Benefits and Risks of Stakeholder Engagement: Case Studies and Business Impacts
- Best Practices and Common Mistakes
- Situation Analysis and Strategic Planning
Training Formats: The primer can be scaled to meet a company's time, needs, and purpose.
- Briefing or "Brown Bag" session - a 60-90 minute overview
- Half-Day or Full-Day session - four to eight hours offering a comprehensive overview with discussion and exercises
- Full-Day combination session - half-day session plus half-day deployment of CAP Gap Audit
Time to completion and Cost: 1 hour to 1 Day with cost negotiable.
Deliverable: A How-To Document
