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WEBINAR, 6 June: Join Cranfield School of Management experts to better articulate your organization’s purpose and sustainability strategy and show why it matters in the world
Join Cranfield School of Management’s Dr Rosina Watson, Associate Professor of Sustainability and Head of the School’s Sustainable Business Group, and Dr Miying Yang, Reader in Sustainability, to understand how meaningful sustainability strategy and innovation can create business and societal value.
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Leadership for Good – Making It Happen
Date: Tuesday 6th June
Time: London 2pm | Paris 3pm | New York 9am
Format: 60-minute interactive webinar and Q&A session
Speakers: Dr Rosina Watson, Associate Professor of Sustainability and Dr Miying Yang, Reader in Sustainability, Cranfield School of Management
Host: IEDP’s Roddy Millar
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Drawing on expertise of how sustainability works in practice across the management disciplines, Cranfield helps organisations reduce risk, lower costs, increase trust and drive growth. This helps you to safeguard your organisation’s long-term financial performance while at the same time creating value for society.
The event will explore:
After a short Welcome and Introduction there will be a keynote by Dr Rosina Watson ‘Leadership for Good: Making it Happen.’ Dr Miying Yang will follow on this a talk on ‘Innovation for Circular Economy.’ The session will end with Questions and Answers.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Rosina Watson is Associate Professor of Sustainability at Cranfield School of Management, and Head of the School’s Sustainable Business Group. Her research centres on sustainable innovation, both in large corporate organizations and by entrepreneurs. Prior to joining Cranfield, Rosina spent 3 years as Head of Corporate Sustainability at Home Retail Group (Argos and Homebase), following 15 years prior experience in finance, M&A, strategy and commercial roles in Shell, ITV, Carphone Warehouse and Home Retail Group. She holds a PhD from Cranfield and a first-class degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University.
Miying Yang joined Cranfield University in 2021 as Reader in Sustainability, having previously gained a PhD degree at the Centre for Industrial Sustainability at the University of Cambridge. Her research into digital sustainability focuses on how to make manufacturing and supply chain more sustainable and circular through digitalisation and business model innovation. She has received five research awards from EPSRC, ESRC, STFC and Royal Society, and won two Best Paper Awards in international conferences.