How to make your organisation a force for good

How to help your business leaders to make your organisation more purpose-led and human-centric

Every organisation has a unique DNA. How can you distinguish yours, and work with it to drive great people strategies?

This depends upon helping business leaders to go beyond the narrow financials to discover a deeper purpose.

Sarah Gillard, CEO of Blueprint For Better Business, is part of a movement to rediscover the soul of businesses.

Sarah shares her experience of helping business leaders to take a fresh look at their purpose, joined by Rupert Brown, former CPO, and by Deborah Wilkes, CEO of Enable-HR International, who show how to turn this into a measurable formula.

Who is this webinar for?

CEOs, CHROs and HR leaders

What will I learn?

Areas we will explore in this webinar:

How to navigate huge social, economic and cultural change – move from the old paradigm to the new
How to get to the heart of the purpose of your organisation
How to illuminate links between culture and leadership and business results in your own Success Model
The ‘social contract’ and what it could mean for you in your HR leadership role
The HR leader’s role as a coach and sounding board in the area of values and purpose
HR as the organisation’s conscience
How to build business leaders’ accountability for leading values and culture, and sustainable success.

Facilitators

This webinar is facilitated by Deborah Wilkes, CEO of Enable-HR International. Deborah will be joined by Sarah Gillard from Blueprint For A Better Business and a former CPO, Rupert Brown.

Sarah Gillard
Sarah is a passionate advocate for making business “more human” – places where people flourish, communities prosper, and long-term sustainability is the driving force. She has over 25 years of experience leading in fast-paced commercial environments at some of the UK’s largest retail companies. Sarah joined Blueprint in May 2022, from her role as Director of Purpose and Special Projects at John Lewis Partnership, responsible for rearticulating and embedding the purpose of the John Lewis Partnership so that it continues to be a source of inspiration, innovation, and strategic differentiation. Blueprint For Better Business is an independent charity whose purpose is to create a better society through better business. They help businesses to be inspired and guided by purpose that benefits society and respects people and planet. Blueprint believes that “Business should be a force for good”.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahgillardpurpose/
https://www.blueprintforbusiness.org/

What are the outcomes?

You’ll leave this webinar with:

Insights into the bigger picture of societal change and how it can play out in organisations
Fresh challenge and inspiration about the power within your role as a leader in HR
A tool to help you to make clear connections between HR’s work on culture and the impact it has on results
Deeper perspectives and powerful questions that you can use to get your business leaders thinking differently.

What do I get?

Stimulating, interactive webinar with fresh content to challenge and support your thinking
Inspiration to create greater influence to build a build a better business
Thought leadership from different perspectives
Practical, relevant input that relates to the reality of HR in organisations today.

Date:

Recording from Friday 8th November 2024

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