learning event / may 2012
part of the make it meaningful series
11 – 13th of may 2012
selsdon park, london
Excellence is a word often used in the business environment. But what does it mean? When is business excellent? It is often defined as being ‘efficient’ and ‘profitable’. We think different. In our interpretation, it has to do with excellence in sustainability: people, planet, profit.
During this learning event, we will explore and redefine what excellence is. Together with our great speakers we will cover subjects such as: excellence in innovation, achieving personal integrity at work, excellence through design, empowerment and gender equity, Social Economic Development from grassroots initiatives to excellence, values-based management, and how to grow our path of positive influence in our workplaces.
We are witnessing and living through continued economic crisis that highlight the instability of the current system and the inevitable need to transition to a new system. This is an important moment in time to explore new frameworks, alternative work and economic systems. A re-definition of excellence is one of the ways to start to lead us and those around us along this new path.
ebbf’s make it meaningful series is the result of over 20 years of experience, evolving its international events. We discovered that people are not just looking for knowledge. They want to participate. And even more important, they want to contribute. Together we challenge the working environment and come up with ways of making our work more meaningful, connecting it to a wider purpose.
The vision of ebbf is: contributing to a prosperous, just and sustainable civilization and we continuously help the exploration and connection of this goal with our daily actions and growing positive influence in our daily workplaces. Making change happen at the level of the individual, organizations and institutions.
What makes this learning event series unique? The international spread, quality and passion of the group of like minded people who attend these events. The humble yet determined posture of learning of participants means that ebbf facilitates the context (theme) and content (speakers and discussions), but you will determine the outcome.
dinner
first meaningful conversations
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1st parallel program
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Jyoti Munsiff was the first Indian woman and also the youngest person in Great Britain to qualify as a Solicitor. Jyoti,now retired retired from Shell after nearly 40 years at their corporate headquarters in London. During those years she headed up various groups of lawyers providing legal advice on all aspects of Shell’s business and has herself worked in 24 countries. Jyoti for thirteen years was the Legal Advisor to the Board of Shell and Company Secretary; and the Group’s Corporate General Legal Counsel. In her final year before retirement she was appointed the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer for the Shell Group world-wide and charged with establishing a global ethics and compliance programme (including creating a Code of Conduct) for their 120,000 employees. In 2005 she was awarded the honour of Asian Businesswoman of the Year. Additionally, she has served as the Honorary Counsel and Director of the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum; President of the Commonwealth Association for Corporate Governance; Trustee of the Imperial War Museum. She has also served on various charities in the field of law, education, the environment and health Jyoti has appeared on many television and radio shows and featured in several newspapers and magazines. She is an active member of the Baha’i Faith.
Jason has been organising ebbf conferences in different parts of Europe with the ebbf events team for the past two years. He enjoys being a part of ebbf conferences as it allows him to meet fascinating people and explore new and interesting ideas, concepts and systems. He hopes to be able to develop ebbf conferences further so that they can be a truly unique offering to the discussion around business and its place in civilization. He works professionally as a software engineer developing financial software for business to business lending and leasing.
ebbf’s secretary general, Wendi is one of the early members of EBBF, having been at its first meeting in 1990. She has been a member of the governing board since 1991. She is a publisher, working for George Ronald, Publisher, Oxford.
She describes herself as a social activist and is involved in a number of organisations with a related purpose: the betterment of humanity.
Her interests range from business to health, housing and criminal justice, to the advancement women, the arts, philanthropic giving and interreligious dialogue. She serves on a number of boards, including as NonExecutive Director of NHS Bedfordshire, secretary of the UK National Committee for the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM, now part of UN Women), Trustee of the MultiFaith Centre at the University of Derby and Vice Chair of the Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation. She has recently been appointed Governor of the London School of Economics.
She has been a magistrate in the criminal court since 1982 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). She is a founder member of Advance and is a member of Soroptimist International (SI Bedford) and an individual member of the National Council of Women.
She holds a BSc in Economics and a Ph.D. in International Relations, both from the London School of Economics.
Passionate about connecting individuals to their integrity, creativity and ethics. Inspiring them into action by linking them to other like-minded doers and to their ideas. Help achieve and showing the success that ethical behaviours create in business. Promoting the evolution towards a world which will be organised, act and behave as one country. Where the creativity of the diversity of its citizens will enhance the wellbeing and prosperity of humankind.
He is currently director general of ebbf, co-founder of the HUB Madrid social innovation hub, visiting professor and tutor on social entrepreneurship at Instituto de Empresa and at the EOI Business Schools, Judge at the Stanford University Social Entrepreneurship E-Challenge and was board member of Spirit in Business.
In March 2011 Augusto López-Claros became the Director of Global Indicators and Analysis with the World Bank Group. He was Chief Economist and Director of the Global Competitiveness Program at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, where he was the editor of the Global Competitiveness Report, the Forum’s flagship publication, as well as a number of regional economic reports. Before joining the Forum he was Executive Director with Lehman Brothers (London) and Senior International Economist. He was the International Monetary Fund’s resident representative in the Russian Federation during 1992-95. Before joining the IMF, he was professor of economics at the University of Chile in Santiago.
Simon Dixon is CEO and founder of BankToTheFuture.com and an active Banking Reformer, using his influence in business, education and politics. Author of the books ‘Bank To The Future’ and ‘Student To CEO’, Simon Dixon spent the early part of his professional career in the City of London having experience as a stock broker, trader and investment banker. Originally trained as an economist, mastering from the University of Manchester, he now spends his time helping entrepreneurs and investors through BankToTheFuture.com, working with students and graduates through BankTalkShow.com and a public speaker, presenting across financial institutions, universities on banking reform and social entrepreneurship.
His current roles as CEO of BankToTheFuture.com, managing the investment portfolio of Metal Monkey Private Equity and Chairman of training and consultancy company Benedix (Owner of BankTalkShow.com) keeps him closely in touch with the financial industry and technological innovation. He is actively involved in campaigning for a fundamental reform of our banking system and educating all levels on the financial crisis. As a public speaker, he has presented at financial institutions including TD Waterhouse, Bloomberg, ODL, Schroders, the FSSC, Institute For Social Banking, the CISI and Man Group to mention a few. His work with universities includes presentations at LSE, UCL, Oxford, Cambridge, LSBF, Warwick and most other major universities across the UK. He has also provided commentary for the BBC, Channel 4, Bloomberg and major papers like FT, Guardian, Times, City AM, Investors Chronicle etc.
Simon Dixon dedicates himself to his belief that banking can truly be reformed by investing in alternative banking technology, educating the next generation of banking and finance professionals and marketing the political campaign for banking reform.
Jan Grasty is currently President of the UK National Committee of UN Women. A passionate believer in social justice and equality for thirty years she had a career in the corporate sector; she created and ran for 5 years a public/private partnership and is now leading the development of business engagement in supporting the work of UN Women through the Women’s Empowerment Principles.
www.unwomenuk.org
Gemma Burford is Research Officer in Sustainable Development at the University of Brighton. She has worked since 2010 on the ESDinds project, a collaborative project initially funded by the EU, which has brought together two universities and four civil society organizations (including ebbf) to create values-based indicators and assessment tools. She took the lead in developing content for the WeValue online platform.
Gemma previously worked for seven years in the NGO and social enterprise sectors in Tanzania, focusing on herbal medicine, indigenous knowledge, values-based and intercultural education, sustainable tourism and gender issues. She is a co-founder of Noonkodin Secondary School in the Maasai village of Eluwai, and of the British registered charity Serian UK. Learn more
Through his experience as a member of senior management teams and board member of industrial, financial and real estate companies and NGOs In Luxembourg, Italy and the USA, Serge Thill has gained deep awareness of the strategic questions, of the structural choices and collaborative issues that today’s organizations face, and of the long-term strategic importance of the social responsibility of business activities, diversity, balance of the feminine and the masculine, and trust.
Holding an MBA from the Open University Business School (2001), member of the European Baha’i Business Forum, Serge is also a CSR expert accredited by INDR (www.indr.lu), a certified “Cultural Transformation Tools®” consultant and an experienced executive coach.
Helena has developed an interest in social economic development that had her serve as executive officer at BASED-UK. She has a solid background in this area also thanks to her two MSc degrees on “International Development” from The University of Birmingham and on “Public Understanding of Environmental Change” from University College London, U. of London..
Mahmud Samandari is a coach for startups at the Swiss federal Commission for Technology and Innovation, CTI. He is also the CEO of InnovaRadio, a company that develops technology for Energy efficiency solutions for the Wireless Industry. He is a founder of the European Baha’i Business Forum and a member of its Board.
He is a serial entrepreneur, having started companies in the fields of IT, telecommunications and education both in Europe and Latin America. Globatel, a company he started in 1998, was a pioneer in satellite-based Interactive Distance Learning and closely collaborated with the World Bank’s Global Development Learning Network (GDLN). As the Member of the Board of various institutions and corporations he has been involved with activities ranging from cable TV, banking software and telecommunications trade association, to schools, radio stations and the Alliance Française, as well as a CSR industry group and a worldwide youth organization (AIESEC).
She has been head of the International Red Cross Federation’s southern Africa Zone since its establishment in August 2007. During this time, Ms Le Goff has driven a robust and creative humanitarian diplomacy agenda in the region, based on the vision of the Federation’s new Secretary General. She has created and built strong and operationally important partnerships with key stakeholders, including UN agencies, embassies, regional governmental networks such as SADC and the EU, academia and NGOs.
Under her leadership, the Red Cross has positioned itself strongly and credibly in regards climate change adaptation and risk reduction (through the Zambezi River Basin Initiative or the Integrated Food Security Programme), the still-unfolding HIV and AIDS pandemic (through the Global Alliance on HIV and AIDS) and violence (through the work of Red Cross volunteers activities during the xenophobic attacks in South Africa).
Arthur Dahl is senior adviser to the EU-funded values-based indicators project and chairs the meetings of the project consortium. He has 25 years’ experience in developing indicators of sustainable development in the United Nations, for the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, and as advisor to the World Economic Forum, and he co-edited one of the leading books in the field.
He holds a PhD in Marine Biology from the University of California and is a recognized world expert on coral reef ecology, coastal zone management, biodiversity conservation and island environments. He was Deputy Assistant Executive Director, Division of Environmental Information and Assessment, UNEP; and Director, Coral Reef Unit, UNEP. A member of the Secretariat of the UN Conference on the Environment and Development. He is president of the International Environmental Forum, member of the EBBF Board, and consults with Integrated Global Observing Strategy Partnership and the World Eco- nomic Forum. He lectures around the world on sustainable develop- ment and prosperity.
Co-founder and President of the ebbf. George is a frequent public speaker and author of a number of publications on such topics as CSR, business ethics, entrepreneurship, socially responsible enterprises and a new paradigm of work.George Starcher is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Business School. He was a Director and Senior Partner at McKinsey & Co. international management consultants in Paris and Milan and subsequently created his own consulting enterprise. He has also been a member of the Board of Directors of the European Centre for Continuing Education (CEDEP) since 1972.
Paul is a designer and consultant. Having left the rolling green hills of his native Ireland in the mid-90‘s, he arrived in the distinctive flat planes of the Netherlands where he has worked in the creative industries. He believes the success of Dutch design comes from its unique ‘design ecology’ that has inspired him to design for ‘the relationships between organizations and their environment’; design thinking for the design of ecologies. The relationship between ‘economy’ and ‘ecology’ is a key driver in Paul’s work; a path for living brands of living organizations in a living world.
Mahmud Samandari is a coach for startups at the Swiss federal Commission for Technology and Innovation, CTI. He is also the CEO of InnovaRadio, a company that develops technology for Energy efficiency solutions for the Wireless Industry. He is a founder of the European Baha’i Business Forum and a member of its Board.
He is a serial entrepreneur, having started companies in the fields of IT, telecommunications and education both in Europe and Latin America. Globatel, a company he started in 1998, was a pioneer in satellite-based Interactive Distance Learning and closely collaborated with the World Bank’s Global Development Learning Network (GDLN). As the Member of the Board of various institutions and corporations he has been involved with activities ranging from cable TV, banking software and telecommunications trade association, to schools, radio stations and the Alliance Française, as well as a CSR industry group and a worldwide youth organization (AIESEC).
Mika has worked in virtually every role within the software development business over the past twenty years. What is unusual, however, is that everything he does is values-driven. A combination of values like trustworthiness and justice, balanced with love, care and moderation, applied in spirit of bravery and integrity describe well his nature as a leader and a manager.
In his role as a Senior Manager in a software development company in Finland he started a transforming process there to replace command-and-control style with values-based culture by aligning business around Agile development methods, which combine values-based leadership, holistic approach to development, and best possible return-of investment. Over the years he has given many workshops and talks around values-based leadership, and participates actively in discourse around the subjects.
Wendi is one of the early members of ebbf, having been at its first meeting in 1990. She has been a member of the governing board since 1991. She is a publisher, working for George Ronald, Publisher, Oxford. Wendi describes herself as a social activist and is involved in a number of organisations with a related purpose: the betterment of humanity. She serves on a number of boards, including as NonExecutive Director of NHS Bedfordshire, secretary of the UK National Committee of UN Women, Trustee of the MultiFaith Centre at the University of Derby and Vice Chair of the Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation. She has recently been appointed Governor of the London School of Economics. She has been a magistrate in the criminal court since 1982 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). She is a founder member of Advance and is a member of Soroptimist International (SI Bedford) and an individual member of the National Council of Women.
Passionate about connecting individuals to their integrity, creativity and ethics. Inspiring them into action by linking them to other like-minded doers and to their ideas. Help achieve and showing the success that ethical behaviours create in business. Promoting the evolution towards a world which will be organised, act and behave as one country. Where the creativity of the diversity of its citizens will enhance the wellbeing and prosperity of humankind.
He is currently director general of ebbf, co-founder of the HUB Madrid social innovation hub, visiting professor and tutor on social entrepreneurship at Instituto de Empresa and at the EOI Business Schools, Judge at the Stanford University Social Entrepreneurship E-Challenge and was board member of Spirit in Business.
conference and accommodation rates (prices per person)
Includes the conference fee, all breakfasts, lunches, dinners and coffee breaks AND includes special accommodation rates in the quite beautiful Elizabethan estate of Selsdon Park & Golf Club.
| ebbf-member fee | non-member fee | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| standard ebbf fee | |||
| single room | £ 355 | + £ 20 | |
| double room | £ 290 | + £ 20 | |
| day visitor(*) | £ 180 | + £ 20 | |
| young professional fee | |||
| single room | £ 325 | + £ 20 | |
| double room | £ 255 | + £ 20 | |
| day visitor(*) | £ 150 | + £ 20 | |
| corporate fee | |||
| single entry | £ 400 | + £ 50 | |
| corporate pack(**) | £ 1100 | + £ 100 | |
Cancellation policy
The Selsdon park Hotel and Golf is set in 200 acres of beautiful parkland just south of London. This English retreat house and golf resort has survived many facelifts and renovations throughout its 1000 year history, but it will still impress the guest with a sense of supreme heritage and Elizabethan majesty
Selsdon Park Hotel and GolfThe closest airport to Selsdon Park is London Gatwick.
To get to Selsdon Park by public transport travel to East Croydon train station.
There are regular direct trains to East Croydon from either Gatwick Airport train station or London Victoria.
See www.nationalrail.co.uk for more details. From East Croydon it is a 10 minute taxi ride to Selsdon Park.
Contact
If you cannot find the information that you are looking for in these pages, feel free to contact Helen Morley at the following email: events@ebbf.org