Building on the morning’s discussion about the potential benefits for partnership between corporations and social entrepreneurs, this session will explore practical tips and tools for pursuing partnerships. Building on insights from pioneering partnering organisations, this session will as participants to role up their sleeves and help co-reate effective templates for partnership.
Session Description
Time & Location
Time:
14:00 - 16:00, Thursday, March 27, 2008 BSTSpeakers
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SpeakerDirector, The Partnering InitiativeRos Tennyson is Director of the Partnering Initiative – global programme of the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum. Established in 1990, and supported by international business, IBLF’s mission is to put business at the heart of sustainable development. Ros has led the…
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SpeakerCo-Founder & Director, The League of IntrapreneursMaggie De Pree is a co-founder of The League of Intrapreneurs, a global learning community for social ‘intrapreneurs’ – people working for a better world from inside our incumbent institutions - influential corporates, governments and NGOs. She has spent over a decade harnessing the innovation…
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SpeakerCommunication Designer, IDEOJames Parr is a Communication Designer in IDEO’s London office with 13 years’ experience in the advertising, interactive, education and television industries. Prior to joining IDEO, James cut his teeth as an art director and writer at some of the world’s more radical advertising agencies, including…
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SpeakerManager, Social Innovation, TwitterClaire Diaz Ortiz leads social innovation at Twitter. She manages Twitter’s philanthropic, social good, and cause marketing initiatives, including the Twitter for Non-Profits programme. She is the author of 'Twitter for Good: Change the World, One Tweet at a Time'.
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SpeakerFounder and Executive Chairman, Volans Ventures LtdJohn Elkington is a writer and thinker, a serial-entrepreneur and an ‘advisor from the future’. John is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development and is credited with coining the ‘triple bottom line’. In 2004, BusinessWeek described John as “a dean of the corporate…
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SpeakerMBA Student, Saïd Business SchoolCJ Adams is a student at Said Business School, a Skoll Associate Fellow, and was the Director of Operations at Polaris Project. CJ spent his career deploying new technologies to disrupt organized criminal networks engaged in human trafficking in the United States and Japan. He served as…