Everything You Need To Know About Partnering With The Private Sector
Friday, March 27, 2009
Session Description
Liam Black, one of the UK’s serial social entrepreneurs, leads this interactive workshop addressing the practical ins and outs of partnering with business. Liam has facilitated social venture partnerships with Thorn/Emi, DSG, Lego, RBS, and most recently Bank of America. Joined by Amy Clarke, Senior VP for Social Investment at Bank of America, this workshop will help you identify potential partners in your ecosystem, hone your relationship building capabilities, and leverage private sector partnerships to maximize your social impact.
Time & Location
Time:
10:45 - 12:15, Friday, March 27, 2009
BST
Speakers
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Speaker
Chief Encouragement Officer, Wavelength
Liam is a UK based social entrepreneur, impact investor and writer.
He is co-founder and the Chief Encouragement Officer of Wavelength a company with the mission of ‘changing the world for the better through business’.
Liam brings together leaders from a wide range of sectors and industries and his clients, members and partners include Rolls Royce, the BBC, Dyson, Lego, IKEA as well a global range of social businesses including Grameen, Aravind, and many community based organisations engaged in finding solutions to some of our societies toughest problems.
He has helped create and led a dozen social businesses including Fifteen, which, with Jamie Oliver, he grew into a global brand.
He helped create and advises two investment funds: Impact Ventures UK and Ignite (created by energy giant Centrica) which between them are investing £50 million in social innovation.
Liam is the author of There’s No Business Like Social Business (2004) and in November 2014 published The Social Entrepreneur’s A to Z: On Anxiety, Leadership and Getting Enough Sleep which draws together the advice he gives the many young entrepreneurs with whom he engages around the world.
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Speaker
Co-Founder & Partner, Tribe Impact Capital
Amy is Co-Founder & Chief Impact Officer at Tribe Impact Capital, a dedicated impact investment wealth manager and Best for the World B Corps. Amy is an environmental scientist by training with over 25 years’ experience in corporate sustainability and impact investing. Before founding Tribe, Amy headed up sustainability teams at both Bank of America and Microsoft, as well as the Private Client team at Charities Aid Foundation. She started her career in environmental consultancy, before broadening into sustainability consulting with EY and PwC. Amy sits on the Boards of Big Issue Invest and B Lab UK. She also sits on the Development Council of the Future Fit Benchmark and is an advisor to the Ocean Plastics Leadership Network.
