November Membership Meeting: Global CSR Plus GR Public Museum

West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum will present a luncheon on social responsibility in the supply chain and other topics for its November membership meeting at Grand Rapids Public Museum on Monday, November 16 from 12 to 2 pm.
Presented by Feyen Zylstra.
Featured speakers are Sean Ansett, principal of At Stake Advisors, and Dale Robertson, President and CEO of the Grand Rapids Public Museum.
Robertson will discuss recent sustainability initiatives underway at the museum, including potential changes to its riverfront green infrastructure as part of the Grand River restoration project.
Sean is the founder of At Stake Advisors a sustainability consultancy based in Kalamazoo, MI, Chief Sustainability Officer at Fairphone, Acting Board Chair of Liberty&Justice Clothing, a fair trade garment factory in Monrovia, Liberia and Senior Associate and tutor at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, Cambridge UK.
Sean will share his first hand experience working in over thirty countries and lessons of how to create value rather than destroying it. He will share deeply personal perspectives regarding the opportunities and challenges in implementing sustainability programs and the possibilities for charting a path forward.  He was the Executive Director of the Bangladesh Safety Accord covering over 170 global brands,1600 factories and 2 million workers, Director of Corporate Responsibility at Burberry in London and was the Director of Global Partnerships at Gap Inc. where he led Gap Inc.’s social responsibility and stakeholder engagement strategy. He was the chief architect behind Gap Inc.’s stakeholder engagement strategy and partnership initiatives.
Register online here.