Socially Brilliant Business Symposium
30th July 2010
The Centre for Social Brilliance and the Visionary Network co-hosted another brilliant event ... this time the Socially Brilliant Business Symposium on July 30th in London.
We focused this event on two key questions:
1. Can a business be socially brilliant?
2. What does the future look like for businesses who care?
We hosted panels of socially brilliant businesses, corporate social responsibility managers, social creation agents and leading-edge visionaries to …
* understand how others are engaging with social brilliance in their organisations, communities and societies and how they see this growing in the future,
* explore, vision and co-create socially brilliant businesses and societies of today and the future and
* meet like-minded enthusiasts who share a passion for new paradigm businesses that contribute locally, societally and globally.
Panel members included ...
* Tromie Dodd, Apprentice Programme Manager at Jamie Oliver Foundation
* Mary Woodgate, International Programme Manager at Accenture Development Partnerships
* Marcus Jamieson-Pond, CSR Manager and Convergence Network at Addleshaw Goddard LLP
* Tej Samani, Ambassador of One Young World & Entrepreneur
* Judi Richardson, Founder of Pono Consultants Inc, Canada
* Joanna Brill, Founder of Connective Coaching, Singapore
* Soleira Green, Co-founder of the Visionary Network and
* Manisha Dahad, Co-founder of the Centre for Social Brilliance
We focused this event on two key questions:
1. Can a business be socially brilliant?
2. What does the future look like for businesses who care?
We hosted panels of socially brilliant businesses, corporate social responsibility managers, social creation agents and leading-edge visionaries to …
* understand how others are engaging with social brilliance in their organisations, communities and societies and how they see this growing in the future,
* explore, vision and co-create socially brilliant businesses and societies of today and the future and
* meet like-minded enthusiasts who share a passion for new paradigm businesses that contribute locally, societally and globally.
Panel members included ...
* Tromie Dodd, Apprentice Programme Manager at Jamie Oliver Foundation
* Mary Woodgate, International Programme Manager at Accenture Development Partnerships
* Marcus Jamieson-Pond, CSR Manager and Convergence Network at Addleshaw Goddard LLP
* Tej Samani, Ambassador of One Young World & Entrepreneur
* Judi Richardson, Founder of Pono Consultants Inc, Canada
* Joanna Brill, Founder of Connective Coaching, Singapore
* Soleira Green, Co-founder of the Visionary Network and
* Manisha Dahad, Co-founder of the Centre for Social Brilliance
To read all about the Symposium programme and our panel member bios, just click on Download File below.
| To read a report that helped to inspire this event, called 'Who Cares Wins' by Havas Worldwide and One Young World, click on Download File below.
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Post Symposium Report
Read our post symposium report entitiled 'Can businesses be socially brilliant?', which completely recaps the day and the outcomes from it. To download and print your own copy, click on the pdf Download File below the report.
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Watch this short video on Fifteen's Apprenctice programme (shown at the event) to get a sense of the power of socially brilliant businesses.
Outcomes from the symposium ...
Business today has an unprecedented opportunity to shift into a completely new paradigm as shapers of the societies and world in which we live. Imagine a world of businesses whose primary purpose is to contribute to a better world while creating abundance in all they do!
We explored how we can break free of the limitations of business as we know it and create a whole new concept of socially brilliant businesses that are inventive, inspiring and operate from passion and creativity.
This symposium pointed out just how far some businesses have already come in engaging with social brilliance. They provide wonderful inspiration and examples that we can all follow.
We also co-created the possibility of a new kind of business in the world, what that might look like and how we could go forward with that, individually and collectively to make it real in the world.
We also generated some new ideas around a brilliance exchange within the Centre for Social Brilliance, which Manisha is now in the process of creating. Many other new ideas, connections and concepts flowed from the day and everyone went away inspired by it, ready to take our businesses into greater contribution to our society and world. An awesomely brilliant day with fabulous people and businesses who are making a difference daily!
We explored how we can break free of the limitations of business as we know it and create a whole new concept of socially brilliant businesses that are inventive, inspiring and operate from passion and creativity.
This symposium pointed out just how far some businesses have already come in engaging with social brilliance. They provide wonderful inspiration and examples that we can all follow.
We also co-created the possibility of a new kind of business in the world, what that might look like and how we could go forward with that, individually and collectively to make it real in the world.
We also generated some new ideas around a brilliance exchange within the Centre for Social Brilliance, which Manisha is now in the process of creating. Many other new ideas, connections and concepts flowed from the day and everyone went away inspired by it, ready to take our businesses into greater contribution to our society and world. An awesomely brilliant day with fabulous people and businesses who are making a difference daily!
