The Insights for Action seminar series explores how researchers and practitioners within and beyond Oxford are using research insights to drive social change.
In this seminar, co-authors Marya Besharov and Pip Wheaton willl come together with Sue Riddlestone OBE to launch the joint Skoll Centre and Ashoka Climate Changemaker Playbook, a collection of strategies and tactics for how to unlock our collective power to take climate action. With a foreword by Christiana Figueres and case studies of five leading climate changemakers from Ashoka's network, this playbook is for anyone wondering how to take action and encourage those around you to do the same.
Speakers:
Pip Wheaton is Australian by birth, but has spent the majority of her career in South Africa. In 2009, Pip founded a youth development organisation in South Africa, enke: Make Your Mark. In early 2015, after six years as enke’s CEO, she handed over the reins to study an MBA at Saïd Business School, Oxford after consulting on innovative finance at the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship; mapping the entrepreneurial support landscape across Africa for the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trading; and facilitating strategy development. strategy development. For her work in social innovation she’s been awarded a Skoll Scholarship, an Ashoka Fellowship; and she was a World Economic Forum Global Shaper. Currently Pip dedicates her time towards two main projects: helping Ashoka - an international citizen-sector organization made up of over 3,500 social entrepreneurs - build a global strategy for Planet & Climate, and supporting Wellington City Council's target of reducing the city's emissions by 57% by 2030.
Sue Riddlestone OBE is an Ashoka fellow based in the UK. Sue leads Bioregional, an entrepreneurial charity she co-founded in 1994, with a purpose to find ways to live well within the natural limits of our planet and reduce our impact on the natural world. Over 30 years Bioregional has developed practical solutions for sustainable living, including the world-famous BedZED eco-village in London, where Sue lives. Sue and the team systematised their approach as “One Planet Living”. There is now a global network of exemplary communities, and 10 million people living in places that have used the 10 "One Planet Living" Principles. Today, Bioregional is still pioneering solutions, mainly operating as a purpose-led sustainability consultancy working with High Street retailers such as B&Q, business improvement districts, Local Authorities including in Oxford, and with housing-led developers. Sue draws on these inspiring examples to support systemic policy change, for the built environment and through a formal role in the UN process to create the UN Sustainable Development Goals. She is currently campaigning for better UK building and planning standards. Sue was awarded an OBE in 2013 for services to sustainable business and her work to co-create and support implementation of the sustainability strategy for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Moderator:
Professor Marya Besharov is Professor of Organisations and Impact and Academic Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. Her research and teaching focus on leadership, social impact, and hybrid organisations. She engages with leaders and organisations worldwide to help them manage competing demands of social impact and financial performance. Marya received a BA in Social Studies, an MA in Sociology, and a PhD in Organisational Behaviour from Harvard University. She also holds an MBA from Stanford University.
24 авг 2024
