Delivering on sustainability: How to position your business for success

Description

Consumer demands are growing for sustainable sourcing, robust recycling practices and recycled goods, natural ingredients and a minimal carbon footprint.

But with the adoption of sustainable work practices demanding high immediate costs, what long-term cost savings will incentivise organisations to make the green transition?

Globally sustainable and environmentally responsible investment has increased 68 per cent since 2014 and now tops US$30 trillion, according to recent research.

Join us in this timely discussion featuring sustainability-focused industry leaders, who will discuss how they successfully meet consumers’ sustainability expectations.

This quality event series has been hosted by the Monash Business School Department of Marketing for more than 15 years.

Please note this is a paid event.

Monash Marketing Business Breakfast events: Connecting businesses.

Acknowledgement: Conditions of Entry – Vaccination Status and Checking In

Monash University requires everyone attending in-person events to be fully vaccinated, in line with Public Health advice. All attendees are required to comply with current public health directions, unless a valid exemption applies.

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Times

• 6:45am: Registration and barista coffee
• 7:10am: Breakfast served

Presenters

Andrew Petersen, CEO, Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia

Andrew Petersen has over 25 years’ environmental and planning law and policy experience, as well as ten years at a CEO and Director level in the not-for-profit sector initiating and driving systems change in policy and sustainable development through project design and delivery.

Mr Petersen has used his specialist law, environmental policy expertise and advisory experience to great effect in commercial, residential and infrastructure (water, waste management and renewable energy) project development, resource planning and acquisition, program rollout of energy conservation projects, biodiversity and water market policy and trading market development, as well as environmental protection.

As CEO of the BCSDA, Mr Petersen focuses on the strategic delivery of six workstreams (Circular Economy, Cities and Mobility, Energy and Climate, Food, Nature and Water, People and Redefining Value) for over 70 private, philanthropic, public and academic members.

Kristen Richardson, Head of Communications and Sustainability, ANL

An experienced B2B Marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) professional, Kristen Richardson spends her time driving change and building programs that grow brands and deliver on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. She is a Melbourne-based Monash University graduate with a degree in psychology, management and marketing. Kristen now specialises in marketing, communications and sustainability in her role as head of communications and sustainability at ANL, which is an Australian subsidiary of the CMA CGM Group.

Sarah Clarke, Group General Manager, Sustainability, Mirvac

Sarah Clarke leads the Mirvac sustainability strategy, This Changes Everything. Ms Clarke is the Deputy Chair of Cladding Safety Victoria and a Board Member of Homes Victoria. She has helped organisations across sectors and industries spanning property, oil and gas, public transport and social policy, be a force for good. Ms Clarke received a Master of Arts (Professional and Applied Ethics) from the University of Melbourne, is a graduate of the McKinsey Executive Leadership program and the Prince of Wales Business and Sustainability Leadership program from the University of Cambridge, and holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons, English) from James Cook University.

Facilitator

Laura Mattiazzi, Regional General Manager, Northern Victoria, Westpac Agribusiness, Westpac, and Marketing Industry Advisory Board member 

An experienced banker, Laura Mattiazzi has worked across Australia and Asia in leading banks for more than 20 years, in the process becoming an experienced banking and finance specialist. Her expertise spans the property sector, import and export businesses, wholesale, manufacturing, services, food and agribusiness. A graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Ms Mattiazzi completed two agribusiness strategy programs at Harvard Business School, and is currently undertaking a Certified Practising Accountant accreditation course.

She has been the regional general manager for agribusiness at Westpac since 2018 and has been involved in the farming and agriculture sector for more than eight years. Ms Mattiazzi has also served in the not-for-profit sector for the past six years. She is a director at the national board of Australia China Business Council (ACBC) and chairs its Food and Agribusiness Committee. She has also been an advisory board member of the Department of Marketing at Monash University since 2017.

Ms Mattiazzi is committed to promoting public advocacy work in Australia for its export and investment trade with Asia. She has made contributions via public engagements at The Global Food Forum, the Agri Investor Conference and Sydney University Business School’s Agribusiness Symposium, and has delivered guest lectures at Monash Business School and RMIT Business School.

She led the Australia-China Agribusiness Summit in July 2021 and currently leads the planning of the Australia-China Food and Agribusiness Climate Change Summit, to be hosted with ACBC in May 2022.

Organised by

Department of Marketing, Monash Business School.