Series Co-Chairs

• Dr. Laurence B. Mussio, Co-Founder & Chair, Long Run Institute; Special Advisor to the CEO, BMO Financial Group (North America)
• Dr. Dusya Vera, Professor, Strategy & General Management, Executive Director, Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership, Ian O. Ihnatowycz Chair in Leadership, Ivey School of Business at Western University

TORONTO: ESG, Purpose & Character: Leadership in an Era of Volatility

Participants

• Dr. Michael Aldous, Senior Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast Centre for Economic History, Ethics and Organisation; Director & Co-Founder, Long Run Institute
• Dr. Oana Branzei, Director, Sustainability Certificate Program & Founder, Ivey/ARCS PhD Sustainability Academy, Ivey Business School
• Mr. Andrew A. Chisholm, Board Director, RBC
• Dr. Bruce Choy, Executive Vice President, Risk and Audit, Infrastructure Ontario
• Ms. Judy Cotte, Managing Director, Head of ESG, Onex
• Mr. Simon A. Fish, General Counsel Emeritus, BMO Financial Group
• Mr. Duncan Fulton, Chief Corporate Officer, Restaurant Brands International
• Mr. Kevin Horgan, Senior Manager of ESG Advisory Services, KPMG Canada
• Ms. Claire M. C. Kennedy, Lead Director, Bank of Canada
• Mr. Michael Messenger, President & CEO, World Vision Canada

The first roundtable focused on the ideals and the challenges of ESG, and how the movement is reshaping the role of leadership within organizations. Discussion drew on both long-run and contemporary experiences to understand how the character of leaders plays a critical role in how organizations face volatile markets and political environments.

 

LONDON: Purpose-driven Leadership and the Past|Future of Work

Participants

• Dr. Michael Aldous, Senior Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast Centre for Economic History, Ethics and Organisation; Director & Co-Founder, Long Run Institute
• Dr. Oana Branzei, Director, Sustainability Certificate Program & Founder, Ivey/ARCS PhD Sustainability Academy, Ivey Business School
• Dr. Edward Brooks, Executive Director, The Oxford Character Project; Co-founder SDG Impact Lab, University of Oxford
• Ms. Sarah Evans, Founder, Westside School, London; Founder, The Oxford Youth Lab; Director, Ivey Advisory Board, Ivey Business School, Western University
• Ms. Sarah Gillard, CEO, a Blueprint for Better Business
• Mr. Manish Godkhindi, Co-Founder and Chief Platform Strategist, Greenalytix Inc.
• Dr. Santiago Iniguez, President IE University, Madrid
• Mr. Euan Isles, Head of Deloitte Leadership, Deloitte UK
• Mr. Pyarali Jamal, Senior Business & ESG Advisor; Director, Advisory Council, Ivey Business School, Western University
• Dr. Michael Lamb, Executive Director, Program for Leadership and Character; Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Wake Forest University, North Carolina
• Mr. Mark Lancelott, Senior Client Partner, Korn Ferry
• Ms. Gillian Lofts, EY Global Financial Services Sustainable Finance Leader
• Ms. Mona Malone, Chief Human Resources Officer and Head of People, Culture & Brand, BMO Financial Group; Governor, Long Run Institute
• Ms.Lani Martin, Co-Founder, Impact 100 London; Advisory Board Member, Seeds of Peace; Ivey IWIL Advisory Board (Ivey Women Investing in Leadership)
• Dr. Colin Mayer CBE, Emeritus Professor, Saïd School of Business, University of Oxford
• Dr. Ian Peters MBE, Director, Institute of Business Ethics
• Ms. Anne Scoular, Co-Founder, Meyler Cambell; Associate Scholar, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
• Dr. Judy Stephenson, Professor of Economic History of the Built Environment; The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, UCL; Director, Long Run Institute

The second roundtable focused on the confluence of forces bearing down on the contemporary corporation: economic volatility, demographic change, increasing demands for equity and inclusion, shifting organization-employee relationships especially in relation to meaningful work, social impact, and sustainable practices, and the dawn of what appears to be a transformational technology in Artificial Intelligence. The challenges to work, and to the leadership related to human capital in this context, are considerable, given the employee evolution, leadership evolution, and organizational evolution we are experiencing.

 

NEW YORK: The Promise of ESG and its Discontents: How Can Character and Purpose in Leadership Make a Difference

Participants

• Mr. Jean-Pierre Boudrias, Co-Founder, Aequatis
• Dr. Oana Branzei, Director, Sustainability Certificate Program & Founder, Ivey/ARCS PhD Sustainability Academy, Ivey Business School
• Mr. Sudhir Chaturvedi, President and Executive Board Member, LTIMindtree
• Mr. JP Gladu, Founder, Mokwateh
• Ms. Sharon Haward-Laird, General Counsel, BMO Financial Group
• Ms. Davida Heller, Head of Sustainability Strategy, Citi
• Mr. Terrence Keeley, CEO and CIO, 1PointSix LLC
• Ms. Rina Kupferschmid-Rojas, Chief Sustainability Officer, Fidelity Investments
• Mr. Kevin Kwok, Co-Founder, Chief Sustainability Officer & ESG Advisor, OMAO Brands
• Dr. Michael Pirson, James A. F. Stoner Endowed Chair in Global Sustainability, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University
• Dr. Poonam Puri, Professor and York Research Chair in Corporate Governance, Investor Protection & Financial Markets, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
• Ms. Rita N. Soni, Principal Analyst, Impact Sourcing and Sustainability, Everest Group
• Professor Paul H. Tice, Adjunct Professor of Finance, NYU Stern School of Business
• Ms. Ann Tracy, Chief Sustainability Officer, Colgate-Palmolive
• Mr. Richard Williams, Executive Chairman, Bunker Hill Mining Corp

The third roundtable continued the discussion on the evolving role of leadership and its impact on addressing the debates and critiques centred on ESG. Questions asked included: How can the character of leaders remove the politics and polarization that exist around ESG and bring the focus again to solving the Grand Challenges of our time? How do leaders manage the tension between their purpose as a leader and ESG? How do leaders manage the shifts and swings in public discourse around ESG externally and internally?

 

Series Observer

• Ms. Kimberley Young Milani, Director, Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership, Ivey Business School at Western University

 

The LRI would like to express its appreciation to the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership for co-presenting these events.

 

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