Looking back: Sustainable Leaders’ Summit 2021

Hybrid Event

#SLS21

Interpretation in English, French and German was available

26.11 2021

On Friday 26 November 2021 CEC European Managers has gathered an amazing group of innovative leaders in Europe’s sustainability transition during its Sustainable Leaders’ Summit ’21.

Together, we had a look onto the leadership challenges managers in European workplaces face and how to move on to solve the systemic challenges of the 21st century. Our Summit’s aim? To draw a map of the future sustainable European economy, while discussing and presenting concrete pathways to ensure this future can be built by all of us. Starting today.

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These were our speakers

#SustainableLeadersSummit

Carol Sanford

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Regenerative Paradigm Educator
Best Selling Author (The Regenerative Business)
Senior Fellow Social Innovation (Babson College)

Alberto Pastore

Management Professor at Sapienza University of Rome

Author “Sustainable Leadership in Europe” study

Adriana Rejc Buhovac

Professor of Management and Organization at the University of Ljubljana

Co-Author “Making Sustainability Work”

Geanne van Arkel

Biomimicry Design Thinker

Former Head of Sustainable Development at Interface

Ludger Ramme

Director of ULA (German Association of Managers) and former President of CEC European Managers

Jonathan Normand

Founder and CEO of B Lab Switzerland

Esther Lynch
Deputy General Secretary at ETUC (European Trade Union Confederation)

Maxime Cerutti
Director of Social Affairs at BUSINESSEUROPE (European employers’ confederation)

Maddy Gilbert National Secretary and Head of Sustainability at CFE-CGC (French union of managers)

Maxime Legrand

President of CEC European Managers ————- ——– ————– ————-

Gabriela Buettner

Senior Sustainability Consultant at New Angles and facilitator at Sustainable Leaders

Annalisa Massacesi

Adjunct Professor in Business Management (University of Sapienza)

Jean-Philippe Steeger

Co-founder of ManagersForFuture and coordinator of Sustainable Leaders at CEC European Managers

Register for on-site participation at Atelier des Tanneurs in Brussels, Belgium here.

 

Programme

09:30 AM – 10:00 AMNetworking coffee
Meet Sustainable Leaders in break-outs
10:00 AM – 10:20 AM
Maxime Legrand		Welcome
10:20 AM – 11:00 AM
Alberto Pastore and Annalisa Massacesi
Presentation
“Sustainable Leadership in Europe” – presentation of EU study results
11:00 AM – 12:00 AM

Panel discussion
The role of managers in leveraging sustainable change
– Professor Adriana Rejc Buhovac
– Geanne Van Arkel
– Jonathan Normand
12:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Sustainable Leaders Ambassadors		Transition Stories
Sustainable Leaders share their experiences
12:30 AM – 13:00 PM
ManagersForFuture
Presentation
Discover the ManagersForFuture movement to change management for good
13:00 – 14:00 PMLunch Break
14:00 PM – 15:00 PMPanel discussion
Sustainability at work – where do we head?
– Maxime Legrand
– Esther Lynch
– Maxime Cerutti
– Frank Siebern – Thomas
15:00 PM – 15:20 PM
Jacob Mayne
Presentation
The Sustainable Leadership Model – a playbook for Europe’s transition
15:20 PM – 16:00 PM
Carol Sanford		Keynote
The seven principles of regenerative businesses
16:00 PM – 16:30 PM
Ludger Ramme and Torkild Justesen
Conclusions and Outlook