Your strategy for sustainable change
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LOOKING FOR THE JOBS PORTAL? FROM APRIL 2013 IT HAS MOVED TO WWW.GLOBETHICS.NET
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Latest
- New Quarterly Updates
- The Leading Wellbeing Research Festival in the Lake District, July 2015
- Never Going Back to Barter
- Scotcoin – an answer to Osborne?
- Improving your one-stop shop of CSR jobs info
- Adventures in Sustainability are Coming – Whether You Like it or Not
- Letting Go Of 2012
- Creating Resilience – With Community Exchange Systems
- Talks this October
- Elegant Disruption – how luxury and society can change each other for good
- Learn about alternative currencies and exchange systems for sustainability
- The Time to Inspire: Insights from 50+20 on Transformative Education
Past Achievements
Our founder has a 17-year track record of social innovation, including:
- Developing the original concept for the Marine Stewardship Council, for WWF International.
- Advising and helping implement a strategic realignment of a major Australian business school with 13000 students and 300 faculty to become a sustainability leader, and establish an Asia Pacific centre of excellence.
- Developing one of the first multi-enterprise supply chain eco-audit systems.
- Through the first book on strategic cross-sector partnering, inspired the then head of the UN Secretary General's office to launch what became the largest corporate responsibility initiative in the world.
- Conceiving, researching and writing the first substantive analysis of the social and environmental performance of the luxury industry, which appeared in over 50 newspapers worldwide and helped inspire a strategic shift in many brands.
- Developing a responsible enterprise strategy for a famous high-jewelry company.
- Developing a strategy, policy and guidelines for private sector engagement by a UN agency.
- Establishing the first responsible enterprise jobs portal in 2001, which is now the largest such portal (www.lifeworth.com)
- Providing informal confidential advice to innovators, helping them create some key initiatives in the contemporary responsible business/finance and sustainable development fields.
As a bespoke service, we can only work with ambitious clients. We base our advice, education & facilitation on deep analysis, experience & purpose, and as a not-for-profit, we invest in helping to shape the fields we work within. By working in international, interdisciplinary, intersectoral & interconnected, we escape many of the assumptions that limit insight.
Recent Praise…
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“Lifeworth’s Emma Irwin made a key contribution to GTZ’s ‘Project on Collaboration with the Private sector in Africa’ and ‘Natural Resource Governance Project’. She worked extremely fast in adapting the knowledge of the UN to be accessible to business in Liberia, helping executives to understand the financial and moral imperatives of integrating Human Rights into their management systems, as well as how to begin that process. She co-facilitated a workshop adeptly, which lead to a commitment from the executives to work together in enhancing their CSR policies and programmes. The speed with which Lifeworth supported us in finding the appropriate support to ensure a successful event with the UN and ArcelorMittal was impressive.” -- Peter Kluczny, GIZ. Lifeworth Consulting is the sustainability practice of The Swiss Institute, a nonprofit association based in Geneva (Federal number CH-660.1.225.004-8, founded 4 June 2004) |
Featured Publications
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World’s 1st benchmarking of ethical performance of luxury jewellery
Top jewellery brands are failing to meet the growing expectations of customers for ethical sourcing of metals and gemstones, thereby providing opportunities for new brands to emerge, according to an independent report. Published by Fair Jewelry Action, a non-profit organisation promoting fairly traded jewellery, and strategy advisers Lifeworth Consulting, the report benchmarks ten prestigious jewellery brands on their social and environmental performance. It compares their performance with innovations in the ethical sourcing of precious metal and gemstones, and finds them significantly lagging behind, with the sole exceptions of Cartier and Boucheron, which are recognised for taking useful steps. The research ...
Post-crisis, Capitalism now a focus for CSR, says Lifeworth Review
Capitalism is up for debate, and that's a good thing, according to a new review from a management consultancy. “The dual financial and climate crises are leading people in all walks of life to question the kind of economy that makes sense for their businesses, communities and families,” explains lead author of the review, Associate Professor Jem Bendell. “As well as some anger at bankers, the financial crisis has led many to ask deeper questions about finance in general and, therefore, about capitalism. From bars to seminars, bookshops to board meetings, capitalism is being discussed – openly and critically,” he ...
