Can CSR bring development benefits?• CSR and international development

followed by first reflections• Deep dive into 4 ‘Take a Stand’ statements

o Businesses should support governments in achieving their sustainable development plans through CSR.

o Businesses should work with the international development community to plan their CSR activities.

o CSR activities in developing countries should have a direct business benefit.

o Is CSR enough to create the change we need?• Introducing Lead International• Networking

Businesses should support governments in achieving their sustainable development plans through CSR.

Businesses should work with the international development community to plan their CSR activities.

CSR activities in developing countries should have a direct business benefit.

Is CSR enough to create the change we need?

Lead InternationalAn Introduction

Inspiring leaders for a sustainable world

9 July 2014, CSR Meet-up in London

A different kind of leadership is needed

Dynamic Complexity Cause and effect are far apart in space and time.Social Complexity Diverse stakeholders. Potentially entrenched and antagonistic-perspectives and interests.

Generative Complexity The future is undetermined and the problem is unfolding in unpredictable ways. The old solutions are inadequate.

Requires a systemic solution

Requires a participative approach

Requires creative solutions based on an emergent learning approach

Leadership for highly complex situations

A new kind of learning is neededImmersive learning Journeys provides a low risk

practice field for this new emerging context

Lead’s Leadership Framework Building capacity to navigate complexity

Leading for Sustainability Programme

• 5 month open leadership programme for sustainable development run in Europe

• Programme runs from September ‘14 – February ‘15

• Aimed at mid- to senior-management level from across all sectors and fields of work from Europe or world

• Highly experiential programme• Become part of the LEAD Fellow Network -

representing the world’s largest and most influential network of almost 3,000 cross-sectoral and cross-cultural sustainability leaders from 90 countries

1 September – 3 October 2014

7 – 11 October 2014

13 October – 6 February 2014

11 – 15 February 2014

LEAD Challenge

Questions we’ll explore this year• What are the systemic issues of returning to the

land and living sustainably in a rural context?• How could these rural initiatives fit into the

existing economic, social and political systems?• What can we draw on as successful models of

sustainable living and rural resilience in other parts of Europe and the world?

• What type of leadership is needed to create rural resilience and sustainable livelihoods?

Return to the land – Creating sustainable livelihoods in rural Portugal

LEAD: Anglophone West Africa, Brazil, Canada, China, Commonwealth of Independent States, Europe, Francophone Africa, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan and Southern and Eastern Africa.www.lead.org

Lead InternationalLG01 Lincoln HouseKennington Park1-3 Brixton RoadLondon SW9 6DEUnited Kingdom

T +44 (0)207 938 8701F +44 (0)207 938 8710E info@lead.org

Meetups for the rest of 2014 •No Meetup in August•September 10th : Topic tbc•October 8th: Topic tbc•November 12th: Planning Meetup for 2015 Programme•December 10th: Festive season Social Networking Meetup

•HAPPY HOLIDAYS!