We are delighted to announce Melissa Houghton as our our guest speaker for our August discussion to talk about "Sustainability and the Business Bottom Line"
As Sustainability issues and financial performance begin to intertwine real business benefits are being realised. But in many organisations, its value is not fully realised. Robust sustainability performance management, driven by finance professionals, can be a key enabler to unlocking this value. In this discussion we will explore the underlying principles of business sustainability and what’s driving CEO’s and CFO’s to consider the triple bottom line, the business benefits to this approach and ways that you can start to drive sustainability throughout your organisation.
Melissa Houghton is an experienced strategic communicator with a passion for sustainability. In her 15 plus years, Melissa has held senior executive positions at News Digital Media (NDM), Telstra, Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) and is currently director and co-owner of Sustainability at Work.
Sustainability at Work was born in 2010 out of the desire to bring ‘people’ back into the centre of the sustainability and ‘green’ building movements. Since then Melissa has led and influenced strategic discussions around the economic, social and environmental impacts of those business, with C-level executives and established and implemented strategies to drive positive sustainability behaviours, culture and outcomes for their people, their customers and their partners.
Melissa has co-authored two pieces of research including “Insights into the attitudes and behaviours of Australian Workers towards sustainability at work and at home” and “The Australian Sustainability Manager- the role, the challenges and the Future”.
Melissa is seen as an industry expert on workplace sustainability, business strategy, behaviour change, stakeholder engagement and marketing sustainability. She has been part of industry task forces including the UWS Bringing Sustainability to Life roundtables providing research information, advice and guidance and is often requested to speak a industry conferences. Melissa is also on the Board of Directors for Oxfam Australia.
To attend, please RSVP to Reis at cpawibfb@gmail.com or via Facebook by 5pm Friday 22 August 2014.
