7th Annual Southern African Senior Executive Seminar

“Profitability and Sustainability – Conflict or Convergence?”

11 – 14 May 2009. The Vineyard Hotel, Cape Town

We are living in increasingly turbulent and uncertain times, marked by financial system breakdown, accelerating climate change, a widening poverty gap, resource depletion and large demographic shifts. The sustainability of our way of life is no longer assured.

How should senior executives respond to these challenges? What does leadership in these times look like?

The underlying theme of the Prince of Wales’s Business & the Environment seminar is the successful management of change through understanding global trends finding practical ways to integrate social and environmental solutions into management systems and decision-making processes whilst still remaining profitable.

We invite you to join us at this seminar, which is the gateway to membership of the Prince of Wales’s Business and the Environment Programme. Established in 1994, the Programme is recognised as:

• The premier international forum for executive learning and leadership for sustainability.
• A unique source of leading-edge information and expertise.
• A global network for the exchange of ideas and best practice on sustainability.

This annual seminar is the pre-eminent regional opportunity for senior decision-makers to think deeply with their peers about the strategic implications of major emerging environmental and social trends and is held in the United Kingdom, Europe, South Africa the United States and Australia. At each seminar there is a predominance of business executives with a smaller number of senior delegates from government and civil society.

The South African seminar will be running for its 7th year in 2009, from the 11th – 14th of May 2009. The cost is R29,500 +VAT for delegates resident in Africa, ₤3,950 for delegates from overseas. A small number of bursaries is available for appropriately senior civil society and government delegates. The fee covers all seminar costs including accommodation and meals for the 4 days and 3 nights at The Vineyard Hotel, plus membership of the Global Network

Its programme is a rich mixture of contributions from experts and extensive dialogues in small groups, facilitated by a seasoned international faculty. Delegates leave with a fresh sense, not only of the nature and scale of the challenges, but of what they can do in their respective organisations to help minimize the risks and maximize the opportunities suggested by these trends.

Participation is by invitation only, although anybody is welcome to nominate a suitable candidate. Upon receipt of the nomination form a Selection Committee vets the nominations to ensure a balance amongst industry sectors and between business, NGOs and government.

For more information please contact Magda on magda.dekok@cpi.cam.ac.uk, or +27 (0)21 469 4765 or go to the official Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership website at www.cpsl.cam.ac.uk

Alumni event with NBI

Alumni event in South Africa – 26 February

As part of part of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership’s South Africa collaboration with the National Business Initiative, we are pleased to invite you to their annual report back session on Thursday 26th February at 3pm for 3.30pm in the Cape Town Convention Centre.

The theme is: “Business leadership for a sustainable future: SA rising to the challenge”. The event will feature a rich dialogue and debate focusing on the role and responsibilities of business in the next decade in South Africa, the paradox of growth and poverty and the challenges of sustainable development.

Prof Mark Swilling, Academic Director, Sustainability Institute, University of Stellenbosch will be present in this discussion, with Tony Ehrenreich, Provincial Secretary of COSATU, Western Cape, as well as other panellists. The panel will be facilitated by André Fourie, Chief Executive Officer of the NBI.

RSVP to Magda de Kok by Wednesday 18th February if you would like to attend.

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