Past Events

• London Accord and climate change
  
  Tuesday 29 April 2008, 8.30am to 10.30am
  
  Speakers: Professor Michael Mainelli (Principal Advisor to the London Accord and Executive Chairman of Z/Yen Group), Simon Mills (Head of Sustainable Development for the City of London) and Jan-Peter Onstwedder (Project Director of the London Accord and formerly Global Head of Risk at BP). The event will be chaired by Tony Manwaring, Chief Executive of Tomorrow's Company.
   
  Venue: Channel 4, 124 Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2TX
   
  Description: A presentation on the London Accord, the largest co-operative project in the world on the investment opportunities in avoiding climate change. The London Accord's theme is "cash in, carbon out".  
   
  *Open to all our members
  
  
• Partner Event: Look Beyond Change with Tom Peters and Kjell Nodström
  
  Monday 28 April 2008 (all day)
  
  Speaker: Tom Peters and Kjell Nodström
   

  Venue: QE2 Conference Centre, London

  Don't miss this superb opportunity to see two of the world's leading business thinkers live in london!

  Tom Peters has been at the forefront of new thinking on management for 25 years. He has led a management revolution, forever changing the way that entrepreneurs and leaders view their relationships with both their employees and customers. At this London conference, he will propose new strategies and tactics for accomplishing radical change in your organisation.

  Kjell Nodström is the ‘enfant terrible’ of the new world of business. Ranked the No.1 management thinker in Europe, he is co-author of the seminal books Funky Business and Karaoke Capitalism. With his unorthodox combinations of academic rigour, forceful logic and funky freethinking, he will show you how to turn conventional thinking on its head.

  Tomorrow's Company is a member of Visionaries and has secured a discounted membership rate for our members, reducing the membership fee by a further 10%.

   

  For pricing and full information on the membership options available please contact Bob Mackenzie at Visionaries on 01224 636200 or email team@benchmarkvisionaries.com 
  
  
• How Business can use social media as a force for good
  
  Tuesday 22 April 2008, 08.30am to 10.30am
  

  Speakers: Tony Manwaring (Chief Executive, Tomorrow's Company), MT Rainey (Founder and Chair, Horsesmouth), Caroline Waters (Director of People & Policy, BT Group), and Jonathan Winter, (Founder and Managing Director, Career Innovation).

  Venue: Tomorrow's Company offices in Westminster

  Description: We will be launching the Tomorrow's Company and Horsesmouth Partnership at this breakfast event and inviting attendees to take part in its future agenda. Horsesmouth is the pioneering and recently launched social media platform which makes mentoring easy, scalable, fun, rewarding and accountable.

  The session will discuss social media and its potential for business and will argue that Horsesmouth provides companies with an exciting opportunity to engage with society more fully while also aiding the development of their own employees.

  *Open to all our members

  
  
• 'What is happening to ownership?'
  
  19 March 2008, 8.30am to 10.30am
  
  Over 110 people joined us to hear Charlie Mayfield (Chairman of John Lewis Partnership), Colin Melvin (CEO of Hermes Equity Ownership Services) and John Plender (Columnist for the Financial Times map out the issues in a way that went beyond the simplicities of some recent debates. The questions discussed included:
  • What are the likely future patterns of ownership of companies?
  • What are the most significant ownership trends and what do they mean inside and outside the company?
  • What does ownership mean for companies and how does it impact on their ability to thrive and attract talent?

  The session was chaired by Mark Goyder (Founder Director, Tomorrow's Company)

  The audience was made up of business people, writers and commentators from companies such as: Visa, Unilever, BT, AXA, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Reuters, Yo! Sushi, Aon Global, John Lewis Partnership, Morrison, Allen & Overy LLP, Investec Bank, Ogilvy, BERR, Bank of England, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, CBI, Financial Times, Vodafone, The Bank of New York

  Anthony Hilton, wrote an article on the event in the Evening Standard. To read it click here. 
  
  It was clear from the reaction to the event that this is an issue which demands a serious and holistic approach, and this is what Tomorrow's Company intends to bring to it. 
  
  A number of our corporate members told us how the discussion had helped them in their own thinking about governance in their organisations.
  
  We also received the following emails from participants: 
  
  One from an investor: 
  
  "I just wanted to say what a great debate at this morning's seminar. I think the topic is absolutely the right one to be discussing at this stage in the evolution of global markets....  I think we have a challenge as investors who invest in hedge funds, private equity etc  (mainly to diversify risk and manage volatility in our portfolios) to consider how we apply responsible investment initiatives to them. As always, Tomorrow's Company is at the forefront of thinking."
  
   One from an MBA student:   
  
   "What an amazing session it was, for me it was even more relevant in helping me prepare for the exams"
  
  If you have any questions about this event, or you would like to atend future events please email Gerard O' Donnell at gerard@tomorrowscompany.com or call on 0207 222 7443.

  
  
• A Tomorrow's Company lunchtime dialogue with Frank Dixon on 'Sustainable Systems Implementation'
  
  12.00pm to 2.00pm, Tuesday 4 March 2008
  

  Location in Central London (TBC)

  This was a lunchtime dialogue with Frank Dixon - one of the world's leading thinkers on sustainability, renowned for his pioneering work on systems design to support corporate decision making to achieve sustainability outcomes.
  
  Frank is an advisor to Wal-Mart on sustainability issues and is a senior advisor to Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, the largest firm in the world analysing corporate sustainability performance.

  In building on Tomorrow's Global Company: challenges and choices  we are exploring collaborating with Frank and others in business, civil society and government, to develop a programme that achieves systemic change in the UK and supports business and society achieving sustainability.  
  
  Below are links to some of Frank's work.
  
  Click here to read more about the Business Case for High Level System Change
  
  Click here to read more about Sustainable Systems Implementation
  
  To register for a place at the event email Gerard at gerard@tomorrowscompany.com or telephone him on +44 (0) 20 7222 7443. 
  
  
• Breakfast briefing on: 'Accelerated Global Warming'
  
  Tuesday, 5 February 2008, 8.30am to 10.30am
  
  David Wasdell, Director of the Unit for Research into Changing Institutions, London
  Professor Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics at the Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Department, University of Cambridge
   
  Almost 100 people were packed into our event in February - and during the outstanding presentations from David Wasdell and Professor Peter Wadhams, you could have heard the proverbial 'pin drop'.
   
  John Grant, who of course had led the session on ‘Green Marketing’ the week before, remarked: "There aren’t that many life changing presentations, especially ones full of people in suits, but yesterday might be one of them."
   
  The science of climate change is changing fast - and at this event, our members and supporters to hear first hand from one of the world's leading thinkers working at the edge of the new understanding on the dynamics of climate change.

   
  "New analysis recently available demands that we go beyond the level of science on which the 'Stern Report' and the recent work of the IPPC were based", argues Wasdell.  The presentation at this event used a systems dynamics approach, with graphical illustrations for ease of understanding. The policy implications for business and society are profound - in the wake of Bali, urgently we need to re-think what needs to be done to restabilise the climate system.  This means moving not just to a low-carbon economy but to a zero-carbon and eventually 'carbon removal' economy in the shortest possible time.  For example, schemes for carbon sequestration in particular would have a new priority.
   
  In Tomorrow's Global Company: challenges and choices, we argue for the importance of new measures of success, values and - in this context, above all - establishing new frameworks to create the level playing fields, to harness the capacity of business to deliver solutions.   This analysis of climate change suggests that new strategic thinking about those frameworks is urgently needed. Only then, can business with civil society and governments, take the action needed to sustain the environment on which we all depend for our well being.
   
  For information on David Wasdell's Apollo-Gaia project, visit www.apollo-gaia.org
  
  
• 'Green Marketing'
  
  Tuesday 29 January 2008, 8.30am to 10.30am
  
  Our keynote speaker was John Grant, who has just written 'The Green Marketing Manifesto' - and is one of the country's leading writers on brands and communications, and has worked with a number of leading businesses.
   
  Following his speech John was joined on a panel by:

  - Ben Stimson, Director of Corporate Responsibility and Reputation, Sky; and

  - Soli Townsend, CEO and Founder Director of Futerra and Trustee of Tomorrow's Company, leading 2.0/sustainability consultancy.
   
  This was an outstanding line up to discuss communications and marketing in the context of the Tomorrow's Company agenda of achieving both business success and sustainability.
   
  A comment from one of the participants:
   
  “Thought the quality of this morning was in the true vein of what I'd hoped for, a really interesting opportunity to reflect on a critical subject, of 'real' world proportions, and out of those TC events I've been to this seemed a much more realistic debate, tangible, expert, and good for follow-up. No doubt much of this was to do with the speaker quality, and audience engagement.”

  John's analysis points to the need to develop a new approach to marketing, which is both much more authentic and captures first hand experience by the customer of the product.  He makes the distinction between marketing objectives (from setting new standards in products, policies and processes; sharing responsibility with customers; to supporting innovation in habits and business models) and the levels at which marketing can operate (personal, social and public).  From this, he creates a powerful organising framework to analyse how the power of marketing can be harnessed to help achieve sustainability outcomes.

  
  
• Global vs. Local: ultimately the consumers' verdict - Peter Brabeck-Letmathe CEO and Chairman of Nestlé
  
  Wednesday 31 October 2007, 6.30pm
  

  Speaker: Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, CEO and Chairman of Nestlé

  Venue: Royal Institute of British Architects, 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD

  Description: In the year that we launched our inquiry into Tomorrow's Global Company, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe CEO and Chairman of Nestlé will be giving our Annual Lecture on "Global vs. Local: ultimately the consumers' verdict".

  This event is the first in the programme of events which we are holding with the support of KPMG to promote engagement with 'Tomorrow's Global Company: challenges and choices'

   

  For further details about the lecture please contact Gerard (gerard@tomorrowscompany.com)

   
  To see pictures from the event, click here
  
  
• The Summit of the Future of the Corporation
  
  Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 November 2007
  
  The event is inspired by the growing tension between the emergence of the corporation as the world's most powerful and innovative social institution and the growing severity of social and environmental problems that plague billions of people. As the tension between these two realities grows, the roles, responsibilities and rights of business are the subject of increasing controversy, as are the relationships of the corporation to government and civil society. At the same time, it is a moment of opportunity for business to apply its unparalleled resources to solving pressing global issues. This complex landscape is evolving, contested and, to a large measure, unresolved.

  The event will offer fresh perspectives on key building blocks of the corporation, including its governance, directors' duties, ownership, capitalization, primacy of investors' claims, and internal rewards and incentives.

  The Summit marks an historical moment for considering how the most influential social institution of our time can serve the broader public interest essential to its own long-term prosperity, and to begin designing corporate forms that recognize the reciprocity between private and public interests.
   
  For further information please click here
  
  
• Ken Dalton: Developing a high performance organisation - Tomorrow’s Company in Scotland
  
  Thursday 16 March 2006, 5.15pm to 8.00pm
  
  An interactive seminar led by Ken Dalton, CEO of Faber Maunsell, looking at how companies can recruit and keep the best employees. The purpose of the event is to share best practice and, under Chatham House rules, to debate strategies that have been both successes and failures with the lessons learnt.
  
  The event was held at the Scottish Parliament Building, Edinburgh.
   
  As a result of the event a set of learnings and best practice were developed which can be downloaded here
  
  
  
• Client expectations and corporate responsibility in legal practice
  
  Wednesday 11 October 2006, 6.15pm to 8.30pm,
  
  Tomorrow's Company and Lawyers for Change are running an interactive evening exploring the shifts in customer and social expectations of business, and the role of lawyers in the evolving marketplace.
   
  Mark Goyder (Director of Tomorrow’s Company) will open the event by presenting his thoughts on the inclusive approach for business to corporate responsibility. Paul Howard (Managing Partner, Wragge & Co LLP's London Office) will then talk about his perception of the developing social responsibilities of commercial lawyers and the bearing those responsibilities have upon upon their relationships with clients and the wider community. Finally Silke Buschmann and Maitland Kalton (both from Lawyers for Change) will speak briefly about some Lawyers for Change projects which are designed to respond to social demands through legal practice. 
   
  Following the main speakers there will be opportunity to participate in an open forum discussion about current trends in business practices and how lawyers are adapting to meet new demands. 
   
  The evening will take place at Tomorrow’s Company, NIOC House, 4 Victoria Street (entrance on Tothill Street), London SW1H 0NE and is planned as follows:
  
  18.15 – 18.30    Arrival
  18.30 – 19.15    Mark Goyder, Paul Howard, Maitland Kalton and Silke Buschmann
  19.15 – 19.45    Open forum discussion
  19.45 - 20.30    Drinks and further discussion 
  
  If you would like to attend email events@tomorrowscompany.com or telephone Gerard on 020 7222 7443. To off-set the costs for the evening we are asking each attendee to contribute £5.00 to the event. Cheques should be made payable to “The Centre for Tomorrow’s Company” and sent to the address above.
  
  
• The journey from today's issues to tomorrow's company: the issues for project focused organisations
  
  Monday 25 to Thursday 29 September 2006
  
   Tomorrow’s Company and UCL have collaborated to produce an intensive, four-day course that will offer the opportunity to those forward thinking individuals to learn about issues currently unlikely to be featuring on many organisational radar screens and then to develop their own group-based scenarios, which can act as catalysts for ongoing development. This will involve leading speakers, working with potent delegates, in an academically excellent environment.
   
  Click here to read further information.
   
  If you would like to find out more information or register for the course please contact David Lourie at david@tomorrowscompany.com
  
  
• Pre-release screening of "An Inconvenient Truth"
  
  6.30pm Thursday 7 September 2006
  
  In March  this year Al Gore gave the Tomorrow’s Company lecture to an audience of our members and their guests. In that lecture he spoke, at our suggestion, about the role of global companies in responding to this urgent issue.  We captured the main points from his lecture, and the debate in our “Climate Change, the role of  global companies” which we published in June.

  We have been encouraged by the feedback from that occasion to do all we can to communicate Al Gore’s the powerful message to the widest possible audience. I am delighted to say that one of the outcomes has been a joint initiative with Business in the Community and the Cambridge Programme for Industry to arrange a special screening of Al Gore’s new film “Climate Change – an Inconvenient Truth.”

  In his recent speech at the presentation of the Business in the Community Company of the Year Awards ( which are given each year in association with Tomorrow’s Company) , HRH  the Prince of Wales announced our joint plan to screen this film on 7 September.  He went on to say

  “I believe climate change is the greatest challenge facing us all.  If we don’t pull our fingers out and urgently face up to it, the spread of poverty in vulnerable countries will become catastrophic.  The question we have to ask ourselves is: are we doing enough to combat it?

  “Many of you have become aware of the fact that former US Vice-President Al Gore has made a remarkable film about climate change…. 

  “But my condition to this invitation is that I am asking each guest to bring with them a young person – a teenager, a nephew, a grandchild – it doesn’t matter – as I do so hope the message might inspire both generations.  Think what our children and grandchildren will say when they look back and assess what we did about climate change, in the light of what we now know. We are nothing more than stewards of this world for them – it is their inheritance.”

   

  
  
• “to the extent necessary” – the future of narrative reporting (TC, ACCA and h2glenfern)
  
  Wednesday 28 June 2006, 10.00am to 12.00pm
  

  Speakers: Ken Lever (Finance Director, Tomkins), Peter Montagnon (Director of Investment Affairs, ABI), Mark Goyder (Director, Tomorrow’s Company) and Richard Slynn (Partner, Allen & Overy)

  The Government’s latest proposals in this area were published on 3^rd May, and are now being considered in the context of the Company Law Reform Bill.  In an event organised by ACCA, Tomorrow’s Company and h2glenfern, we have brought together some of the leading thinkers (and doers) in this area to debate the future of narrative reporting.  The speakers were interviewed about their view of what the future holds, facing questions from the seminar Chair - Professor Andrew Chambers - and the invited audience.  

   

  Click here to read a collection of pieces written by the speakers at the event.
  
  
• Stanley Fink: 'Hedge funds; their part in our future' - Tomorrow's Company and Reuters
  
  Tuesday 13 June 2006, 6.30pm
  
  2005 saw a lively debate stimulated by John Sunderland’s speech on the responsibilities of investors and the increasingly opaque character of the ownership of companies. Like John Sunderland, Stanley Fink was a member of the Restoring Trust Inquiry team. He is also CEO of the Man Group, the world’s largest quoted Hedge Fund Company.
   
  He will be speaking about his view of the future relationship between companies and their investors and the part that hedge funds will play.

   

  For more information about the event or to find out more about booking a place at the event please email David Lourie at david@tomorrowscompany.com

   
  
  
• Jeff Swartz: The Purpose of Profit - The Tomorrow's Company Lecture 2005
  
  Wednesday 12 January 2005, 17.30 – 20.30
  
  Jeff Swartz, CEO of Timberland in the US
  
  At a time when the work and influence of Tomorrow’s Company is developing beyond the UK, we were delighted that Jeff Swartz, President & Chief Executive Officer of Timberland, agreed to give our Annual Lecture. Timberland has been one of Fortune magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For" for the last seven years. Jeff shared his vision for the role of tomorrow's company in society; a role which goes beyond rewarding traditional stakeholder groups such as shareholders, customers and employees, to actively serving communities and improving society.  He illustrated this vision with case studies and examples from Timberland's 30-year history and showed how a deeply held belief in “doing well and doing good” is an integral part of Timberland’s business model.
  BP had recently joined Tomorrow’s Company, and I was pleased that John Manzoni, BP’s Group Managing Director and Chief Executive, Refining & Marketing, chaired the lecture and lead the discussion that followed, giving ample opportunity for comments from the floor. The discussion will help to shape the next stages in our work.
   
  The event was sponsored by the Allan Willett Foundation
  
  
• “Seeing the Bigger Picture” - The Bostock and Pollitt Reporting Survey 2006
  
  Wednesday 4 October 2006, 8.30am to 10.00am
  

  Bostock and Pollitt, in association with Tomorrow’s Company, would like to invite you to a breakfast event to share some of the intriguing results from their latest annual reporting survey.

  With input from over 25 key issuers, analysts, fund managers and advisers there are plenty of new insights into many of the issues surrounding corporate reporting including the role of online reporting, the growing significance of corporate responsibility, and some of the implications following the OFR debacle.

  The results will be presented at a short breakfast seminar chaired by Mark Goyder, Director of Tomorrow’s Company. Following the presentation there will be an opportunity for further discussion of the results and other key areas surrounding corporate reporting. Below are the details of the event:

  Venue:            One Aldwych, London, WC2B 4RH

   

  Date:               Wednesday 4 October 2006

  Time:              8.30am to 10.00am

   

  
  
• Al Gore: Earth in the Balance Sheet - The Tomorrow’s Company Lecture 2006
  
  Thursday 30 March 2006, 5.30pm to 8.30pm
  

  On 30 March 2006, we held our annual lecture; given this year by former US Vice-President Al Gore entitled ‘Earth in the Balance Sheet’. The lecture was chaired by John Manzoni, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive, Refining & Marketing at BP.

  Over 300 individuals attended the event. The audience included business leaders, NGO representatives, governmental officials, environmental campaigners, and MBA students.
   
  In a powerful speech, Gore spoke of the urgency of the problems created by man-made climate change. He argued that individuals, households, businesses, investors, governments and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have both good economic reasons and a moral imperative to deal with climate change.

   

  Click on the links below to see some images from the lecture:

   

  Al Gore and the world

   

  Al Gore demonstating the CO2 increases

   

  Al Gore, John Manzoni and Mark Goyder

   

  Conversation at the event
  
  
  
  
• The Responsible Business Summit 2007
  
  Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10 May 2007
  
  Ethical Corporation and Business in the Community have merged their annual conferences to create the largest European corporate responsibility event of the year.

  If you go to one conference in 2007, make sure it’s this one - The Responsible Business Summit 2007. With an expected attendance of over 500 delegates, this event will be the must-attend European CR event of the year, with presentations and networking opportunities that are second-to-none. The event will run under the heading "The Responsible Business in 2020". Day One of the conference will feature exclusively CEO-level speakers, and will deal with what industry leaders believe is in store for the responsible business over the coming fifteen years. Day Two will then deal with the issues CR professionals face every day– highlighting practical solutions and new approaches to your CR dilemmas.

  For more information, please visit: http://www.ethicalcorp.com/europe2007/28

  
  
• Tomorrow's Global Company - Wilton Park Conference in co-operation with Tomorrow’s Company
  
  Monday 12 to Wednesday 14 September 2005
  

  A two-day international consultation to capture the ideas and share experience of leading practitioners on the nature of the global company of the future. Discussions designed to shape a new and forward-looking agenda for leaders and managers of companies and organisations, operating in an increasingly global market place and increasingly interdependent world.

  For more information on this event, please check the events section of our website or alternatively access the link below which will take you the Wilton Park website.

  http://www.wiltonpark.org.uk/themes/economic/conference.aspx?confref=WPS05/10

  
  
• Engaging with Challenging Stakeholders
  
  Tuesday 5 to Wednesday 6 December 2006
  
  10% discount to Tomorrow's Company Members

   

  This case study driven agenda brings together leading organisations to provide practical experience and advice on improving upon stakeholder engagement strategies within your organisation. It will help you:

  - Improve corporate reputation by engaging challenging stakeholders

  - Work effectively with the media and use the press to build your brand

  - Learn from your stakeholders by understanding how to speak the same language and find common ground

  - Understand how to turn cynics into ambassadors:
  Featured Speakers: Unilever, WWF, Alcohol Concern, Chiquita, Friends of the Earth, BMRB Stakeholder, Rainforest Alliance, FTSE Group, Pfizer

  Plus many more...

  Click here to register

  *Quote booking reference to claim the discount: 901TC*

  Alternatively, email mariame_lindell@osneymedia.co.uk for a PDF. 

  
  
• Multinationals and Corporate Responsibility book launch
  
  Wednesday 6 December 2006, 6.00-7.30pm,
  
  Eversheds LLP, Business in the Community and Cambridge University Press invite you to attend the reception to mark the launch of a new book by Jennifer Zerk called "Multinationals and Corporate Social Responsibilty".
   
  At the event Mark Goyder, Director Tomorrow's Company, will be giving his thoughts on some of the current challenges and choices facing global companies of tomorrow.
   
  There will also be a chance to meet the author, hear from others about the critial issues and debate the implications of the book.
   
  Click here for further details about attending the event.
   
  If you would like any further details about the event please contact Debbie Sharp on 01638 663272 or email deborah.sharp@bitc.org.uk
  
  
• 'Winning Olympic Tenders with Corporate Social Responsibility’ - West London Business
  
  Thursday 9 March 2006, 8.45am to 12.45pm
  

  West London Business are combining their HR and CSR Networks to present a half-day seminar on how CSR can assist with winning tenders to supply goods and services to support the London 2012 Olympics. The day will include an update on the London 2012 Olympics, practical applications of CSR to Olympic tenders and facilitated break-out sessions to look at how participants can apply lessons learned about CSR to their business. Mark Goyder will be opening the event with a presentation entitled ‘Beyond CSR’.

  
  
• Cross the line with Kids Company
  
  Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 May 2007
  
  For two days in May (15th and 16th), you will work together with up to 11 other business people and a group of Kids Company’s service-users – all young people who have faced, or are facing, social exclusion – to devise a major presentation on Kids Company and help promote a new exhibition at Shoreditch Town Hall which will highlight the charity’s work and celebrate its 10th anniversary.
  
  You will then deliver the presentation at the Town Hall to an invited audience during the exhibition. To succeed in this very challenging project, you will use and develop personal and business skills and competencies, while quickly becoming part of a high performing team. The programme will be led by an experienced facilitator who will help you to develop your own skills, while you tackle the issues faced by Kids Company and the young people it works with. By the end of the experience, you will have learnt a huge amount about yourself and the way you can succeed as part of a team, and developed a strong awareness of the problems faced by the young people.  This programme will be run and facilitated by Three Hands as one of their Socially Responsible Development (SRD) programmes. 
  
  Click here for a summary and click here for a detailed programme
  
  - This is excellent and low-commitment ‘taster’ of skills development through community engagement and will be useful to companies who in principle like the concept of developing staff through community engagement but have not yet tried it;

  - The programme will be an effective and original skills development opportunity, with structured facilitation, for the individual participants;

  - It is of course an excellent opportunity for companies to show their commitment to communities – and to a particularly pertinent social issue – as part of their wider CSR activities.

  
  
• Seeing the bigger picture
  
  Wednesday 23 May 2007, 6.00pm
  

  On Wednesday 23 May over 160 members, friends and partners of Tomorrow's Company came together for our 'Seeing the bigger picture' event. James Murdoch, CEO of BSkyB, was joined by Paul Gray, Chairman of HM Revenue and Customs, and the Evening Standard journalist Neil Collins. The evening was chaired by Mark Goyder, Founder Director of Tomorrow's Company.

  James Murdoch started the evening by outlining just what Tomorrow's Company meant to Sky.

  "I would like to start with a word about Tomorrow's Company, our hosts. At Sky we're delighted to be working with you because you have probably done more than any UK organisation to promote real and reflective thinking about the role enterprise plays in society over the past ten extraordinary years."

  He went on to outline Sky's belief that business and society are very intimately linked and rely heavily on one another.
  
  "Tomorrow's Company has devoted over a decade to exploring and debating how to build the most productive relationship between business and society. And it is in that debate that my feeling is the best starting point is to recognise that there is not an artificial separation or an implied antagonism between business and society. A business that benefits society is a business that is likely to benefit itself."

  Following James' speech there was a panel discussion with a lively Q&A session which covered topics ranging from learnings that the public sector might gain from the private sector (and vice versa) to the importance of a clear culture within any large organisation.

  The evening concluded with chips and champagne while watching the Champions League final between Liverpool and AC Milan. Unfortunately the result from the football did not match the event beforehand, but you can't have everything. A special thanks go to the Sky team for providing the food, drink and entertainment.
  
  To obtain full copies of the speech please email david@tomorrowscompany.com

   

  
  
• Competition and Ethics in Finance: The Market Integrity Challenge
  
  Tuesday 22 May 2007
  

  Ethical concerns are never far from the headlines these days. The recent Jabre insider trading case, for instance, has highlighted sharp divisions of approach between the UK regulator and its pugnacious US counterparts. Private equity operators have variously been portrayed as locusts and as guardian angels of capitalism, often in the same sentence.

  This event will focus on practical ethical issues arising from threats to market integrity and the clash between "traditional" and "new" financial business in the form of assertive private equity and hedge funds.

  The day will be led by Financial Times columnist John Plender and Lindsay Tomlinson, Vice-Chairman of Barclays Global Investors Europe and member of the Advisory Council of the CFA Institute Centre for Financial Market Integrity. 
  
  Mark Goyder, Founder Director of Tomorrow's Company, will be on a panel discussing his views from the outside. This panel will cover:
  • The clients’ viewpoint: do their interests really come first?
  •  Issuers and shareholders: rights and responsibilities 
  • The international position: the view from abroad
  • Competition and ethical practice: the regulators’ dilemma
  The event will, through a series of interactive sessions, encourage debate, educate, and raise awareness on how to tackle practical ethical issues in business life.
   
  Click here to read the full programme and to book
  
  
• Tomorrow's Global Company Inquiry Findings
  
  Monday 18 June 2007, 8.00am to 1.00pm
  

  Reuters Conference Centre, Canary Wharf, London

  On 18 June Tomorrow's Company invites you to join us in the next steps of the journey based on the findings from our latest inquiry - Tomorrow's Global Company.

  The inquiry, conducted by a team of business and civil society leaders from East and West, is an initiative exploring the challenges faced by tomorrow's global businesses, the conditions for its success and profit, and the implications these will have for strategy and leadership. This event will be the first occasion at which the members of the Inquiry Team will be sharing the results of their year of deliberations.

  The Inquiry Team includes global leaders from ABB, Alcan, Amnesty International Business Group, Anglo American, BP, Dr. Reddy's, Ford, Infosys, International Institute for Sustainable Development, KPMG, Leader's Quest, McKinsey, Standard Chartered, SUEZ and SustainAbility. It draws on their experience and on dialogues, workshops and interviews conducted across the world in countries including Australia, China, France, India, South Africa, United Kingdom, and United States.

  Far from being the last word this event, and the report, are intended to initiate widespread discussion and engagement among leaders of all groups whose work and ideas are crucial to defining the future role of business.

   

  Click here to download the promotional flyer

   

  Click here for more information and to book online
  
  
• 'Climate change is good for business!' debate at the Oxford Union
  
  Tuesday 25 September 2007, 6.00pm
  
  Tomorrow's Company has teamed up with the Association of MBAs to debate business and climate change.

  'Climate change is good for business!' is the title for the debate to be held at the Oxford Union on 25 September.

  Amongst the speakers will be James Smith (Chairman of Shell UK), Antony Turner (Founder and Managing Director of CarbonSense), Sophia Tickell (Chairperson of SustainAbility) and Mark Goyder (Founder Director of Tomorrow's Company).

  As part of the partnership Tomorrow's Company has secured some complimentary places for its members at the event. These will be allocated on a first come first serve basis so if you would like to attend the event or would like to get more information please email Tricia on t.cox@mbaworld.com or telephone her on 020 7246 2653.
   
  For more details click here
  
  
• Tomorrow's Global Company briefings
  
  Tuesday 30 October 2007, 8.30am to 10.00am
  

  Speakers: Tony Manwaring (Chief Executive of Tomorrow's Company) and Pat Cleverly (Head of Research of Tomorrow's Company)  

  Venue: Tomorrow's Company offices in Westminster  

  Description: Tomorrow's Global Company is our most recent and most ambitious inquiry. As part of the dissemination of the findings from the inquiry we are holding two events exclusive to our members to introduce you to the report, its background, findings and how they are relevant to your organisation.
  
  To find out more about booking a place please email Gerard (gerard@tomorrowscompany.com)
  
  *Open to all our members
  
  
• Tomorrow's Global Company briefings
  
  Tuesday 6 November 2007, 12.30pm to 2.00pm
  

  Speaker: Mark Goyder (Founder Director, Tomorrow's Company)  

  Venue: Tomorrow's Company offices in Westminster

  Description: Tomorrow's Global Company is our most recent and most ambitious inquiry. As part of the dissemination of the findings from the inquiry we are holding two events exclusive to our members to introduce you to the report, its background, findings and how they are relevant to your organisation.
  
  To find out more about booking a place please email Gerard (gerard@tomorrowscompany.com)
  
  *Open to all our members
  
  
• Investing in peace: spurring private involvement in post-conflict peacebuilding
  
  Thursday 11 to Saturday 13 January 2007
  
  WP848 WILTON PARK CONFERENCE in co-operation with The German Federal Foreign Office 
  Supported by the Global Public Policy Institute
   
  What are the key risks for business operating in conflict and post conflict scenarios? How to manage these most effectively?  What are the key vehicles to use?  Which industries are of prime importance in conflict and post-conflict situations? What are the basic legal requirements?  How to improve public and private sector interaction. What role for the UN, other multilateral institutions and national governments? How to transfer, share knowledge.
   
  Click here for a more detailed programme of the event.
   
  Enquiries about participation and local travel to: Judi Maledy, Wilton Park, Wiston House, Steyning, West Sussex. BN44 3DZ, Telephone: +44 (0)1903 817728    Fax +44 (0)1903817162: E-Mail: judi.maledy@wiltonpark.org.uk
   
  Enquiries about the programme to: Adela Gooch, Programme Director, Wilton Park, Wiston House, Steyning, West Sussex BN44 3DZ.   Telephone: +44 (0)1903 817680  Fax: +44 (0)1903 879231  e-mail: adela.gooch@wiltonpark.org.uk 
  
  
• Members Event Central London Hosted by BT
  
  Wednesday 11 May 2005, 8.00am to 10.00am
  

  Engaging leaders and employees to drive change and strategy - new research by John Smythe and McKinsey and Company. Members' breakfast on Wednesday 11th May, where John Smythe's talk was about 'Engaging leaders and employees to drive sustainable change and strategy'. The talk was based on comprehensive research that he conducted face to face with 59 organisations in UK, USA, Europe and further afield, whilst acting as a visiting Organisational Fellow with McKinsey and Company. John Smythe is a leading thinker and practitioner in the business of employee engagement and communication, and an old friend of Tomorrow's Company. He was a founder of SmytheDorwardLambert (a leading consultancy in internal communication), and has recently launched a new consultancy called "Engage for Change".