A Conscious Conversation:
Engaging Stakeholders
Program: 6- 8 PM at Impact Hub
Post-program Holiday Cheer: 8 PM at Scholars
The concept of leading an organization by managing stakeholders, and not just shareholders, is on the ascendance. It’s not necessarily a new idea. As Jeffrey Pfeffer from Stanford Business School wrote in Harvard Business Review:
“In the 1950s and 1960s, the stakeholder was king. CEOs saw their role as one of balancing the interests of the various groups that touched their companies—customers, employees, suppliers, shareholders and the community at large. … What was true then is even more so today, in an age of knowledge work, outsourcing, global supply chains, and activist interest groups.”
In this conscious conversation, we’ll have intimate discussions with leaders who have taken a stakeholder engagement approach. We’ve selected leaders who have each focused on a different stakeholder and have used that stakeholder relationship as a source of competitive advantage. Each has also found a way to successfully manage the tradeoffs among competing stakeholder demands.
After our leaders share insights from their experiences with engaging stakeholders, we’ll shift into small groups in which the leaders will help apply their ideas and practices to the challenges of the attendees. Bring your questions and challenges around engaging stakeholders and conscious management to share with the group.
After the program, we’ll then adjourn to Scholars at 25 School St. and raise a glass together to celebrate the holidays.
Speakers
Moderator
Mary Adams, Founder, Smarter-Companies
Who we are
Our mission is to connect, educate and inspire leaders and workers to consciously build businesses that positively impact the world. Members of the Boston chapter of Conscious Capitalism are diverse individuals who recognize the power of capitalism to improve the human condition and create enduring value for all stakeholders. We come from organizations large and small, at different stages of our careers, from CEO to student. We’re bound by our common curiosity about these ideas and the desire to create change in organizations and society.
This event is brought to you with the special support of ImpactHub Boston.
