Cultivating Impact - The Role of HR & Sustainability
A professional development training event to learn how HR can drive a sustainability focus in the workplace.
Next training course is 22 May 2024 - see below to register!
All workplaces have a responsibility to help create a more sustainable and fairer world. Human Resources (HR) can help lead this change within an organisation.
This training event is focused on the role that HR can play in driving a sustainability and regenerative focus within organisations.
You’ll leave with tools, practices, skills and an action plan for educating and aligning sustainable development with your HR function.
BENEFITS
Upskill
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Build your network
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Learn from an industry leader
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Lead purpose-driven change
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Upskill • Build your network • Learn from an industry leader • Lead purpose-driven change •
The Why
Research shows all business metrics (engagement, productivity, profitability) improve when a business is led with sustainability at the forefront.
Most businesses have set ESG targets with the intention of leaving the world a better place.
But executing on those intentions is where many businesses get stuck.
Enter sustainability training and upskilling - the missing piece in the ESG puzzle.
Many business leaders have not yet acquired the skills needed to drive a sustainability agenda. But when they do, the opportunities are tremendous.
What You’ll Gain
Learn how HR practices support ESG and sustainable action.
This event will help you:
Develop a business case for driving sustainability in your workplace. We'll give you the framework, confidence and knowledge.
Grow employees into empowered people inspired to serve a greater vision and work with a sustainable mindset. We'll show you how.
Connect your organisation's purpose to sustainability and make links to day-to-day people activities that can support sustainability action.
Topics We Cover
We'll dive deep into the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which provide a helpful compass to assess and understand how your workplace can do better. The SDGs are 17 interconnected goals covering various topics such as climate change, gender equality and wellbeing.
We have put the SDGs at the core of this event. You'll walk away with tools to translate the SDGs into tangible action items by showing how to embed them into your organisation's people and culture.
Specifically, you’ll learn:
Business case: You’ll learn the frameworks and the business case for driving sustainability in your workplace - giving you enhanced confidence and sustainability knowledge to take back into your workplaces.
Employee life cycle: We'll show you how to make SDG links to every stage of the employee life cycle.
HR policy: We help link HR policy and NZ employment laws to the SDGs.
HR principles and products: You'll walk away with knowledge of the HR principles and products that support sustainability in the workplace and how to link those principles to everyday HR activities.
ESG and key terms: We'll give you a solid foundational knowledge of what sustainability is and what it's not.
Change management: We’ll show you how you can develop a change plan to support sustainability action and initiatives within your organisation. This will position HR at the helm to drive an inside-out, bottom-up approach for sustainable and inclusive change.
Training Team Lead
Karen Meredith believes that humans are the most underutilised resource in sustainability. Her belief in people drew her to HR over 20 years ago. Karen is a proud HR professional and certified Executive Coach - a true HR generalist with key strengths in human-centered organisational design and reshape, strategy development, change management, workplace sustainability measures, employee relations, and stakeholder engagement.
Karen is known for being a genuine people partner and a hands-on intuitive leader. She loves HR and brings energy, compassion, creativity and professionalism to every organisation she engages with. After over two decades in corporate and government senior HR leadership roles, Karen founded the outsourced HR consultancy, PeopleEX, to bring her people-centric HR approach to NZ businesses. Her favourite thing is to work in partnership with clients and their people to stimulate better business growth, better social and environmental outcomes, and better people and customer experiences. People for Better is why PeopleEX exists. Ultimately she believes that HR can, and should, harness the power of people to make an impact.
Qualifications: Bachelor in Management and a Masters in Human Resource Management from the University of Technology Sydney, Business Sustainability Management Certification from the University of Cambridge, Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment, Emotional Culture Deck practitioner and an Accredited Executive Coach through the International Coaching Community (ICC).
What People Say
Read our participant and expert feedback below.
You can also watch Karen Meredith, your event trainer, talk about HR and sustainability at these renowned industry events.
“As we all look to explore sustainability at work and ask the big question of where to start, PeopleEX have done the hard work, developing a series of workshops that will help you create a Sustainability Action Plan for your business.
We, the People and Capability team at Hutt City Council, were lucky enough to recently attend their workshops tailored specifically for HR. If you were like us, and are unsure what HR’s role in sustainability is, PeopleEX will quickly help you understand where you can influence your organisation’s policies, procedures and practices, to meet the Sustainability Development goals of creating prosperity, peace and partnership, while protecting our people and planet. We are now looking at both the little and big ways we can make a difference to our people and communities to help them thrive.”
Katie Shaw, HR Advisory Manager, Hutt City Council
“It has been fantastic working with Karen and the team at PeopleEX! Having experts to speak about the importance of sustainability and HR has been really beneficial for our network of businesses. The 'people' pillar of sustainability can often be overlooked, so having the PeopleEX team share there passion and knowledge has been invaluable. On top of that, their own workplace sustainability and innovation is inspiring and admirable! We're looking forward to working with them on more collaborations in the future.”
Ayla Barfoot, Network Engagement Manager, Sustainable Business Network
Event Details
A professional development training event to to learn how HR can drive a sustainability focus in the workplace.
Cultivating Impact - The Role of HR & Sustainability is an in-person training event.
Registrations for our March event are now closed. The next training event will be held on:
Date: Wednesday 22nd May 2024, 10am - 3:30pm
Location: IMPAC, Lambton Quay, Wellington CBD
Fee: Total of NZD$580 (+gst). Participation is strictly limited to 12 people in order to maximise personal attention.
Inclusions: The fee includes copies of all the training materials, lunch, snacks, tea and coffee.
Who is this event for?
This training is for active participants in the HR profession who are looking to understand the role that HR can play in driving a sustainability and regenerative focus.
Participants will learn alongside like-minded HR professionals from the corporate, government, and non-profit sectors.
"Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance."
— Ban Ki-moon, eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations
Next Steps
Registrations for our March event are now closed. The next training event will be held on Wednesday 22 May.
To register, please complete the adjacent form and we will be in touch within 48-hours.
If you have any questions, or would like to to discuss whether Cultivating Impact - The Role of HR & Sustainability is right for your needs, please contact Karen on +64 22 057 3049 or karen.meredith@peopleex.co
“As we all look to explore sustainability at work and ask the big question of where to start, PeopleEX have done the hard work, developing a series of workshops that will help you create a Sustainability Action Plan for your business.”
