LEADERSHIP &
SUSTAINABILITY

April 14th, 11-12AM CET

Enabling sustainability through increasing levels of organisational change readiness

LEADERSHIP &
SUSTAINABILITY

April 14th, 11-12AM CET

Enabling sustainability through increasing levels of organisational change readiness

About the event

April 14th, 11-12AM CET

Sustainability is becoming increasingly important for organisations.
Some would argue that the future of business is dependent on becoming sustainable.
For an organisation to take on the journey towards sustainability new skills within leadership and increasing levels of organisational change readiness is a necessity.
Join us in exploring the why and how of leadership, sustainability and organisational change readiness.
The event was live streamed on this site and on the facebook event
Recording will be added soon.

Speakers

Charlotte Wolff Bye

VP Sustainability, Equinor

Build back better!
Voices from across society call for a greener, fairer and more prosperous society than the one way left when COVID struck.
But what does it mean for business? What will it take to trigger lasting sustainable growth? What does leadership look like?

These are some of the questions we will examine in the upcoming webinar.

About Charlotte 

Charlotte Wolff-Bye joined Equinor in 2014 as Vice President Sustainability in the company’s Global Strategy and Business Development division. She is also Equinor’s representative on the Steering Committee of the World Bank’s Global Gas Flaring Reduction Initiative. From 2007-2014, she was General Manager Corporate Responsibility for the global steel and mining company ArcelorMittal. Prior to her career in the extractives and manufacturing sectors Charlotte spent a decade in the telecommunications industry, most notably in Telefonica and O2. Previous experiences include working in multilateral lending, music marketing and diplomatic affairs. Charlotte has received an international award for her leadership in international development, she is a trustee of the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, and has contributed to the recently published book Corporate Sustainability in Practice.

Rune Todnem By

Professor of Leadership at University of Stavanger Business School 

Success or failure?
It’s all about basic map reading skills
– knowing where we are and where we are going.

About Rune

Rune Todnem By, PhD is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Change Management: Reframing Leadership and Organizational Practice and Professor of Leadership at University of Stavanger Business School, Norway, where he delivers on the Executive MBA and MSc Business Administration programmes. Following 15 years in British higher education, he returned to Norway in 2019 to continue his scholar-practitioner work on leadership and organisational change with a particular focus on reframing theory and practice to better address twenty-first century challenges such as sustainable development. Rune is a member of the UNESCO Futures Literacy network, research affiliate at the Centre for Leadership, Ethics and Organisation (CLEO) at Queen’s University Belfast, co-founder and previous chair of the Public Leadership Foundation, and co-editor of The Psychology of Organizational Change: Viewing Change from the Employee’s Perspective (2013) and Organizational Change, Leadership and Ethics (2013), both currently being updated for their second editions.

Stian Sandbekkhaug

MsC Student at the Norwegian School of Economics

Giving a student perspective on the “voice of the future” 

“How can we contribute to setting up a more sustainable future?  What do we expect from ourselves and employers?”

About Stian

Stian completed his undergrad from the University of North Carolina in 2017, in the USA where he majored in Supply Chain Management.  He then went on to work for Amazon for 2 years, before beginning his studies at the Norwegian School of Economics in 2020.  He is currently pursuing a double major in the master’s profile: Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment & International Management.  He joins the panel as a representative of NHH, where he is represents the master’s international student community and the NHHS Energi klubb.  

Speakers

Charlotte Wolff Bye

VP Sustainability, Equinor

Build back better!
Voices from across society call for a greener, fairer and more prosperous society than the one way left when COVID struck.
But what does it mean for business?
What will it take to trigger lasting sustainable growth? What does leadership look like?

These are some of the questions we will examine in the upcoming webinar.

About Charlotte 

Charlotte Wolff-Bye joined Equinor in 2014 as Vice President Sustainability in the company’s Global Strategy and Business Development division. She is also Equinor’s representative on the Steering Committee of the World Bank’s Global Gas Flaring Reduction Initiative. From 2007-2014, she was General Manager Corporate Responsibility for the global steel and mining company ArcelorMittal. Prior to her career in the extractives and manufacturing sectors Charlotte spent a decade in the telecommunications industry, most notably in Telefonica and O2. Previous experiences include working in multilateral lending, music marketing and diplomatic affairs. Charlotte has received an international award for her leadership in international development, she is a trustee of the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, and has contributed to the recently published book Corporate Sustainability in Practice.

Rune Todnem By

Professor of Leadership at University of Stavanger Business School 

Success or failure?
It’s all about basic map reading skills
– knowing where we are and where we are going.

About Rune

Rune Todnem By, PhD is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Change Management: Reframing Leadership and Organizational Practice and Professor of Leadership at University of Stavanger Business School, Norway, where he delivers on the Executive MBA and MSc Business Administration programmes. Following 15 years in British higher education, he returned to Norway in 2019 to continue his scholar-practitioner work on leadership and organisational change with a particular focus on reframing theory and practice to better address twenty-first century challenges such as sustainable development. Rune is a member of the UNESCO Futures Literacy network, research affiliate at the Centre for Leadership, Ethics and Organisation (CLEO) at Queen’s University Belfast, co-founder and previous chair of the Public Leadership Foundation, and co-editor of The Psychology of Organizational Change: Viewing Change from the Employee’s Perspective (2013) and Organizational Change, Leadership and Ethics (2013), both currently being updated for their second editions.

Stian Sandbekkhaug

MsC Student at the Norwegian School of Economics

Giving a student perspective on the “voice of the future” 

“How can we contribute to setting up a more sustainable future?  What do we expect from ourselves and employers?”

About Stian

Stian completed his undergrad from the University of North Carolina in 2017, in the USA where he majored in Supply Chain Management.  He then went on to work for Amazon for 2 years, before beginning his studies at the Norwegian School of Economics in 2020.  He is currently pursuing a double major in the master’s profile: Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment & International Management.  He joins the panel as a representative of NHH, where he is represents the master’s international student community and the NHHS Energi klubb.  

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