Webinar — ‘Blah, blah, blah’: The paradox of communicating CSR
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Join us on Tuesday 16th November, 2-3pm (GMT) for a panel discussion on the challenges of communicating corporate social responsibility (CSR), hosted by Richard Costa, Director & Head of Corporate Reporting, in conversation with: Iain Brotchie, Vice President UK External Communications at TotalEnergies Danny Cox, Head of External Relations at Hargreaves Lansdown Jacqui Sanders, Head of Healthcare […]
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WEBINAR: Is meritocracy a myth? The case for socioeconomic diversity in our working lives
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FleishmanHillard Authenticity Gap webinar with Guardian Columnist, Zoë Williams and Mail on Sunday’s Alex Lawson
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Creating Agency Within Agencies: Women of Color & Careers with Intention
September 10, 2021
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When: Wednesday, September 15, 12 p.m. CT
Where: Online Event
Register for the ColorComm event presented by Omnicom Public Relations Group here.
How can communicators create personal agency within an agency?
During this ColorComm event on September 15, presented by Omnicom Public Relations Group, Della Sweetman, FleishmanHillard’s chief business development officer, will join Soon Mee Kim, chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Omnicom Public Relations Group; Ayanna Robinson, chief client officer at Porter Novelli; Rema Vasan, global president at Marina Maher Communications and Lindsay Wagner, senior vice president, head of DEI, North America at Ketchum to discuss how they’ve built successful careers on their own terms, how to lead and live with purpose and more.
FleishmanHillard conducted a survey on the views of Chinese investors towards overseas asset managers. As part of that, we looked into Chinese investors’ social media use – and here’s what we found… “Chinese investors’ use of social media channels continued to grow, most notably on WeChat and Weibo. Almost three quarters of those surveyed use […]
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As racial and economic injustice remain prevalent throughout society, communicators play a critical role in reshaping the DE&I landscape.
This PRWeek event, sponsored by FleishmanHillard and the agency’s True MOSAIC practice, will bring together counselors with diverse professional expertise to discuss the current and future state of DE&I in the PR industry and more.
John Saunders, FleishmanHillard’s president and CEO, will begin the event with opening remarks.
Communicators are change agents
FleishmanHillard’s Adrianne Smith, chief diversity and inclusion officer, will join Soon Mee Kim, global diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Omnicom Public Relations Group; Leslie Gordon, director, DEI communications at The Walt Disney Company (client) and Sharon Watson, svp, brand marketing, communications and corporate relations department at Easterseals, to discuss the key role of PR professionals in advancing DE&I initiatives and advocating for diverse representation within their organizations and beyond.
Bringing people along for the DE&I journey
Leela Stake, FleishmanHillard’s svp and senior partner, True MOSAIC global practice co-lead, will join Rochelle Ford, dean of the School of Communications and professor of strategic communications at Elon University; Rich Ferraro, CCO at GLAAD and Gideon Fidelzeid, managing editor at PRWeek. Together they will explore how to drive tangible change within organizations and provide best practices for making every employee feel included as companies pursue their DE&I journey.
The Future is Now
FleishmanHillard’s Adiya Mobley, svp and partner, True MOSAIC co-lead; Caleb Dawkins, junior art director, and Natalie Schmickley, Alfred Fleishman Diversity Fellow, will be joined by Daisy Jimenez, assistant manager, diversity, equity & inclusion comms at General Motors (client), to discuss how companies can strive to become reflective of today’s diverse world and how the younger generations are influencing brands to increase their DE&I efforts.
Fireside chat: Staying the Course
FleishmanHillard’s J.J. Carter, global COO; president, Americas, will moderate this conversation with Lizanne Vaughan, interim chief HR officer at Getty Images and Keyla Cabret-Lewis, director of diversity, equity and inclusion at Aflac. Together, they will discuss how organizations can continue their DE&I efforts in to the future and the responsibility of PR leaders in advancing these efforts.
Need to Strengthen Consensus on Food Systems Highlighted During UN Food Systems Summit Pre-summit
August 3, 2021
By Judith Rowland
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After almost two years of preparations, the United Nations Food Systems Summit is finally on the horizon. A reincarnation of the FAO’s World Food Summit, the UN Food Systems Summit is set to kick off in September with discussions about how to transform global agriculture and food systems to be more sustainable, productive and restorative to the planet. The Pre-summit wrapped last week, giving us a taste of what’s to come.
After three days of negotiations, it couldn’t be more clear: to make a real impact on global food systems, we’ll need an inclusive approach that fosters cooperation and action from all stakeholders — from the biggest multinational companies to young indigenous farmers in all parts of the world.
Key highlights included:
Youth Engagement Reached an All-Time High, Though Moving Beyond Tokenism is Vital
The old saying goes, “youth are the hope of our future.” This sentiment could not have been more evident at the Pre-summit. Next generation voices were prominently featured at Pre-summit sessions. Plainly and simply, these young advocates laid out their ideas and priorities for how we can build better, more sustainable global food systems.
One point they made clear is that youth engagement needs to go beyond simply elevating youth voices. Genuine youth involvement in decision making is a must, and organizations seeking to influence policy shouldn’t engage youth organizations merely to pay lip service and score points with younger demographics. Transformative food policies affect youth the most; after all, they are the ones who will experience the consequences of the policies we implement today.
Almost half of South Asia’s population is below the age of 24, and close to 60% of Africa’s population is under the age of 25. Excluding youth from policy making is not only a disservice to young people, but it’s detrimental to regional and global economies. Huge opportunities exist to connect the many youth-led grassroots organizations throughout the world to the decision-making table. While youth may not always say what we want to hear, it’s clear that it’s past time to give them a seat at the table. Anything less could lead to long-term communications challenges for your brand.
Inclusion is a Top Priority
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres declared the Pre-summit a “People’s Summit,” convening farmers, climate activists, researchers, nutritionists, leaders from indigenous groups, ministers and other stakeholders from around the world.
However, despite the inclusion efforts, the event was not without controversy. A movement to protest the Food Systems Summit gained traction in the lead up to the Pre-summit, as groups expressed opposition to allowing private sector voices to play a role in Summit negotiations. Activists streamed a counter-summit in parallel, with hundreds of groups and individuals in attendance and thousands of protest tweets attempting to hijack the online discourse or detract from the official negotiations.
The resources and innovations of corporations attending the Food Systems Summit can play a massive role in addressing urgent issues including climate change, sustainable production, biodiversity and environmental restoration. Excluding the private sector from key global forums would mean excluding potential solutions to problems that affect hundreds of millions of people today, and billions tomorrow. The perineal communications challenge facing the private sector around events like the Food Systems Summit is to demonstrate that their objectives can be synergetic with the goals of other stakeholder groups. Highlighting areas of commonality should be a priority for corporations seeking to engage around moments like the Food Systems Summit.
There Are No Easy Solutions to the Crises Facing Food Systems
There’s a lot on the Food Systems Summit agenda: food security, malnutrition, biodiversity loss, sustainable development, restorative agriculture and more.
These issues must be met with a timely, coordinated response from the coalitions of food systems stakeholders formed at the Pre-summit. Each day of inaction is a day that someone goes hungry, a day someone loses their harvest to floods or drought, a day our soils erode or deplete, or a day a species risks becoming endangered. There is no time for inaction. Brokering collaboration between different stakeholder groups must remain a priority as we look ahead to the Food Systems Summit in September and beyond. To generate meaningful impact at the summit, private sector groups should focus the next two months on growing the coalitions formed at the Pre-summit and working across industries with an eye toward inclusion.
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Director, Rima Sacre has been announced as a judge at this year’s Third Sector Awards, recognising the achievements of charities, individuals and voluntary organisations doing essential work throughout the pandemic. Winners will be announced during a ceremony at new London hotel, The Londoner, Leicester Square on Friday 17th September.
Reassessing Sustainability in the Hyper-Connected, Peri-COVID World
July 7, 2021
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Among many lessons COVID-19 has taught us is how we define ‘global’ as a market, a planet and most importantly, a community. For over a year now, many countries have been staying ‘socially distanced’ while being tested to overcome new kinds of hurdles and challenges on their own. Yet, the call for world leaders and businesses to come together as an international society to address social, environmental, financial and healthcare issues has finally gotten the attention it deserves.
Convening the Thought Leaders
In this context, FleishmanHillard Korea saw the need to support some of the world’s most prestigious think tanks and institutions as they worked to better communicate their mission and vision to foster global collaboration and support the United Nations’ 2030 Goals for Sustainable Development (UN SDGs). As part of our FH4Inclusion pro-bono and volunteer initiative, FleishmanHillard Korea sponsored the third annual Global Engagement & Empowerment Forum on Sustainable Development (GEEF). The event was co-hosted by Yonsei University and its Institute for Global Engagement & Empowerment (IGEE), as well as the Ban Ki-moon Foundation for a Better Future and the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens (which is led by the eighth Secretary-General of the UN himself).
The Feb. 4-5, 2021 virtual event was live streamed on YouTube and focused on the theme of “3Ps Beyond Security: Peace, Prosperity, and Partnership,” reimagining global partnership in the post-COVID-19 era and the path forward to accelerate the achievement of the UN SDGs.
More than 60 international leaders and influencers led or participated in sessions that reached 3,500 viewers worldwide. Former South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha, 12th President of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim and Deputy Secretary-General of the UN Amina J. Mohammed discussed reshaping the global order and building partnerships to overcome the COVID-19 crisis.
The seventh Director-General of WHO Margaret Chan, Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Foreign Minister of Bangladesh A.K. Abdul Momen and others offered insights on multilateral cooperation. In featured sessions, panel speakers discussed the progress and prospects of SDGs across the areas of higher education, healthcare, technology and more.
FleishmanHillard Korea sponsored the Global Engagement & Empowerment Forum on Sustainable Development hosted by Yonsei University.
Addressing the Forgotten
A highlight of the forum was the conversation between Secretary-General and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Special Envoy Angelina Jolie, who passionately advocated for the global community to lend a helping hand to address the needs of the world’s refugees, children and women who have often been marginalized in the response to the pandemic.
In the session titled “Leaving No One Behind in a Post-Pandemic World,” Jolie urged businesses and organizations to not only help but invest in populations who are frequently left behind. “The strength of being so strong in value, in humanity, and helping to reach out and balance and work with the peoples of the world, is the strongest way forward. […] There is no better investment. Yes, it is the humane thing to do. It is also smart thing to do,” said Jolie.
Ban Ki-Moon, the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations, and Angelina Jolie, an UN High Commissioner for Refugees Special Envoy, hosted a special conversation titled “Leaving No One Behind in a Post-Pandemic World.”
Shedding a Light on Inclusiveness
FleishmanHillard in Korea’s support for the Forum is an extension of the team’s collaborative relationship with a network of thought leaders and think tanks in the country, the APAC region and beyond.
Yvonne Park, president and senior partner of FleishmanHillard Korea, is a true believer in learning from the lessons that are borne out of challenging times. “The global pandemic has given us another chance to reflect on what sustainable development requires. We have an important opportunity to be truly inclusive and reconvene as the citizens of the world, wherever we are. Under the agency-wide commitment to FH4Inclusion we stay 75 years young in making a difference and being a positive influence in Korea and beyond.”
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