Mapping Systems: A Key Step Towards Driving Systems Change
Speakers
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Gary Cohen has been a pioneer in the environmental health movement for more than 35 years. He has helped build coalitions and networks globally to address health impacts related to climate change and toxic chemical exposure. Cohen is co-founder and president of Health Care Without Harm, created in 1996 to help transform the health care sector to be environmentally sustainable and support the health and climate resilience of the communities they serve. Since its inception, the nonprofit has grown to lead and partner in groundbreaking initiatives in more than 72 countries. Cohen was awarded the Champion of Change Award for Climate Change and Public Health by the White House in 2013. In 2015, Cohen received a MacArthur Fellowship and a “Genius Grant” from the MacArthur Foundation. For more about Cohen and his work, view the MacArthur Award video.
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Founder and Executive Chairman, Volans Ventures Ltd
John Elkington is a writer and thinker, a serial-entrepreneur and an ‘advisor from the future’.
John is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development and is credited with coining the ‘triple bottom line’. In 2004, BusinessWeek described John as “a dean of the corporate responsibility movement for three decades”.
John serves on some 30 boards and advisory boards, where a key part of his role is to channel the future into the present across a wide range of disciplines. He is writing his 19th book alongside Jochen Zeitz, former CEO of PUMA and now co-chair, with Sir Richard Branson, of The B Team. The book is provisionally titled The Breakthrough Challenge, exploring ways to institutionalize tomorrow’s bottom
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Principal, Idiagram
Marshall Clemens is Founder of Idiagram, a consulting firm applying systemic analysis and mapping to facilitate understanding, alignment and strategy-making for complex multi-stakeholder problems. In 1996, Marshall’s attention shifted from opto-electronic systems to the engineering of complex socio-technical systems. He now focuses on helping corporations, non-profit organisations and foundations grapple with complex sustainability issues where the alignment of diverse knowledge, people and resources is required to create large-scale system change.
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Senior Director, Stakeholder Mobilization, Nike, Inc.
Sarah Severn is Senior Director of Stakeholder Mobilization in the Sustainable Business and Innovation team at Nike, Inc., focusing on systems level innovation such as the Road to Zero initiative to detox the apparel/footwear supply chain. A 20-year veteran of Nike, she led the early effort to integrate sustainability into the business. Over the years she has led stakeholder engagement on environmental issues, developed the climate change and advocacy strategy, and led the emerging issues, trends and scenario planning body of work.
