From Reactive to Responsible: A Practical Guide for Building Social Responsibility in Companies

From Reactive to Responsible: A Practical Guide for Building Social Responsibility in Companies

From DEI initiatives to ad hoc philanthropy and social media activism, we’re in an age of emerging organizational empathy.

In this interactive discussion and Q&A, we’ll provide real-life examples and how-tos for both scaleups and corporations to evolve their empathetic impulses into impactful, sustained social responsibility.

Beyond traditional CSR and branding, this session will introduce approaches for integrating social considerations and broadening empathy to the wider benefit of both internal and external stakeholders.

During this session we will explore the following and more:

• • Does is take a crisis to create a systematic and integrated empathy?
  • How can we avoid unintentional discrimination and performative work when adjusting to current social movements and needs?
  • What is the process of ingraining empathy and social responsibility within an organisational structure?

This session will explore the relevance and implications of the social responsibility of a company and provide practical “how to’s” for both early stage startups, scale ups and corporate companies.

Laura Smith is an organizational researcher and human advocate active in the Nordics. 

The former Head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Bolt and founder of VALIDEI, an agency specializing in assessments of organizational DEI and social responsibility, Laura enables scaling organizations to grow their inclusion and impact with relevant insight.