The pandemic could be a harbinger of even greater challenges ahead. We’ll explore with Rebecca Henderson, Sir Oliver Letwin and Rita Chadha how we can build resilience through business, government and civil society by addressing our underlying risks and vulnerabilities.
How can we build prosperity while faced with disaster? With the cumulative challenge of the pandemic, the recovery, climate change, eco-system collapse, and the potential for widespread technological disruption, how can we ensure a government that works, a civil society that flourishes and a private sector that unlocks greater resilience?
Join a conversation with three leaders from across these sectors who dare to think the unthinkable:
As a leading professor at Harvard Business School, Rebecca Henderson knows that capitalism is the greatest source of prosperity the world has ever seen. But it is on the verge of destroying the planet and shaking the foundations of society. In her book Reimagining Capitalism Rebecca provides motive and opportunity for businesses to save the world. Rebecca is one of 25 University Professors at Harvard, is a Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Fellow of both the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has been named a ‘Director of the Year’ by the Financial Times.
The Rt Hon Sir Oliver Letwin was Minister for Government Policy in the Cabinet Office from 2010 to 2016 and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 2014 to 2016. During his time in government, he also chaired the Home Affairs Committee and a range of other cabinet committees, acted as Minister for National Resilience, and was a member of the National Security Council. As former Prime Minister David Cameron writes, ‘Oliver Letwin spent more time than any minister in recent history trying to understand, prevent and combat the unexpected disasters that could engulf a modern government’. Oliver is also the author of Apocalypse How?: Technology and the Threat of Disaster.
Rita Chadha is CEO of the Small Charities Coalition, the largest membership organisation in the voluntary sector in the UK and will give her views on how civil society organisations can remain resilient themselves in the face of rising need and diminishing resources while playing a more ambitious role in a new type of society. Prior to joining the Small Charities Coalition, Rita worked for a number of equality-focused charities in London, nationally and internationally. MarketingKind members will be able to work with Rita to support the Small Charities Coalition and advance their mission for civil society in June’s Coffee with a Cause.
Paul Skinner, Founder of MarketingKind, and Arpita Dutt, a MarketingKind member and leading employment, equality and whistleblowing lawyer, will co-host this gathering.