Lucy Parker, co-author of ‘The Activist Leader’ and ‘Everybody’s Business’, discusses the mindset and role big businesses need to adopt to in tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges.

About the speaker:

Lucy Parker founded and co-leads Brunswick’s Business & Society practice, based on the proposition that businesses today need to deliver financial and social value in tandem. She is co-author with Jon Miller of ‘The Activist Leader: a new mindset for doing business’ and ‘Everybody’s Business: the Unlikely Story of how Big Business Can Fix the World’. She has worked with global companies, and across sectors, help them shape and deliver their social value strategies and chaired UK Prime Minister’s Taskforce for Talent and Enterprise for Gordon Brown. She began her career as a BBC documentary maker.