SEC Newgate’s “In Conversation With” series speaks to business leaders making a difference to their companies, colleagues, and communities.

On the latest episode SEC Newgate’s Director of Communications Naomi Kerbel speaks to Viviane Paxinos, CEO of the global women’s network, AllBright.
 
They talk about her passion to make work work for ALL women, the launch of the AllBright Alliance, their first partnership with Chelsea Women FC and what it takes to be a first time CEO.

In Conversation With Series - Episode 10 Viviaine Paxinos, CEO, AllBright

It’s been ten years since the Rana Plaza building collapsed on 24th April 2013 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing over 1,138 and injuring a further 2,500 people who were working there in sweatshops for fast fashion brands. It remains one of the biggest industrial disasters in history. But how much has really changed, despite pledges and action from most of the major fashion brands?
Transparency is the key to change. According to Fashion Revolution’s 2022 Fashion Transparency Index, 73% of brands still do not disclose their approach to achieving living wages for supply chain workers.
This was the background to the second panel at SEC Newgate UK’s panel event last Thursday: (Re)engineering the future of fashion:  Turning the Wheels of Change: Putting the ‘S’ (social) back into fashion. We were joined by Delphine Williot, Fashion Revolution’s policy and campaigns manager, Donald Browne, founder of The-Coded, Gavin Miller, national officer light industries from Community Trade Union and Susanna Wen, CEO/founder of Birdsong.

In Conversation With LIVE - Episode 12 Turning the Wheels of Change

There is a fundamental disconnect between the future of sustainable fashion in Britain and the government’s current policy on international trade. While the UK fashion industry - primarily characterised by premium products and brands - is making best efforts to pivot towards more climate-positive and transparent models of production, our current trade agreements (or rather, lack of them) prohibit wholesale exports to our biggest and nearest market (the EU) and make it more difficult to compete in our home market. 

This was the centre of discussion at our latest sustainable fashion panel event. Listen as expert panellists from Hugo Boss, the UKFT, HeiQ Aeoniq and Making for Change delve into new climate-positive materials, circular production methods and the future
of sustainable fashion production in the UK.

In Conversation With LIVE - Episode 13 - Circularity & new materials in fashion

SEC Newgate’s “In Conversation With” series speaks to business leaders making a difference to their companies, colleagues, and communities.

On the latest episode Director, Communications Naomi Kerbel speaks to Richard Kelly, Managing Director & Co-Lead of Foresight Sustainable Forestry the first and only UK listed investment trust focused on UK forestry, afforestation and natural capital.
 
They talk about the role and importance of forestry in combatting climate change and achieving net-zero targets; debunking myths and misconceptions about forestry, and how local communities benefit from biodiverse forestry projects.

In Conversation With - Episode 14 Richard Kelly, MD and Co-Lead, Foresight Sustainable Forestry

Last year, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Pride, our podcast gave an insight into how our colleagues at SEC Newgate UK mark the occasion and what Pride means to them.
This year, we’ve taken our podcast global. We’ve spent Pride Month talking to our international LGBTQ+ colleagues about life, Pride and progress in the place they call home.
In the first of two episodes, we chat to colleagues in Australia, Belgium, Colombia, Poland and the US about their personal experiences, how they mark Pride and their thoughts on the political and corporate worlds engaging on the topic.

In Conversation With Series: Pride Podcast 2023 Part 1

In this second episode of our Pride Podcast 2023, we gain more insight into the lives of our LGBTQ+ colleagues across the SEC Newgate world. In sometimes frank testimony, they share their thoughts on progress towards equality, discuss the role of the media and name their LGBTQ icons. There’s more than one jaw-dropping moment!
 
While you’re listening, make sure to check out the Equaversity Foundation. Based in Poland, it runs an international fundraising campaign to support LGBTQ communities in Central and Eastern Europe. Ewa, our colleague in Warsaw who speaks so eloquently on this podcast, is a volunteer there and shared with us some great examples of its work.
https://www.equaversity.org/

In Conversation With Series: Pride Podcast 2023 Part 2

SEC Newgate’s “In Conversation With” series speaks to business leaders making a difference to their companies, colleagues, and communities.

In the latest episode Director, Communications Naomi Kerbel speaks to Anthony Chow, Co-Founder at Agronomics, the leading London listed company in the field of cellular agriculture.

The Company has established a portfolio of over 20 companies in this rapidly advancing sector in companies that offer new ways of producing food and materials with a focus on products historically derived from animals. These technologies are driving a major disruption in agriculture, offering solutions to improve sustainability, as well as addressing human health, animal welfare and environmental damage.
 
In this week's podcast, Anthony and Naomi talk about the role of cellular agriculture production in helping achieve net-zero targets and food security challenges, as well as some of the alternative protein companies in the Agronomics portfolio which are using innovative Precision Fermentation processes to produce the meat, dairy and fish products for the future.

In Conversation With Series - Episode 15, Anthony Chow, Co-Founder, Agronomics

If you’re heading to Dubai this week or just want to get a sense of what it’ll be like on the ground, what’s going to be done and who’s going to be there, tune into the COP28 special edition of our In Conversation with…. Podcast.

Our Director, Naomi Kerbel, speaks to our Head of Green & Good, Andrew Adie, about the big themes to look out for, from the Global Stocktake to activism, from fossil fuels to nature. For those attending the Conference in person, there are also some top tips on how to physically navigate COP.

In Conversation With Series - Episode 16, COP28 Special

Professor Laura McAllister is one of the most powerful women in European football. A former international captain and player, she is one of a small number of women who have broken through the glass ceiling to assert women’s place at the top of a male-dominated sport. 

In the latest episode of our 'In Conversation with' series, she talks with Senior Counsel Tim Rogers in an interview to coincide with International Women’s Day, telling him that while there have been great advances in equality for women and recognition of their increasingly popular sport, there is still a lot of work to be done at the highest levels of football administration to balance power and representation.

In Conversation With - International Women's Day Special with Professor Laura McAllister

Row-backs, Roadblocks and Continental Rifts – what’s holding back progress on the Road to Zero?

In our latest “In Conversation With” episode, we celebrate B Corp Month.

Three experts in Green Finance and ESG communications talk about the global ESG backlash, what’s holding back progress on net zero and what’s the way forward?

Our very own Naomi Kerbel is joined by Heather Buchanan (Founder/CEO of B4NZ, Green Finance expert and one of Reuter’s Top 20 Trailblazing Women in Climate), Daffyd Rees (Senior Counsel at SEC Newgate and green finance specialist, formerly head of Bloomberg TV EMEA) and Andrew Adie (Head of SEC Newgate's Green & Good team that advises organisations on articulating their purpose).

In Conversation With - B Corp month special - Row-backs, Roadblocks and Continental Rifts

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In Conversation With Series - Episode 10 Viviaine Paxinos, CEO, AllBright

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