Climate crisis – is your board ready?

Overview

Navigating climate related crises is part and parcel of company directors’ legal and moral duty to exercise reasonable care. Boards need to consider the implications of potential climate crises on business strategies and decision-making. There will be a need to engage more closely with the CEO and management team during a climate related crisis to manage key relationships and strengthen the crisis communications effort.

To prepare for this challenge, Chapter Zero NZ and the Institute of Directors are hosting a hands-on session with Jane Sweeney, a renowned New Zealand public relations expert. Gain valuable insights into the reputational risks of a climate crisis, explore the board's pivotal role in crisis communications and learn from real-life case studies. Receive guidance on evaluating your board's readiness and learn how to manage an effective climate crisis response.

This event is being hosted in partnership with Anthem, Official Communications Partner of Chapter Zero NZ. 

Jane Sweeney

MInstD

One of the PR industry’s most experienced and respected professionals, Jane founded Anthem with Carolyn Kerr in 2014. Jane has run agencies in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, including a top-ten marcomms agency in London, and served as trade commissioner for NZTE in Paris.

Named “the doyenne of the small cadre of PR women with serious clout” (NZ Listener Influentials issue), Jane started her career in consumer and marketing communications and is skilled at strategic reputation management, assisting directors and company senior executives plan their stakeholder engagement, integrated communications and corporate affairs management. Her passion is curating agile teams that achieve stellar outcomes for clients.

Jane has significant expertise assisting clients across a range of sectors, including technology, education, property and infrastructure, healthcare, professional services, transport and tourism, energy and utilities, not-for-profit, export, insurance, agribusiness, media and wine.  Jane has also worked with scale up businesses and public sector organisations such as central and local government agencies and universities.

An advocate for the business benefits of diversity in leadership, Jane has held several board positions and is a PRINZ Fellow. She is a breast cancer survivor who champions regular mammograms as a means of early detection.

The Institute of Directors New Zealand (IoD) launched Chapter Zero New Zealand in March 2022. It is the home for climate change governance at the IoD and aims to support directors to meet their fiduciary duties by supporting them with the skills, tools, processes and information they need to act and guide their companies through the challenges of climate change. For more information and to be kept up to date with the latest events, webinars and resources sign up here.

Additional information

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Contact

Jill Dawson
Wellington Branch Manager

+64 27 278 8814
+64 4 470 2673
jill.dawson@iod.org.nz

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