“Right now, every business in the world is facing a perfect storm of challenges, an increasing list of threats to global economic sustainability that is threatening the future survival and prosperity of organisations; yet only a few are taking action.” IEMA – Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment
Advisory Panel
Anna Frizzell - RNLI
Anna joined the RNLI in April 2013 as Sustainability Manager.
Anna has a BSc Hons Degree in Environmental Protection and is an Associate member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (AIEMA). Before joining the RNLI Anna worked for 15 years as an EU funded environmental / sustainability advisor working with businesses who employ less than 250 people.
Anna is part of the RNLI Corporate Strategy team and her role is to help the RNLI develop and deliver a robust sustainability strategy and subsequent plans and actions to contribute to the organisations on-going ability to prevent loss of life at sea.
Anna is also on the steering group of the Wessex Waste Minimisation Group SWWMG
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Gwyn Jones - Director Association of Sustainability Practitioners
My early career saw me living in The Netherlands, Hong Kong and Switzerland creating running IT Professional Services organisations across Europe, Middle East, Far East and Africa. On returning to the UK in 2007 I turned my attentions and energies to a very different purpose, one that unifies all aspects of my life, focusing on the impact and legacy I want to create for future generations. This involves transformational change at organisational and personal levels for people as citizens, members of communities, and leaders in organisations of all sizes, both public and private sector.
Sustainable Organisations. I’ve been instrumental in the creation of several organisations focused on different aspects of sustainability that includes GACSO (Global Association of Corporate Sustainability Officers) and ASP (Association of Sustainability Practitioners).
Recently I lead the recruitment of a Chair and various Board positions for Riversimple, a high-tech SME as it moves from research and development to full-production as a totally sustainable organisation. The focus was on creating a balanced team who share Riversimple’s founding principles and purpose.
Sustainable Communities. For the past few years I have been supporting a behaviour change technology company to provide their systems to various Local Authorities and NHS Trusts for health and wellbeing and sustainable transport initiatives. We are supporting communities across the UK, to increase the overall health and wellbeing of the community and the residents.
Chair of the Resilient Dorset collaboration a group of senior representatives from local authorities, NGO’s, companies and other organisations to facilitate, plan, support and/or implement projects of benefit to the communities in Dorset. Our aim is to develop and roll-out processes that allow organisations and project managers to become aware of the dependencies their projects have on the natural environment, local community/society and the local economy. And then to identify the impacts their projects/activities will have upon these so that they/we can make smarter choices that lead to us nurturing those “assets” that they are dependent upon and making these projects both more valuable and valued. Sustainability in a really practical way that starts from where we are today.
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Jannette Tams - Circular Economy
Study leader for The Big Green Event as we learn about the Circular Economy at Bournemouth University. The study is focussed on Ken Webster’s book The Circular Economy A Wealth of Flows. The Group draws from his work that shows the big picture, co-creating relationships in how to “accelerate the transition to a Circular Economy” through Systems Thinking – Nature as Model, Mentor and Measure. Ken Webster, author, will join us in our final session.
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Anita Potten - Communications Consultants
Anita has extensive experience in the field of telecommunications, sales and project management for both private businesses and public sector such as the NHS. Pulling on her knowledge, Anita assesses the requirements of the customer and matches their needs to the expertise needed to get the job done. Adopting good telecommunications technologies reduces the need for face to face interaction, therefore reducing the carbon footprint of an organisation. Anita is also a Director of the CIC Green PEA in conjunction with Borough of Poole and Poole Chamber.
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Lynda Daniels - Green Business Connections / Green Business Dorset
Lynda has more than twenty years experience in journalism and marketing communications, working for many of the leading organisations in the fields of electronics manufacture, medical device, automotive technology and later in renewable energy. Today Lynda specialises in working with businesses in the green sector.
As a global roving reporter, and PR specialist, Lynda spent twenty years interviewing, reporting and writing for the world’s media on behalf of leading B2B publications, as well as for SMEs through to FTSE100 companies. Her work has been published in 19 different countries and translated into 15 languages.
Green Sector: Lynda spent four years in the renewable energy sector. She has been Vice-Chair of the B2B Green Knowledge Network for four years/Director of the Positive Environmental Action Scheme (Green PEA)/and in 2015 was asked to join as one of the Steering Committee for the South Wessex Waste Minimisation Group (SWWMG)/Steering Committee for the Energy & Environmental Management Group (EEMG and Panelist for the Sustainable Business Leadership Group.
Lynda is a facilitator, connecting green suppliers with businesses with a need, sharing information, organising training and events.
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John Hutton MSc - Head of Sustainability at BAM Nuttall
BAM Nuttall is one of the 5th largest construction companies in Europe and part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Circular Economy. In fact, the organisation become the first construction enterprise in the UK to join the Ellen MacArthur Circular Economy 100 (CE100). The platform is international and has already signed up names such as Philips, Unilever, Renault, M&S and Coca Cola among others. Royal BAM Group has already joined the CE100.
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Daniel Carey - Business and Management Wessex and Chartered Marketing Institute
Daniel is part of the not-for-profit Business and Management Wessex. This is a subscription funded network of members who drive professional management development, business improvement and customer engagement. The organisation supports and promotes best practice, training, development and improvement to businesses and managers in Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire. Members also provide each other with information, advice, guidance and support via member-2-member social media, an online community, and face to face networking.
Daniel has also been instrumental in the corporate look and design of the event.
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Martin MacMahon - Business and Management Wessex
Martin is part of the not-for-profit Business and Management Wessex.
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