EP20 Engagement That Matters: Beyond the Consultation Checkbox with Paul Lawrence
The No Nonsense Sustainability Podcast by Ildiko Almasi Simsic
Episode notes
Is it really "meaningful engagement" if you don’t even know who your stakeholders actually are? In this episode of The No Nonsense Sustainability Podcast, Ildiko Almasi Simsic sits down with international expert Paul Lawrence to strip away the corporate jargon surrounding stakeholder relations.
Paul brings decades of experience working in remote villages and project-affected communities - far removed from the comfort of boardrooms and report writing. Together, they discuss why stakeholder engagement is one of the most misunderstood concepts in sustainability today and why "consultation" is so often reduced to a meaningless checkbox.
In this episode, we cover:
- The Identification Crisis: Why you can't have a strategy if you haven’t properly identified who is actually impacted. ...
Keywords
ESGsustainabilitysocial impactstakeholder engagement communitycommunity engagementE&Saccountability