One-off multi-client events
Programmes designed with and for a group of clients, with common needs and desire for shared learning. These programmes often have a specific timing restriction.
The Future of Cities
Recently, ELP hosted a meeting as part of the Future of Cities strategic initiative at the Club of Rome meeting in the Netherlands, 2009. William McDonough (author of Cradle to Cradle) played a central role. The initiative brought together local city officials along with executives from company’s operating within the city to discuss around what and how they could collaborate to build a more sustainable city. The event was successful and lead to participants deciding to meet again to further explore potential collaboration.
Catalyst Workshop for Financial Professionals
Following the financial crisis, a number of financial professionals asked ELP to organize a series of meetings to bring together these professionals to share their learning and identify what they could do together to enable the transformation of the financial sector. We organized three such gatherings in which we facilitated conversations between these professionals, arranged for them to meet and interact with financial professionals that have created companies that are reinventing traditional investment models and created a space for them to personally reflect on and consider the next steps in their life. The events created deeper connections between the participants and also requests for more regular meetings and from some individuals personalized coaching and support as they reconsider their next steps.
EU Minister’s Lunch
The European Climate Foundation commissioned ELP to facilitate a two-hour ministerial lunch in Paris at the start of the French Presidency of the EU (July 2008) where the EU 27’s Ministers of Energy and the Environment were present. These national ministers are the key decision makers on the EU level and the aim of the lunch was to remind them of this and show how industry is ready to move.
The lunch included a speech from Prof. Pachauri (Chairman of IPCC), live C02 counters, sequential pictures of retreating ice-caps and a starter served in ice bowls, resulting in the conversations at the tables moving from the logical reasoning to the emotional engagement to act on climate change at national and EU levels. The custom made video clips of CEOs of major companies in Europe calling for action, the facilitation, and the steamy hot and spicy dessert communicated an urgent call for sustained action to mitigate climate change and think outside the box for new solutions.
The event proved to be a fertile soil for further discussions among EU ministers that ultimately led to the acceptance of EU climate package. ELP has since then been invited to facilitate several ECF Board meetings and provide coaching to their partner organisations committed to tackling climate change.
