🎙️ Sustainability Leads
“Equality around the boardroom table is not charity — it’s essential for diversified thinking.”
Dr. Leila Fourie reflects on why diversity of thought is essential for resilient organisations, effective leadership, and long-term growth.
Watch the full conversation on YouTube.
🤝 Gender equality isn’t just good for society – it’s good for business.
In collaboration with UN Women, our Target Gender Equality Accelerator offers a structured approach to examine gender equality, helping businesses unlock both potential and profitability.
Participation in the programme will give your company the chance to assess gaps using the WEPs tool and develop an actionable plan that drives gender equality across your business and beyond
🔗 Join today: link in bio.
The Youth, Sustainability and Innovation Member-Driven Committee successfully hosted its first in-person Think Tank Session, bringing together leading organisations committed to advancing youth-focused sustainability and innovation in South Africa.
Hosted by Tsebo Solutions Group, the session provided a valuable platform to strengthen collaboration, align on strategic priorities, and unlock new opportunities for impact.
Discussions focused on expanding the impact of youth-led sustainability and innovation initiatives beyond corporate spaces, while also exploring key opportunities around the upcoming Youth Sustainability and Innovation Conference, partnership mobilisation, programme growth, and ecosystem building.
This inaugural Think Tank marks a pivotal step in fostering a collaborative network that connects business, innovation, and youth leadership to accelerate meaningful and scalable change.
#YouthDevelopment #Sustainability #Innovation #Collaboration
🎙️ Sustainability Leads
Great leadership begins with recognising the dignity, potential, and possibility in others — and creating spaces where people can thrive.
Dr. Leila Fourie reflects on the responsibility leaders carry to uplift and empower those around them.
Watch the full conversation on YouTube.
Financial institutions are increasingly shaping how EU sustainability regulation is applied across the real economy.
Join the second session of our 2026 Academy EU Sustainability Navigator Webinar Series, Finance and EU Sustainability: Mobilizing Capital for Impact, to explore how financial institutions are integrating regulatory expectations into decisions on capital, risk and engagement.
Gain insight into how sustainability disclosures and due diligence are influencing financial decision-making and what this means for companies.
🗓️ 20 May 2026 | ⏰ 3 p.m. CET / 9 a.m. ET
🔗 Register now: link in bio.
#eusustainability #euregulations #corporatesustainability #businessleadership #sustainablebusiness
🎙️ Sustainability Leads
“Behind every number is trust, and trust is created through human interaction.”
A powerful reflection from Dr. Leila Fourie on leadership, humanity, and the role trust plays in building resilient businesses and economies.
Watch the full conversation on YouTube: link in bio.
📢 Despite historic efforts to prioritize women’s rights, the world is still not on track to achieve gender equality by 2030.
In collaboration with UN Women, our Target Gender Equality Accelerator addresses gaps in corporate gender strategy, helping businesses align their gender equality goals with best practices and international standards.
Whether you’re just beginning your gender equality journey or aiming to scale your efforts, the Target Gender Equality Accelerator offers the resources and support to help your company thrive as a leader in gender equality.
🔗 Join today: link in bio.
We have officially wrapped up Camp 3 of the SDG Innovation Accelerator for Young Professionals.
Thank you to @redefine_properties Properties for sponsoring our third camp and for their continued support in helping create a space where young innovators can collaborate, challenge ideas, and develop solutions that contribute to a more sustainable future.
As the programme continues, we look forward to seeing how these innovations grow and translate into meaningful impact.
#SDGInnovation #YoungProfessionals #InnovationForImpact #Sustainability
Day 2 of the SDG Innovation Camp focused on Concept Validation & Selection, as teams continued refining their ideas through the Solutions Lab process. Participants explored how to objectively assess their concepts, identify what works best, and determine which solutions are ready to move forward into further development.
The session also featured insights from 2024 alumni, Liza Caisutti, from SE Holdings, who shared the journey behind DIGI30 — an innovation developed through the programme to better support and profile small-scale farmers through a fully digitalised platform. Her story highlighted how ideas nurtured through the SDG Innovation Accelerator can grow into impactful, scalable solutions with real-world support and funding.
As the journey continues, innovators are not only strengthening their concepts, but also building solutions with the potential to create meaningful and lasting impact.
#SDGInnovation #InnovationForImpact #SDGs #Sustainability
Today, innovators took part in the Solutions Lab
Participants were introduced to a practical “toolbox” for solution concept development, exploring a range of design thinking ideation tools and methodologies and how these can be applied to real-world SDG business challenges.
Working collaboratively, innovator teams then moved into refining and assessing their ideas, learning how to objectively evaluate concepts and select the most promising solutions to take forward for further development culminating in hands-on prototyping, where teams tested and iterated their strongest ideas using rapid pretotype methods from the lab, strengthening their solutions through practical application and feedback.
As the final camp before the programme finale, this session marks a key milestone in the journey, as teams prepare to refine and present their final solutions.
Geopolitical tensions, rising fuel prices and global shipping disruptions are creating a more uncertain and costly operating environment for business.
At the UN Global Compact Network South Africa 2026 Annual General Meeting, Board Chairperson Mpumi Madisa emphasised that sustainability is no longer separate from business resilience — it is central to it.
Companies investing in energy diversification, efficiency and alternative technologies are proving better equipped to navigate disruption, strengthen resilience and plan for long-term competitiveness.
Read more about the key insights and priorities shaping the future of responsible business in South Africa on our website: link in bio.
#BusinessResilience #Sustainability #ESG #EnergyTransition #SupplyChains #Leadership #CorporateSustainability #SouthAfrica #UNGlobalCompact
Today’s SDGI Camp kicked off with an exciting welcome from our sponsor, delivered by Tumeleng Maile from @redefine_properties , alongside an inspiring reflection from SDGI alumnus Njabulo Nenjelele, whose innovation-focused address highlighted the importance of taking small businesses to the next level.
The session also featured a powerful showcase of impact stories, demonstrating how innovation is translating into real business growth. Lungile Vundla, founder of Rabbit Gang, shared how his clothing label has scaled through Redefine Properties’ solution aimed at activating empty mall spaces by supporting local and emerging businesses.
This initiative addresses the challenge of vacant retail spaces while uplifting small businesses across South Africa.
The camp is centred on the Solutions Development Innovation Camp, a two-day programme where innovators work together in their respective groups to refine and finalise their innovations and solutions.
We look forward to the impactful ideas and collaborations as we move closer to the final.
