Ep. 242: Isobel O’Connell - A Sustainability Professional’s Perspective on Business and Society

2025-02-25

What can we learn about business and society from a seasoned sustainability practitioner? Plenty! Meet Isobel O'Connell. Isobel has a couple of decades of experience in areas related to the environment, social issues - particularly local community consultation across the globe, human rights and related areas. She's now an advisor, and a board member, and was named one of the top global 50 women in sustainability. In this episode, she shares several insights and perspectives from her broad career in these areas. We get into a variety of stories, the different landscapes and definitions out there for things like ESG and ...

What can we learn about business and society from a seasoned sustainability practitioner?

Plenty!

Meet Isobel O'Connell. Isobel has a couple of decades of experience in areas related to the environment, social issues - particularly local community consultation across the globe, human rights and related areas. She's now an advisor, and a board member, and was named one of the top global 50 women in sustainability.

In this episode, she shares several insights and perspectives from her broad career in these areas. We get into a variety of stories, the different landscapes and definitions out there for things like ESG and corporate social responsibility, how these things have evolved, and how people who work in these areas navigate a variety of complexities and trade-offs when it comes to decision-making.

This conversation provides a fascinating window into how both business and society interact via a career path you perhaps didn’t know existed.

Show notes:

Isobel on LinkedIn

The Juukan Gorge destruction

Double materiality assessment

UN Global Compact

Alison Taylor on The Decision-Making Studio Podcast

OECD Guidelines for citizen participation processes

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