Sustainable Futures

Real Strategies for People, Planet, Profit

CQUniversity’s Office of Social Innovation presents Sustainable Futures: Real Strategies for People, Planet, Profit.

This national series of workshops and presentations features Professor Jay Friedlander, Sharpe-McNally Chair of Green and Socially Responsible Business at College of the Atlantic.

An early founder of sustainable business programs in the US, Prof Friedlander created the business design model Abundance Cycle, and is setting the global agenda around sustainable business, entrepreneurship and embedding the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

Join this dynamic changemaker as he guides business and social enterprise to embed impactful sustainability, remove barriers preventing sustainable innovation, transform waste streams and realise latent value within organisations.

Events

Talk with QSEC

Monday 4 November, 2019
5.30 pm – 7.30pm
CQUniversity Brisbane, 160 Ann St, Brisbane, QLD

Workshop with QCOSS

Tuesday 5 November, 2019
10 am – 12.30pm
Souths Leagues Club, Davies Park, 120 Jane St, West End (Brisbane), QLD

Workshop with VLGA

Wednesday 6 November, 2019
10 am – 1 pm
Victorian Local Governance Association, 60 Leicester St, Carlton, VIC

Workshop with Social Traders

Wednesday 6 November, 2019
2 pm - 5 pm
Social Traders, Lower Ground Floor, 333 Exhibition St, Melbourne, VIC

Workshop with Mackay Community

Monday 11 November, 2019
4.30 pm – 7.30 pm
CQUniversity Mackay City, 90-92 Sydney St, Mackay QLD

Unconference Session and Dinner

Friday 8 November, 2019
6 pm – 8 pm
PCYC Capricorn Coast Leadership Development Centre, 170 Matthew Flinders Dr, Yeppoon, QLD

Prof Friedlander’s tour is supported by CQUniversity partners across Australia:

Queensland Council of Social Services
Queensland Social Enterprise Council
Victorian Local Governance Association
Social Traders Australia
SmartHub Rockhampton/Unconference
Greater Whitsunday Alliance
Mackay Regional Council
Regional Development Australia Mackay-Isaac-Whitsunday
Resource Industry Network
Just Gold Digital Agency

CQUniversity is an Ashoka U Changemaker Campus, and is committed to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

To learn more about CQUniversity’s social innovation activities, visit cqu.edu.au/socialinnovation