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The 2019 Palladium Positive Impact Summit brought together executives, governments, investors, and NGOs to share practical tools and approaches to addressing some of the world’s biggest challenges, sustainably and profitably.

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PALLADIUM POSITIVE IMPACT SUMMIT

The Palladium Positive Impact Summit brought together executives, governments, investors, and NGOs to share practical tools and approaches to addressing some of the world’s biggest challenges, sustainably and profitably.

Organisations of all types are faced with many of the same, global challenges, and we can no longer afford to ignore the role we play in a complex economic, social, and technological ecosystem. From supply chains to workforce development, businesses need bold thinking, partnerships, access to finance, and governance models to drive sustainable growth. Meanwhile, the achievement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals is dependent on private capital, while investors are looking increasingly for opportunities that deliver both social and financial returns.

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Shamina Singh

President, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

Raj Kumar

President & Editor-in-Chief, Devex

Juan Gonzalez Valero

Head Sustainable & Responsible Business, Syngenta

Christina Cassotis

CEO, Allegheny County Airport Authority

Robert S. Kaplan

Senior Fellow, Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus, Harvard Business School

George Serafeim

Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
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What do past summit delegates say?

  • “This event brings together people from many different countries and many different sectors to see how working together can create benefits that are well beyond what any one of them could achieve working on their own. Here we have corporate leaders, government and policy leaders, and NGOs seeing how to break down lines across these various sectors to create new inclusive growth ecosystems in which everybody’s a winner.”
    Dr. Robert S. Kaplan , Senior Fellow, Harvard Business School
  • Events like this are important because they allow people to learn. I’ve learned a lot of new things here today; ideas, sparks that I may not have thought of before that connect to something else I’ve been thinking about. But most importantly it’s the people. Making sure that you’re spending time with people who are in this space from all different sectors and all parts of the world – that’s really been helpful to me.
    Shamina Singh , President, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth
  • What I think is so amazing about this event is the diversity of people in the room. As much as I love the onstage conversations and curated panels, what’s really invigorating is seeing what happens at the networking breaks and during the lunches when people really have an opportunity to connect and share best practices.
    Stephanie Mehta , Editor-in-Chief, Fast Company
  • It’s really great. It’s down to the point. What kind of impact do we leave? It’s about what role we want to play in society. All of us come to agreement in saying if we don’t run businesses with a purpose we will not have sustainable long term business success.
    Dirk Voeste, Vice President of Sustainability, BASF
  • I think what’s been great about today has been building a common vision of what we mean by Positive Impact and seeing multiple actors from different sectors finally coming on to the same page.
    Clare Woodcraft-Scott, CEO Emirates Foundation
  • The generation of Positive (Societal) Impact is a moral imperative for any corporation as much as it is a business imperative. I hope events like this facilitate the spreading of this understanding, and I hope that action follows awareness.
    Jochen Rother , Head of Strategy and Performance Management, Bayer AG
  • The big idea we have and that we’re articulating here is that creating Positive Impact often requires creating new ecosystems on the ground. It’s not a simple strategy. We have to create new linkages between people and suppliers, local communities and companies.
    Dr Robert Kaplan , Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus, Harvard Business School
  • This is powerful stuff and you have a great combination of experience and skills in the social sector and in business. It’s bringing these skills together that enables Positive Impact to happen. There are very few organisations in the world that bring together both.
    Mark Kramer, Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School
  • Inspirational theme! The Summit brought together an open minded, interested international group of leaders from different backgrounds, willing to set the bar high! Let's do it!
    Simone Filippini, Executive Director, NIMD – Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy

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