BEN meeting: Gifts and Hospitality
Our final BEN meeting for the year will be on Gifts and Hospitality.
Many organisations keep their gifts and hospitality policies under review as circumstances and expectations change. A common challenge is ensuring that these policies are well-understood and consistently followed. Suzy Reid from National Grid will share her experience with developing the National Grid G&H policy.
From the IBE, we will be looking into the key findings regarding AI from our recent Ethics at Work 24 survey.
During this meeting, we will:
- Hear supporter insights
- Discuss best practices and challenges
- Share experiences in a group setting.
Please let us know if you're interested in sharing your insights on gifts and hospitality policies.
What are Business Ethics Network (BEN) meetings?
What are BEN meetings?
Our network meetings, which happen regularly throughout the year, are the pillars around which the community is built. These invitation-only events are usually focused on a specific topic and are led by a member or members of the network who candidly share their experience and pose probing questions for group discussion.
All network meetings are hosted and facilitated under the Chatham House Rule by the IBE.
Who are BEN meetings for?
These meetings are both practitioner-led and practitioner-focused, with invitations only extended to those responsible for the ethics and compliance programme in their organisation (which must have more than 250 employees). Invitees are, however, free to recommend alternates / subject-matter experts from their organisation to attend either with them, or in their place. Registrations are limited to 2 participants per organisation per meeting.
Why attend a BEN meeting?
Network meetings are a unique opportunity to join the conversation to discuss the challenges, issues and successes of embedding ethical values within your organisation, with your peers.
Who do I contact about a BEN meeting?
Please contact [email protected] with any queries including BEN meeting registration, access or other queries.
Speakers
Deputy CEO, Institute of Business Ethics
Rachael is Deputy Director of the Institute and is responsible for our research programme, and our advisory and training services. She is most interested in how research can generate insights that inspire action.
Rachael has collaborated with senior leaders across business, charities, communities, local and central government. After gaining her first degree in Politics and History from the University of Durham, and a Masters in Gender and Social Policy from the London School of Economics, Rachael worked in Westminster, then for Carers UK, for UNISON, the public sector trade union, and for the TUC, on skills policy. She was at Business in the Community for over ten years, as an expert in workplace diversity and then in education business partnerships. As a Director at BITC, she worked closely with the Department for Work and Pensions, the then Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and business leaders from Aviva, Barclays, Nationwide, UBS, McKinsey and many more. Her most recent role was on the SLT of Speakers for Schools as it scaled its delivery of opportunities for young people.
She has held a number of trustee roles including on the board of the Rich Mix Cultural Foundation, the Bromley by Bow Centre and East End Homes. She is currently chair of a charity called Sister System. She was an elected local councillor for ten years and served as leader of the Labour Group on Tower Hamlets Council. In 2019 Rachael gained an MSc from Birkbeck, University of London, in Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, with a dissertation focussed on how boards communicate their community engagement.
Event guide
This forum is reserved for our Business Ethics Network members only.
To register for the forum you will need to login. If you have not activated your online profile please request to set your password - you will then receive a link to do so via email. Once you have set your password you will be able to login and register for the meeting.
If you don't have a profile but think you fit the forum criteria please email [email protected].
What happens next...
Once you have booked your place you will receive a confirmation and the link will follow around two days before the meeting.
To encourage frank discussion amongst participants and the open sharing of ideas and experiences, this meeting will take place under the Chatham House Rule.
This means that participants are free to use the information received but neither the identity nor affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.