The S in ESG matters: Here’s why!

Register for webinar
With

Dr. Romeo Effs

CEO - Lumorus Plc.
8th of May 2024 at 13:00 (GMT+1)
Via Zoom
Free

About

This Webinar

As global attention intensifies around corporate social responsibility, mastering the Social dimensions, the ‘S’ of ESG, is not just beneficial—it’s essential.

Join us for this webinar, tailored for visionary leaders, to learn and leave with a strategic toolkit to champion the impact and innovation arising from a social strategy.

We’ll explore the challenges, opportunities, and strategic practices to comply with emerging regulations and drive meaningful societal change and business benefits.

The key takeaways from this webinar will be:

  • Understanding how employee welfare, diversity, community engagement and supply chain form the backbone of responsible business practices.
  • Seeing how real-world organisations have enhanced their operations, reputational strength and stakeholder trust.
  • Being able to identify and navigate common challenges that organisations face when addressing the Social criteria.
  • Having actionable strategies you can immediately implement within your governance framework and the wider organisation.
This Speaker

Romeo is a former C-Suite Executive, and is the Founder and CEO of Lumorus Plc., a social impact consultancy, working with global companies in Corporate Governance, Company Secretary, and ESG/Sustainability. He is also the Co-Founder & Chairman of Naseberry Capital and is a regular international speaker in a range of business, governance, sustainability, culture & leadership-related topics, and has spoken extensively across the UK, the USA, numerous African countries and all over the Caribbean.

Romeo’s experience includes being a chief executive, non-executive director, including chairman, management consultant, and board advisor in both public and private sector enterprises. Romeo’s strategic as well as practical capabilities include large-scale organisational change projects, public/private collaborations, corporate governance, company secretary, financial regulations, ESG/Sustainability and diversity competency development at both national industry and individual enterprise levels. He has broad exprience and publications in leadership, business and performance improvement, and as author of two number 1 selling books and guest-features in publications across governance, ESG, supply chain sustainability, diversity and inclusion, social impact, leadership, business and performance. He is also a Hollywood Producer and Philanthropist.

Romeo’s corporate experience as senior executive levels comes from working with global business such as Accenture, MITIE Group PLC, Rosslyn Analytics, Aspyre Group PLC, Air Jamaica/British Airways to name a few. He has also worked with numerous Prime Ministers, Members of Parliament and Senators throughout the Caribbean as there parliamentary secretaries, political strategist, speech writer, rain maker and campaign director, and has set up and Chaired numerous Government Policy Committees, Advisory Boards, Think Tanks and has been privileged to attend Cabinet meetings occasionally.

His Corporate Governance and ESG experience come from working and delivering this role in Asypre Group PLC; Ethos Holdings; MGE Group; Jamaica Film & Entertainment Commission; Pay Compliance (HK); National Development Policy Advisory Group; Crown Agents Bank; Tropical Airlines; Glassmore RK; BMAC Foods Ltd; Platinum Group; Change Capital (USA), Inigo Insurance and Capita Pension Solutions. Many of these clients were regulated by the PRA and FCA and so he has a good working knowledge of these regulations. He has worked with several other clients in the financial services area on regulatory compliance issues and governance related issues.

Personally, Romeo has been an advocate for social justice and social change for years. He is the founder of IBRIE Foundation which works to develop leaders amongst young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in developing countries and he runs a global mentoring circle for young people. He has championed the drive for sustainability, equity and inclusion in corporate helping to develop guidelines for the ethnicity pay gap and dismantling other structural discrimination in all areas of protected characteristics. He has been involved in HIV/AIDs fight for several years, including being a part of the development of the first HIV Hospice in Jamaica.

He is former Chair – Ethos Holdings, Aspyre Corporation Plc, and Naseberry Capital (current), also NED at AnyData and Platinum Solution. His current trusteeships includes Youth Business International (a former King Charles Charity) supporting youth entrepreneurship across the world, Chair of the national HIV charity Wandsworth Oasis, Deputy Chair Dennis Brian Initiative a New York based global charity supporting young men who have suffered sexual abuse, Trustee/Treasurer of BlkOut a U.K. based Organisation advocating for and support Black LGBTQ+ men, Deputy Chair Black British Classical Foundation, Executive Board Member – Cass Business School Global Woman‘s Leadership Programme and Board Members of City Launch Labs and The YFYA Initiative.

Romeo has done extensive research in the Corporate Governance, Responsible Business and ESG and was awarded a PHD for his work in 2022. He holds numerous other academic qualifications and professional certifications in Corporate Governance, Risk & Compliance, Quality, Lean, Six Sigma international business including a dual Master’s in Finance & Trade and Supply Chain Operations from Cass Business School (UK). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Entrepreneurship & Enterprise, member of Corporate Governance Institute, The International Association of Corporate Governance Practitioners, The Chartered Governance Institute UK&I and is a former lecturer in Cass Business School and the Business Schools London South Bank University.

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