Webinars
The ELEVATE Leadership Series 2020 – a focus on ESG Impact.
How confident are you in the effectiveness of your responsible sourcing, corporate sustainability or business risk programs? Program effectiveness is more important than ever before as we experience the trade war, reduced growth and continued uncertainty. Gain the competitive edge with the ELEVATE Leadership Series 2020 webinars, events, blog and podcasts.
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Webinar – Disrupting forced labor: using predictive data to detect subcontracting and forced labor
Forced labor is endemic in the global supply chain. Escalating consumer demand for a high volume of cheap clothes, including …
ELEVATE Strategic Partner webinar: Assessing and maximizing the value of partnerships
To help realize the 2030 agenda and tackle the growing number of complex and interconnected challenges, companies are looking…
Webinar – Wellness at Work: Supporting workers amid COVID-19 (English language)
Join this webinar where we share COVID-19 lessons learned globally that help managers and workers return to work safely …
ELEVATE Strategic Partner webinar: SDG progress in Asia-Pacific and opportunities for social investments
With a spotlight on Asia, this webinar will build understanding of how governments measure and report progress on the SDGs…
ELEVATE + EFI Webinar: Sustaining food supply continuity while keeping workers safe
With food production being essential business, both growers and food retailers need to ensure farmworkers are safe. …
ELEVATE Strategic Partner webinar: Using evidence to increase program effectiveness and drive innovation
What is good evidence? Why is it important in grantmaking? How can it be leveraged to improve outcomes?…
Webinar – Wellness at Work – Understanding employment regulations in China during COVID-19 用中文呈现
This webinar helps factory managers, supervisors and workers understand employment regulations in China during COVID-19…
Webinar – Wellness at Work: Supporting workers during an epidemic 用中文呈现
COVID-19 has deeply impacted manufacturing in China, not to mention workers, families and communities.…
ELEVATE Strategic Partner webinar: New routes to impact with LBG
LBG is the global standard in measuring and managing corporate community investment. It provides metrics and methods for…
ELEVATE Strategic Partner webinar: IHRB Top 10 business and human rights issues for 2020
The Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) is a global centre of excellence and expertise on the relationship between…
ELEVATE Strategic Partner webinar: Modern slavery risks in global supply chains
This webinar will introduce the Global Slavery Index (GSI) to help you understand modern slavery risks at regional and countr…
ELEVATE Strategic Partner webinar: Setting science-based targets
Essential tips and guidance to help companies set greenhouse gas reduction targets and demonstrate their climate leadership …
ELEVATE Strategic Partner webinar: Global trends in corporate social investment
Held in partnership with CECP, this webinar provides the latest information on corporate social investment trends to help…
ELEVATE Strategic Partner webinar: India’s CSR Law
This ELEVATE Strategic Partner (ESP) webinar delivers an update on India's "CSR Law" including challenges related to corporat…
ELEVATE Strategic Partner webinar: The 2019 Better Buying Index Report
A company’s supply chain can make a important impact in promoting human rights, fair labor practices, & environmental program…
Webinar – Disclosure and transparency that meets reporting and investor expectations
Trends on corporate sustainability and integrated reporting, supply chain transparency, and investor / regulatory disclosure…
Webinar – New Countries, New Risk: How to anticipate sourcing risks amidst the Trade War
In this ELEVATE Webinar, our Analytics team discloses the changes in sourcing risks as companies shift from China to other ke…
Webinar – Is scalable capacity building the secret sauce to program effectiveness?
High-impact, scalable and lasting capacity building requires ongoing contact and engagement that leverages multiple touch poi…
Webinar – An introduction to gender lens investing and how to address gender equality from a finance and funding perspective (in partnership with Fair Finance Asia)
Increasing emphasis on achieving gender equality has drawn interest towards applying a gender lens to investment and funding …
Webinar – Factory Ownership: A journey to proactive social responsibility
How can the factory journey be accelerated while also easing their cost of ownership? Emerging platforms, tools and data anal…
Webinar – Cutting Through the Noise: The future of social auditing
This webinar explores the market drivers and behaviors that have historically impacted social auditing and new trends that ar…
Webinar – The Role of Segmentation for Program Effectiveness
In this webinar we discuss how a segmentation exercise is the starting point for prioritizing investment and engagement with …
Webinar – Program Effectiveness: What it looks like and why it matters
What’s your formula for success in Program Effectiveness in 2019? We will review the challenges your programs might be facing…
Webinar – The ELEVATE Update on China social insurance: What you need to know now
The Reform Plan of Collection & Management of National Tax and Local Tax was promulgated by the Chinese Government in July…
Webinar – Scorecard for Success: The power of supplier performance scorecards to improve results
Supplier performance scorecards can be a powerful tool to improve performance…
Learnings from Assessments and Audits Integrated with Worker Engagement
Over 80% of factory workers in China have not raised a suggestion or complaint to management in the last 12 months, according…
False Security and Risk to Market Value: Why transparency focused programs are needed now more than ever
ELEVATE CEO Ian Spaulding and SVP Mark Jones explore the coming investor data requirements around supply chain and factors to…
Supplier Ownership: The link between sentiment and performance
There are many different factors that go into a decision to invest in a proactive social responsibility program—maturity…
Straight to the Source: Bottom up models for improving performance in global supply chains
This webinar introduces participants to a typical supplier’s journey in social compliance and provides practical tips from…
The Evolution of Audit: From transactional governance to 360º view of factory health
Traditional audits play an important role in assessing working conditions throughout the supply chain. But the role of audits…
North Korean Labor in Your Supply Chain: What to know and new detection methodologies
Dedicated to bringing you topical programs with pragmatic takeaways, The ELEVATE Leadership Series 2018 Webinars start with…
Using Data to Predict Outcomes and Drive Deeper Supply Chain Insights
ELEVATE welcomes you to the final webinar in its 2017 Leadership Series of events and webinars framed around this year’s them…
The Role of Technology to Scale Worker Engagement
Can technological advances in worker engagement promote both worker well-being and business objectives?…
The Effectiveness of Compliance-Driven vs. Partnership-Oriented Responsible Sourcing
Trying to get products to market and keep up with trends is challenging enough for brands and retailers, but imagine for a…
Segmentation as a Tool to Engage and Support Strategic Factories
ELEVATE is one of the leading proponents of segmentation for increased impact in responsible sourcing programs. We’ve hosted…
Human Rights Due Diligence: A Holistic Risk Management Approach
The UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework states that human rights due diligence is: “An ongoing risk management process…
Exploring Audit Quality: What really matters?
How can we consistently achieve high audit quality? Learn from ELEVATE’s global quality and operational leaders about those…
Trends in the Apparel Sector in Asia
Manufacturing in the apparel sector continues to diversify across Asia as companies look for alternative sourcing markets and…
Vendor Ownership: The Multiplier Effect
Improving management systems at 20 important vendors may allow the retailer to reduce their direct interactions with 100 fact…
Seeking Remedy in the Workplace: Implementing Factory Grievance Mechanisms
The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP) expect companies to participate in non-judicial mechanisms to…
Social Compliance Trends in China
Manufacturing in China has matured significantly. However, pressure for lower cost production continues to make achieving…
Labor and Environment Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
The recent full release of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has drawn in global interest. The new trade agreement calls…
Measuring Program Effectiveness and Performance
With 2015 coming to a close, many are starting to think about end of year responsible sourcing performance. ELEVATE advocates…
Preparing for Next Year’s CNY
Chinese New Year is celebrated in many ways. Some celebrate with fireworks, others with good food, family and good company…
Avoiding the CAP Trap
The first step towards social performance improvement starts with the corrective action plan. If done with some thought…
CSR Cost of Ownership
ELEVATE conducted its second social and environmental budget survey in 2014. The results suggested, and our experience…