Working Session: Building a Resilient Business with Future-Fit

Building a Resilient Business with Future-Fit

What does a truly flourishing future look like and how do we move towards it?

This session seeks to build on our previous presentation while welcoming new participants into the conversation. We’ll begin with a brief overview of the underlying principles of the Future-Fit approach and the science-based thresholds that every organization must reach if we're to create resilient business in a sustainable and equitable world. From there, we’ll explore what a flourishing future could look like in practice, creating space to share perspectives and learn from others. Finally, we’ll connect these ideas to real-world systems and decision-making, bringing Future-Fit thinking to life in a practical and engaging way.

Whether you’re returning or joining for the first time, this session offers an opportunity to deepen your understanding and apply visionary thinking and Future-Fit principles to your business strategy. We'll have plenty of time for questions and discussion, plus a fun small-group activity giving you the chance to experience creating a Future-Fit business.

Meet your Panelist

Martin Rich 

Martin is a sustainability and impact investment specialist, with over 25 years experience in both mainstream and impact finance.

Martin’s career started in international investment banking, working for 13 years on structured debt and derivative products for JP Morgan, HSBC and UBS. He then transitioned into social impact investment, spending 7 years as Sales Director at Social Finance Ltd. These experiences led him to realize the need for a standardized global mechanism for understanding the total impact of any investment portfolio on society and the planet. He then discovered that discussing ideas like this with a stranger in a coffee queue can lead to one unexpectedly quitting a well-paid job and co-founding a non-profit to create the solution.

Martin is also a Non-Exec Director and Chair of assorted organizations and investment/advisory committees, including for WHEB Asset Management, CERSIA CIC and North Star Transition. He is formerly the Senior Independent Director of Access Foundation and a member of the Asset Allocation Working Group of the G7 Social Investment Task Force. 

Martin holds a double-Masters in Engineering from Queens’ College, Cambridge.

Continuing Education Requirements

ISSP credential holders will earn 0.5 CEU's for attending this working session.

Recording

This is an interactive working session and will not be recorded.