Global Child Forum
Business Academy

What is the Global Child Forum Business Academy?

The Business Academy is an exclusive training programme designed to equip your company with the knowledge and tools needed to integrate a child rights perspective into your operations.

The programme focuses on peer-to-peer networking and collaboration in a small group, with the aim of solving real problems together. This takes place under the guidance of our experts, with inspiration from companies who have progressed on their journey and can share their experience.

The Business Academy covers business-critical issues, linking these to children’s rights perspectives and highlighting the potential for both negative and positive impact on children’s lives. The issues are also clearly linked to other sustainability perspectives, such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

The programme of workshops is carried out throughout the year.

 

Business Academy

Past Participants

Arja Mehtälä

Corporate Responsibility Manager at Elisa

The Global Child Forum Business Academy programme has enabled peer-to-peer networking and given us new ideas in our work.

Who can participate?

Our Business Academy is open to SDG2000 companies within the Tech & Telecom and Food, Beverages and Personal care sectors. The service is available to companies with a desire to improve their work around sustainability, while looking to integrate children’s rights in a more robust way.

The Business Academy aims to provide your company with guidance and valuable tools to better understand and incorporate a child rights perspective, improving your benchmark score and enabling you to become a “Leader” in the ranking.

The programme is directed towards (but not limited to) sustainability or human rights executives and managers. The professionals attending are typically tasked with engaging on these topics with other functions or business areas within a company.

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Nina Vollmer

Director Child Rights and Sustainability

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As the organisation’s senior expert, Nina conducts research and supports companies on how to improve their understanding of, and impact on children’s lives. She develops and works with the tools and services that Global Child Forum offers, including the Business Academy, Scorecard Feedback service, guidance and best practices. Nina also supports with content creation for events and communications. With responsibility for the methodology behind the Corporate Sector and Children’s Rights Benchmark, Nina is the appointed spokesperson for benchmark activities, and regularly speaks at key events and conferences. Nina holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science from Lund University (Sweden), and has worked both nationally and internationally with human rights and development within the NGO sector.
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Matthew Goodwin

Head of Sustainable Investing

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Matthew is pioneering a new role at Global Child Forum as Head of Sustainable Investing, responsible for building Global Child Forum’s relationship with the financial services sector and ensuring that our sustainability data on children’s rights is made available to investors, asset managers and asset owners, helping them integrate children’s rights into their operations and investment decision-making process. Prior to joining Global Child Forum, he spent eight years at Lloyds Banking Group in London. Matthew studied Law and French at Université Paul Cézanne, Aix Marseille III and The University of Sheffield.
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