Sustainability in a world growing in uncertainty

The What

Risks and Opportunities: Optimising performance and unlocking and allocating resources

ahead of less resilient competitors.

  • 22 October 2025

This event is the second in a three-part Webinar series

Access the first session here - The Why

Building on the foundation established in “The Why”,

this second session in the webinar series turns attention to the practical dimensions

of organisational transformation.

 

“The What” explores the tactical responses organisations must consider as they confront uncertainty, resource pressures, and systemic transition challenges.

Expert guests will examine what specific actions and frameworks are required to scope transformation needs, prioritise initiatives, and align resources across financial, human, natural, and technological domains. The session highlights the shortcomings of siloed approaches and equips leaders with insights into integrated, enterprise-wide strategies that enable coordinated responses.

 

By attending, participants will gain a clear understanding of:

  • What systems, directives, and processes need to be mobilised for effective transition planning.
  • What role cross-functional teams play in identifying and addressing transformation challenges.
  • What tactical steps can be taken to build resilience and sustain competitiveness in a rapidly changing environment.

This session acts as the bridge between “The Why”, understanding the drivers of change, and “The How”, navigating long-term implementation.

 

It is designed to empower organisations to move beyond recognition of uncertainty toward decisive, tactical action that ensures both adaptability and sustainable performance.

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Background

In today’s rapidly evolving global landscape, organisations are under increasing pressure to adapt to rising levels of uncertainty, from climate change and geopolitical instability to shifting regulatory demands and supply chain disruptions. These complex forces directly impact the availability, accessibility, and allocation of critical resources, financial, natural, human, and technological.

 

Understanding what to do, what to plan, what organisational teams to get ready is the second step (the why is the first)  in building organisational resilience and ensuring sustainable performance. Without a clear grasp of the organisational frameworks, directives, and enterprise processes (systems) which need to be in place leads to strategic missteps and operational weaknesses which will be exposed by more adaptive competitors.

 

This webinar series sets the foundation for a structured transition and transformation journey. It explores the strategic implications of uncertainty on resource dynamics and highlights the need to mobilise cross-functional teams to scope the scale and nature of the challenges ahead. Through this lens, participants will begin to uncover the strategic why that underpins transformation, enabling smarter, faster, and more integrated responses.

Guests

Tim La Touche
Lebogang Senne
Martin Baxter
PeadarDuffy

DETAIL

DATE:
22 October 2025

TIME: 

08:00 – 09:00 ET

09:00 – 10:00 Brazil

12:00 – 13:00 UTC

13:00 – 14:00 UK

14:00 – 15:00 CEST

14:00 – 15:00 South Africa

15:00 – 16:00 Saudi Arabia

16:00 – 17:00 Dubai

17:30 – 18:30 India

20:00 – 21:00 China

21:00 – 22:00 Japan

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Dr. Paul Pritchard

Paul has wide experience in corporate sustainability with particular emphasis on insurance and risk management. Following early career work in consultancies he joined RSA Insurance Group supporting their investment activities before moving into the risk and capital management function (where he implemented an operational risk framework). He then served as RSA UK Head of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Services during which time RSA was recognised as one of the UK’s Best Green Companies. He has since operated as an independent adviser. Recent assignments have focused on TCFD and transition related activity including co-authoring a guide on climate-related financial risk disclosures, serving on Aviva’s external expert climate risk panel and chairing the Sustainable Finance Standards Committee SFS/1 (BSI). He is a Principal Environmental Auditor, served on the Board of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) and as a Fellow at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), focusing on integrating sustainability into finance, where he continues to provide tutoring services.

Darrel Scott

Darrel Scott is a an independent non-executive director of a South African insurance group and of a Mozambiquan Bank.  Darrel chairs the Audit, risk and compliance committees of both entities, and is a member of the insurer’s board actuarial committee and of the bank’s board credit committee. He is consultant working with the World Bank Group focussing in emerging economies on financial and sustainability reporting and regulatory processes.  Darrel is also an independent consultant to emerging market regulatory authorities in the fields of accounting and sustainability.  Darrel is a member of the JSE’s Financial Reporting Investigations Panel. 

 

Darrel is a former member of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), having completed a ten-year term on 30 September 2020. While he was with the IASB, he chaired the IASB Emerging Economies Group and the IASB SME Implementation Group and was a Board advisor on the Extractives, Rate Regulated, IFRS 9, IFRS 16 and IFRS 17 projects.

 

Prior to joining the IASB, he was the Chief Financial Officer of FirstRand Banking Group. 

Peadar Duffy

Global ESG Practice Lead at Archer Integrated Risk Management

Chair of the Technical Committee

Peadar Duffy is Archer’s Global ESG Practice Lead, and is responsible for leveraging his thought leadership in the organizational risk and governance domains to provide strategic direction and collaboration across Archer’s internal and external partners in the design and development of Archer’s ESG solutions. 


He currently represents Ireland on the ISO technical committees for Risk Management (TC 262) and the Governance of Organisations (TC 309) where he is involved in the development and revision of various guidelines, reports and technical specifications.


Most recently Mr. Duffy had been involved with other international experts in the development of the first global governance guideline which emphasizes organizational purpose and other ESG-sustainability principles underpinning performance and long-term viability. Mr. Duffy began his 25-year career in risk management spanning multiple industry sectors in Ireland, the US and Middle East following 15 years in the Irish military.

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