Can A Standard For Good Governance Make A Difference? The Case For ISO 37000

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/37nd4fH  Standards are like marmite – some love them, some hate them. In either case they, and the process to create them, are often not well understood and so their value can go underappreciated. In this session Victoria will explain why, in amongst humanity’s existential crises, she dedicated 5 years of voluntary time to chairing the process to create the world’s first international standard on good governance of organisations. You will come away either thinking she is mad, or you may agree with some of her points as to the power of ISO 37000 as a change lever, either way you may learn something useful about standards and standards building.   Speaker:   Dr Victoria Hurth works at the intersect of academia and hands-on business to help companies transition to be drivers of long-term wellbeing for all (sustainability). She works most of her time at the University of Cambridge – as a Fellow of the Institute for Sustainability Leadership and as a Visiting Fellow at Judge Business School. focuses on five core pillars: purpose, governance, marketing, leadership and culture. Victoria is currently Technical Author for the first national standard specifying the Worldviews, Principles and Behaviours of Purpose-Driven Organisations (PAS 808). She co-led the process to create ISO 37000, the first global consensus standard on organisational governance and currently co-leads the ISO working group (TC309/WG1) developing standards on Indicators of Effective Governance (ISO 37006) and guidance for governing bodies in Using, Selecting and Creating Indicators (ISO 37005). Victoria is an UNCTAD review panel member for ISAR Honors, was a member of the UNCTAD/UNEP Task Force developing a methodology for SDG indicator 12.6.1 and their guidance on core SDG indicators for business, and was a member of WBCSD’s working group on Governance. She is a director of the Soil Association