Event Summary
Drawing over 250 attendees, NHBSR’s Annual Spring Conference continues to be New Hampshire’s premier event on corporate social responsibility. The event brings together business leaders to create opportunities for collaboration and connection, inspiration and action. Participants learned about and shared insights, issues, and ideas at the forefront of corporate social responsibility, including:
- Keynote address from a leading visionary in sustainability.
- Focused sessions on innovative climate actions, value creation, tools for measuring impact and building stronger workplaces and communities.
- Panel discussions from local business leaders on strong families and vibrant communities and how the NH business community can drive positive impact.
- Focus on networking and sharing ideas!
Past Conferences
Highlighting the synergistic benefits of businesses stepping up and taking a proactive leadership role in addressing critical societal issues that affect the workforce and communities around them. By leveraging their resources, influence, and innovative approaches, businesses can play a pivotal role in creating positive and sustainable change in areas such as affordable housing, childcare availability, quality education, affordable healthcare, creating inclusive welcoming workplaces and communities, and financial sustainability for employees. Thus creating an environment where business and community thrive together!
2024 Keynote:
Businesses have always faced uncertainty, but it is now increasing beyond the economy with the addition of all the stresses due to the pandemic and supply chain disruption. Extreme weather events and climate change contribute to the added risk and uncertainty. But…
The other side of uncertainty is opportunity.
We live in a world of possibilities where there’s constant change, and constant dynamism, we need to be adapting and embracing uncertainty to create our competitive advantage. Let’s embrace uncertainty and take advantage of the opportunity it presents!
Our spring conferences are designed to appeal to businesses across the spectrum of sustainable/socially responsible business operations, allowing attendees from large and small companies alike to find the perfect opportunity to learn and share best practices.
2022 Keynote:
Our 20th Annual Spring Conference Silver Linings: Resiliency and Regeneration, offers thought leadership, innovation, networking and inspiration. The conference connects individuals and organizations across all industries and sectors who are united by the belief that businesses can be a force for positive change.
NHBSR welcomes Michelle Holliday to the stage to keynote their 19th Annual Spring Conference, Starting Strong: A New Decade of Thrivability. As a facilitator, consultant, author and researcher, her work centers around “thrivability.” This newly emerging concept views communities and organizations as dynamic, self-assembling living systems. As such, fertile conditions can be created for life to flourish at every level – for individuals, organizations as living ecosystems, customers, communities and the biosphere.
2020 Keynote:
2019 Spring Conference
The Regenerative Business: Business Practices for a Working Democracy
2019 Keynote:
Carol Sanford, Senior Fellow of Social Innovation at Babson College
2018 Spring Conference
NHBSR’s 17th Annual Spring Conference featured a panel of CEOs from varied industries across New England who shared insights into the sustainability opportunities and challenges within their sector as well as ideas for how the NH business community can have greater impact in our communities.
2018 Keynote:
Leith Sharp, Director of Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership at Harvard University
2017 Spring Conference
Christopher Miller, Social Mission Activism Manager, of Ben & Jerry’s shared important background and impact of their social media messaging, and how any business can more fully engage their stakeholders (including employees!) with their own brand of advocacy or sharing of purpose and passion.
2017 Keynote:
Andrew Winston, Winston Eco-Strategies
Sponsorship Opportunities Available
To learn more, please contact Michelle Veasey.
Thank you to our 2024 sponsors!
