Collaborating for Impact

The Surrey Sustainable Professionals Group was a year long exploration of the question “What is Sustainable Professional Advice?” 

It took a cross disciplinary approach and was supported by academics from the University of Surrey Centre for Environment and Sustainability. By bringing together practitioners from different, but related sectors we were able to bring new perspectives on problems that were common to all of us and therefore make progress faster than working in silos. This was an experiment in understanding regulated professional services, but the lessons learned from using a cross disciplinary approach are applicable widely across all sectors.

Join Rebecca Trudgett from Switchfoot Accounting for this online session to find out more about:

- What is sustainable advice in the professions.

- Our cross disciplinary approach.

- The template for hosting similar inquiries in other sectors.

- Encouraging more businesses owners to collaborate and take part in collective action.

- The benefits of working across silos/industries.

- How to use influence to create impact.

- Learn how to identify professional advisers that are offering real sustainable advice and what questions to ask.

Meet the speaker

Rebecca is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser and founder of Switchfoot Accounting – a certified B Corporation accountancy practice.  Member of the ICAEW small practitioners’ community advisory group and on their roll of honour as sustainability champion. Thought leader on advised/service emissions and author of the white paper – “what is sustainable professional advice”. Rebecca is also a systems thinker and is 

a graduate of the school of system change in finance sponsored by Aviva investors and is working on an active practice inquiry of connecting place-based impacts and local collaboration with financial capital.