Events

Transforming Business

Center for Business Ethics Today
The Center for Business Ethics Today, based in Philadelphia (USA), is holding a joint conference with Westminster Theological Seminary on Business and the 9th Commandment on 1st – 2nd June 2012 at the historic Union League in Philadelphia. Business leaders and theologians will examine the practical implications of the Torah's injunction 'You Shall Not Bear False Witness', with the help of the summary of theology known as the Westminster Confession. Transforming Business' Peter Heslam will be acting as a moderator at the conference, to which all are welcome.

Acton Institute
The Acton Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan (USA), is holding its annual Acton University from 12-15^th June 2012. This is a top quality engagement at the interface of economics, philosophy and theology. Dr Peter Heslam will be one of the lecturers. More details here.

Entrepreneurial Leaders
C.S. Lewis' famous Chronicles of Narnia have been brought alive for new audiences in the recent film versions produced by Walden Media. The president and co-founder of Walden Media is Michael Flaherty and he'll be the keynote speaker at a conference on Entrepreneurial Leadership organized by the Entrepreneurial Leaders Organization (ELO), in association with the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), on 8-9 November 2012 in Vancouver. Dr Rick Goossen (Director of Entrepreneurial Leadership in the network surrounding Transforming Business) is the conference organizer and will also be speaking. More information available from ELO on info@eleaders.org

Business Fights Poverty
Transforming Business is a knowledge partner and founding member of Business Fights Poverty, a rapidly growing network of organizations and individuals that are committed to entrepreneurial solutions to poverty. Together with a number of other partners, including the UK government's Department for International Development, Business Fights Poverty holds events around the world - details here.

Transformational Business Network
The Transformational Business Network (TBN) is a network of business leaders, organizations and companies committed to business solutions to poverty. It supports commercially sustainable small-medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries that create jobs, empower the poor and transform communities. Transforming Business has been actively involved in TBN since its inception and information about its activities can be found here.

Other organizations

Yale University
Transforming Business has close links to, and has organized joint events with, the Spiritual Capital Initiative at Yale University's Center for Faith and Culture.

CABE
The London-based Christian Association of Business Executives (CABE) is dedicated to bringing Christian values and moral principles to the world of business, particularly at executive level. For details of CABE's forthcoming events, click here.

Ely Cathedral Business Group
Transforming Business is a founding member of the Ely Cathedral Business Group. This is a forum for business leaders in and around Ely, a cathedral town a few miles north of Cambridge, UK. It is holding a Celebration of Business event at Ely Cathedral, from 25-31 May 2012. Details of this event and the text of a speech given at the recent launch of the Group by its director, Tom Green (CEO of Spearhead International), are available here.

Events Archive

For details of past events, click here.