Managing social licence in the midst of chaos
Katherine Teh-WhiteManaging Director, Futureye
The APPEA Journal 57(3) - https://doi.org/10.1071/AJ16279
Published: 29 May 2017
Abstract
We all understand there's a crisis of trust, but the most popular solutions are creating even more chaos. Earning trust has many counter-intuitive requirements. Futureye's Managing Director, Katherine Teh-White, will share the five essential rules that apply if you want your industry to have a social licence to operate. Ms Teh-White, has had more than 25 years experience in resolving issues in a way that satisfies industry, activists and government. Having worked with many sectors including agriculture, extractive, water and food, Ms Teh-White is able to share her pioneering social licence approach using detailed industry insight.
In 2002 Katherine Teh-White founded Futureye which specialises in social licence strategy and execution. The firm provides sustainability solutions, research, engagement and communication in Australia and undertakes significant projects in Asia and Europe and the Americas. In the past eight years she has also founded WikiCurve that provides a two-way engagement platform on public policy. Her pioneering social licence to operate methodology has improved the corporate responsibility for a broad range of industries including, food, water, energy, mining and pharmaceutical. She has worked at many different levels from sites, to national and international supply chains when there is reputational, political, regulatory and technical challenges. Katherine has won a number of awards including the Golden Target award from the Public Relations Institute of Australia (1994), Telstra Business Woman of the Year private sector awardee (2001) and Victorian Women's Honour Roll (2003). She has been listed in Who's Who of Australian Women from 2007. In 2015, Katherine was appointed as a Global Advisor for the United Nations Global Compact Cities Programme and is currently a mentor for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Young Innovators Fellowship Programme. |
