Cumming, Jane Fiona

Category: All Consultants, Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Socially-Responsible Investing, Accountability

As Co-founder and Director of Article 13, experts in the field of business responsibility (CSR), ethics and governance, Jane Fiona is an experienced and sought after strategic advisor and corporate planner.

Her particular area of expertise involves the identification of emerging risk factors and the development of stakeholder engagement and communication programmes to create innovative solutions for future robust risk management. Jane Fiona provides company Boards with a ‘third eye’ independent perspective, often challenging their existing strategies. A combination of hands-on experience, market scanning, high level strategic networking, talking at major conferences around the world, and authoring papers all serve to underpin her approach and further her competencies.

Jane Fiona is an experienced facilitator and researcher, trained in ‘best-in-class’ techniques as well as social assurance research and conflict resolution styles of facilitation, participation and innovation. She has been asked to facilitate responses to many responsible business issues ranging from UK government participative policy making, such as UK fishing policy, to public, patient, investigator, monitor and regulator responses around ethics and informed consent in the pharmaceutical industry. 

RISK-READINESS: Through the use of futures methodologies including visioning and scenario planning, FutureSearch and Appreciative Inquiry techniques, Jane Fiona helps organisations future-proof themselves by rigorously and systematically identifying the relevant emerging issues which could impact upon their business in the medium to long-term. She uses creative techniques to help communities and organisations build a vision for the future, creating buy-in and shared goals. Future vision is then used to influence policy and strategy in the short-term

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT: Jane Fiona is trained to use facilitation, participation and innovation techniques in change management, to build new shared agendas and to set up new ways of doing business. These skills, combined with previous experience as a senior communications planner, enable her to help groups identify new ways of thinking, acting and communicating

CSR / SUSTAINABILITY: With experience across industry sectors, she is experienced at making CSR and sustainability issues come to life and deliver innovative solutions. Client projects have included developing climate change strategic programmes, sustainability – particularly around natural resource shortages impacting upon business as usual (e.g water, energy, raw materials, employees etc) programmes, ‘social audit’ assurance, benchmarking and best practice reviews

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