ABSTRACT
At the invitation of Leeora Black, Director of the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR), the author travelled to Melbourne in early 2010 to give a keynote address on 'Leadership for social responsibility' at the ACCSR annual conference. The conference theme was 'ISO 26000 in a post-financial crisis world' and the author was sharing the platform Jonathan Hanks, a South African friend and colleague, who also happened to be Convenor of the ISO 26000 Integrated Drafting Task Force and Managing Director of Incite, a South African sustainability consultancy. Besides the conference, the author was invited by Suzanne Young, Associate Professor at La Trobe Graduate School of Management, to teach a module on its Master's in Business in Society course. 'There's too much sun', said the author's friend and sustainability consultant, Samantha Graham. She was making a point that Australians are too laid-back about life.
