Materiality: Connecting the dots

JUNE 2020

Materiality assessments are ideal for maximising stakeholder engagement, integrating sustainability into an organisation’s wider strategy and meeting reporting requirements. Bid farewell to the one-size-fits-all approach for materiality assessments in this webinar with Waste Management and thinkstep-anz.

We present materiality assessment and stakeholder engagement at its most effective – as an integral part of business strategy, decision-making and communications, as well as sustainability reporting. Discover how to connect these dots and gain real-world insights from Waste Management’s development of their own strategy: For Future Generations.

Join Adam Weller, Sustainability Manager at Waste Management, Jeff Vickers, Technical Director at thinkstep-anz, and our host Barbara Nebel, CEO of thinkstep-anz, for this webinar recording to find out how to optimise materiality assessments for maximum value. 

The webinar covers

  • The link between materiality assessment and strategy
  • Designing an effective stakeholder engagement process
  • How to identify the most relevant sustainability issues for a business?
  • Benefits of conducting a materiality exercise
  • A range of different stakeholder engagement techniques and when to utilise them. E.g. interviews, focus groups, workshops and questionnaires.
  • Who should you involve in the process and why?
  • Balancing issues such as backward-looking versus forward-looking and timely (e.g. COVID-19) versus timeless (i.e. those that affect the fundamentals of the business)