Dear beautiful souls, I have been bathing in the IDG ethos for some time now and from an ESG perspective, wondering how relevant and important you see the IDG's fit in?.. Could this be a leverage point to get a foot in the door? As I would love to inspire organisations in my circles to engage with the IDG's and have not yet been successful.. (I'm targeting mostly 1st big4 and other financial organisations..) Many organisations nowadays talk about ESG but it seems to be more leaning to disclosure compliance (e.g. via CSRD etc), rather than a focus on what causes actual sustainable impact.. Would you have any insights as to why engaging with the IDG's for them is crucial at this point and how it will speak to their high value priorities which we all know is maximising profits while making sure of compliance requirements.. Which we know only bigger financial organisations need to disclose in next yrs, I believe from 2027 onwards, on ESG.. Examples in my area that confuse me: A large national public umbrella organisation calling them "House of sustainability", was not interested to engage in a conference on IDG's for sustainable impact that we are trying to organise via our IDG hub as they feel it is not relevant? I haven't seen the detail disclosure requirements myself but apparently ESG disclosures pertaining to "inner development" is not material so why bother spending money on IDG initiatives for sustainability.. Thanks for your wonderful insight! As reference I include some background (pls correct if me wrong): ESG (from ecologies website mostly) The term ESG was popularly used first in a 2004 report titled "Who Cares Wins”, which was a joint initiative of financial institutions at the invitation of UN. Environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) is a set of aspects considered when investing in companies, that recommends taking environmental issues, social issues and corporate governance issues into account. It prioritises a model of looking into business that links directly profit to a positive impact on ecology, society and honesty.

💞Thank you to everyone who attended. For all of you who have yet to watch the recording AND everyone on the session : What more do you need to know? to understand? about what you heard. Put your questions in the comments until Thursday November 21st. We're planning to schedule a 2nd call SOON once we have ALL your questions👌 We look forward to continuing our discussion with all of you in the community.

The Ecologies methodology, promotes comprehensive organization-wide capacity building and links the Inner Development Goals with Sustainable Development Goals through systemic impact assessment. This assessment is now accessible for all to use and is very exciting way to put the IDGs to work. Maria Grazia Testa has worked tirelessly over the past year to create this data driven approach. Here at InnerDevelopment@Work we will host an initial 60min exploratory session for our community on November 13 from 1.00-2.00 pm CET The methodology is designed to 1. Precisely connect the Inner Development Goals to the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2. Measure and embed IDG principles within organizations, cultivating them within business practices to yield measurable, sustainable impacts on the products and services we create If you have any specific questions for Maria Grazia, drop them in the comments and we’ll make sure to discuss them during our session November 13th Sign up here Make sure you tick the box for our special InnerDevelopment@Work session on November 13th.