• The world is experiencing environmental degradation, inequality, and geopolitical tensions, which increase economic uncertainty and disrupt classic business models.
• Regulation and reporting alone rarely create the greatest positive impacts. Most of a company’s market value comes from intangible factors such as culture, leadership, and talent, which receive too little attention from leadership teams.
• There are an estimated 10.1 trillion US dollars in annual opportunities in solving environmental and social challenges, and consumers increasingly reward responsible practices.
• Progress requires proactive innovation and values driven transformation, not only rules and financial incentives.
• The Steward Leadership Compass model helps connect profit and purpose and enables truly sustainable business performance.

Based on global research on companies that succeed by doing well by doing good, the Stewardship Asia Center developed the Steward Leadership Compass©, a modern leadership and governance model that helps companies align profit with purpose and achieve genuine sustainability.
 

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Workshop program

In the workshop participants will explore the concept of success through responsible action and review existing ESG frameworks and success factors. This will introduce Steward Leadership. Participants will learn about the limitations of current approaches to governance and understand the need for stewardship oriented management and leadership. The discussion will open the question of why companies should move from ESG to ESL where L stands for Steward Leadership.

Using the Faber Castell case study, participants will analyze the current state of a company in ESG and Steward Leadership, identify gaps, and consider concrete steps for meaningful progress.

In the second part of the workshop participants will reflect on misconceptions about leadership in today’s dynamic business environment. They will explore their personal values and leadership energy and learn how to connect them with the organization purpose and its sustainable development.

After attending the workshop participants will be better able to:

• Understand why a clear values based organizational purpose is a critical business imperative.
• Recognize the shortcomings of current governance approaches and the need for enlightened stewardship.
• Explain why Steward Leadership is key to achieving genuine sustainability.
• Assess how Steward Leadership is essential for building a culture of sustainable growth.
• Discover their leadership energy and align personal values with their role in the organization.
• Apply the Steward Leadership approach to foster personal and organizational success.

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The workshop will be led by

Rajeev Peshawaria, Chief Executive Officer of the Stewardship Asia Center, Singapor and Chairman of Leadership Energy Consulting, USA

• Chief Executive Officer of the Stewardship Asia Center in Singapore and Chairman of Leadership Energy Consulting in Seattle.
• Combines 22 years of experience in Fortune 100 companies with research and offers practical approaches to leadership, ethics, governance, sustainable growth, and stewardship.
• Author of the bestsellers Open Source Leadership, Too Many Bosses Too Few Leaders, and Sustainable Sustainability, and co author of Be the Change, regular columnist for Forbes.
• A sought after speaker and advisor, visiting lecturer at leading business schools in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and a frequent presence in media such as CNN, Bloomberg, Harvard Business Review, and NPR.
• Former Chief Executive Officer of the Iclif Leadership and Governance Centre, Chief Learning Officer at Coca Cola and Morgan Stanley, and held leadership roles at American Express, HSBC, and Goldman Sachs, where he helped establish Pine Street for Europe and Asia.
• Began his career in banking and foreign exchange trading.
• In 2014 and 2017 he was named among the 100 Top Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business by Trust Across America.

Rajeev Peshawaria will be the opening keynote speaker at the 4th Sustainable Management Conference on 10 December 2025 in Ljubljana.