Marketing and Sales Pulse: Responsibility in Action

Responsibility is in everybody’s “how to make it work list” in each company’s growth function. But how does it fly into action? Is it more difficult than some of the old hype themes like digitalization? How to keep customer’s needs in mind and striving for added sustainable value both for the customers and society while avoiding being accused of greenwashing?

16.09.2020

This webinar recording is part of the Aalto Leaders’ Insight series that share academic findings, the best company cases, and examples executed in Finland and globally. The focus is on how to keep customer’s needs in mind and strive for added sustainable value for the business.

Content

  • Beyond greenwashing and whitewashing – Extracting value from doing the right thing,
    Dr. Pekka Mattila, Group Managing Director at Aalto University Executive Education and Professor of Practice at Aalto University School of Business

  • Case SOK, Lauri Toivonen, Senior Vice President Marketing at SOK


Dr. Pekka Mattila serves as a Professor of Practice at the Aalto University School of Business. He works frequently with European, Asian, African, and North-American executive audiences on themes of strategic management and agility, strategy co-creation, business model innovation, executive leadership, top team dynamics, change management, organizational culture and strategic marketing.
Since spring 2011 he has served as the Group Managing Director and Associate Dean of Aalto University Executive Education.

In addition to his academic activities Dr. Mattila has conducted an active business career. Currently he serves as the Chairman of the Board or as a Member of the Board at a number of innovative companies. Previously he served in executive, management and senior staff positions in the Nordic financial services industry. Currently he serves as a Member of the Board of The Finnish National Gallery. From 2009 till 2017 he served as the Chairman of the Board of the Helsinki Festival. He is a Founding Member of Nordic Institute of Business and Society.

Dr. Mattila holds a doctorate and masters in sociology at the University of Helsinki and an Executive MBA at London Business School. Over the years, he has frequently visited a number of prestigious European and Asian universities teaching management, organizational behaviour, marketing and sociology. Dr. Mattila has authored a number of managerial books on leadership, change management and strategic marketing and sales.
Dr. Mattila's consulting and coaching career started in 2003, and his corporate clients comprise over 280 Nordic and international companies, entrepreneurial ventures as well as prominent public sector institutions and NGOs.


Lauri Toivonen, Senior Vice President Marketing, S-group, Finland

 Lauri Toivonen is highly-experienced and recognized business developer in the Finnish retail market.

Lauri is representing thought leadership and strategic enhancement among marketing in the transforming retail market. He is experienced in multiple global and local business development roles, both from start-up level and publicly traded organizations. Leading transformation and innovativeness so ambitiously and successfully, that the results have been recognized globally. These award-winning solutions have conquered the market and have been recognized in global form, such as Cannes Lions, The One Show and Clio Awards.

Specialties:

  • leadership / transformation
  • change management / business development
  • business design / service design / processes enhancement
  • branding / marketing: strategies, processes, implementation
  • digital / mobile

 

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