Opportunities for connection

SBC offers members and their employees many different opportunities to connect in with others, share knowledge, collaborate and showcase best practice. By pooling time, resources, ideas and energy together to tackle challenges, members are able to influence change faster and on a larger scale than they would be able to achieve alone. 

In 2018, a number of members in the freight industry approached SBC individually with the same problem: their transportation emissions were huge, and they wondered if other members were finding theirs the same. SBC brought these members together to collaborate on the Low Carbon Freight Pathway, an ambitious but achievable 30-year plan to progressively decarbonise New Zealand’s freight system.

Through this successful collaboration, SBC realised it had a unique ability to connect members in similar industries facing similar challenges together. We also began to see demand from more members for different types of forums where they can come together to go further faster and boost their collective impact, which led us to establish various opportunities for connection.

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High impact collaboration

Over the years, SBC has stood up a handful of high impact collaborations, bringing together members to resource and tackle key challenges.

Examples

Working group

Participants of SBC’s working groups contribute resources and knowledge to achieve a specified, timebound goal, e.g. the delivery of a report, advising on a particular topic, or solving a specific challenge.

Examples

  • ESG working group
  • Transition planning working group

Community of practice

We offer a number of communities of practice (each centred around a specific topic or business ‘department’) to enable practitioners to connect with one another, share best practice, and have two-way dialogue and engagement.

Events and workshops

We put on dozens of events and workshops every year (in-person and online) designed to provide members the opportunity to connect with and learn from subject matter experts, SBC team members, and one another.