28/08/2019
During the second module of our international Program Sustainable Management from Wednesday 6 to Friday 8 November, Katrien Rennemeier will be one of our business coaches. Katrien is senior CSR professional with more than 7 years’ experience in driving Corporate Social Responsibility, and closing the gap between Business -and - Human Rights. Katrien started her career in minority human rights with NGOs in developing countries, after which she lead a social-profit organisation aimed at fostering interculturality in Belgium.
In 2013 Katrien joined a CSR service provider and began working with large MNCs on CSR strategies, employee engagement, internal change management CSR communications. She then joined a global Pharma company where she developed topic experience in Public-Private- Partnerships and mastered the A-Z of GRI reporting. Hereafter Katrien became Senior Sustainability Advisor at the largest material handling & logistics company, conceptualizing, leading and driving Europe-wide projects and teams around a broad range of newly identified material topics ( circular economy, responsible purchasing, diversity & inclusion, corporate governance) Katrien was responsible for the company’s transition to comprehensive sustainability reporting in line with GRI Standards, and worked on C-suite buy in, internal change processes, internal and external communications etc.
Katrien holds a BA. International Relations & Politics, an MSc. Social & Cultural Anthropology and an MA. CSR & Responsible Management.
Today she works as an independent consultant with Companies, NGOs, Government and Academia, on a shared mission to ‘’ create a faire, more equal and human-centred future’’. Katrien follows closely the transition from ‘voluntary to legislative’ corporate responsibility in Europe, and aims one day to work in/ with developing countries and support them to hold MNCs accountable for their ESG impacts in these regions. She is Brussels based, but travels regularly and is open to interim assignments in London, SS Africa and SE Asia.
