The Future of Sustainable Business Collaboration

Webinar

September 16, 2026

4 - 5 pm CEST

Registration

How will sustainable business collaboration need to evolve over the next decade? BSR will share key takeaways from the latest report: The Future of Sustainable Business. Together, we will examine emerging scenarios, how collaboration models can adapt to an uncertain environment, and what future collaborations could look like in practice.

Scheduled Speakers

Charlene Collison, Managing Director, Collaborations and Partnerships, BSR

Managing Director, Collaborations and Partnerships, BSR

London

As Director, Collaborations, Charlene develops and implements strategies to engage BSR member companies and other stakeholders in high-impact collaborations for sustainable development. She specializes in building collaborative approaches between consumer-facing companies and their value chains to embed long-term sustainability, build resilience in the face of disruption, and increase equity, inclusion, and justice.

Charlene brings over 20 years of experience in sustainability, systems change, futures, and collaboration. Prior to BSR, Charlene was associate director for sustainable value chains and livelihoods with global sustainability non-profit Forum for the Future, where she directed collaborative system change initiatives in cotton, tea and other commodities, and led strategy projects with partners across the fashion and textile, agricultural and food sectors.

Charlene has an extensive background in futures, including working with the UK government’s futures unit developing and testing strategies across government departments.

Charlene holds an MSc in Sustainability and Responsibility from Ashridge Management College (UK), a BA in International Relations from the University of Puget Sound (US), and a Diploma in Organisation Development from Henley Business School (UK).