Location: TELUS Harbour, 25 York Street, Toronto, ON M5J 2V5
Date: 25 November 2025
Registrations open: 8:00 a.m. ET
Time:  8:45 a.m. - 12 p.m. ET

As investors raise the bar on environmental and social expectations, Canadian companies face growing pressure to embed sustainability into their core strategies. How can businesses better align with investor priorities and leverage purpose as a driver of long-term growth?

Join us for a dynamic in-person event, What Investors Want: Driving Growth Through Purpose and Performance, designed to convene investors, companies, and sustainability leaders to explore how purpose-driven performance can unlock resilience, attract capital, and deliver impact.

Presented by the UN Global Compact Network Canada in partnership with Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), and hosted by TELUS, this event will bring together leading institutional investors who will share why ambitious sustainability and responsibility commitments are no longer optional—but imperative. 

This event offers a rare opportunity to hear directly from those shaping the capital markets on how purpose-driven performance is becoming a key element of strategic leadership. Explore how expectations are shifting—and what this means for your organization’s approach to ESG integration, risk management, and stakeholder engagement. You’ll leave with actionable guidance to align your business strategy with emerging investor standards and the broader trajectory of responsible enterprise.

What to Expect

• Investor insights on ESG integration, risk management, and purpose-driven performance.
• Dialogue between the financial and private sectors to drive collaboration and innovation.
• Practical showcases of strategic tools—including green bonds and ESG funds—that connect sustainability to financial outcomes.

Why Attend?

• Understand what responsible investors are looking for today.
• Learn how to strengthen governance and disclosure for resilience and growth.
• Network with peers and leaders shaping Canada’s sustainability landscape.

Speakers

• Jane Ambachtsheer, Global Head of Sustainability, BNP Paribas Asset Management
• Wendy Berman, Chair, Canadian Sustainability Standards Board
  
• Philippe Crête, Investment Managing Director - Natural Capital, Climate Change and Environmental Markets, Fondaction Asset Management
• Rumina Dhalla, MBA, PhD is Director, Institute of Sustainable Commerce and Associate Professor in the Department of Management in the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics, University of Guelph
• Elizabeth Dove, Executive Director, UN Global Compact Network Canada
• Toby Heaps, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, Corporate Knights
• Anna Murray, Global Head of Sustainable Investing, Ontario Teachers Pension Plan (OTPP)
• Sonia li Trottier, Director, Canada Climate Law Initiative
• Lindsey Walton, Director of Americas, UN Principles for Responsible Investment
• Barbara Zvan, President and Chief Executive Officer, University Pension Plan Ontario (UPP)

Who should attend:
Executives, CFOs, impact investors, policy and governance professionals, climate and social program leads, corporate sustainability leaders, professionals leading on ESG, sustainability, legal compliance. 

Registration Fees

• Free for Canadian Participants of the UN Global Compact and PRI Signatories.

Contact Point 

For any further information, please contact our Lead, Environment and Sustainability, Diana Chiodo at diana@unglobalcompact.ca.