Raison d’être: opening up dialogue with our panel
THIERRY FUNCK‑BRENTANO
Co-Managing Partner and Chief Human Relations, Communications and Sustainable Development Officer, Lagardère group
For more than four years, the Lagardère group has been in regular dialogue with its stakeholder panel, consisting of 12 experts in our business activities and the issues facing us, which go hand in hand with its thoughts about societal responsibility.
Over these four years, the scope of the Group’s activities has changed and it has refocused on two strategic activities: publishing and retail at transportation hubs. Our CSR strategy has also gradually adapted both to the transformation of our business activities and to the major changes within society. At each stage, our panel has been able to listen to us and also to guide us, and help us to identify our main societal challenges whether in terms of education, cultural diversity, innovation, attracting talent or even environmental responsibility.
The growing search for meaning – both by our employees and our various customers and audiences – as well as increasing environmental awareness among society as a whole, have also significantly impacted the CSR roadmap developed over time with our panel.
In 2019, these fundamental societal trends coupled with regulatory changes and the PACTE law in particular led us to launch the company’s raison d’être project with our stakeholder panel. There is no doubt that the dialogue with our panel concerning our Group’s societal role will help us to progress along this new path towards responsibility.
Members of the stakeholder panel
Anne de Béthencourt
Director of Integral Vision, member of the French Economic, Social and Environmental Council
Agathe Bousquet
President of Publicis Groupe in France
Philippe Charbit
Head of the French newsstand project at Presstalis
Nathalie Dechy
Former professional tennis player, member of the Sport et Citoyenneté thinktank
Roxana Family
Chair and Director of Master in Law and Business Ethics, Executive Vice President in charge of international development, University of Cergy-Pontoise
Noëlle Genaivre
Board Secretary, Group Employees’ Committee and European Works Committee, Lagardère group
Laetitia Grail
Co-founder of myBlee Math founder of LGM Digital
Hervé Guez
Head of Responsible Investment Research and Equities and Fixed Income, Mirova
Chantal Jouanno
President of the French National Commission for Public Debate
Michel Lévy-Provençal
Founder, TEDx Paris
Bernard Ourghanlian
Chief Technology and Security Officer, Microsoft
Jean-Christophe Perruchot
Chairman of retail fit-out specialist STAL Industrie
“This raison d’être must be brought to life and therefore linked to strategy”
Meeting of the stakeholder panel, 23 October 2019.