Sustainable Business Excellence
DAVID GRAYSON CBE:
Director, Business in the Community
Chairman, UK Small Business Consortium to promote environmental and social responsibility to small firms.

David Grayson is a director of Business in the Community (BITC). BITC is a unique movement of over 800 of the UK's top companies, committed to improving their positive impact on society.

He joined BITC in 1987 and has held a number of key positions in the organisation, including joint Managing Director, and MD of the Business Strategy Group. He led BITC's major investigations: "Directions for the Nineties" and subsequently, "Work in Society." He chaired Taskforce 2002 on business support for the voluntary and community sectors; and is currently chairman of the UK Small Business Consortium which brings together 10 major organisations including the Institute of Directors, the British Chambers of Commerce and Accountability, to promote environmental and social responsibility amongst small firms..

David speaks, broadcasts and writes regularly on "Responsible Business" "Corporate Citizenship" and "Global Trends". The Financial Times has described him as:
"one of the UK's most respected voices on business social responsibility".

He was a member of the Committee of Inquiry into a New Vision for Business established by Anita Roddick of The Body Shop and seven other leading corporate CEOs. He is a member of the editorial advisory boards of "Corporate Citizenship Briefing" in the UK, and of "Corporate Philanthropy Report" in the USA; and has been a member of the National Advisory Forum for Common Purpose since Common Purpose began in 1990. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

He is a regular lecturer at business schools in the UK and internationally, a Visiting Fellow of the Teeside and Durham University Business Schools and the Imperial School of Management, London.

He has contributed chapters to several books including "What if?." By Gordon Brown MP et al (2000); and The Financial Times Handbook of Management. His book: "Everybody's Business" (co-authored with Adrian Hodges) is published by Dorling Kindersley and The Financial Times. Their second book: Corporate Social Opportunity is published by Greenleaf (2004).