People now expect more from companies and leaders. It’s no longer enough just to maximise returns. You also have to articulate a vision, tell your story, be a good corporate citizen and a trustee of the finite resources of our planet. Here, at the intersection of purpose, narrative and trust is where brilliant corporate affairs directors make their difference. Ithaca only works with and for the best corporate affairs directors. We are purists, specialists. We love the people (we think they are a breed apart) and we love the discipline too: since we started work in 2008 we have done our bit to help to shape it. There are three parts to the Ithaca offer: 1. We find brilliant corporate affairs directors – usually at C suite level. 2. We work across borders with international partners – because talent is everywhere. 3. We run the Ithaca Centre - dedicated to the profession and providing consultancy and executive development services. Almost every company will tell you that talent is their most valuable asset. So it makes sense to put time and resources into finding the right corporate affairs leaders. Ithaca is about finding the very best people: quality not quantity. We think corporate affairs is the most exciting role in any organisation. Increasingly it’s filled by intelligent, commercially savvy, empathetic, creative, resilient people who deal every day with the most contested dialogues their companies face – Covid, climate, inequality, you name it. Yes there are ‘naturals’ but corporate affairs is a science as well as an art. It’s a ‘corporate muscle’ which as standard needs to be excellent. The Ithaca Centre for Corporate Affairs Leadership bottles everything we have learned. Our mission is to make corporate affairs better – encouraging, training, teaching and inspiring a consistent cohort of outstanding leaders for the discipline, so that we establish standards of excellence which are universally accepted as ‘what great corporate affairs looks like’.
