Katalin Ertsey specializes in CSR, business ethics, sustainable development, equal opportunity and communication consultant and research. Katalin has been working on these and related issues over the past decade in various positions. In the early years when CSR was mostly about giving and volunteering, she was the  Managing Director of United Way Hungary, the first NGO working closely with the most devoted companies in the corporate sector who lead by example in building a culture of giving, corporate citizenship, caring for the community and volunteering. Later as the issues of CSR and business ethics became more broadly understood in Hungary, she worked as Development Director at the CEU Business School Center for Business and Society. After having her twin girls in 2004, she joined Pannon, the Hungarian subsidiary of Norwegian Telenor as CSR advisor and the head of the corporate foundation. Since 2008, she shares her time between her job as Program Director of Common Purpose Hungary, a unique leadership development program and building up her independent consultant business.

Katalin is an intrapreneur. Her skills are best used in creating a new future for an organization from the inside, therefore she is thrilled when clients request help in strategic planning, ask for stewardship and insight, real strategic consultancy work.

Recent assignments included:

• UNDP’s “Accelerating CSR” project, analysis and recommendations to the Hungarian government on the national CSR strategy - Corvinus University Business Ethics Center: Ethics and competitiveness, research interviews
• External PR/CSR expert, Weber Shandwick Hungary
• Lecturer of Business Ethics – Corvinus University
• CSR training course  in the Ister-Granum transborder region
• Equal Opportunity advisor, Be Wise Consulting
• Auditing sustainability reports with KÖVET

Special interest areas include:

• the ethical foundations of changing corporate behaviour and culture towards sustainability
• value creating stakeholder partnerships: ethical and creative renewal of corporations by external stakeholders and intrapreneurs
• corporate roles in the future of communities: creating sustainability at the local level
• leadership in CSR: personal values and ethics influencing corporate responsibility/sustainability strategies
• women for sustainable development: how women can contribute to creating a new life style defined by responsibility, ethics and sustainability both in the private and public spheres
• social capital, community and sustainability
• the role of creative economy in the future of sustainable communities

“I truly enjoy working with Norman: we share the same high professional standards and he remained through all these years an inspiration and a role model for me.  He brings fresh, new ideas and a unique perspective to our business problems.”