Breakfast Roundtables Charities & Sustainability: Making a Difference

Join us at our inaugural breakfast roundtable event, where you can find out more about the challenges and benefits of working in a role that can make a positive difference to the world, we will be joined by a number of alumni working in a range of charitable and sustainability roles, including Julietta Dexter (1988), Chair, SmartWorks Charity, Amy Sheehan (1993) Head of Programme Quality and Assurance, Action Aid, Caroline Smith (2018), Sustainability Consultant, PWC and Will Fletcher (2006), Head of Operations and Finance, Jo Cox Foundation. 

Current students can register for free via Eventbrite.

We are delighted to be joined by the following participants:

Julietta Dexter (1988)

At 26, Julietta founded The Communications Store (TCS). TCS was one of the world’s leading strategic brand development and communications partners to the world’s best brands and industry talent in fashion, wellness, beauty and lifestyle. Over the course of 25 years, as CEO, Julietta steadily expanded the company in the US and UK building a world-class client roster. Throughout, she remained faithful to her strong ethos and values of honest business delivery, the core of TCS. ScienceMagic was born out of The Communications Store and many of ScienceMagic's clients today have been with the business, and Julietta for many years. ScienceMagic went into voluntary liquidation in October 2023.

Julietta is deeply passionate about her work in purpose, business ethics, values and culture. Her unique business philosophy is captured in her first book: GOOD COMPANY: How to build a business without losing your values. In this book she explains how she, together with her partners built one of the world’s most respected communications companies.

Julietta is active in a number of business and charitable organisations. She is Chair of Smart Works Charity, the UK's No.1 female unemployment charity. Julietta is a Board Member of Northeastern University London. She was an Executive Board Member of CEW UK for 9 years, was an Ambassador for the Prince’s Trust campaign, Women Supporting Women. She was a member of the Cambridge University Communications Working Group and a member of the NO.10 Downing Street Roundtable on Creative Entrepreneurship. She was a Trustee for Beauty Banks, a charity combatting hygiene poverty in the UK and has also been a regular fundraiser for Great Ormond Street Hospital. She advises several businesses.

Julietta has been regularly featured in global publications including Forbes Magazine, The Times, The Sunday Times Style Section, Harpers Bazaar etc., She is a regular speaker on business culture, brands and communications. She has judged as well as won many industry awards.

Amy Sheehan (1993)

Amy is Head of Programme Quality and Assurance at ActionAid UK. ActionAid is a leading women’s rights international development organisation working in 45 countries worldwide. ActionAid has a human rights based approach, and works in community development, advocacy and campaigning work. Amy is based in the UK and is responsible for the management of grants and contracts funded by the UK government for international development programmes; she works very closely with colleagues around the world. After leaving Jesus College, she worked in various UK charities (including Mind the Mental Health charity), before deciding she wanted to work in the international sector. She then spent a year in Ghana as a volunteer. On her return she undertook a Masters degree in International Development at the University of Sussex. Since then she has worked in programme management for various NGOs including Christian Aid and Frontline AIDS, whilst intially focussing on fundraising, she has since moved towards programme and grant management.She is happy to talk about any of this experience including: working in the international development sector; UK charity sector; decolonising international development; women’s rights; programme management.

Will Fletcher (2006)

Will studied English at Jesus and graduated in 2009. After a year as Schools Liaison Officer at Clare College, he joined the charity sector in 2010. Since then he’s worked for a variety of charities in the youth, education and LGBTQ sectors covering partnership management, fundraising and operations. Will is currently Head of Operations & Finance for The Jo Cox Foundation, where he's been since November 2021. Will is a serial volunteer with a keen interest in governance and is currently a governor at his local secondary school and the Chair of Trustees at Derbyshire Mind. He lives in Derbyshire with his husband and their two dogs.

Caroline Smith (2018) 

Caroline is a recent Jesus college graduate, currently working in the Sustainability team at PwC UK. Whilst at Jesus, she studied Geography at undergraduate level and then went on to study the MPhil in Polar Studies at the Scott Polar Research Institute. Her MPhil research focused on mapping glacial lakes using satellite imagery in the High Mountain Asia region.

Within the PwC UK Sustainability team, Caroline now works across a variety of different ESG topics. She primarily focuses on the climate risk space, completing climate hazard assessments for private and government sector clients under a range of different future climate warming scenarios. She also has experience building emissions and decarbonisation models, completing human rights and modern slavery assessments and helping clients comply with various UK and EU sustainability regulations
 

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