About This Webinar:

The mining and exploration world is tricky, especially when it comes to talking with local communities. You need to find the right balance between pushing ahead with projects and keeping a good relationship with the people affected by them.

Our webinar, “How to Say 'No' Without Losing Your Social Licence to Operate,” is here to help. It’s all about understanding that fine line and how to navigate it.

Join our expert panel, encompassing a broad range of expertise from mine engineering and social performance to law enforcement and kidnap and ransom negotiation. With their extensive backgrounds, our speakers bring a wealth of knowledge and diverse perspectives to the table, ready to share their unique insights and strategies for effective community engagement and negotiation in the mining industry.

What You Will Learn:

• Strategies for Early Engagement: Discover how to establish realistic expectations within communities during the exploration phase, building a foundation of trust and transparency.

• The Psychology of Negotiation: Unravel the intricacies of human psychology in high-pressure negotiations and how these principles can be leveraged to garner community support, even when conveying adverse decisions.

• Practical Solutions to Common Challenges: Addressing excessive demands to confrontational community meetings, uncover practical strategies to navigate and mitigate potential conflict points.

• Real-world Case Studies: Gain insights from firsthand experiences of successful community engagements and the lessons learned from them, offering a guide for your future interactions.

Meet the Panellists:

• Robin Budden, an expert in the mining sector with over two decades dedicated to social performance and community relations, brings a wealth of experience from his work in Africa and Australasia.

• Martin Richards, with a distinguished career in law enforcement and a specialist in international kidnapping and extortion resolution, provides unique perspectives on the psychology behind successful negotiations.

• Moderated by Sean Kelly, whose expertise in connecting geostrategic politics with corporate objectives in the mining sector, guarantees an event filled with valuable insights.