Robert Boutilier

Robert Boutilier

Robert Boutilier helps organisations gain, maintain and improve their social licence. He applies stakeholder network analysis, social issue quantification methods and measures of the social licence to the challenge of strategic stakeholder engagement. Robert is an international researcher, author, consultant (www.stakeholder360.com) and associate of the Centre for Sustainable Development at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.

Origins and evolution of the social licence to corporate success.

Much to the embarrassment of the man who coined the term, “social licence to operate” (SLO) has become a buzzword in certain circles.

At a workshop on the social licence last year, Jim Cooney apologised for inflicting the term on the world...