ESG Talk: Finding your ESG Superpower. Photo of Si-Yeon Kim.

ESG | Workiva

Finding Your ESG Superpower

This week on ESG Talk, we’re reaching back into the vault to share one of our most popular episodes from season one. Si-Yeon Kim, former chief risk and compliance officer and executive chair of ESG at American Express Global Business Travel, joins Workiva's Mandi McReynolds.

ESG

Finding Your ESG Superpower

Workiva

ESG

How ESG Strategy Creates an Advantage for Startups

Antea Group

Corporate Responsibility

Empowering Indonesia's SDGs Progress Through Corporate Reporting

GRI

Events

U.S. Businesses Push Back Against China Trade Policy

The collision of principle and policy in current affairs has just ratcheted up several notches in intensity. The reason? The latest round of tariffs on Chinese goods imported into the U.S. that takes direct aim at profits at a number of the largest multinationals. After losing the lobbying battle to stave off this latest round, these companies are going public with their protests, hoping to encourage a rollback by taking a collective stand against a policy that hits their bottom line.

Events

Brands Taking Stands™ | Principles and Politics Collide Over Tariffs

The collision of principle and policy in current affairs has just ratcheted up several notches in intensity. The reason? The latest round of tariffs on Chinese goods imported into the U.S. that takes direct aim at profits at a number of the largest multinationals. After losing the lobbying battle to stave off this latest round, these companies are going public with their protests, hoping to encourage a rollback by taking a collective stand against a policy that hits their bottom line.

Events

LIVE Twitter Chat on #PeopleBehindPalmOil with Golden Agri-Resources on October 3rd, 2018

Be sure to join us for a LIVE 1-hour Twitter Chat with global palm oil company Golden Agri-Resources (GAR), Nestlé, WBCSD, and TriplePundit on #PeopleBehindPalmOil.

Events

Erb Institute Managing Director, Terry Nelidov Is Panelist on Innovation Forum Webinar

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Corporate Responsibility

IBM, GSK, and NRG Energy to Present Long-Term Plans at CECP’s Strategic Investor Initiative’s Fifth CEO Investor Forum

CECP: The CEO Force for Good announced that its Strategic Investor Initiative (SII) will host the CEOs of GSK and NRG Energy as well as a senior executive from IBM Corporation at the next CEO Investor Forum (CIF) on September 20, 2018. This invitation-only event is SII’s fifth CEO Investor Forum and will take place at Convene at Condé Nast at One World Trade in New York City. The event is at capacity and will be live streamed at http://www.wsw.com/webcast/cecp5.

Environment

Major Companies Join Forces to Drive Climate Resilience in Supply Chains

BSR today announced a new corporate leadership platform that will aid companies in the fight against climate change: The Climate-Resilient Value Chains Leaders Platform is being launched as leaders of the Global Climate Action Summit call on corporations to step up their climate efforts.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Returning to Work with Barclays’ Encore! Programme

Before joining Barclays, Jo Aitken ran a sports organisation developing ambitious legacy initiatives in east London connected to the 2012 Olympics. In 2015, she took a year out to have a baby. One year turned into three, but Barclays’ Encore! programme – which helps people who have taken a career break to re-enter the workforce – allowed Jo to transition into a dynamic new role, as a Corporate Banking Relationship Director in Technology, Media and Telecoms. She tells us why the programme works.

Events

Brands Taking Stands™ | Business Leadership as a 'Calling'

What does calling imply when used in reference to leadership in business? What could “meaning” mean in business practice?

Volunteering & Community

Why Transformative Volunteering Is Good Citizenship

Frequently, volunteer experiences are episodic events that provide vital support to organizations, but what if more resources could be used to boost the impact we can have as volunteers, and forge sustainable relationships?

Corporate Responsibility

Fast Track to Best Practice Sustainability Reporting

Over 90 percent of the world’s largest companies are already reporting on their sustainability impacts, and smaller companies are following suit. But many companies new to reporting are asking: where should we start?

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