SB Webinar Calendar

Language Is A Virus: Why A Sustainability Story Spreads, Or Doesn't
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
1pm-2pm ET | 10am-11am PT

What You Will Learn:

• Insight into how the seven deadly sins of sustainability communications may be causing people to tune you out
• Breakthrough tips on using language to your advantage
• Which brands are getting it right and how they are creating their own brand-infused language of sustainability

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Circular Economy - a practical guide to driving business value
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
12pm-1pm ET | 9am-10am PT

What You Will Learn:

• Understand current trends in the Circular Economy movement.
• Understand that a smart circular economy concept has to be designed into the product, process, use and re-use system right from the beginning.
• Learn about the challenge to manage complex and collaborative circular networks that involve heterogeneous resource flows.

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The Future of Textiles: Creating Sustainable Fashion Through Cradle to Cradle Design — A Fireside Chat with William McDonough
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
3:30pm-4:30pm ET | 12:30pm-1:30pm PT

What You Will Learn:

• how applying the Cradle to Cradle design methodology can eliminate the myriad social and environmental issues rampant in fashion - what has been called the second-most polluting industry in the world
• continuing innovation in the improvement of textiles

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Circular Economy - a new formula for resources and growth
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
1pm-2pm ET | 10am-11am PT

What You Will Learn:

• Learn how a circular economy brings opportunities for new business models, new solutions and, consequently, additional customers.
• Understand that a smart circular economy concept has to be designed into the product, process, use and re-use system right from the beginning.
• Learn about the challenge to manage complex and collaborative circular networks that involve heterogeneous resource flows.

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Introducing the Systems View of Life into Organizations with Fritjof Capra
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
1pm-2pm ET | 10am-11am PT

What You Will Learn:

• The critical role of systems thinking to solve the major problems of our global crisis, which are systemic problems – all interconnected and interdependent – and require corresponding systemic solutions.
• How key insights from systems thinking can be applied in a business context, such as organization, communities of practice, leadership and emergence.
• How businesses can develop a new generation of leaders leaders who are ecologically literate and capable of thinking systemically.

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Designing a Sustainable World Through Commerce: Achieving the SDGs Through Cradle to Cradle Design – A Fireside Chat with William McDonough
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
1pm-3pm ET | 10am-12am PT

What You Will Learn:Tune in to hear Bill's insights, vision and advice on a number of topics related to the shift to a Cradle to Cradle approach to business, including:

• Circular vs. Spiral – why we need to broaden our thinking on the approach
• Is economic growth really necessary for a healthy, inclusive economy and if so, is circular or spiral the (only) answer?
• What business and brand leaders need to embrace a shift to circular models

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The Critical Role of SMES in Advancing the SDGS—New Data & Insights
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
1pm-3pm ET | 10am-11am PT

What You Will Learn:SMEs play a crucial role in the growth of developing economies and are key to the success of the new Sustainable Development Goals. Choosing and supporting the right SME partners in your value chain is a critical component of your company helping to advance the SDGs:

• What role can SMEs play in advancing the new Sustainable Development Goals?
• What are the latest trends on sustainable small and mid-sized businesses globally, including credit correlations?
• Learn how to uncover the innovation potential of SMEs in your value chains.
• Learn how your support of these companies can help spur growth of local economies, helping also to solve some of the world's most critical issues.

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Upleveling the 'Circular' Conversation – Fire Chats with William McDonough
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
1pm-3pm ET | 10am-12am PT

What You Will Learn:Tune in to hear Bill's insights, vision and advice on a number of topics related to the shift to a Cradle to Cradle approach to business, including:

• Circular vs. Spiral – why we need to broaden our thinking on the approach
• Is economic growth really necessary for a healthy, inclusive economy and if so, is circular or spiral the (only) answer?
• What business and brand leaders need to embrace a shift to circular models

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Beyond Banks AND Tanks: the New Definition of a Nation's Power, and the Surprising Role of Sustainability
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
1pm-2pm ET | 10am-11am PT

What You Will Learn:

• The new definition of "country" – and how it has evolved with the "fourth technological revolution" and emerging global issues
• How important it is for governments to act as stewards of sustainability; a powerful tool for organizations looking to "light a fire" under their respective governments
• Ideas for engaging with governments on a national and regional/state level in corporate/government partnerships
• How innovation, quality of life and sustainability can be thought of together in crafting more forward-looking government policies and strategies

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Sparking Change from the Inside
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
1pm-2pm ET | 10am-11am PT

What You Will Learn:

• How setting bold goals can help mobilize your workforce and generate innovative ideas.
• The best way to use future fit framework and KPIs to develop metrics.
• How science and context-based benchmarks can guide a company's sustainability goals.
• How the private sector can drive reduction in greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency and renewable energy projects
• How philanthropic investments can support business sustainability goals and drive external partnerships

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How to Embed Sustainability in Sporting Events – The New Climate Framework
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
1pm-2pm ET | 10am-11am PT

What You Will Learn:

• Insights about sustainability within the Olympic movement and how this can be applied to other sporting events.
• Take a deeper dive into the Climate Solutions Framework and its applicability to enable more sustainable large-scale events.
• Understand how event organizers, leagues, teams, host cities, governments and venue builders can leverage the power of sports and the mobilization around large-scale sports events to address climate change.
• Understand the sustainability expectations of today, which include addressing climate change, and how they have evolved over time when it comes to organizing and hosting world-class sporting events.
• How sustainability planning, execution and legacy factor into the preparation and holding of global events.
• How innovative, science-based, technologies are essential to everyone in the audience as part of the event value-chain.

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Strategies for Integrating Sustainability into your Organisation
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
1pm-2pm ET | 10am-11am PT

What You Will Learn:

• The importance of CEO support and how to get it.
• Getting cooperation from line staff.
• Building a track record of success.
• Measuring and reporting environmental performance to boost accountability.
• Managing external stakeholders to advance sustainability.

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8 Best Practices for Creating an Exceptional CSR Reporting System
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
3pm-4pm ET | 12pm-1pm PT

What You Will Learn:

• Uncover the latest trends and best practices in CSR Data Collection and Reporting
• Learn what factors are key to consider in creating your world class CSR data management system
• How to collect data reliably across various divisions, supply chains, facility types, geographies, and metric systems.
• How to analyze and report this data to various stakeholders: from internal management on KPIs, to multiple external frameworks, e.g. GRI_G4 to CDP, ISO, SASB, etc.
• Gain actionable insights from an industry case study by a global corporate sustainability/CSR executive

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How to Streamline Energy Reporting Across the Enterprise
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
1pm-2pm ET | 10am-11am PT

What You Will Learn:

• Where and what to invest in metering and sensor
• How to centralize data collection Which energy metrics matter most to the CFO
• How to automate reporting effectively
• How to collaborate with other teams for reporting

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Accelerate Your Path to Circular: 5 Actions to Implement Now
Tuesday, Septepber 15, 2015
1pm-2pm ET | 10am-11am PT

What You Will Learn:

• How to calculate the value to your business of going circular
• Steps to decide how to start going circular and what to do next
• Circular Indicators and how to calculate them
• How existing measurement tools like LCA can be applied to circular economy strategies
• How supply chain data supports your planning and measurement

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From Stats to a Story: 5 Lessons Learned on our Sustainability Journey
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
1pm-2pm ET | 10am-11am PT

What You Will Learn:

• Humanize your CSR report with real stories from real people
• Highlight successes, but be honest about your challenges
• Make it local, by showing impact on the community
• Showcase your signature partnerships, customers and programs
• Make the numbers meaningful with relatable examples.

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How to Scale Sustainability at a Global Level: Ford Motor Company's Approach
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
3pm-4pm ET | Noon-1pm PT

What You Will Learn:

Ford Motor Company is a company that clearly exemplifies this pattern. At Ford, sustainability is viewed as a blueprint – a path that needs to be committed to and then pursued, year after year. This webinar will take a deep dive into this approach, analyzing where Ford has met challenges and explaining how the company continues to map out a path forward. It will also highlight key achievements, such as reducing facility CO2 emissions per vehicle.

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Corporations, Commodities, and Commitments that Count: Introducing Supply Change, a Forest Trends project
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
11am-12pm ET | 8am-9am PT

What You Will Learn:

• Is there a trend in the number of companies and new commitments to reduce forest-risk commodity demand?
• How are firms responding to investor inquiries about forest risk – and are they delivering on their promise?
• How does civil society enable the achievement of these commitments? Could they do more?
• To what extent do commitments rely on certification?
• What commodities and impacts are corporations most commonly addressing in their forest-related targets – and how are the targets structured?

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The PROMISE of a Systems Approach to Sustainability
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
1pm-2pm ET | 10am - 11am PT

What You Will Learn:

• Understand why the most significant barriers to sustainability have to do with conversations and relationships between people across organizational boundaries.
• Understand the potential for competitive business strategies for sustainability, and where collaboration beyond the firm is essential, to advance markets and institutions.
• Understand why a holistic approach to sustainability – with socio-economic, environmental, and even personal dimensions – is they key to success in sustainable business.

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Driving Business and Innovation with Sustainable Solutions
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
1pm-2pm ET | 10am-11am PT

What You Will Learn:

• Learn how to systematically evaluate products to drive sustainable solutions
• Gain insights into how BASF turns sustainability challenges into business opportunities
• Understand how BASF assessed 50,000 solutions
• See how BASF has used this tool and methodology to more closely align with customer needs.

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Smarter Metrics: How to Collect, Manage & Report on Sustainability Data More Effectively
Tuesday, January 20, 2014
1pm-2pm ET | 10am-11am PT

What You Will Learn:

• Market trends and benchmarking regarding various CSR data management tools
• What SASB, GRI and other experts recommend
• The ROI for utilizing data management systems for improving CSR performance
• Best practices for considering a CSR/Sustainability data management system

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Waste Not, Want Not: Aspirationals and the Future of Food Waste
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
1pm-2pm ET | 10am - 11am PT

What You Will Learn:

• Gain insight into the values and issues that matter most for this growing segment
• Explore Aspirational consumers' food waste rituals and routines
• Discover new territories for advancing your brand strategy
• Gain insights into driving consumer engagement
• Learn about best practices, emerging trends and expert opinions

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Beyond Eco-Babble: Changing the Conversation around Social Good
October 29, 2014
1pm-2pm ET | 10am - 11am PT

What You Will Learn:

• Learn why the current sustainability conversation is broken and how it needs to change
• Gain insight into Generation World, a powerful global vanguard of socially conscious consumers identified through Young & Rubicam INSPIRE's proprietary research and BrandAssetValuator (BAV)
• Learn the principles for becoming a brand with Meaningful Purpose in order to stay relevant to the Generation World target market and drive commercial value

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#SocialFootprint: How Understanding Your Products' Social Impacts Will Create Value for Your Business
October 1, 2014
6pm-7pm CT | 9am-10am PT

What You Will Learn:

• Uncover why and how the social footprint of your products affects your business
• Learn how social footprinting can help you to understand possible risks and improvement opportunities for product development, supply chain selection, and collaboration
• Gain insights into unique corporate cases: learn how BMW, DSM and other members applied the methodology to assess the social impacts of their products
• Learn about the most common challenges expected and how to tackle them
• Gain insights into the next phase for development of the Product Social Footprinting methodology and the Round Table for Product Social Metrics

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Skin Deep Skin: The Future of Beauty
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
10am-11am PT

What You Will Learn:

• Gain insight into the skincare brands, channels, drivers and certifications that matter most for this growing segment
• Explore Aspirational consumers' skincare rituals and routines
• Discover new territories for advancing your brand strategy
• Gain insights into driving trial and regular usage
• Learn how to cultivate a stronger value perception and deeper emotional connection with your beauty brand

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The Curse of the Improving Economy - The Trouble and Silver Lining for Green Brands
Thursday, August 21, 2014
10am-11am PT

What You Will Learn:

• Learn how consumers define companies and products as "green"
• Identify the most important things your company can be doing to put your products in purchase consideration sets
• Discover where your product category fits on the green product adoption curve
• Identify overarching concerns and trends that could help (or hurt) sales
• Find out how to better position green products in the current marketplace

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Matter to a Million: Engaging HP's Global Workforce for Social Good
July 30, 2014
10am-11am PT

What You Will Learn:

• Learn about the components involved in designing a powerful employee engagement program
• Gain insights into how to leverage Kiva to engage employees and impact small businesses

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Valuing Plastics: The Business Case for Measuring, Managing and Disclosing Plastic Use in Consumer Goods
July 9, 2014
Two Sessions:
1) Oceania, Asia and Eastern EMEA (12:30pm–1:30pm Mumbai / 3pm–4pm Hong Kong / 5pm–6pm Sydney)
2) Americas and Western EMEA (5pm–6pm London / 12pm–1pm New York / 9am–10am San Francisco)

What You Will Learn:

• The business case for measuring, managing, and disclosing plastic use in the consumer goods industry
• Risks and opportunities associated with plastic use in the consumer goods sector
• Identifying natural capital 'hotspots' to help companies better manage plastic use
• The natural capital benefits of good plastic practices, such as the use of recycled content and end-of-life recovery
• Recommendations to improve the sustainability of plastic use in practice

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How Sustainable Portfolios Can Outperform Traditional Investing
June 25, 2014
12pm-1pm PT

What You Will Learn:

• Discover how Nobel-Prize winning financial theory may be outdated
• Learn how leading investment managers and analysts build sustainable portfolios
• Explore how your company can attract investors seeking impact
• See how your portfolio, and your 401k, can become more sustainable

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The Path to Generating Business Value from Product Sustainability
June 18, 2014
10am-11am PT

What You Will Learn:

• Top benefits businesses are generating from product sustainability
• Leading approaches to generate value from product sustainability
• Trends in product sustainability program development

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From Consumer to Collaborator — Reimagining the Marketplace as If People Mattered
May 21, 2014
10am-11am PT

What You Will Learn:

• Learn how the rise of privacy concerns is causing individuals to guard and manage their Personal Data in ways that will directly affect brands and marketers.
• Learn how brands are utilizing one on one relationships with their fans to create a new, empowered customer versus a consumer of the past.
• Learn how the term, "consumer" is evolving with the rise of the Quantified Self movement and how brands can embrace transparent tracking to build relationships with individuals based on purpose as well as profit.

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Zero Deforestation: The New Norm — Implications for Major Brands
May 15, 2014
10am-11am PT

What You Will Learn:

• Uncover the latest trends in zero-deforestation as the new norm in supply chains
• Learn who are the major players from brands, NGOs, and foundations working in this space
• Get a glimpse into emerging challenges and positive solutions to key issues in forestry
• Gain insights into new policy commitments – what they are, who is advocating for and who is committing to them
• Learn more by attending Future 500's zero-deforestation workshop at Sustainable Brands '14 San Diego

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Embedding Sustainability in Product Development Decisions - Systematically
April 30, 2014
10am-11am PT

What You Will Learn:

• Learn how to strengthen alignment between product strategy, brand strategy, and sustainability performance to produce better business outcomes
• Gain insights on how to put and keep sustainability criteria on the same playing field with other customer experience considerations, competitive advantage requirements, and resource allocation decisions
• See how to integrate, accelerate and simplify early-stage sustainability assessments before product development projects are approved for commercialization
• Hear how this approach influenced the new or expanded programs and services that Sustainable Brands will be bringing you as members of the global SB community

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Speakers:


Sally Uren
Chief Executive
Forum for the Future

Speakers:


Dan O'Neill
General Manager
Sustainability Solutions Services

John Trujillo
Assistant Director
City of Phoenix Public Works Department

Ryan Kirane
Director of Supply Chain Management and Sustainability Officer
Mayo Clinic