Sustainability Champions Roundtable
The NBIS Sustainability Champions Roundtable is a membership-based, learning and action program for professionals who wish to accelerate their sustainable business leadership in the Pacific Northwest. With a combination of expert presentations and peer-to-peer exchange facilitated by NBIS, the roundtable offers a unique opportunity to gain insights about leading-edge trends and strategies, to address obstacles and to take action on new opportunities.
Features
The NBIS Sustainability Champions Roundtable provides members with innovative practices in a business setting. Through the program, members are able to:
- Participate in an important network of local and regional peers, learning from each other and identifying shared opportunities;
- Receive customized resources and expertise;
- Build sustainability capacity internally in their companies;
- Lead the wider community towards a sustainable future.
Benefits
The roundtable includes leading and learning companies from a diverse range of industries with local, regional, and global presence. This diversity of companies helps increase the collective knowledge towards tackling challenges and finding unique solutions that work for each company’s sustainability profile. The format is designed to be highly participative and interactive with an emphasis on developing know?how and breakthrough strategies that are implementable.
Format and Themes
Meetings are divided into Thought Leadership and Learning Practicum segments. The Thought Leadership segment comprises presentation and discussion of “breakthrough sustainability” frameworks. These future-focused strategies involve science-based targets, systems thinking, and innovative collaborations that move companies beyond incremental measures to increase both resilience and social, environmental and economic benefit. The Practicum segment includes participant presentations and discussion of case examples and strategies, navigating challenges, and sharing resources. Members meet monthly, with 6 month milestones for evaluation and further development.
Examples of themes include:
- Understanding the UN Global Sustainable Development Goals and their relevance to company strategies;
- Leveraging Supply Chains for enhanced impact;
- Consumer Engagement – transparency, brand and education;
- Zero Waste and Circular Economy.
Membership
Roundtable members are leaders in our region with talent and expertise honed within their respective companies. The roundtable offers an intimate community for these professionals to work together in learning, sharing and collaborating to advance the development and implementation of sustainability strategies in their companies and in the region. Participation is available to NBIS members at the Enhanced-level.
For more information about joining the Sustainability Champions Roundtable, please contact Mary Rose at maryr[at]nbis.org.
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