Being a change maker requires more than subject matter expertise; it takes a particular blend of soft skills: empathy, exhortation and creativity, to name just a few. These videos — all under 10 minutes — offer practical insights for honing the unquantifiable qualities that help innovators and other leaders flourish in the workplace, from motivating […]
Send news about sustainability leadership roles, promotions and departures to [email protected]. Robert Metzke, who shepherded Dutch medical equipment company Philips’ push to integrate environmental considerations into new product design, is leaving to lead sustainability at German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom. He will take over from Melanie Kubin-Hardewig, currently responsible for Group Corporate Responsibility at Deutsche […]
NVIDIA, the world’s most valuable company with a $4.3 trillion market capitalization, adopted its first corporate social responsibility strategy almost 20 years ago. From the start, its agenda centered largely on human rights, supply chain management and philanthropic issues. Its priorities shifted in August 2023, when the company hired the assistant general counsel from hard […]
Jaycee Pribulsky, a longtime Nike leader who only 19 months ago became its chief sustainability officer, has joined Apollo Global Management as partner and chief sustainability officer effective Oct. 1. She succeeds Dave Stangis, who four years ago became the firm’s first CSO. He will remain a partner, then serve as senior advisor starting in […]
The opinions expressed here by Trellis expert contributors are their own, not those of Trellis. Corporate sustainability reports, in their current form, started to appear in the late 1980s and early 1990s. A variety of factors led to this: high-profile environmental disasters (the Bhopal gas disaster and the Exxon Valdez oil spill, for example); the […]
Like many fast-growing companies betting on artificial intelligence, Salesforce is pacing far behind its climate action plan. The $38 billion enterprise software business said in 2021 that it would halve absolute emissions by 2030. Four years later, the company can point to solid progress on cutting emissions from electricity use. But those gains have been […]
How will banks collaborate on the financial industry’s net zero progress? Do they even need to work together? Can the same financial institutions that enable fossil fuels help to usher in a low-carbon global economy? Those questions hang in the air as the members of the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) are expected to announce […]
At this year’s Climate Week in New York City, one theme stood out amid the 1,000-plus events and 100,000 attendees: leadership. Not just any leadership, but the kind that comes from the very top. On our Two Steps Forward podcast, recorded live at Solutions House, my co-host Solitaire Townsend and I sat down with Jesper […]
The power of generative artificial intelligence is abundantly clear, yet surveys show only a minority of workers use ChatGPT or rival services on a regular basis. That’s partly because it can be challenging to figure out where to apply AI, and how to ask it to do what you want. If you’re among those who […]
The corporate climate “actionists” who converged in New York last week for the 16th annual Climate Week NYC are resigned to the reality that federal policy won’t favor their agendas for at least another three-plus years. Even so, the majority of corporations with net-zero aspirations are not retreating from their top-level commitments. They’re just not […]