When I think about our business, our ecosystem is made up of our people, our clients, the communities that we serve and our stakeholders…It takes a village to actually solve the problems to create a better tomorrow.”
Texas Market Leader & Houston Managing Partner, Crowe
Collaborating For Good
Sheila Enriquez
CEO, L’Oréal Foundation & Chief Corporate Responsibility Officer, L’Oréal
Influencing Customer Behavior
Alexandra Palt
SVP & Chief Communications, Sustainability & Strategic Partnerships Officer, The Coca-Cola Company
Putting The Community First
Beatriz Perez
We cannot just say consumer behavior is not changing. We have to change consumer behaviors…so we have to be capable to create desire for sustainability. But that’s a new job, and there is still a lot of reinvention necessary to make it happen.”
If a company does want to grow, but in a very responsible way, it has to own issues beyond itself. It has to look at what the community needs before we can actually be a successful business, and solve what the community is telling us is the real issue.”
GivIng Hand-Me-Downs New Life
Founder, EILEEN FISHER, Inc.
Eileen Fisher
We realized we had too many clothes, but we didn’t want to throw them away because they were valuable. And so we decided to open the store near our headquarters and thought, ‘Let’s try recycling.’ ...We took employees’ hand-me-downs and put them in the store and sold them.”
Cofounder & CEO, Living Carbon
Taking A Scientific Approach
Maddie Hall
75% of all land in the world has been degraded by some sort of human activity…We have to use science. We have to use R&D. That’s how we were able to get out of Covid, and it’ll be the same thing for land restoration and climate.”
Marketing General Manager, Electric Vehicles, Ford Motor Company
Fighting Climate Change Equitably
Sondra Sutton Phung
Climate change and air pollution disproportionately burden marginalized communities…If we do not offer solutions that are equitable and affordable, we don’t have that opportunity to pull them ahead to the front line.”
Staff VP, Environmental Affairs & Chief Sustainability Officer, FedEx Corporation
Investing In Academic Research
D. Mitchell Jackson
We went to Yale University and we’re giving them $100 million to establish the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture. The idea is to find ways to sequester vast amounts of carbon using geologic, biological and industrial processes.”
Turning Air Into Food
Founder & CEO, Air Protein
Lisa Dyson
How do we make products that give you the textures that people who love meat are looking for? That’s really the focus of what we’re doing at Air Protein…Climate change is really an issue. Deforestation is an issue. As we scale production of protein, we have to figure out ways to do it better.”
The Renew program makes new garments from gently used EILEEN FISHER clothes (CREDIT: Vincent Tullo for The Washington Post via Getty Images)