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Innovating Sustainability Solutions for Everyday Products with Ann Tracy of Colgate-Palmolive

Ann Tracy became Chief Sustainability Officer in the Global Growth & Strategy Organization in 2022, leading Colgate’s Global Sustainability & Social Impact Strategy and key initiatives, integrating a strong technical foundation across people, performance and planet into commercial strategic purpose. Subscribe For The Latest Impact UpdatesSubscribe to get the latest Impact episodes delivered right to…

Making Homes Safer for Everyone with Caroline Blakely of Rebuilding Together

As President and CEO, Caroline is responsible for guiding the strategic direction of Rebuilding Together. She joins the organization from Cassin & Cassin LLP, where she was a partner in the Real Estate Finance Group. Prior to joining the firm, she served as vice president in Fannie Mae’s multifamily business, where she defined its strategic…

Making Sustainability Accessible through Recommerce with eBay’s Renee Morin

As Chief Sustainability Officer at eBay, Renée Morin leads the development and execution of eBay’s environmental, social and governance programs including circular commerce and renewable energy and chairs eBay’s senior leadership ESG Council. She is responsible for managing stakeholder relationships with key environmental NGO partners and oversees sustainability reporting, ratings and rankings. eBay’s website: https://www.ebayinc.com/ Recommerce…

Promoting ITAD Best Practices with Compliance Standards’ David Daoud

David Daoud is the President and Principal Analyst at Compliance Standards LLC, overseeing research on the supply and demand sides in the ITAD sector. David has researched the mainstream IT hardware market since 1996 and expanded into hardware disposition research in 2003. He has spearheaded the creation of IDC’s GRADE certification. Subscribe For The Latest…

Leveraging Climate Technologies with Mark Patel of McKinsey & Company

Mark focuses on serving clients where technologies come together in hard and complex ways for maximum global impact. He coleads the McKinsey Platform for Climate Technologies and founded and leads McKinsey’s Internet of Things (IoT) work globally. He is also a leader in the company global Semiconductors Practice and a member of the McKinsey Technology…

Delivering Personalized Peer Support for Employees with Kindly Human’s Dr. Gregory H. Bledsoe

A fourth-generation Arkansan, Bledsoe served as Surgeon General for Arkansas from 2015-2023. His past roles have included positions at Arkansas Heart Hospital, Align MD, and serving on the faculty of John Hopkins Department of Emergency Medicine. Bledsoe has also been a consultant with the US Secret Service and participated in multiple diplomatic missions, including on…

Fighting Food Waste with Do Good Foods’ Justin Kamine

Justin Kamine is a planet-forward entrepreneur who co-founded Do Good Foods with his brother Matthew to combat climate change by fighting food waste. The Kamine brothers’ company builds on the family’s 40-year heritage of solving macro environmental problems through building large infrastructure solutions. Subscribe For The Latest Impact UpdatesSubscribe to get the latest Impact episodes…

Farming for Future Generations with Sage Plant Bistro’s Mollie Engelhart

Mollie Engelhart is the founder and head chef of Sage Plant Based Bistro & Brewery in Los Angeles as well as a regenerative farmer in Fillmore, CA where she grows produce for her restaurants. Mollie’s farm Sow a Heart is a one of a kind experiment in working in partnership with nature to bring life…

Pioneering Solutions for Climate Change with Shannon Thomas Carroll of AT&T

Shannon Thomas Carroll is AVP of Global Environmental Sustainability at AT&T and is responsible for continuing to foster the company’s environmental leadership position, including its drive to carbon neutrality, climate resiliency, waste reduction and broadband-powered climate solutions that support business customers’ carbon reduction goals. Shannon brings 23 years of broad AT&T experience to this role,…

Bringing Attention to Responsible Battery Recycling with Recycling Today’s Jim Keefe

Mr. Keefe joined GIE Media, Recycling Today’s parent company, in 1991 in a sales and market research capacity. In 1992 he was promoted to Marketing Manager for GIE’s recycling business and in 1993 promoted to Sales and Marketing Manager for GIE’s portfolio of media products. In 1995 his focus returned to the recycling industry when…

Accelerating Businesses’ ESG and Sustainability Strategies and Actions with Salesforce’s Jon Powell

Jon Powell is an entrepreneur, technologist, academic, and chemical/environmental engineer by training and is Global Lead of the Sustainability Practice at Salesforce. At Salesforce, Jon works directly with hundreds of the world’s largest forward-thinking corporations to accelerate their ESG and Sustainability strategies and actions. Prior to Salesforce, Jon led investment funds at Closed Loop Partners,…

Creating Tech Talent Pipelines with Jennifer Carlson of Apprenti

Jennifer Carlson serves as Co-Founder and Executive Director of Apprenti. Apprenti is a non-profit organization that creates alternative pathways to access tech talent, and helps organizations address digital skills shortages, while providing economic mobility to underrepresented groups by identifying, training, and placing diverse talent in tech careers. Additionally, Jennifer serves on the Tech Councils of…