Previous Shows
Impact with John Shegerian produces new episodes every week. Visit regularly to explore our archive of past conversations below.
June 27, 2023
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. John Shegerian: Get the latest Impact podcast right into your inbox each week. Subscribe by […]
June 22, 2023
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 […]
June 20, 2023
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 […]
June 15, 2023
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. John Shegerian: Listen to […]
June 13, 2023
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 […]
June 8, 2023
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 […]
June 6, 2023
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. John Shegerian: Have you been enjoying our Impact podcast and our great […]
June 1, 2023
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 […]
May 30, 2023
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, […]
May 25, 2023
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 […]
May 23, 2023
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, […]
May 18, 2023
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 […]
