Previous Shows

Impact with John Shegerian produces new episodes every week. Visit regularly to explore our archive of past conversations below.

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 […]

May 16, 2023

Providing Access to Food for People in Need with John Deere’s Laura Eberlin

In 2022, Laura Eberlin was appointed Global Corporate Social Responsibility Lead – Community Engagement & Enrichment for Deere & Company. In this role, Eberlin manages the John Deere Foundation’s global food bank strategy, which delivers nearly $3 million in grants annually to ensure equitable access to food for marginalized families and youth in John Deere […]

May 11, 2023

Designing a Sustainable Future with CarbonShack’s Stephen Pallrand

Stephen Pallrand’s background in construction, architecture, architectural history, painting, and set design has aided him in pulling together the diverse group of artists, craftsmen, architects and designers who work on the CarbonShack projects. His father was a scientist/educator and his mother an educator and patron of the arts. This exposure to art, science and education […]

May 9, 2023

Pioneering Health Equity Solutions with Rick Shadyac of St. Jude/ALSAC

Rick Shadyac has dedicated his life to making a difference in the lives of those who need it most through his work to further the mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. As a committed servant leader, he strives to instill corporate social responsibility within ALSAC, whose employees are actively encouraged to volunteer and have […]

May 4, 2023

Bringing Help to Our Nation’s Heroes with K9s for Warriors’ Carl Cricco

Carl Cricco is the CEO of K9s For Warriors. Prior to joining K9s, Carl worked at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum as a senior vice president of marketing, ensuring the stories from that day were never forgotten. Living just blocks from the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, that day left an indelible mark, as […]

May 2, 2023

Harnessing Innovation for a Better Planet with Gore’s Amos Wampler

Amos Wampler is a career chemist and Enterprise Capabilities Associate with W. L. Gore & Associates. After earning his Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry from Bucknell University, Amos became a Chemistry teacher in the Christiana School District. Shortly thereafter, he joined Gore in 1997 as a Manufacturing Chemist where he worked to continuously improve […]

April 27, 2023

Transforming the ITAD Industry with Circular Integrity’s Todd Zegers

Todd Zegers is a passionate entrepreneur and most recently the global leader of Ingram Micro’s ITAD & Reverse Logistics business unit from 2015 through 2022. His experience in the ITAD industry dates back to 2003, when he left his post at a top Tempe, AZ based IT reseller to co-found GreenAssetDisposal, an ITAD company focused […]

April 25, 2023

Enhancing Connectivity through ESG with T-Mobile’s Brigitta Witt

Brigitta Witt serves as vice president, social impact and sustainability at T-Mobile. In her role Brigitta is responsible for leading and communicating the company’s overall corporate responsibility strategy encompassing community engagement, philanthropic giving, environmental stewardship and governance. She oversees ESG strategy and reporting, program development and execution, stakeholder management, employee engagement initiatives and is the […]

April 20, 2023

Expanding the Green Market Dialogue with VerdeXchange’s David Abel

David Abel is a husband (47 years), father of a son in Denver, grandfather of two (Nora and Andrew) & both a Pittsburgh Steeler and LA Dodger’s fan; and, long ago obtained educational degrees in economics, educational administration and law. He has yet to formally retire and continues to professionally work across industry sectors—including land […]

April 18, 2023

Pioneering Companywide ESG Achievements with HubSpot’s Yogesh Chauhan

Yogesh Chauhan was appointed Director of ESG (Environment, Social & Governance) at HubSpot in February 2022. His brief is to develop a new and impactful ESG strategy covering all HubSpot’s operations. He oversees a range of environmental, community engagement, reporting, innovation and thought leadership initiatives designed to embed sustainability and responsible business across the company. […]

April 13, 2023

Learning to Detox the Right Way with Peter (“Doc Koz”) Kozlowski, MD

As a Functional Medicine M.D., Dr. Peter Kozlowski uses a broad array of tools to find the source of the body’s dysfunction: he takes the time to listen to his patients and plots their history on a timeline, considering what makes them unique and co-creating with them a truly individualized care plan. John Shegerian: Have […]