“Corporate Sustainability Executive Forum 2012, Your Company’s Secret Weapon in Winning Market Share,” will take place on September 23 – 26, 2012. This forum will review how sustainability officers can help to grow your company’s market share. Consumers have high expectations with regard to corporate sustainability, according to the Natural Marketing Institute’s 2007 LOHAS Consumer Trends Database. Nearly 80 percent of America agrees that “it is important for companies not just to be profitable, but to be mindful of their impact on the environment and society.” This equates to 168 million adults who expect more than just profitability from companies.
The Tangible Returns of Implementing a Sustainability Initiative:
• Preservation of Social License to operate through enhanced reputation and social capital
• New Market Opportunities
• Improved Operational Efficiencies
• Improved Investment Opportunities
• Increased Top Lines
• Reduced Costs
Designing a Sustainability Strategy- Starting Your Development of:
• Vision & Values
• Codes for Corporate Sustainability
• Economic success through sustainability
• Individual responsibility and motivation
• Safe and environmentally compatible products/technology
• Safe and efficient plants and production processes
• Treatment of business partners and market behavior
• Sustainable business processes
- Technology and knowledge transfer
• Management systems for clear responsibilities and continuous improvement
• Social Responsibility
Other Themes and Topics:
• Life Cycle Assessment: A Road Map to Guide Sustainability & Strategy Executives
• Sustainability Performance Management Systems: Building and Implementing Next Generation Tracking & Reporting
• Benefit/Flexible Corporations: The New Paradigm for Sustainable Companies
• People, Process, Products, Environment & Profits
• Galvanizing Employee Buy-In Through Top-to-Bottom and Bottom-to-Top Alignment on Your Sustainability Initiative
• Creating Closed Loops for the Birth and Continual Rebirth of the Products You Sell
• Population Growth: Pressure on our Ecosystems and Wallets
• HOT SPOTS: Locating where is your company is loosing money
5 Key Components:
• Energy
• Efficiency, efficiency, efficiency
• Alternative Energy (Investing, Information, and Opportunity)
• Localities and mutual benefits of using local energy
• Self production
• Profitable Projects
• Carbon
• Reducing output and reducing costs
• Materials
• Supply and Feasibility Concerns
• Water
• The Crucial Role and Value Water has in the Industries, Products, and Processes of the Corporate Sector
• Categorizing and Justifying current and potential Risks to not having Enough water or the Right Quality of Water for your Business
• Waste Management
• Reducing output
Target audience
• Corporate Level Executives and decision makers
• Organizations related to: manufacturing, installations, and marketing of sustainable efforts
• Corporate Sustainability Officers, Responsibility Officers and their strategists
• Investors and Investment Firms
• Banks, lawyers and politicians involved in legislation regarding sustainability
• Transportation and Distribution Sector
• Sustainable Corporation Consultants
Invited Companies Include:
Deloitte, Renergy, Eaton, ASYM Energy, Goldman Sachs, Coca-Cola, Textron, UPS, North Face, Enterprise Holdings, WV Chamber of Commerce and many more…(50% off Registration fee for WV and VA Headquartered Companies).
To find out more contact a Greenbrier Lifestyle Asset Division Associate:
Chelsea Hover
chelsea_hover@greenbrier.com
304-536-7732
Holly Burns
holly_burns@greenbrier.com
304-208-6165
Rebecca Britton
Rebecca_britton@greenbrier.com
304-536-4944
Click here for PDF of the Corporate Sustainability Conference
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