Many companies are facing increasing pressure to understand the environmental impacts of their work, especially in identifying their contributions to greenhouse gas emissions through Scope 1, Scope 2, and now Scope 3 emissions calculations. However, smaller businesses often lack the knowledge required to track emissions contributions and report to their clients as part of their emissions reporting.

Brightworks Sustainability has partnered with USGBC-CA to present a unique workshop designed specifically for small businesses. This workshop aims to educate businesses on carbon accounting and ESG reporting, allowing them to demonstrate leadership in these areas. Our experts will guide participants through the voluntary frameworks and provide them with the tools to analyze their business operations, report to clients, and make improvements that will benefit people, the planet, and profit.

This workshop will enable local businesses, including commercial, industrial, and contractors, to compete for contracts in a marketplace that is increasingly demanding in terms of emissions reporting. By raising awareness of their emissions and the need to compete in reducing them, businesses will be encouraged to reduce energy and material use over time, contributing to a more sustainable region.

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting encompasses a wide range of topics, and it can be challenging for teams to know where to start, what to prioritize, and how to justify the required efforts. This workshop will provide small businesses with the necessary information to answer these questions, perform baseline assessments, and report supply chain information to their clients and agencies.

Upon completion of this workshop and a 10-question exam, participants will receive a certificate of completion from USGBC-LA. This course qualifies for 2 GBCI CEU credits.

Meet the Presenter

Angela Wisely

MPA, LEED AP BD+C, BREEAM AP

Director, Brightworks Sustainability

Angela Wisely is a Director at Brightworks with a decade of experience in sustainability services. Over the years, she has managed more than 70 sustainability programs across the globe. Angela specializes in managing particularly complex project scopes, expertly collaborating across diverse teams to create custom programs and infrastructure to help clients successfully scale their sustainability priorities. Her work has ranged from LEED Platinum projects to global indoor air quality monitoring program rollouts, to corporate stakeholder engagement initiatives.

As a Senior Consultant for the Salesforce Sustainable Built Environment Program, Angela served in the role of Global LEED Oversight. In this role, she has supported Salesforce to develop and manage a coherent and rigorous approach to sustainable building across a variety of geographies, project scales, and rating systems.

Her other clients have included LinkedIn, FedEx, Autodesk, Equinix, GitHub, InsideSource, Zendesk, and Nutanix.

Jeff Frost

LEED AP (BD+C), CI-TSG, CSBA

Materials Technical Lead, Brightworks Sustainability

Jeff Frost is a recognized national subject matter expert on a wide array of material issues affecting the built environment. For almost two decades, Jeff has sought to make the selection of sustainable materials a simple choice. He has built a scoring framework that translates our complex materials market into numerical values to guide sustainable procurement choices for clients, drive market transformation, and reward innovation.

In partnership with a coalition of owners and industry peers, Jeff is helping to establish a comprehensive accounting of the embodied carbon emissions of building projects and to seek an approved pathway for reporting these as Scope 3 emissions by WRI. This multi-year effort will allow for repeatable, defensible accounting of embodied carbon, empowering our client’s ability to reduce and offset these emissions.

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