The Social Pillar: Creating Your Culture and Building a Green Team

**THIS EVENT WILL BE ON-LINE. YOU WILL RECEIVE THE ZOOM LINK WHEN YOU REGISTER**

Creating Your Company Culture and Building a Green Team

This session will take a look at the "society" pillar of a sustainable business strategy. A sustainable business must understand its impact on society and strive to be fair, equitable and ethical, both internally and externally. A true sustainable business should also have a purpose beyond profit and a beneficial impact on society. For a sustainability strategy to be successful, employees, management and stakeholders need to be engaged. One approach to engage employees is to start a green team. Creating a “sustainable-minded” corporate culture from the start will help your business attract and retain the right employees and help you find your purpose!

Content

• What is a Green Team and how to create one
• Employee policies and business with a purpose
• How to be a good neighbor and community member – volunteering, giving back
• Know your product’s impact on society, locally and globally – human rights, animal rights, public safety and well-being

Guest Speakers

Karla Guzman-Mims, Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, The Mosaic Company

Sam Harris, Manager of Client Success, Green Business Bureau

Santosh Mathew, Director of Technology, Mergers & Acquisitions Leader, SAP SD/OTC, CRM, Co-lead Asian Affinity ERG SE/ North America Green Team, Nielsen

This workshop is the fourth in a series of sustainable business workshops. Other topics such as governance, ESG, marketing and social entrepreneurship will be covered in the remaining workshops. You may attend any number of workshops.

About the Program

Sustainability @Work is a series of workshops designed for start-ups and small businesses interested in learning more about how to become more sustainable and why it is not only important, but profitable. Each workshop will cover an important aspect of becoming a sustainable business.

The workshops are designed as stand-alone sessions and attendees may choose to attend one or all of them depending on their particular challenge or interest. The program is also designed to work as a cohesive series so a participant attending all sessions will be well prepared to create a comprehensive sustainability plan or work towards one of many certifications in the industry upon completion.

Attendees who are interested in pursuing a certification or getting a more formal assessment are eligible to apply for a free one-on-one consultation.

THIS PROGRAM IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY GOVERNMENT