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Dialing in your decarbonization plan in an uncertain landscape

Joe McMahan, Maple Leaf Foods

Making a decarbonization goal is different than knowing how to get there. Join Joe McMahan, Vice President of Sustainability and Shared Value at Maple Leaf Foods, as he takes us through the challenges, wins, and lessons learned in setting the path forward for his company in a moment marked by increased volatility and constantly evolving expectations and standards.

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Making volunteerism the heart of your talent development vision

Sam Cammarata, NBCUniversal

Integrating volunteer service into leadership development strategies draws social impact deeper into the heart of your business, but how do you create and sustain those collaborations? Join Sam Cammarata, Senior Director of Partnerships & Engagement at NBCUniversal, to hear how they have helped build a best-in-class Talent Lab to develop the company’s leadership and deepen the business value of volunteerism.

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Building a company-wide culture of sustainability knowledge + action

Julie Childers, Owens Corning

Operationalizing sustainability means engaging your company’s whole workforce in a much different way. Join Julie Childers, Senior Director of Sustainability at Owens Corning, as she takes us through their recent pilots to deliver tailored sustainability education and enablement to her company’s very different teams. She’ll talk us through leveraging the right consultants, identifying priority audiences, and what the plan is next now that first round results are in.

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Winning at community collaboration: TD Bank’s Housing Summit

Paige Carlson-Heim, TD Bank

In 2024, TD Bank’s social impact team convened its first ever Housing Summit, a major gathering of stakeholders including NGOs, economists, academics, and executives to identify solutions for the affordable housing crisis. From early internal resistance to a smashing success, learn from Paige Carlson-Heim, Head of US Social Impact at TD Bank, how they pulled everyone together and how they plan to iterate for the future.

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Making water and energy sustainability a manufacturing priority

Rachel Grunberg, The Hershey Company

For energy and water sustainability to really move forward operational teams have to take the lead. How can sustainability teams build structures and strategies to root these priorities deep into the business? Join Rachel Grunberg, Head of Environmental Sustainability at The Hershey Company, to hear how they built governance, set goals, developed roadmaps, and helped their manufacturing organization invest in deep water and energy sustainability improvements for the long run.

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When speed matters: Building a smarter disaster response strategy

Katy Phillips, American Airlines

When disaster strikes, how does a global airline decide how to show up quickly, thoughtfully, and with real community impact? Katy Phillips, Manager of Partnerships and Community Relations at American Airlines, shares how her team continues to evolve the company’s approach to crisis response. She’ll walk through how they tap into core strengths, activate nonprofit partners, and balance urgency with care. Along the way, she’ll unpack what they’re learning and what it takes to respond with both speed and substance.

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Managing raters and rankers: Driving internal alignment without chasing perfect scores

Wyeth Larson, Avery Dennison

What happens when you stop trying to win at every ESG rating and instead, start focusing on what actually matters? Wyeth Larson, Director of ESG at Avery Dennison, shares how a structured, strategic approach to managing raters and rankers saves time, reduces noise, and helps his team stay focused on what drives real business value. He’ll walk us through how they’re prioritizing the handful of ratings that matter most, setting internal expectations, and staying grounded when scores shift. It’s a practical, honest look at how governance can turn external pressure into internal clarity and why strategically aiming for “good” instead of “great” can sometimes be the smartest move.

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Cracking the code: Cisco’s journey to 80% global engagement and unlocking business value

Kelly Petrich, Cisco

How can organizations effectively scale and sustain broad employee participation in CSR initiatives? Kelly Petrich, Director of Community Impact & Inclusive Communities at Cisco, will share the valuable lessons learned as her team consistently engaged 80% of their 80,000+ global employees in community impact for five years running. Uncover the “secret sauce” behind this achievement and how Cisco identified data-backed connections between their community impact efforts and key business outcomes. Join this session to hear firsthand from Cisco’s journey of fostering engagement at scale and demonstrating that doing good is good for business.

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Beyond spend: A better way to lead supplier engagement

Jeff Freeman, Cimpress

What if your supplier engagement strategy wasn’t built on estimates, but on actual emissions data? That’s the shift Cimpress has been making over the last three years — moving away from spend-based to real numbers to focus on real reductions. Jeff Freeman, Senior Director of Sustainability, shares how they’ve redesigned their approach to uncover true carbon drivers, partner more effectively with suppliers, and stay grounded when the data gets messy. You’ll hear what’s working, what’s still evolving, and how clearer expectations and stronger alignment are helping Cimpress move the needle where it really counts.

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Engaging hourly employees with real impact

Helping front-line employees to volunteer is always a tough task, and so many of the easy options feel like busy work. Hear how one team found solutions to engage these workers in ways that partners really notice.