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CEOs for Sustainability Speaker Series: How C-Suites Are Responding to Increasing Stakeholder Demand
10-25-2017 @ 8:00 am - 9:30 am
Registration & Breakfast at 7:30 am.
Savvy business leaders know sustainability is a path to standing out with customers, attracting and retaining employees, achieving operational savings, driving product innovation, and improving financial performance. To advance the uptake of sustainable business practices and help businesses throughout the Pittsburgh region realize these benefits, CEOs for Sustainability presents this inaugural series of executive briefings.
Keynote Speaker:
Integrated reporting consultant and BrownFlynn Senior Advisor Mike Krzus will describe global drivers of change in business valuation, including demographic and technological trends, the potential impact on companies and the executives who lead them, and how those trends may change the information needs of investors. He will also address how businesses are positioning strategically and tactically through winning sustainable business strategies.
CEOs for Sustainability Panel: How Leaders are Responding
- Steve Guy, President and CEO, Oxford Development Company
- Ciannie Rodriguez, Manager, IKEA Pittsburgh
- Jack Scalo, President and CEO, Burns & Scalo Roofing Company and Scalo Solar Solutions
Background:
Seeing a strong link between corporate sustainability performance and financial performance, more than 70 percent of investors say sustainability is central to their investment decisions, according to a 2016 survey by MIT Sloan Management Review and The Boston Consulting Group. Sustainability has been a focus of shareholder engagement as well, pressuring change at corporations from ExxonMobil to Kraft Heinz. This trend will only grow with rising customer/supplier pressures, all fueled by demographic shifts and the increasing proliferation of nonfinancial ratings and data.
Who Should Attend:
- Executives in Human Resources, Corporate Social Responsibility, Operations, Facilities, Communications, Marketing, Business Strategy
- Sustainability and CSR Practitioners
- Institutional Investors, Asset Managers, Wealth Advisors
The CEOs for Sustainability Speaker Series is presented by Covestro and IKEA through the CEOs for Sustainability executive council. Through CEOs for Sustainability, CEOs of the region’s companies share best sustainable business practices and collaborate in growing the ranks of businesses that reap the benefits of a triple bottom line — for people, planet, and profits.