Inspiring Perspectives
Inspiring Perspectives is a sustainability and ESG podcast featuring fresh takes, bold ideas, practical application, and real-world sustainability challenges and solutions as told by sustainability leaders from a variety of industries who are doing the work.
Produced by the team of experts at the sustainability strategy and communications agency, thinkPARALLAX, Inspiring Perspectives gives you a sneak peek behind the sustainability scenes of some of the world’s most respected brands and companies.
Hosted by Derek Sabori, a Senior Director at thinkPARALLAX, new episodes featuring valuable takeaways drop every other week.
Visit the show at https://www.thinkparallax.com/podcast.
Inspiring Perspectives
Influencing from within | How internal relationships drive progress
Sarah Martinez is the VP of ESG at Prime Data Centers. She has also held sustainability leadership positions at Target, Clorox, and Disney. Prime Data Centers is an international co-location data center provider at the center of a fast-growing industry. That means they build, own, and operate data centers for tech companies, cloud providers, and AI companies, among others.
Sarah discussed what she’s learned from various roles, companies, and industries, and how those experiences inform her work in the rapidly evolving sustainability landscape. Needless to say, she has keen insights on how to scale up sustainability programs successfully.
Here’s a glimpse of some of the key insights Sarah shared:
- In all her roles, the issue most often discussed — and in the greatest depth — has been related to energy, climate and renewable power.
- Data centers are essential for digital infrastructure, and most of the companies that rely on these have energy/climate commitments.
- AI significantly increases energy consumption; we need to create a society where AI is enabling our growth and our knowledge, but in a way that meets the realities of the climate constraints that we face as a society.
- Sustainability roles are evolving to be more integrated and leadership support is crucial for sustainability success.
- When it comes to sustainability, curiosity and openness to learning are the traits that benefit corporate leadership the most.
- Building internal relationships is key for sustainability leaders.
- If we’re going to achieve the sustainability goals that were set 10-15 years ago, it’s imperative that sustainability has a seat at the decision-making table today.
- Spend time understanding the issues you should be focused on, what makes the most business sense, and the environmental and social impacts of your decisions.
Links associated with our conversation:
- Sarah Martinez - Sarah on LinkedIn
- Prime Data Centers - Data center real estate developers
- iMasons Climate Accord - Achieving carbon neutrality in digital infrastructure
- Canary Media - Clean energy journalism for a cooler tomorrow
Thanks for checking out our show! It was produced by our team of experts at thinkPARALLAX.
Intro/Outro music by QubeSounds from Pixabay.
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