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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.
Episodes
22 episodes
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 ...
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36:37
Landing your dream climate job | From a passion to a paycheck
Cristina Lobo Guerrero is a third year climate change and sustainability consultant at the Big Four consulting firm, EY. Growing up in Colombia, Christina had parents who introduced her to the joys of nature and scuba diving, and since then she...
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44:02
Becoming a sustainability leader | Getting started and unlocking opportunities
Mike Schwartz helps drive corporate sustainability at Republic Services, a Fortune 300 company with 42,000 employees, more than 13 million customers, 17,000 trucks, 5 million daily pickups, 75 recycling centers, 5 million tons of materials proc...
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45:06
SB 253 & SB 261 and more: what you should know | According to a legal expert
David C. Smith knows a thing or two about the evolving legal landscape that corporate sustainability is facing. As a law partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, and with a Masters of Law degree specializing in energy with a concentration in c...
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44:04
Leading with purpose | Creating a culture of sustainability progress
Virgin Voyages isn’t like other cruise lines. They’ve set out to create an “Epic Sea Change For All.” As Virgin’s Sr. Director of Social Impact & Sustainability, Jill Stoneberg is captaining their purpose to make business a force for good a...
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44:06
The impact valuation question | What is the value of your impact on society?
Sam Vionnet is the author of the book Impact Thinking and the founder and CEO of Valuing Impact. The impact measurement consulting company uses innovative methodologies, data, and expertise to help organizations and businesses integrat...
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43:04
Greenblushing | The case for honest sustainability communications
In addition to being our Director, Communications Strategy here at thinkPARALLAX, Sami Grover is a communications strategist, branding expert, climate writer, and the author of the book
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42:14
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DEI’s new wave | A future-proof workplace culture strategy
Alyscia Raines is a workplace culture strategist and CEO at ADR Consulting Group, partnering with companies of all sizes to create an environment where every individual feels valued and empowered.Alyscia and her team are dedicated to fos...
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40:20
Sustainability’s digital era | Enterprise platforms and other tech are taking sustainability to the next level
Brittany Pettit is the Global Outbound Product Manager, ESG Management at ServiceNow, a cloud computing platform to help companies manage digital workflows for enterprise operations. With over 10 years of experience in the software industry, sh...
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43:12
An administrative solution | Transforming insurance into a force for climate action
Brad Stevenson is the founder and CEO of Premiums for the Planet, an insurance membership program that unites climate-conscious organizations into a force for change. Insurance? you’re wondering. Yes, insurance. Brad believ...
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41:14
Four pillars of purpose | A journey from Philanthropy to Social Impact
Aimee Griffiths is the Head of Social Impact at MoneyGram, a global fintech company, providing money transfer and financial services around the world. During our conversation we discussed how MoneyGram’s business is all about remittances, which...
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37:05
A mid-year review | Insights from our Head of Sustainability
Sheila Ongie, is our Head of Sustainability Strategy here at thinkPARALLAX and we thought this would be a good time, before we get too deep into the second half of 2024, to tap into her 15yrs of corporate sustainability experience to get a sens...
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Strategic giving | Driving impact through partnership
Kelem Butts is the VP of CSR Strategy at United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, and he believes that today’s most effective nonprofit-corporate relationships are not built on transactional exchanges, but instead long-term, strategic partnerships.&n...
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37:07
Unlocking funding | Lessons learned from a climate tech investor
Our guest this week, Ramsay Siegal, has worked in a variety of roles in the energy and climate space for the past 15+ years, and while she has watched it all evolve, she now views the sector from a unique vantage point; early stage investor. An...
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37:58
Growing our way out of climate change | Why farmers hold the key to your sustainability strategy
Adam Kotin is the managing director of the Soil & Climate Initiative, the first independent third-party regenerative agriculture commitment and verification program open to any farmer, in any production system.The Soil & Climate ...
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44:32
The communications balancing act | Building credibility, trust and transparency into your sustainability messaging
Christina Berger is Senior Director, Corporate Communications, ESG and Policy at ThredUp, the online resale platform that modernized the thrift store experience. On a mission to inspire the world to think secondhand first, ThredUp believes that...
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44:09
Invest your values | How to harness your shareholder power for lasting change
This week, we sat down with Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, to discuss the organization's work in shareholder advocacy and investing in alignment with values; two powerful concepts that can drive positive change and benefits for both sharehold...
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36:50
Scaling through partnership | What it takes to really move sustainability forward
Ali Mize is the Senior Director of ESG, Belonging and Corporate Philanthropy at Neiman Marcus Group and while that might sound like a lot to juggle, Ali credits the group's sustainability advancements to a highly specific approach. And as you’l...
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37:11
Creative alert | If you're working with fossil fuel companies, you're supporting climate change
Duncan Meisel is the Executive Director of Clean Creatives, a movement of advertisers, PR professionals, and their clients cutting ties with fossil fuels. Their pitch to creatives: fossil fuel clients r...
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38:57
Lessons from a Chief Strategy & Brand Officer | Making meaningful change and getting credit for it
Maisie Ganzler is the former Chief Strategy & Brand Officer at Bon Appétit Management Company and author of the new sustainability leadership book You Can't Market Manure at Lunchtime: And Other Lessons from the Food Industry for Creati...
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37:33
From accounting to action | Engaging internal allies and navigating competing priorities with Kristine Richmond at WM
Kristine Richmond is Sr. Director, ESG & Sustainability Impact at WM and she’s all in on the idea that it’s time to move from data to action; from the what to the how.With an impressive backgr...
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