Leaning In and Listening to the ESG Conversation: What to Know Within the Intersections and Harmony of EHS and ESG
EHS and ESG often intersect in high-stakes, emotionally charged conversations. Are these communities set up to compete or collaborate on shared goals? Explore how integrating EHS metrics into ESG frameworks can align priorities and promote lifesaving initiatives in the workplace.
November 12, 2024
2:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM CT / 11:00 AM PT / 7:00 PM GMT
In his 2021 book, Kerry Patterson defines “crucial conversations” as “a discussion between two or more people where the stakes are high, opinions vary and emotions run strong.” This definition aptly describes the EHS profession when it comes to the topic of environmental, social and governance.
What are some of these conversations for the EHS professional?
Have the EHS and ESG communities been set up to compete against one another – or serve broader, similar, and catalyzing goals and objectives?
Is there a common framework through ESG to better promote EHS goals and objectives, and vice versa?
And what if better integrated EHS metrics within an ESG framework promoted the lifesaving goals, resources and priorities we can all be invested in?
Join us for this fun but crucial conversation, in which we’ll explore perspectives, definitions, common frameworks and intersections where today’s safety professional is learning to influence and lead in today’s world of work.
Speakers
Scott DeBow, CSP, ARM | Director - Health & Safety | Avetta
Scott DeBow serves as Director of Health/Safety & Environmental for Avetta – the leading provider of supply chain risk management software. He’s a highly collaborative, strategic thinker and operator with 19 years of progressive leadership in the realm of risk/occupational safety. With an “inside-out” perspective as a safety professional in nontraditional employment settings, he sees tremendous opportunity for systems improvements that can work together to reliably create and maintain safer work environments. Working to align people, teams, and industry resources for safety within the joint-employer community, he devotes much of his time to developing safety leadership across organizations with a targeted emphasis on systems improvements to address the most critical type of risk far too easily overlooked: serious injury/fatality, or SIF.
Scott serves as Director-at-Large for the Executive Board of ASSP and is also an active member of the ANSI Z-10 Committee for Safety Management Systems. He passionately believes that helping people and organizations grow in safety leadership benefits and transforms our society.
Katie Martin | Director - Sustainability | Avetta Katie is a multidisciplinary leader in tech, ESG, and sustainability with over a decade of experiences leading businesses through ESG and sustainability transformations. She has designed, implemented, and assessed ESG and Sustainability programs for both Fortune 500s and startups at scale across a variety of sectors including mobility, education, civic engagement, consumer goods, and green tech.
In 2018, Katie launched the global Social Impact practice area at Boston Consulting Group’s digital ventures arm, developing and applying ESG methodology to expand business’ sustainability capabilities and data management. She also drafted and implemented BCG’s strategic roadmap, facilitating service design through core offerings, product design, strategic partnerships, and internal programming.
Because upwards of 90% of ESG and sustainability impact occurs in supply chains, Katie joined leading global supply chain risk management firm, Avetta, in 2022. As the ESG & Sustainability Lead Principal at Avetta, Katie architects solutions to address ESG leaders’ organizational goals across their supply chain from initial program development to optimization and reporting, leveraging Avetta’s best in class technology platform to deliver transformative results for partners.
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