Lafayette, California, United States
Corporate sustainability expert with over twenty years experience advising companies on integrating CSR into daily business decision-making. Strategic and resourceful team leader with demonstrated success in achieving results and meeting project objectives. Collaborative consensus builder who has developed strong relationships with companies, domestic and international NGOs, government agencies, and multi-lateral organizations. Strengths include strategy development and implementation, project management, leading trainings and facilitation, problem analysis, stakeholder engagement and team building. Specialties: Subject matter expertise in supply chain management, human rights and labor issues, sustainability, worker communication systems, reporting and transparency, living wage particularly in the consumer products and food and agriculture industries.
Provide strategic counsel to companies on developing and implementing sustainability policies and strategies. Engagements include: -Create and implement supply chain sustainability program for on-line retail company, including a risk assessment, policy development and building business integration on implementation throughout the supply chain. -Advise major apparel brand on strategies and communications on sustainable wage issues, water strategy, country risk profiles, conflict minerals, sustainable chemistry and sustainable cotton. -Assisted agriculture company in implementing their grower sustainability strategy through grower forums, trainings and direct interactions with agriculture field workers.
Contigo Partners improves sustainability education and stakeholder engagement yield through advanced and improved stakeholder engagement. To yield sustained outcomes, we believe in the creation of clear, shared objectives and rigorous management of the organization toward meeting those objectives. This will require surfacing underlying assumptions and inclusive participation of all participants throughout the process. We have developed principles for facilitation and capacity building based on over thirty years of collective experience working with the corporate, civil society and multi-lateral sectors.
• Provide strategic counsel and research to companies, associations, NGOs and multi-lateral organizations on corporate responsibility solutions. Projects include: • Shaped the CSR priories through the development of a company-wide CSR initiative for a leading footwear brand by assessing environmental and social risks of their business impacts, including the company's supply chain, and developing a cross-functional team geared toward business integration of CSR priorities. • Developed new strategic initiative on remediation of social compliance issues in the supply chain of a major US brand and helped with implementation through training of regional staff globally. • Provided strategic direction and training to international staff of UNICEF on the most effective means for partnering with the private sector to support the Millennium Development Goals. • Coordinated and facilitated the collaborative efforts of an industry association to reflect to growing interest of its members to pursue an environmental initiative jointly.
• Generated consulting projects and advised global companies on CSR policy development and implementation. Particular focus on responsible supply chain management and CSR strategy integration into core business decision-making. Clients included: Ford Motor Company, Gap Inc, JC Penney, Kraft Foods, Levi Strauss & Company, McDonald’s, Monsanto, Nordstrom, Novartis, Proctor & Gamble, Reebok, Starbucks, Timberland, Wal-Mart. • Developed and implemented strategy and budget for engaging consumer products companies on membership, advisory services, workings groups and grant activities. Managed team of 12 in their activities toward meeting strategic goals. • Developed and oversaw BSR’s “Beyond Monitoring” initiative, aimed at engaging companies on the development of a long-term vision and set of activities to facilitate sustainable supply chain conditions consistent with universal labor standards, good environmental • Co-led and developed organizational $9 million budget and strategic planning process as part of senior management team. • Oversaw Labor Standards Working Group for 30 global consumer products companies. Developed agendas, facilitated meetings, and coordinated outreach and collaborative efforts of fifty company representatives in working group. • Represented BSR externally through speaking engagements and written communications. • Coordinated and led Labor Standards training workshops for global brands and their suppliers, including staffing, budgets and location for twelve annual workshops. Developed content, promoted, and led training workshops in the Dominican Republic, Cambodia, Brazil, Thailand, Mexico, El Salvador, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. • Advised seven apparel and footwear companies on implications of implementing a living wage to employees in their global supply chain. • Managed and conducted multi-stakeholder research project for twelve universities on the condition of their licensed apparel production in Asia and Latin America.