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Introducing newly joined corporate citizenship executive advisors
Do you need advice or extra support to help you advance your corporate citizenship strategy? The Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship provides corporate citizenship professionals with the tools, resources, and support they need to deliver on environmental, social, and governance goals.
To help you develop an effective, differentiated program, we provide robust executive education offerings and advisory services. We are delighted to announce that we have increased bandwidth to offer services ranging from strategy-development to materiality analysis and report-writing. I am delighted to welcome a new cohort of executive advisors and teaching fellows who will be available to help provide these services. These business leaders and corporate citizenship peers are available for in-depth custom training and advisory work to help corporate citizenship professionals create strategy, implement their programs, and communicate their metrics for success.
What kind of services to executive advisors offer?
- Cross-departmental trainings to build a baseline knowledge of corporate citizenship.
- Topic-specific classes to get your colleagues up to speed on a core concept.
- Team strategy sessions to level set your CSR or leadership team.
- Personalized advisory work to assist with sustainability reporting, design new programs, craft strategy, and more.
Meet our executive advisors and teaching fellows below, and contact us at ccc@bc.edu if you are interested in learning more from their firsthand expertise.
New:
Rob Vallentine
Formerly president of The Dow Chemical Company Foundation.
- AREAS OF EXPERTISE: corporate citizenship strategy, inclusion, resilience, sustainability
Rebecca Leonard
Held numerous roles at the TJX Companies, including head of public relations, community relations, and the TJX Foundation.
- AREAS OF EXPERTISE: corporate citizenship reporting, public and community relations, foundations
Chris Lloyd
Former executive director of corporate responsibility for Verizon Communications.
- AREAS OF EXPERTISE: strategic planning, materiality, corporate citizenship reporting review, metrics and measurement
Dave Stangis
Formerly vice president, corporate responsibility and chief sustainability officer for Campbell Soup Company; coauthor, 21st Century Corporate Citizenship.
- AREAS OF EXPERTISE: corporate citizenship strategy, organizational design, sustainability, change management, leadership, reputation management, stakeholder engagement
Brendan LeBlanc
Formerly managing partner for sustainability at EY.
- AREAS OF EXPERTISE: corporate citizenship strategy, organizational design, sustainability, change management, leadership, reputation management, stakeholder engagement
Stewart Rassier
Formerly director of executive education, Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship.
- AREAS OF EXPERTISE: corporate citizenship strategy, sustainability reporting
This new cohort will be joining our long-tenured executive advisors:
Lance Pierce
Formerly president of global development at ADEC Innovations; and president, CDP North America.
- AREAS OF EXPERTISE: corporate citizenship reporting, environmental sustainability
Nelmara Arbex
Founder and CEO of Arbex & Company; formerly served as chief advisor on innovation in reporting at the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
- AREAS OF EXPERTISE: corporate citizenship leadership, strategy, innovation, and reporting
Stephen Donofrio
Principal and founder of Greenpoint Innovations; formerly vice president of CDP North America, where he directed the organization’s work in Canada.
- AREAS OF EXPERTISE: ESG assessment, strategy, reporting, and communications; responsible investing; environmental markets; carbon finance; and sustainable development
Susan L. Santos, PhD
Expert in risk communication and risk assessment, bringing extensive hands-on technical experience with years of research and implementation.
- AREAS OF EXPERTISE: strategic design, implementation, measurement and evaluation, crisis communication, risk assessment
Bo Miller
Formerly global director for corporate citizenship for the Dow Chemical Company, as well as president and executive director of the Dow Chemical Company Foundation.
- AREAS OF EXPERTISE: corporate citizenship strategy, materiality and stakeholder engagement
Lynnette McIntyre
Managed global reputation management, sustainability communications, executive communications, and public relations programs at UPS.
- AREAS OF EXPERTISE: corporate citizenship reporting, GRI-certified trainer
Cindy Conner
Formerly director of citizenship and reputation at FedEx.
- AREAS OF EXPERTISE: communications strategy, reputation, brand standards
Kate Rubin
Formerly head of social responsibility at UnitedHealth Group, as well as president of the United Health Foundation.
- AREAS OF EXPERTISE: corporate citizenship reporting, leadership development, nonprofit management, human resources
Meet the executive advisors at the International Corporate Citizenship Conference in San Francisco on March 30-April 1, 2020. Register today.
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