BSR Membership Benefits: Insights, Advice, and Collaboration

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March 20, 2025
11:00 am-12:00 pm EDT

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At a time of tremendous uncertainty for the sustainable business field, BSR is helping our members see the changing world more clearly with insights from our team of global experts and opportunities for private peer exchange. Now is a great time to join BSR, so register to learn more about the benefits of BSR membership. This webinar will showcase how BSR’s extensive resources—including insights, advice, and collaboration opportunities—can help you navigate a changing world, create long-term value, and scale impact. Discover how becoming a BSR member can help your company drive meaningful progress toward your sustainable business goals.

Are you a BSR member and want to learn more about your membership benefits? Join our Maximizing Your BSR Membership webinar instead.

Scheduled Speakers

• Charlene Collison, Director, Collaboration, BSR
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Charlene Collison
Director, Collaboration, BSR
London
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As Director, Collaborations, Charlene develops and implements strategies to engage BSR member companies and other stakeholders in high-impact collaborations for sustainable development. She specializes in building collaborative approaches between consumer-facing companies and their value chains to embed long-term sustainability, build resilience in the face of disruption, and increase equity, inclusion, and justice.
Charlene brings over 20 years of experience in sustainability, systems change, futures, and collaboration. Prior to BSR, Charlene was associate director for sustainable value chains and livelihoods with global sustainability non-profit Forum for the Future, where she directed collaborative system change initiatives in cotton, tea and other commodities, and led strategy projects with partners across the fashion and textile, agricultural and food sectors.
Charlene has an extensive background in futures, including working with the UK government’s futures unit developing and testing strategies across government departments.
Charlene holds an MSc in Sustainability and Responsibility from Ashridge Management College (UK), a BA in International Relations from the University of Puget Sound (US), and a Diploma in Organisation Development from Henley Business School (UK).
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Recent Insights From Charlene Collison
• Why an Impactful Sustainability Strategy needs Collaboration / September 26, 2023 / Blog
• Are garment workers one step closer to living wages? / June 30, 2023 / News
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• Laura Gitman, Chief Impact Officer, BSR
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Laura Gitman
Chief Impact Officer, BSR
New York
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Laura is a global expert on corporate sustainability, with two decades of experience in strategy consulting and has advised senior executives at global companies across a range of industry sectors and sustainability issues.
As Chief Impact Officer (CIO), the first in the organization’s 30-year history, Laura focuses on maximizing the impact of BSR’s work with its network of over 300 members, both through direct engagement on project work and as a mentor for teams throughout the organization. She also oversees BSR’s collaborative initiatives and the Center for Business and Social Justice, and a recognized thought leader and innovator in strategic business.
She has been an instrumental leader in BSR’s organizational growth and impact. She launched BSR’s financial services practice and New York office, and she served as Chief Operating Officer for five years, leveraging her strengths in strategy, organizational change, and people management. Laura works with leading global companies to develop and enhance their sustainability strategies to maximize value for business and society, and she is sought after to facilitate senior-level strategy workshops and multi-stakeholder collaborations.
She previously worked for Deloitte Consulting, where she acquired extensive strategy experience advising multinational financial services companies. She also worked on several community and economic development projects in Latin America.
Laura holds a MBA from Stanford University and a BS in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. She is an adjunct professor in the Bard MBA in Sustainability program, a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, and a member of the UN Global Compact Expert Network.
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Recent Insights From Laura Gitman
• Sustainability Goal Setting: A New Chapter / January 21, 2025 / Insights+
• CSOs Are All Business: The Role of the CSO in a New Context / January 9, 2025 / Blog
• Racing Past the Crossroads: How Sustainability Leaders Can Reassert Ambition / October 31, 2024 / Blog
• Frankly Speaking #59, Laura Gitman: Which Future for Sustainability Leadership in the Company? / October 30, 2024 / News
• The CSO at a Crossroads: Three Paths Forward for Sustainability Leaders / October 17, 2024 / Reports
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