Quarterly Member Insights: Understanding Sustainable Business Trends Shaping 2023

BSR Members Only

Date and Time

October 11, 2023
11:00 am-12:00 pm Eastern Time

Location

Webinar

This event is for BSR members only. Members, please log in to register.

BSR provides members with access to exclusive insights and analysis to help your business see a changing world more clearly and transform to meet present and future sustainability challenges. Every quarter, BSR members receive the ‘Quarterly Member Insights’ report with news and insights from our global team of sustainability and industry experts.  Our quarterly webinars walk you through these emerging developments and explore their implications for your company and its key stakeholders.   

In our fourth instalment of 2023, you will hear from our experts as they share highlights on:  

• The latest on climate and nature regulation and key trends
• Developments in the equity, inclusion and justice space
• The evolving reporting space and relevant updates from EU and US regulators

The webinar is open to all member companies and their employees. We encourage you to invite additional colleagues inside or outside of your team and take full advantage of BSR’s member benefits.

Scheduled Speakers

• Beth Richmond, Director, Transformation, BSR
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Beth Richmond
Director, Transformation, BSR
New York
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Beth helps companies create a more just and sustainable world through cutting-edge sustainability management. Beth leads BSR’s strategy practice, helping companies understand performance, identify priorities, and design effective sustainability solutions that increase resilience and deliver value for business and society.
Beth is also an active member of BSR’s Sustainable Futures Lab and regularly advises companies on climate change. Beth has led engagements in all of BSR’s major industry groups, touching all of BSR’s focus areas.
Prior to joining BSR, Beth served as the director of sustainability for a packaging manufacturer, where she was responsible for corporate-wide sustainability strategy and implementation. Beth also worked as a consultant to the US Environmental Protection Agency, where she developed benefit-cost analyses of proposed federal regulation and supported industry partnership development.
Beth holds a MEM from the Yale School of the Environment and a BA in Economics from Colby College.
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• MaryAnne Howland, Director, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice, BSR
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MaryAnne Howland
Director, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice, BSR
New York
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MaryAnne is responsible for establishing equity, inclusion, and justice (EIJ) services at BSR as a leading business resource for value-based leadership. She provides insights, strategies, and resources to reimagine and institutionalize global EIJ using an issue-focused approach. She will lead BSR’s EIJ team to provide support to companies across industries through strategic consulting services, thought leadership, and research on issues including, but not exclusive to: economic, health, and racial equity and inclusion; women’s empowerment; PGLE; persons with disabilities, supply chains; board governance; and Indigenous and regional issues. 
MaryAnne is the founder of Ibis Communications and the Global Diversity Leadership Exchange, and she also co-founded J.E.D.I. Collaborative. She has extensive experience in working with leaders in corporate, governmental, and non-governmental organizations who are on the front lines of driving justice, equity, dignity, and inclusion (JEDI) at the intersection of sustainability in global markets.
MaryAnne holds a BS in Communications from Boston University.
 
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• Victoria Woolner, Manager, Nature, BSR
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Victoria Woolner
Manager, Nature, BSR
New York
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Victoria is a part of BSR’s nature team, where she helps companies understand their impacts and risks related to Nature and develop ambitious strategies and solutions to mitigate their impacts. She supports this work across various industries, including consumer products and food, beverage, and agriculture.  
Prior to joining BSR, Victoria worked at the World Cocoa Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works with companies and stakeholders throughout the cocoa supply chain to collaborate and promote a sustainable cocoa sector. While there, she managed industry sustainability initiatives that focused on engaging companies around shared targets for smallholder cocoa farmers in West Africa and Brazil to improve farmer livelihoods, empower communities, and protect the environment.
During her undergraduate studies, Victoria participated in a sustainable development direct research program in Costa Rica with the School for Field Studies. She holds a BA in Environmental Studies from Saint Michael’s College, with minors in Sociology and History.
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• Francesca Manta, Associate Director, Membership, BSR
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Francesca Manta
Associate Director, Membership, BSR
New York
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Francesca brings more than 12 years of experience in human rights, sustainability management, and responsible supply chains to her work with companies in the infrastructure, financial services, and consumer products sectors. After spending her first years at BSR with the human rights team and successfully leading numerous engagements as Nordics lead in Copenhagen, Francesca is now based in New York City and leads our global membership team. 
Prior to joining BSR, Francesca worked at a global Danish retailer, where she was responsible for human rights programs at the corporate and local level. Francesca has also previously worked with the Danish Institute for Human Rights as well as Vestas and Maersk, where she was part of their sustainability teams and helped to establish social compliance systems and managed broader sustainability initiatives such as materiality, reporting, and ethics. She has done field work in East Africa, India, Myanmar, China, and South Korea.
Francesca holds a M.S. in Business and Development Studies from Copenhagen Business School and a BA in Political Science and International Relations from LUISS University Rome. She speaks Danish, English, and Italian.
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