Event Resources
Webinar Recording
Key Takeaways
Date and Time
Thursday May 7, 2020
8:00 am-9:00 am
Pacific Time
Location
Webinar
After weeks of being shuttered due to COVID-19, corporate headquarters, venues, universities, and businesses of all kinds are preparing to reopen their doors. But life in the workplace will not go back to “normal,” nor can it be started back up like flipping a switch. Do you know what you need to do to prepare for the safety, health, and well-being of your employees and students?
Join the conversation and hear directly from industry experts at Sodexo, Merck, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and BSR. You’ll come away from this event with actionable strategies, including:
- Practical tips and strategies on what you can do now to prepare for re-opening
- Learn how to prioritize employees’ physical and mental well-being
- Best practices for building resilience against future threats
- The newly understood interdependence between business and health
Can’t join on Thursday, May 7 at 11 a.m. EDT? Register anyway and we’ll send you a recording when the event is over.
Note: This replaces the previously planned Promoting Employee Well-Being During COVID-19 and Beyond webinar, which was scheduled for May 13th.
Speakers
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Laura Gitman,
Chief Operating Officer, BSR
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.
Laura has also been a leader in BSR’s organizational growth and impact. She launched BSR’s financial services practice and New York office, and she is currently the Chief Operating Officer, 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. She is sought after to facilitate senior-level strategy workshops and multistakeholder collaborations. She has published reports on environmental, social, and governance trends among investors as well as sustainability integration and leadership. From 2006 to 2010, she facilitated the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition, growing the initiative from 15 to more than 50 companies.
Laura 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 an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. She is an adjunct professor in the Bard M.B.A. 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.
- Cathryn E. Gunther, AVP Global Population Health, Merck & Co.
- Dr. Glorian Sorensen, Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Director, Harvard Chan School Center for Work, Health and Well-being
- Nebeyou Abebe, Global VP of Health and Wellbeing, Sodexo
