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Join us on Monday, November 12 for a workshop with Tiffany Finley! Tiffany will share experiences from her current role as the Materiality and Stakeholder Engagement Lead at Target and her time consulting across many different industries and geographies. We are happy to present the annual Erb Institute Fall Workshop Series: The Elements of Business Sustainability. Through this series, we bring business and sustainability experts to the University of Michigan to share their insights on a variety of sustainability opportunities…

As part of its fall speaker series, please join the Erb Institute for a workshop with Chhavi Ghuliani, Associate Director for BSR HERproject:  a model that brings together global brands, their suppliers, and local partners to create and implement workplace-based interventions on health, financial inclusion, and gender equality. Chhavi will discuss the key social and labor risks and opportunities that face businesses and the variety of roles that practitioners can play in mobilizing the private sector; from internal business roles, working with firms…

As Associate Director at BSR, Roger has nearly 15 years of experience advising some of the world’s largest brands on a broad range of social, labor, and environmental issues—from factory working conditions, to migrant labor in agricultural production, to living wage across global supply chains. Few people in the world today have more practical, hands-on human-rights experience—in the factories, fields, and board rooms of global sustainability! Informal conversation with Roger McElrath about the opportunities and obstacles to having social, environmental,…

As part of its fall speaker series, please join the Erb Institute for a workshop with Sean Ansett, President of At Stake Advisors Ltd. Sean is a sustainability executive with 20 years’ experience managing complexity, building multi-stakeholder partnerships, and spearheading change across the apparel, electronics and food sectors. He is founder of At Stake Advisors Limited, a global sustainability consultancy focused on transforming strategy into practice in the areas of human rights, ethical trade, and environmental sustainability. Prior to founding…

In promoting social change, organizations benefit from diverse membership, yet diversity is difficult to achieve. Using data collected over a 15-month field study, Professors Sara Soderstrom and Kate Heinze examined how a social movement organization (SMO), FoodLab, mobilized a diverse collective of entrepreneurs, aligned with the good food movement. FoodLab articulated a vision for an imagined future of a diverse good food economy in Detroit that aligned movement goals and entrepreneurs’ livelihoods. This vision supported diverse recruitment, and the organization…

Learn to "Measure what Matters" -- a workshop with Dow's Jennifer Princing.

12:00pm - 2:00 pm Ross School of Business Former Silicon Valley venture capitalist, John Denniston and Tony Salas (former undersecretary of Agriculture for Peru) are coming to the University of Michigan to give a talk on the genesis of Shared-X, "A for-profit impact company." Shared-X is a partnership formed between Denniston and Salas  to find novel ways to develop rural agriculture in developing countries to achieve 3 goals: "generate attractive financial returns for our customers, lift people out of extreme poverty…