Women Climbing the Green Ladder
Is your workplace addressing sustainability?
Do you feel prepared to help your workplace meet new market and business challenges of climate change, social justice and limited natural resources?
21st century leadership in the private sector is increasingly being defined by approaches that blend sustainability and profitability. While today only 17% of women hold leadership roles in any industry or field; increasingly, women rising to the top are doing so by incorporating a triple-bottom line approach to business practices.
Celebrate the book launch of Climb the Green Ladder: Make Your Company and Career More Sustainable by authors Amy Fetzer and Shari Aaron and come hear how women are succeeding by embracing sustainability in their careers.
The roundtable discussion will include:
Shari Aaron, Founder, Climb
the Green Ladder
Maria Figueroa Kupcu, Director, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Practice, Brunswick Group
Eleni Reed, Director, Sustainability Strategies, Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.
Tensie Whelan, President,
Rainforest Alliance
Moderator:
Natalia Oberti Noguera, Executive Director, New York Women Social Entrepreneurs (NYWSE)
Date: Jan. 21, 2010
Time: 6:30 P.M. - 8:30 P.M.
Location: Double Knot, 13 White Street, NYC
(between Sixth Avenue & West Broadway, TriBeCa)
Wine and snacks will be served.
EVENT SPONSOR
Double Knot: TriBeCa gallery dedicated to the art of hand-woven textiles, carpets and rugs.
EVENT PARTNER
Climb the Green Ladder: Empowering companies and organizations to integrate sustainability on a business-wide scale.
ABOUT NYWSE
NYWSE’s mission is to provide a community, tools, trainings, and resources that women need to succeed as business leaders while becoming sustainability experts, and our vision is to empower women to effect change in society at all levels, as an individual, community member, professional, student, and entrepreneur.
NYWSE’s mission is to provide a community, tools, trainings, and resources that women need to succeed as business leaders while becoming sustainability experts, and our vision is to empower women to effect change in society at all levels, as an individual, community member, professional, student, and entrepreneur.
For more information, go to: www.ywse.org/nywse
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