Enterprise Sustainability Action Team ESAT Jeana Wirtenberg, Ph.DDavid Lipsky, Ph.D Annual Sharing D

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Enterprise Sustainability Action
Team(ESAT)Jeana Wirtenberg, Ph.D David
Lipsky, Ph.D Annual Sharing Day May 4,
2006
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What is Sustainability?

• How can the present generation meet its needs in
  ways that are not only economically viable,
  environmentally sound and socially equitable but
  that also allow future generations to do the
  same
• United Nations World Commission on Environment
  and Development (The Brundtland Commission), Our
  Common Future, 1987
• Companys ability to achieve its business goals
  and increase long-term shareholder value by
  integrating economic, environmental and social
  opportunities into its business strategies.
• From participants of Symposium on
  Sustainability Profiles in Leadership, NYC,
  October 2001.

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What is Sustainability?
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When It All Comes Together!tm
What does it take to build The Sustainable
Enterprise?
Structures Processes
Culture
The Sustainable Enterprise
Current State?
Leadership
Strategy
Performance Measures Reward Systems
Alignment
Skills Competencies
Alignment
Alignment
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Enterprise Sustainability Action Team

• Overview and Purpose
• Develop a fieldbook or primer including
  practical tools, case studies, references and
  resources for supporting the sustainable
  enterprise. Outputs will be multi-dimensional
  online, multi-media (DVDs, CDs), and a hard
  copy book
• Target Audience Boards of Directors, Senior
  Management, Business leaders and managers, OD
  practitioners working (internal and external), HR
  Leaders and HR professionals
• Methods Sub-teams design and work on sections
  on Sustainability Knowledge Network Portal
  (www.sknworldwide.net). Monthly conference calls
  of entire team to dialogue, ensure integration
  and synthesis, build momentum, and create
  accountability.

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Enterprise Sustainability Action Team

• Fieldbook Outline
• Mental Models and Sustainability
• Strategy Formulation
• Leadership
• Employee Engagement
• Trans-Organizational Collaboration
• Change Management
• Making it Personal

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Enterprise Sustainability Action Team

• Who is on the team?
• Overall Team Leaders Jeana Wirtenberg David
  Lipsky
• Mental Models and Sustainability John Adams, Tom
  Drucker, Beth Applegate, Linda Kelley
• Strategy Formulation John Adams, Eric Balinski,
  Govi Rao, Susan Nickbarg
• Leadership Dan Twomey, Karen Davis, Shakira
  Abdul-Ali, Beth Applegate, Terri McNichol, Linda
  Kelley
• Employee Engagement Jeana Wirtenberg, Bill
  Russell, Orrin Judd, Dick Knowles, Kent Fairfield
• Trans-Organizational Collaboration, Social
  Networks - Bill Russell, Linda Kelley, Govi
  Rao, Karen Davis, Susan Nickbarg
• Change Management Rosemary Dietrich, Sangeeta
  Rao
• Making it Personal David Lipsky, Beth
  Applegate
• Coordinator

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Enterprise Sustainability Action Team

• Chapter Contents. Examples
• Mental Models and Sustainability
• Introduction and overview
• Mental Models and sustainability
• Building the Case for Sustainability
• The Role of Global OD in Fostering Mental Models
  for Sustainability
• Building a Critical mass of Sustainability
  Thinking
• Implementing Change Key Success Factors

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Enterprise Sustainability Action Team

• Chapter Contents. Examples Employee
  Engagement
• Key Assumptions
• Employee engagement underlies and is foundational
  to an organizations ability to be sustainable
• We co-create the conditions and invite people to
  come into the conversations that are important to
  the people in the organization and the
  organizations sustainability
• Key Question How do we purposefully engage with
  the natural tendencies to self-organize rather
  than doing something to employees, manipulating
  or coercing them?
• Methods
• Identify and interview key representatives from
  companies which are committed to moving towards
  sustainability for lessons learned, best/next
  practices.
• Create how tos and Case Study examples to
  illustrate
• Examine companies that have great employee
  engagement initiatives but have not applied to
  sustainability

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Making It Personal

• Team Leaders Beth Applegate David Lipsky
• Purpose
• Create a vehicle where people who are passionate
  about sustainability have the opportunity to
  learn and share personal stories of success and
  failures. Make these learnings available to the
  Sustainability community to help build the energy
  for our efforts.
• Example