TRACK Workshop: The Corporate Environmental Sustainability Journey

Event Type: Workshop
Location: Online

Date/Time

Sustainability and ESG, Strategic Planning, Globalization, Tools and Techniques

The purpose of this course is for the participants to understand what CSR (corporate social responsibility – specifically the environmental aspect). Additionally, we will present the financial advantage of companies that embrace environmental sustainability and how to incorporate the principles and tools into your company processes.

Learning Objectives:

• Adapt available tools, techniques, templates to your business processes to improve CSR level Key Takeaways

• Participants will learn where they (their company) are today using a Sustainability Maturity Model assessment tool

• Participants will take away an understanding of how to advance within the Maturity Model.

• Participants will have access to tools, templates, processes to implement to improve their sustainability maturity standing – a real “how-to” get where they’re going.

Pre-read Material:

Creating and Capturing Value Through Sustainability: The Sustainable Value Analysis Tool
A new tool helps companies discover opportunities to create and capture value through sustainability. View PDF
The Path to Sustainability-Driven Innovation: Environmental sustainability can be the foundation for increasing competitive advantage and the basis for effective innovation. View PDF
A Maturity Model for Sustainability in New Product Development. View PDF
Integrating Sustainability into New Product Development: Available tools and frameworks can help companies ensure that sustainability is embedded as a fundamental building block of new product development. View PDF

Who should attend:

IRI members and prospective members interested in improving their company’s environmental sustainability performance and outcome.

Registration Fees:

IRI Members: $295
Non Members: $395

Due to limited seating, we request that you cancel at least 48 hours before a scheduled class. This gives us the opportunity to fill the class. However, if you do not cancel prior to the 48 hours, you will lose the payment for the class.

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Larry Schwartz

Founder

IP Business-Tech Solutions LLC

Larry Schwarts has 25 years of technical and senior managerial experience working with a wide range polymers and plastics both in manufacturing engineering, product development, R&D and marketing at Raychem now Tyco Electronics. Schwartz developed a new product development system that integrated sustainability in all phases of development. Schwartz Founded IP Business-Tech Solutions LLC and has 20 years of experience in IP landscaping and analysis using a variety of analytical tools and search engines. He has delivered over 1000 landscape reports to large and small companies and trade associations in the EU, North America and Asia. Topics have included polymers, biobased materials, sustainability, flooring, wire, graphene, hand hygiene compliance, pesticides, solar and window films. Industries include chemical, automotive, flooring, energy, pharmaceutical, glass, and electronics. Some of his Recent work in China has focused on developing an environmentally friendly polymer systems for electrical insulation for highspeed rail. Schwartz is an author of dozens of peer reviewed articles with the most recent ones on integrating sustainability into business and R&D processes. This includes 3 coauthored RTM articles on sustainability. Schwartz holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Arizona, an MBA in Business Management from San Jose State University and a BSc in Chemistry from San Diego State University.

Sue Burek

Product Manager and Administrator

PDMA

Susan Burek is currently the Product Manager and Administrator for PDMA’s kHUB She also contracts as a Senior Consultant at Foresight Science and Technology. Previously, she dedicated more than 10 years of her career to sustainability, health, safety, environment and regulatory issues germane to new product innovation at Ingersoll Rand, Stanley Black & Decker, Clariant Corporation and Eastman Kodak Company. Susan earned a BSc in Chemistry and an MS in Product Development from the Rochester Institute of Technology and has co-authored three RTM articles related to Sustainability and Product Development LinkedIn profile sueburek@gmail.com

Tawnya Hultgren

Senior EHS Manager

Armstrong World Industries

Tawnya Hultgren has a had a passion for the environment from the time she was a young girl fishing and swimming in Penn’s creek. This is what inspired her to earn her degree from Wilkes University in Environmental Engineering. She then she has remained engaged with the environment with numerous opportunities in the utilities sector and manufacturing. She has led EHS compliance at the plant and corporate level for companies such as Progress Energy (now Duke Energy) and Armstrong World Industries. As time progressed, she became more and more interested in focusing on sustainability. Her focus has been both at the product level (R&D, LCA, HPD, circularity, etc.) and on the manufacturing level (energy, water, and waste). Tawnya is currently the Senior EHS Manager at Armstrong World Industries overseeing the company EHS management systems and leads the company’s Planet Pillar efforts with a focus on scope 1 and 2 emission reduction.