Driving Sustainability from a Functional Role: Finance
About the Webinar
When we think of careers in corporate responsibility or sustainability, we often think of a dedicated CSR Manager or Chief Sustainability Officer, spending his or her working days trying to bring people, planet, and profits together. But when we look closer at the people who arguably have the most impact on responsible or sustainable business, a different picture emerges. More and more, we see people in "regular" functional roles such as operations, strategy, marketing and product development leveraging sustainability to do their day job. These professionals are helping to define — and redefine — how their companies do business.
In finance functions, individuals are finding ways to create and measure value and/or minimize risk that go beyond the traditional economic focus of financial services, and enter into the realm of social and environmental impact. Join Elizabeth Zeller, a Finance Controller at Intel Corporation, in an engaging discussion about how she's creating, measuring and reporting on value without compromising her values.
Jo Mackness is the Executive Director of the Center for Responsible Business at the Haas School of Business. Jo and the Center aim to have every Haas graduate apply the sustainability perspective they learned at Haas to their day jobs post graduation. Her favorite thing about her job is that she helps students get inspired about corporate responsibility, understand how they can integrate it into their jobs, and thus enjoy a more fulfilling career (and hopefully a better world).
Elisabeth Zeller brings a dynamic mix of corporate finance, non-profit and foundation experience. Currently the manager of the Intel Foundation, she also manages the finance function for Intel’s Corporate Affairs Group and Corporate Sustainability, where she has been a leader in championing the use of SROI metrics in decision-making. She has nearly twenty years of experience in a wide range of industries: direct service in adult education, non-profit management for women and children in crisis and fourteen years of strategic finance leadership at Intel.