May 2, 2024
8:00 am – 5:30 pm
Grappone Conference Center
Join us for an event brimming with inspiration, innovation, and meaningful connections. Dive into engaging sessions featuring interactive exercises, lively discussions geared towards actionable insights, an impactful award presentation, and meaningful networking. Plus, enjoy complimentary breakfast, lunch, and networking nibbles to fuel your day of learning and collaboration. We can’t wait to see you there!
Highlighting the synergistic benefits of businesses stepping up and taking a proactive leadership role in addressing critical societal issues that affect the workforce and communities around them. By leveraging their resources, influence, and innovative approaches, businesses can play a pivotal role in creating positive and sustainable change in areas such as affordable housing, childcare availability, quality education, affordable healthcare, creating inclusive welcoming workplaces and communities, and financial sustainability for employees. Thus creating an environment where business and community thrive together!
New Hampshire’s leading conference for corporate social responsibility includes morning and afternoon break-out sessions that help attendees take sustainable aspirations to actionable efforts.
Rebecca is a visionary leader and renowned author driving innovative change in the world of business. With over three decades of expertise in organizational and strategic change, she’s a trailblazer in advocating for purpose-driven capitalism and the role that business leaders at every level can play in reimagining our current system. “It is possible to create a better, more sustainable future. But only if we act with urgency – and in concert with one another.” This belief has driven Rebecca’s work for the last ten years and is at the heart of her latest endeavor: “Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire,” (Hachette, 2020).
This groundbreaking work offers a compelling new narrative and actionable strategies to reshape capitalism, moving away from the singular pursuit of shareholder value. With her notable expertise and visionary outlook, Rebecca is paving the way for a more sustainable and inclusive future in business. Join her on this transformative journey towards a world where purpose and profit align for the greater good.
Conference Schedule
Morning
8:00-8:30 Registration and Breakfast
8:00-8:20 Mindfulness Session
8:30-9:15 Morning Kickoff
9:15-10:30 Keynote speaker
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Morning Break-out Sessions
12:00-12:45 Lunch & Awards Presentation
Afternoon
12:45-1:45 Empowering Futures: Strong Public Education, Business Growth, and Thriving Communities
1:45-2:00 Afternoon Break
2:00-3:15 Afternoon Breakout Session
3:15-3:30 Afternoon Break
3:30-4:30 Birds of a Feather: Taking Flight Discussions
4:15-5:30 Networking Reception
Breakout Sessions
Conference Breakout Sessions are designed to engage participants across the spectrums of Sustainable and Socially-Responsible Business Operations. This year’s sessions explore the new workplace, community and employee engagement, diversity, equity, inclusion and justice, and sustainability reporting.
Morning Topics
Building Momentum for Sustainable Policies
Do Something! From Awareness to Climate Action
DEI from the Bottom Up: Peer-to-Peer Strategies
Leveraging ESG for Sustainable Value Creation
Pathways to Affordable Housing: Business-Supported Supply-Side Solutions
Unconscious Bias: How It Impacts Your Business and What You Can Do About It.
Afternoon Topics
Smarter Advocacy – A basic crash-course workshop
AI Ethics: Shaping Tomorrow’s World
Measuring DEI: Beyond Simple Counts to Impactful Engagement & ROI
Climate and Health
Imagining Futures for Shared Prosperity
Birds of a Feather Topics
Listening that Enables New Possibilities
Defining Your “Why”: A Blueprint to Brand Success
Building Healthy Communities: Addressing Factors for Health Equity
Unlocking Sustainable Transformation Through Effective Employee Engagement
Trauma Informed Approach to Inclusive Workplaces
Leveraging Community Engagement for Success
Afternoon Plenary Session 12:45-1:45
Empowering Futures: Strong Public Education, Business Growth, and Thriving Communities
Join us for a discussion about the pivotal role of public education and equitable funding in shaping the future of New Hampshire’s communities and businesses. The panel will explore the critical link between a robust public education system, economic vitality, and community prosperity. Examine how equitable access to quality education directly impacts career readiness, workforce development, and overall business growth.
Plenary Panel
Michael Turmelle
Initiative Leader, Education and Career Initiatives, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
View Full BioNicole Heimarck
Executive Director - Reaching Higher NH
View Full BioZack Sheehan
Executive Director, NH School Funding Fairness Project
View Full BioJodie Nezaka
Director of Economic Development for the City of Manchester
View Full BioAimee Kereage
Community Partnerships Coordinator at Manchester Proud
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Will Ahearn
President at Dirty Hands LLC
View Full BioRachel Ballatori
Founder, CEO at Mill + Co.
View Full BioChristina Baron
Senior Manufacturing Associate, Lonza
View Full BioSarah Brock
Energy Circuit Rider Program Director, Clean Energy NH
View Full BioCara Campbell
Sr. Global Custom & OEM Solutions Consultant, Promega
View Full BioTeresa Dean Malcolm, MD
Vice President Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging, Dartmouth Health
View Full BioLisa Drake
Assistant Director, Fleet Electrification, Merchants Fleet
View Full BioSam Evans-Brown
Executive Director at Clean Energy NH
View Full BioSophia Donforth
Executive Director, Vermont and New Hampshire Energy Education Program
View Full BioKaren Koutsavlis
Founder & Chief Motivating Officer, New England 360 Fitness
View Full BioDeb Gerson MD
NH Healthcare Workers for Climate Action
View Full BioJulien Gervreau
ESG Strategy and Sustainability Leader
View Full BioAnne L. Kelly
Vice President of Government Relations at Ceres, Inc.
View Full BioBradford Paige
President/CEO at Kennebunk Savings Bank
View Full BioLucas Meyer
Principal, Catalyst Advocacy
View Full BioZack Lemear
Brand Strategist and Partner, Pivot Creative
View Full BioRichard Ober
President and CEO, NH Charitable Foundation
View Full BioTess Tacka
Senior Manager, Sustainability Reporting & ESG Disclosure, VF Corporation
View Full BioJames McKim
Managing Partner, Organizational Ignition
View Full BioBeth Tener
Principal, New Directions Collaborative
View Full BioMelissa Skarupa
Marketing Manager, Community Partnerships & Sponsorships at Dartmouth Health
View Full BioDevon Skerritt
Social Design Strategies
View Full BioDavid Loehwing
Head of Sustainability & Stewardship, North America, Impax Asset Management
View Full BioNick Taylor
Executive Director, Workforce Housing Coalition of the Greater Seacoast
View Full BioJim Monahan
Managing Partner, The Dupont Group
View Full BioBob Dewey
NH Healthcare Workers for Climate Action
View Full BioAnna Yates
EHS & Sustainability at Albany International
View Full BioLiz Wester
603 FWD/Forward Foundation
View Full BioJoan Catherine Widmer, MS, MSBA, RN
Treasurer, American Nurses Association
View Full BioLatonya Wallace
Director Community Relations, NH Community Loan Fund
View Full BioAubrey Nelson
Energy Educator, NHEEP
View Full BioMike O'Brien
Account Executive at Adapthealth
View Full BioLauren E. Szkodny, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth
View Full BioBrett Cromwell
Communications and Marketing Strategist
View Full BioRyan Fecteau
Senior Officer of Policy & Planning, Avesta Housing
View Full BioGina Burke
Corporate and Community Engagement, Red River
View Full BioDebra LeClair Psy.D,
Psychologist & Executive Coach, Full Spectrum Wellness and re-Sourced
View Full BioRuth Berggren, M.D
Professor of Medicine at Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth
View Full BioBritt Lundgren
Senior Director of Sustainability and Government Affairs at Lactalis USA
View Full BioSponsorship Opportunities Available
To learn more, please contact Michelle Veasey.