Overview of Coming Summit (New York)
Women’s Network for a Sustainable Future (WNSF)
Cordially invites you to
The Seventh Annual
Businesswomen’s Sustainability Leadership Summit
Sustainability: We get it… now what?
Date:October 5, 2010
Time:12 noon to 6pm (Registration at 11:30, Lunch at noon,Reception at 5pm)
Location:
The Institute of International Education
809 United Nations Plaza
between 45 and 46 Streets on First Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Join 200 women leaders from the world’s premier companies, as we enter a critical phase in sustainability momentum, to co-create a picture of success for the next phase of sustainability development, preparing women executives to take the helm!
By now, business and the public alike have all heard a lot about sustainability and how business can help us achieve it. We all get it! But do we? Are we walking the talk? (See more below)
Speakers include:
Ray Anderson : Founder and Chair, Interface
Frances Hesselbein: Chair, Leader to Leader Institute; Chair, Study of Leadership, West Point Military Academy; former CEO, Girl Scouts of the USA
Wendolyn Holland: Senior Advisor, Commercialization and Deployment, US Department of Energy
Roelfien Kuijpers: Managing Director, Global Head, DB Advisors, Deutsche Asset Management
Teresa Tritch (Moderator): Member of the Editorial Board, New York Times
Charlene Wall-Warren: North American Sustainability Manager, BASF Corporation
Alicin Williamson: SVP, Corporate Responsibility and Public Affairs, MTV Networks
Among others…
Special registration rate of $225 until September 10 ($325 thereafter)
No refunds. All registrations are final.
2010 Summit Sponsors to date include: Avon Products Inc., Campbell Soup Co., Con Edison, Intel, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Mohawk Fine Papers Inc., Pfizer, PricewaterhouseCoopers, TIAA-CREF.
For sponsorship information contact: info@wnsf.org
Women’s Network for a Sustainable Future
A non-profit 501c3 organization
Advance Reservations and Payment Required To register CLICK HERE
With expectations for sustainability higher than ever, we’ll examine how to harness this heightened awareness to deliver a higher level of performance for ourselves, our organizations–and the world at large, asking:
A panel of leading businesswomen will address these issues based on real-life, practical experiences. Participants will have the chance to work in small groups to examine their companies’ current sustainability agendas and brainstorm ideas about how they can harness momentum to drive business results.