Designing Your Corporate Responsibility Program - Assessment to Action

Welcome, everyone. I hope you had a safe and happy holiday season. We start 2014 running with the next video and webinar series: Formulating the Framework – Designing Your Corporate Responsibility Program. This series will focus on developing your sustainability program using the information from benchmarking operations, sustainability assessments, and materiality analysis. The first video in the series, Assessment to Action, can be viewed below.

As discussed in the Materiality series, creating your organization’s specific Corporate Responsibility program and prioritizing goals should be based on the issues most material to your company and stakeholders. Addressing critical issues first allows you to better prepare for long-term success in the short term.  In the video, I reference Ford’s most recent materiality matrix. Ford has used a materiality matrix for several years to develop their corporate-wide sustainability strategy, which demonstrates the value of identifying material concerns for both long-term and short-term strategy development.

The next video in this series will focus on prioritizing Corporate Responsibility within your organization in order to maximize return on investment. This is important because properly planning sustainability projects enables you to use resulting financial savings to fund further improvements and generate compounding returns.

Following the next video, I will be conducting a live webinar on Tuesday, January 28, that will provide further insight on designing your specific Corporate Responsibility program and also give you the opportunity to ask me questions directly. Be sure to register for the webinar and subscribe to my blog for email updates.

– Tad Radzinski PE, LEED AP, SFP

Links:

1. Ford’s Materiality Matrix
2. Catch up on previous videos and webinars.
3. Register for the January webinar now!