Agenda Overview

Engage and exchange ideas with your colleagues at this lunchtime discussion including Summit and industry leaders, speakers, and policy makers:

How do we accelerate environmental performance?
What kinds of new actions and approaches should we be considering if we are to be successful in addressing the environmental problems of the future?
What are examples of successes that can be replicated?
What new information or tools do we have/do we need to understand and tackle some of these challenges? and
How can future Summits best accelerate environmental performance?

In this session participants will take part in several different conversations that build on each other, share ideas, and discover new perspectives. Your ideas and approaches will be captured and shared with the Summit partners. This process will help to illuminate possible paths forward.

Buffet lunch is provided. Sign-up required
Cost: $10

The Center Team will meet to share FY07 success stories / measurement challenges and explore collaborative opportunities in the coming year.

Cost $20: Suppose you find yourself on an elevator with a senior executive and courageously decide this is your opportunity to convince him to integrate sustainability into his core business strategies. How would you open the conversation? When he throws objections at you, how will you respond? This training will help prepare sustainability champions for an "elevator speech" sales call on a skeptical senior executive so that when the elevator doors open you have converted his skepticism to excited curiosity and he invites you to continue the conversation in his office. By the end of the workshop participants will be able to describe at least three likely objections to sustainability initiatives that a sustainability champion will encounter from those who do not yet "get it" on sustainability and describe several effective ways to confidently handle each objection.