Corporate Sustainability

"Sustainability is all about best practice. It is about managing our organization with an eye to the future and dealing with our people and resources fairly and positively. Sustainability has been very important to our leadership team and it will continue to be in the future. We track our progress and constantly look for ways to improve. And through that process, we will be the best company that we can be."

Lance Uggla, Chairman and CEO

Corporate sustainability underpins our entire organisation as a philosophy of best business practices and doesn't just include philanthropy, environmental concerns and our communities; it includes the way we operate from our board to our approach to learning and development, from how we think about customers to our approach to cyber security. We focus on areas most meaningful to our business while tracking our progress within established reporting frameworks.

We had numerous accomplishments in 2018 including tremendous engagement in our communities with employees contributing more than 51,000 volunteer hours in local sustainability projects (surpassing our company goal of 48,000 hours) and raising $362,443 for St. Baldrick’s in one of our largest global fundraiser to date. With respect to inclusion, we started the rollout of a HeForShe campaign and unconscious bias training in our global offices and expanded our LGBTQ Ally program to India. Finally, as we are working out the details for the transition to 100% renewable energy, we purchased carbon offsets in 2018 to offset our 2017 footprint with respect to office energy usage and business air travel.