Speakers - Bios - Erik Wohlgemuth
Erik Wohlgemuth
VP of Strategic Operations, Future 500
Unites corporate and NGO leaders for sustainability
Biographical background
His responsibilities include management of the organization's stakeholder mapping & planning (sMAP) process and software tool, stakeholder meeting facilitation, and SEED (Sustainable Energy & Environmental Demand) initiative, a multi-stakeholder process leveraging corporate procurement to develop markets for best available sustainable technologies.
Erik's professional career and academic studies have focused on bridging the green wall; the disconnection in common language and objectives between corporations and civil society that hinders the advancement of triple bottom-line solutions to sustainability - economic, social, and environmental.
He has worked as an environmental activist and lobbyist for non-profits, with corporations on environmental business practices, and even as a whitewater river guide and snowmaker. He has a MBA from Yale School of Management with a concentration in Competitive Strategies and Master's degree in Environmental Management from Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, with a concentration in Industrial Environmental Management. He also received a B.A. in history from Yale College, focusing on development of the American West.
During his free moments, Erik spends time with his wife and two young daughters, travels, plays squash, cooks, and recreates outside as much as possible.
Appearances
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Net Impact
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Green Power Conference
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National Association of Corporate Directors
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Business Ethics Network
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Ethical Corporation
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Sustainable Enterprise Conference
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GlobeScan
Speeches
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CSR Transparency: Reality vs. Perception
The road to redemption for companies begins with measuring and publishing their CSR performance. But many companies mistakenly stop there, neglecting a key step: validating their performance with trusted external third-parties. Learn why actual corporate performance can lag behind the perception of its performance.
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Stakeholder Engagement: The Business Case
How companies and stakeholders can work together to tackle human trafficking, bonded and/or child labor in the supply chain.
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Healthy Families
In a technologically integrated, up-to-the-minute world, corporate innovation, adaptability, and ultimately competitiveness will depend in part on its ability to integrate feedback from non-traditional sources. Learn how companies leveraging pro-active, strategic and systematic stakeholder engagement are processing feedback to identify risks and opportunities and integrate into business planning while cultivating invaluable 3rd-party validators.
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Corporate-NGO Engagement - Roadmap to Systemic Change
Using stories and case examples to illustrate common mistakes, pitfalls, best practices, and sequences in engagements, and trends to explore how companies and activist groups are evolving to resolve conflicts to reach common ground and advance systemic solutions to sustainability.
Testimonials
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Green Power Conferences has worked with Erik Wohlgemuth and the team at Future 500 for a number of years. Future 500 continues to be instrumental in helping us develop excellent conference programs by introducing us to compelling NGO and corporate speakers. They provide insight, industry expertise and access to some of the most interesting organisations and companies. Additionally, Erik is a very knowledgeable speaker and excellent moderator. His laid back and engaging style draws the audience into both fruitful and informative discussion.
Andrew Slavin, Event Producer, Green Power Conferences
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