Employee Engagement Matters: Connecting What People Care About to Climate Goals

How do you communicate effectively to employees so they contribute to driving your organization’s climate action and sustainability goals? What new engagement strategies and programs are peers testing, and what could you try with your own teams next?

Business strategies succeed or stall in employees’ everyday decisions, and sustainability goals are no exception, running through procurement, facilities, travel, and product choices across the business. Organizations that invest in employee engagement weigh real tradeoffs: when to meet employees where they are while still connecting the work to climate goals, whether a single annual event or ongoing touch points has more impact, and when to choose visible office programs versus involving employees in the material parts of the climate strategy. Those choices get tested again when mergers, leadership changes, or new products and markets reshape the culture, raising the question of what stays and what goes. Join leaders who have built engagement that ladders up to their organizations’ climate goals and brand as they share how they listen, translate, and measure, and leave with practical ways to keep employees connected to your strategy.