How Sustainability Leaders Can Build Workforce Resilience

How can organizations support workforce resilience as extreme weather events increase? What roles can teams and leaders play in shaping the response — before, during and after?

For years, companies have built climate strategies for assets, supply chains, and operations — yet the workforce dimension is often the last to get attention, even as extreme heat, wildfires, and storms harm workers and disrupt business continuity. Sustainability leaders already work at the intersection of climate, risk, and cross-functional engagement, which positions them to champion the response for the business. The session opens with new research on extreme weather and the U.S. workforce, brings in an expert panel of leaders solving these challenges today, and culminates in an interactive scenario exercise designed to help sustainability leaders advance workforce resilience inside their own organizations.