Heather Loebner

Heather Loebner, a sustainability leader with three decades of experience driving environmental and social resiliency agendas for global, blue-chip companies, directs Kuehne+Nagel’s North American Living ESG strategy at an executive level. Her focus is on delivering sustainable solutions for commercial freight and contract logistics within complex supply chains, driving high-impact collaboration that achieves strategic aims and on-the-ground results. Heather works across priorities ranging from electrifying commercial transit to delivering zero-plastics.

Thriving in hard-to-abate sectors, Heather’s holistic stakeholder engagement approach has delivered innovative solutions that provide value chain resiliency, reduced environmental climate impacts in alignment with SBTi emissions reduction goals, accelerated social impact, and has delivered against best-in-class human rights practices. She is recognized for creating game-changing collaboratives that inspire employee and customer collective impact, having designed brand-building partnerships that produced more than $350M in conservation results, improved product circularity, and accelerated decarbonization aligned with economic growth.

Loebner serves on the Corporate Advisory Board, Shiki Wrap; is Treasurer, LES Ecology Center; and is a frequent speaker on sustainability, ESG, social impact and supply chains. Loebner has her MS, Political Science, University of Illinois and BA, Business, St. Louis University. She has a CSRD certificate and a DEI in the Workplace Certificate. As Executive Director, she led two nonprofits to financial turnaround and has pioneered multiple thought leadership initiatives. In her personal time, she enjoys writing, all things musical, and sailing.