Patrick Flynn - Adapting Your Business Model to Achieve Sustainability Goals
Channel: IIEA
Date: 23/07/2020

In his presentation Mr Flynn demonstrates how to build a corporate sustainability strategy which will track, evaluate, and reduce a company’s future impact on the environment.  He outlines how companies can meet their sustainability goals despite the ongoing challenges that businesses face as a result of COVID-19. Mr Flynn also explains the importance of meeting stakeholders' expectations on reporting and validating a company’s claim to green credentials and how to embed sustainability in a business plan.

Against the backdrop of the 2030 target of reaching the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the new corporate discourse of stakeholder engagement, Mr Flynn uses the example of Salesforce’s Sustainability Cloud, to explain how Salesforce has used and shared its technology to support their goal of driving impactful climate action.

About the Speaker:

Patrick Flynn is the Vice President of Sustainability for Salesforce, the global leader in customer relationship management, and the fastest growing top 10 software company in the world, where he defines and leads Salesforce’s environmental strategy. Prior to this, Mr Flynn has held impact roles in green building design, venture capital and sustainability for a data centre co-location company. Patrick Flynn holds an MBA from MIT as well as a BS in Engineering from Stanford University.

Recorded on the 23rd of July 2020