Working Session: Empower Your Team To Tackle Food Waste

About the event

Learn how to deploy a comprehensive employee engagement program for tackling food loss & waste at your organization.

Join us for this highly-anticipated, interactive workshop designed to equip food business leaders and sustainability champions with the tools and strategies needed to impactfully engage employees in reducing food waste. This 90-minute session will engage participants in the power employee awareness, training, and engagement can have on tackling food loss and reaching organizational food waste goals.  Attendees will explore real-world case studies, access sector-specific training resources, learn through teaming and immersive activities in breakout rooms, and walk away with tangible assets to champion ambitious and achievable food reduction efforts within their organizations’ food operations. No matter where you reside along the food supply chain, this workshop will give you the practical tools and actionable insights to drive measurable change and momentum toward a zero-waste future.

Learning Objectives

• Build a business case for implementing an EE program at your organization
• Understand the value of the educational training around FLW
• Access engagement assets for rolling out a FLW employee competition
• Know how to execute continuous improvement initiatives
• Evaluate how to categorize and prioritize FLW ideas
• Plan for how to pilot food waste reduction ideas
• Familiarize yourself with the U.S. Pact’s Employee Engagement (EE) Toolkit

Workshop Takeaways

• Building the business case for an EE program is essential for broad organizational buy-in
• Educational training around FLW supports employee engagement, awareness & excitement
• Rolling-out an EE competition around mitigating FLW is easy & clear with the right resources 
• Continuous improvement efforts support FLW mitigation over the long-term 
• Categorizing and prioritizing ongoing FLW ideas supports smart decision-making
• Piloting FLW reduction ideas arms organizations with valuable, quantifiable and actionable data
• The Pact’s Employee Engagement (EE) Toolkit is a comprehensive, valuable asset

Meet your presenters

Kate Gaertner, CEO

TripleWin Advisory

Kate Gaertner is the founder and CEO of TripleWin Advisory, a corporate sustainability consultancy that helps businesses measure and manage their environmental footprints, embrace circular business models, and deliver sustainability education to their workforces. She has served as an Adjunct Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology and as a Technical Advisor to the Loopt Foundation, supporting zero-waste goals in manufacturing. 

A frequent speaker and media contributor, Kate has published articles in TIME, Forbes, Fast Company, Real Leaders, GreenBiz, and more.

Kate is the author of Planting a Seed: 3 Simple Steps to Sustainable Living, a 2022 Silver Nautilus Book Award winner, and a contributing author to Bruce Nagy’s book, Proven Climate Solutions, Leading voices on how to accelerate change. She has been named one of the Global 50 Women in Sustainability by SustainabilityX Magazine.  She holds a Master of Science in Sustainable Management from the University of Wisconsin, an MBA from the Wharton School, and an AB from Dartmouth College. She lives in Boston with her husband and two children.

Amy Hall, Education Lead

TripleWin Advisory

Amy Hall serves as the Education Lead at TripleWin Advisory, a corporate sustainability consultancy that empowers businesses to measure and reduce their environmental impact, adopt circular economy practices, and build sustainability literacy across their workforce. In her role, Amy develops and delivers training programs and employee engagement competitions and fosters a culture of sustainability, with a particular focus on food loss and waste reduction.

Amy is based in Portland, Oregon. She holds a Master of Science in Sustainable Management from the University of Wisconsin and a bachelor’s degree in design.

This event addresses the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Continuing education requirements

ISSP credential holders will earn 0.5 CEU's for attending this working session.

Recording

This is an interactive working session and will not be recorded.