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Careers in CSR and Sustainability
1. Welcome to the Evisors Webinar
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“Food for Thought:
Careers in Sustainability in Food and Agriculture“
featuring
Shayna Harris
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2. Food for Thought:
Careers in Sustainability
in Food and Agriculture
~ About Shayna Harris
~ Overview of the industry
~ How to get the job
~ How to succeed at the job
~ Q&A
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3. about Shayna
• Focus: rural development through
sustainable supply chains
• Graduate of MIT Sloan (MBA/sustainability
certificate ‘11) and Boston University
(international development and political
science ‘03)
• Oxfam America global trade and
development program, focused in building
sustainable coffee supply chain; geographic
focus Latin America and East Africa
• Fulbright Scholar in northeastern Brazil
(economic development, 2008)
• Private sector experience at Stonyfield Farm,
Divine Chocolate, and Mars
• Love alt.Latino, samba and salsa, the
Sunday New York Times, learning new
languages, biking to work
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5. Farmers/producers
– Cooperatives
– Farms
Traders and brands
– CPG/FMCG
– Small mission-based brands
– Trading companies
Retailers
– Mainstream Supermarkets
– Natural Foods Stores
– Big-box stores
NGOs
– Development
– Technical
– Financing
– Certifying/auditing
Government / IGO
– National
– International
– Bilateral
The sustainability ecosystem
food and agriculture case study
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6. Jobs in sustainability – know your industry
food and agriculture case study
Corporate
headquarters
Research and
Development
Procurement Corporate Affairs Finance Sustainability etc
Corporate
headquarters
Research and
Development
Sustainability
Procurement
Sustainability
Corporate Affairs
Sustainability
Finance
Sustainability
etc
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7. How to get the job
Key questions to consider
– Where in the value chain do I want to effect change?
– What key skills to I bring to this sector? What skills
do I want to learn in this sector?
– What core experiences set me apart? What
experiences do I need to gain?
– When I think about sustainability, do I think about
• An issue
• A skill set
• An industry
• A region
– What is your elevator pitch?
– What do you want someone to remember about
you?
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8. How to get the job
Telling your story
• Develop your story – develop your self-
awareness
– What am I passionate about?
– Why? What has brought me to this place?
– Draw out your journey (a map from a -> c ->
r -> z)
– Do an energy chart
– When you read the paper, what sections do
you read first, second? Which do you throw
out?
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9. How to get the job
Understand your transferable skills
• Understand your hard and soft skills
– How do the skills developed in one sector
translate to another?
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10. How to get the job
Develop your network
• Write it down
– What are the 5 – 10 organizations that you want to target?
– Who are 3 – 5 thought leaders that you want to follow?
• How will you build your network?
– Linked In
– Facebook
– Informational interviews
– Volunteer and internship opportunities
– Speaking events
– Trade shows and conferences
• Be creative about your entry points: sustainability, function,
collaborative public private projects, emerging market
experience, etc.
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11. • New emerging field
• Need to be comfortable with
uncertainty….
• Flexibility
• Humility
• Ask questions – be inquiry based!
How to succeed at the job
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12. Stay engaged!
Look for books to push and expand your
knowledge
Follow thought leaders – columns, blogs, twitter
Join relevant industry and trade organizations
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13. Remember – permanent beta
“Finished ought to be an f-word for all of us. We are all
works in progress… keeping your career in permanent
beta forces you to acknowledge that you have bugs, and
that there’s new development to do on yourself, that
you will need to adapt to evolve.”
Reid Hoffman, founder
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15. Questions & Answers
Question 1:
How can people encourage their employers
to make CSR/sustainability a core aspect of
the business?
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16. Questions & Answers
Question 2:
Can you list some companies where
CSR/sustainability is already a main part of
the business model?
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17. Questions & Answers
Question 3:
Which types of organizations are best suited
for getting experience in CSR/sustainability?
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18. Questions & Answers
Question 4:
What are the salary ranges like compared to
careers in marketing or management?
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19. Questions & Answers
Question 5:
Do you believe CSR/sustainability activities
have a healthy future in our current
economic situation?
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20. Questions & Answers
Question 6:
Which companies, in your opinion, are
engaging in effective CSR/sustainability
practices?
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21. Questions & Answers
Question 7:
How present are the concepts of ecosystem
services in CSR dialogues?
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22. Questions & Answers
Question 8:
Do you see a future in third-world nations
that rely on technology for sustainability?
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23. Thanks for Joining & Good Luck!
Book your session with Shayna Harris at
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Editor's Notes
You can have a career that is doing well while doing good! And this is the time.
I care about impacting rural poverty. Focus on agriculture in rural areas bc 75% of world’s poor are here. Via generating wealth, skills, and development – people reach their potential
* Family link – grandfather grew up on a farm in Germany, grandmother and mother avid gardeners.
Started my career in international development at Oxfam
Followed the supply chain to Oaxaca Mexico and found a much more complicated story of
Migration
International trade
Poverty
Amazing coffee product
Click through experiences
Then:
There are more than 1 ways to be an activist and engaged citizen. Activism is important to get companies to change. Other side of this is supporting companies to do the right thing
What I’ve done
NGOs
Research
Start ups and large corporate like Mars
Sustainability can be a separate department, or embedded within a function. I’ve worked in roles where it is embedded in a function.
Each comes with advantages and challenges
What would you remember about me?
Hi, I’m Shayna Harris, I care about developing great quality food products that support farming communities for a sustainable future, and I vehemently believe that we can and will have both in our food supply chains. I develop and execute programs that are strategic and make a difference to the industry. I am a creative problem solver and effective change agent.
Understand your skills
How do the skills developed in one sector translate to another? For example:
My campaign strategy experience can be applied to sustainability strategy in the private sector
What is your skill set?
Analytical
Corporate communications
Operations
Finance
Strategy and leadership
Scientific research
etc
For example:
My campaign strategy experience can be applied to sustainability strategy in the private sector
Look for books to push and expand your knowledge
Development as Freedom – Amartya Sen
Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cooca in West Africa – Orla Ryan
Follow thought leaders – columns, blogs, twitter
New York Times columnists Michael Pollen and Mark Bittman
Marc Gunter’s blog
The Guardian – INSERT NAME OF NEWSLETTERS
Join relevant industry and trade organizations
The Sustainable Food Lab
The Sustainability Consortium
