Aman Singh leads sustainability communications at Kenvue, maker of brands such as Aveeno®, BAND-AID®, Listerine®, Neutrogena® and Zyrtec®, helping support the consumer health company’s Healthy Lives Mission and deepen the connection between healthy people and a healthy planet through storytelling. Prior to joining Kenvue, she served as the Director for Global Communications - Sustainability at Walmart where she worked across functions to connect the dots between the company's sustainability priorities, shared value approach, and commitment to regeneration with its stakeholders, partners and key influencers.

Before joining corporate communications, Aman spent 12+ years leading a variety of communication and strategy projects across the broad sustainability space with agencies including Edelman, Futerra and CRI Inc., and in collaboration with cross-sector clients. Prior to the consulting world, she led global media platform CSRwire and began shaping her professional footprint as a journalist with The Wall Street Journal. A self-described dot connector, she is passionate about storytelling and engagement and experienced in unraveling the knots of sustainability, business, shared value and motivations. She stays grounded thanks to her sassy kids and remains optimistic

Resources

• Follow Aman Singh on LinkedIn
• Green Giants by Freya Williams
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  Two Steps Forward podcast by Joel Makower and Solitaire Townsend

Kevin Eckerle is a sustainability strategist with more than 15 years’ experience proving the commercial value of integrating and operationalizing sustainability across an organization. In his experience with more than 40 Fortune 500 companies, he advocates for and shapes corporate policies in matrixed organizations to mobilize cross-functional teams and implement their sustainability strategy. Across his career, Kevin has been drawn to budding sustainability organizations, where he has worked to develop and build the foundation for future success. Whether the start-up Esty Environmental Partners, Accenture or NYU’s Center for Sustainable Business that were start-up entities building sustainability consultancies within well-known organizations, or joining the Consumer side of a large bioscience company when the company had just re-envisioned what it could be as a sustainable organization, Kevin has helped to build the foundation and support organizations in their first steps towards sustainability maturity. Over his scientific and strategy career, Kevin has authored or co-authored 15+ peer-reviewed papers on the value of sustainability, integrating ESG performance into the earnings call, the impacts of climate change on global biodiversity, and the life-cycle economics of coal-powered electricity. Kevin earned his Ph.D. from Illinois State University and his MBA from The George Washington University, and lives with his wife and son in New York City.

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Books recommended by Kevin:

• On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
• Everything I Know About Business I Learned from the Grateful Dead by Barry Barnes
• Green to Gold by Andrew Winston and Daniel Esty

Joel Makower is chairman and co-founder of Trellis Group Inc., (formerly GreenBiz Group), the leading media and events company at the intersection of business, innovation and sustainability. An award-winning writer, speaker, and advisor on corporate sustainability and climate tech, Joel has authored more than a dozen books and previously served as a nationally syndicated columnist.In this episode, Joel shares the story of what sparked his journey into sustainability — a path that led to the founding of GreenBiz Group — and reflects on the state of sustainability today: what’s changed, what’s endured, and the lessons he’s learned throughout his remarkable career.

Show Notes

• Follow Joel Makower on LinkedIn
• Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken
• Two Steps Forward Podcast - Joel Makower and Solitaire Townsend
• Drawdown, the Book edited by Paul Hawken
• Biomimicry by Janine Benyus
• God Storm by Solitaire Townsend (preorder)