Sustainability governance forum

Thursday, Jun. 6, 1:00 p.m. ET

Sustainability governance forum

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Description

This session will provide Practice Greenhealth partners with a forum to share their experiences developing the elements of effective sustainability governance. Facilitators will guide participants through discussions focused on key processes, such as how to use stakeholder mapping to inform sustainability program structures and strategies to build trust with stakeholders from a system-level perspective.


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This event is part of the Accelerating Health Care Sustainability series. To get the most out of this series, we strongly suggest that if you attend an introductory session held early in the week, you also attend the corresponding discussion forum held later the same week. Attending the introductory session is not a prerequisite for participation in the discussion forum.

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Kristen Kaufman

Kristen Kaufman

Job Title
Sustainability Strategy Manager

Organization
Practice Greenhealth

Bio

Kristen is a Sustainability Strategy Manager at Practice Greenhealth, where she advises hospitals and health care systems on their sustainability programs and supports place-based initiatives. Prior to Practice Greenhealth, Kristen worked in urban and institutional sustainability, most recently at Tufts University's Office of Sustainability managing zero-waste, community engagement, and environmental justice efforts. She holds a Masters of Science in environmental governance from the University of Oxford and a BA in anthropology and sustainability from Emory University.

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Jake Lyonfields

Jake Lyonfields

Job Title
Sustainability Strategy Manager

Organization
Practice Greenhealth

Bio

Jake comes to us from his most recent position as a Sustainable Technologies Sales Consultant at Cardinal Health. Jake spent more than 7 years working with a diverse array of health systems in the United States to reduce waste and create financial savings through medical device reprocessing. He was twice named Sales Rep of the Year and was a member of his organization's Sales Leadership Council. Before his time at Cardinal Health, he worked for the GPO Resource Optimization & Innovation (ROi) as part of ROi's Private Label team. Jake holds an undergraduate degree in Systems Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, with a minor in Spanish. Jake brings a background in consultative selling, large account management, data analysis, and contract management, among other skills.

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