Sustainable Business Exchange
A forum for sharing and learning sustainable business practices
The Sustainable Business Exchange is committed to helping organizations develop and apply sustainable solutions that improve their triple bottom line (profits, people and planet) results.
Join us to:
- Identify practical sustainability applications for your business
- Gain access to thought leaders in the industry
- Engage in meaningful question and answer sessions
- Network and benchmark with your peers
- Identify useful resources and tools to take back to your organization
- Participate in real-life problem solving exercises
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Agenda for Wednesday, March 7, 2012
7:30 a.m. Networking
8:00 a.m.
Change Happens When Sustainability is Fun...You Know, Like a Game
Kathy Kuntz, Executive Director and Raj Shukla, Program Manager, Cool Choices 10:30 a.m. Break/Networking
10:45 a.m.
Panel Discussion: Steering Organizational Change Toward Sustainability
11:30 a.m. Event Ends
Presentation Descriptions
Change Happens When Sustainability is Fun...You Know, Like a Game
Presenters: Kathy Kuntz, Executive Director and
Raj Shukla, Program Manager,
Cool Choices
What if everyone at your firm was a sustainability champion? How might that affect your daily operations?
Making behavior change happen is challenging. It is easier to change out equipment than to change people’s behaviors. But behavior change is possible and, when it happens, the results are often amazing.
Cool Choices works with businesses to implement fun and engaging initiatives that engage employees and transform corporate cultures. Framed as a game where employees earn points for taking actions in their personal and work lives, Cool Choices’ approach mixes the best practices from decades of behavioral sciences with ground-breaking gamification strategies to motivate real and lasting changes.
Cool Choices staff will share lessons learned from employee engagement programs at two very different companies, illustrating how games can motivate change. They will also talk about insights from the behavior change literature more generally and give workshop participants an opportunity to develop strategies related to a behavior they want to influence in their own firm.
Learn about:
- Employee engagement
- Motivating lasting behavior change
- Gamification strategies
- Transforming corporate culture
Participants will leave with:
- Understanding of why change seems hard
- Case studies about what is possible
- 2-3 ideas to facilitate change at your business
Learn more about Kathy, Raj and Cool Choices >>
View the agenda and presenters from the October 26, 2011 event >>
View the agenda and presenters from the April 13, 2011 event >>Read more about sustainability at FVTC >>
Questions about the Sustainable Business Exchange? Let us know!Contact
Joanne Gorski
Applied Engineering/Sustainability Instructor, Fox Valley Technical College
(920) 831-4325
gorski@fvtc.edu
Sustainable Business Exchange Partners