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What’s L&D’s Role In Tackling Climate Change?
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What’s L&D’s Role In Tackling Climate Change?

HowNow L&D Disrupt Live, Episode 35

Ajay Jacob, Fiona Morgan and Gary Stringer
HowNow, 2023
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In the past, climate change and sustainability have not been a focus in learning and development (L&D) circles, but people in the field are working to change that. In this episode of HowNow L&D Disrupt Live, host Gary Stringer joins Ajay Jacob, learning and development Manager at TomTom, and Fiona Morgan, director of purpose at SailGP, to discuss the ways that L&D can address climate change by influencing people’s behavior. If you are an L&D expert who wants to find ways to start championing sustainability in your organization, this podcast has great ideas for where to start.

Summary

Connect employees’ individual actions with the big picture.

Your employees make the day-to-day decisions that shape your business, such as which suppliers to use. Before you look to external partners to help with your sustainability initiatives, focus on educating your workforce.

L&D has a role to play in connecting complex issues like climate change to simple actions that people can take that make a difference. Most people care about climate change and want to do things like reduce their carbon footprint, but they don’t know how their role at work or as a consumer connects to the bigger picture. L&D can help people care about the issue through storytelling. L&D can also answer questions such as, “What can I do? Will what I do make a difference? What is the end goal?”

Walmart set the goal of reducing its packaging by 5%. To help employees choose the more sustainable sources available from among its 60,000 suppliers, they created a packaging scorecard that employees could use to evaluate each supplier.

Provide information to employees at all levels on the science ...

About the Podcast

Ajay Jacob is learning and development manager at TomTom. Fiona Morgan is director of purpose at SailGP. Gary Stringer is Senior Content Marketing Manager at HowNow and host of this episode of the HowNow L&D Disrupt Live – a podcast dedicated to L&D insights and trends.

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    S. H. 1 year ago
    Excellent take away . Engagements and actions must be visible to all stake holders that would enable employees to change their behaviors to sustainability as ONE Team together.
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    S. H. 1 year ago
    Small actions create BIG impact. Sustainability is the way forward