Patricia A. Calkins, Xerox's global vice president of Environment, Health and Safety would tell you she is in a very fortunate professional circumstance. She spends each work day fostering sustainable practices and perfecting her goal of finding what she calls, 'smarter ways to green'. Patty believes, because Xerox has done it, firms can indeed implement sustainability policies and strategies and see their efforts positively affect the bottom line results.
Expertise
A career focus on managing innovative Business practices to foster sustainability
Engineering discipline and business pragmatism
Expert in developing environmental leadership strategies
Background
A career focused on sustainability initiatives within AT&T and as a senior scientist with Abt Associates working directly with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Bachelor of Arts degree in biology from Merrimack College
Master of Science degree in civil/environmental engineering from Tufts University
M.B.A. from the University of Rochester Simon School of Business
Member of the external advisory board for the University of Michigan's Center for Sustainable Systems and other boards, including the Central and Western New York Chapter of the Nature Conservancy and the Golisano Institute for Sustainability at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Going Green: What's good for the Environment is Good for Business
View this informative webcast featuring Gartner Green IT / high performance workplace analyst Mark Gilbert and Xerox VP of Environment, Health and Safety Patty Calkins, to discover how you can:
Adopt policies that reduce waste, energy use, and greenhouse gasses while increasing efficiencies / ROI.
Create an early win using electronic content management (ECM) solutions that will save your organization paper, energy, time, money, and waste.
Employ some of the steps that Xerox and its customers have taken to dramatically reduce their carbon footprint and cut costs.
Gain 7 easy, quick and implement-able tips to turn your office green while driving business efficiencies and results.
Patricia Calkins, Vice President of Environment, Health & Safety at Xerox Corporation, lends her experience in sustainability and business processes as she discusses policies, use case examples, and seven tips on how companies can quickly go green and realize rapid ROI.
Mark Gilbert, Vice President and Research Director at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., applies his expertise in high performance workplace infrastructure and technologies to describe the relationship between ECM and achieving corporate green initiatives.
Whitepapers
Smarter Ways to Green: How to Make Sustainability Succeed in Your Business.
The environmental evidence speaks for itself. The planet is on a collision course with catastrophe unless we adopt sustainability as our global lifestyle. Everyone shares the responsibility for making a difference. But businesses can play a leading role by implementing a smart, goal-oriented "green" strategy that will make an important contribution to the environment and the bottom line.
Going Green: What's good for the Environment is Good for Business
Mark Gilbert, Vice President and Research Director at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., applies his expertise in high performance workplace infrastructure and technologies to describe the relationship between ECM and achieving corporate green initiatives.
Patricia Calkins, Vice President of Environment, Health & Safety at Xerox Corporation, lends her experience in sustainability and business processes as she discusses policies, use case examples, and seven tips on how companies can quickly go green and realize rapid ROI.
June 12 - 13, 2008 - Product Development and Management Association Green by Design (website)
Topic: This first ever conference has been created to fill an unmet need in the marketplace for deep insights and best practices on building sustainability into the product development process. Attendees will include corporate directors of sustainability and environmental stewardship; directors of product development and design; executives responsible for supply chain management, business strategy and marketing as well as students and educators from prominent design schools.
Hilton Alexandria Mark Center, Alexandria, VA
May 28 & 29, 2008 European Leadership Summit (website)
Topic: The inaugural Xerox European Leadership Summit for Heads of Business took place at the Ritz Carlton Powerscourt, Dublin, Ireland (website )
Participants at the Summit participated in a new two-part study in which Xerox Europe and Forum for the Future compared how future and current leaders feel about the effects of climate change and who will do the most to protect the environment.
April 21 - 22, 2008 - Fortune Brainstorm Green (website)
Topic: The inaugural Brainstorm Green conference convenes business and environmental leaders, executives, academics, politicians and NGOs at an invitation only event to discuss the impact of the green movement and explore the opportunities and challenges facing companies, entrepreneurs, government, and the financial world.
The Langham Huntington Hotel & Spa., Pasadena, CA (website)
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