The Power of Purpose: Navigating the intersection of sustainability, impact and digital in 2024
Join us for a conversation this June where we’ll share how brands can take action to meet the growing expectation—from customers, employees, boards, and governments—to incorporate impact principles into their business strategies.
This exciting roundtable discussion will uncover the key challenges brands face in 2024, get actionable steps from experts like Evrnu and Kiva within the growing field of impact, and hear what we’ve learned from our own firsthand experience with our Good Company initiative and our most recent Impact Report.
The Power of Purpose: Navigating the intersection of sustainability, impact and digital in 2024
What to expect
As part of this discussion, we’ll dive deeper into these learnings as well as other key topics, including:
- How purpose fosters competitive advantage and drives long-term success.
- What current sustainability trends for businesses are worth paying attention to
- How investing in a partnership between like-minded brands can unlock new potential for innovation through collaboration.
- Why story matters when it comes to sustainability and how marketing can help
Interested in learning how we can help your businesses use digital as a transformative force for good? Get in touch with our team at DEPT®/IMPACT here.
Meet the speakers
Irving X. Chan Gomez
Global Partnerships and Growth Manager at B Lab
Irving is a creative global leader. Currently, he leads the development and management of strategic partnerships, and global expansion at B Lab. He has professional and lived experience working with multicultural teams and populations, with a proven record of value creation in the impact ecosystem. In addition to his role, Irving is a founding member of B Lab’s Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee, and hosts B Lab’s podcast Forces for Good. Irving also currently chairs the arts and culture committee at the William Way LGBT Community Center in Philadelphia, PA.
Pooja Dindigal
Global Head of Impact at DEPT®
Pooja leads sustainability & impact for global digital agency DEPT®. Before joining DEPT®, she had been with B Lab, the non profit behind B Corp Certification for over 6 years, where she helped to grow the B Corp Movement & advise leading businesses on their sustainability & impact journey. Pooja has a deep passion for addressing the intersections of climate change & equity for all people. She’s an amateur outdoorist, pop culture & food lover.
Kathy Guis
EVP, Investments at Kiva
As Executive Vice President, Investments, Kathy Guis leads Kiva’s global investment team, covering Kiva’s crowdfunded and institutional investment activities in financial services and social enterprises. Having spent over a decade with Kiva, she brings insight into the capital needs of vulnerable populations, emphasizing client-centric design, gender equity, smallholder farmers, and climate-smart investing.
Mark Brutten
Divisional Lead Marketing at Evrnu®
Mark Brutten is a Divisional Lead, Marketing at Evrnu®, a specialist in the regeneration of textile waste. He has a track record of creating disruptive marketing strategies to help drive differentiation and growth in competitively charged categories. Mark has broad category experience in both B2B and B2C environments, with extensive expertise from brand development to eCommerce and public relations.