13 Oct Bring Your Values to Work | November 14
Work ethic and values play an important role in the workplace. Join us at the Collective where we will hear from three Presidio Graduate School alums who have succeeded in integrating both social and environmental impacts into their daily work and have made their companies more successful by doing so. Learn about some of the challenges they have faced and how they overcame them. Find inspiration to develop your own methods to broaden the impacts you make in your daily work.
After the session, attendees are invited to join a reception and sample delicious treats from 2 Towns Cider, ChocolateSpiel and Onda Coffee. These business owners are bringing their values to work by embedding both social and environmental impacts in their business models.
Panelist: Aric Ho, Senior Consultant at Valley Medical Center
Aric is driven by a spirit of inquiry and passion to make an impact. This insatiable curiosity has created opportunities for Aric in a myriad of industries, including: Healthcare, Retail, Real Estate & Technology. He currently serves as Senior Consultant & Training Manager for UW: Medicine – Valley Medical Center.
His work spans the spectrum, from helping a team of care providers connect authentically with each other, to supporting the roll out a $1.3B retail strategy. Regardless of the role or hat he has worn, he helps people and organizations perform their best by connecting their heads and hands with their hearts. He believes in leading with Love and considers himself an impatient optimist.
Panelist: Melody KirkWagner, Technical Project Manager at Expedia
Melody has had a wide-ranging career, starting as a stage manager, passing through construction materials, a family business, the WaMu debacle and a few more stops along the way before landing at Expedia nine years ago, where she’s happily ensconced as a Technical Project Manager.
She’s had a passion for sustainability since college and earned a certificate in Sustainable Business Management much later in her path. She has always tried to imbue that passion in her sometimes quite resistant workplaces. She now has the very great pleasure of leading the sustainability Business Resource Group of Expedia.
Panelist: Sash Sunday, Founder / Fermentationist at OlyKraut
Sash Sunday grew up in Olympia, WA and, in 2008, co-founded a sauerkraut company called OlyKraut to put her fermentation fanaticism to work building a food system that supports vibrant health and sustainable farms. OlyKraut makes delicious, nourishing, raw fermented vegetables with literal TONS of local produce while sharing the wonders of probiotic foods with the community. Sarah studied Food, Food Systems, and Sustainable Agriculture at The Evergreen State College and earned her MBA in Sustainable Systems and Certificate in Sustainable Food and Agriculture from BGI now known as the Presidio Graduate School.
Moderator: Ram Harihanan, Co-Founder Early Stage Startup
Ram grew up in Hawaii and moved to the Pacific Northwest to work at Microsoft. After graduating from BGI (now Presidio Graduate School) in 2012, while working at Expedia, he founded SAGE – Sustaining and Greening Expedia, a volunteer employee group with a mission to advocate for changes in Expedia operations and support changemakers across the company. After joining Amazon in 2017, he helped Amazon’s internal employee engagement team design the 2018 Zero Cup Challenge. Since leaving Amazon just two months ago, he is working on an idea-stage startup in the civic engagement space.
ABOUT PRESIDO GRADUATE SCHOOL
Founded in 2003, Presidio Graduate School (PGS) is an independent, values-driven graduate school offering MBA, MPA, and Dual MBA/MPA degree programs, along with a Professional Development and Continued Education Course Series, all in sustainable management. All courses in the first of its kind curriculum integrate social justice, environmental responsibility, and systems thinking.
Our world-class faculty academy full and part-time scholar-practitioners possess subject matter expertise across the full spectrum of sustainable management disciplines. With over 1800 business and public administration alumni at the forefront of the field, PGS is a global hub for sustainability innovation and regenerative impact, helping forge a new definition of the common good at the intersection of for-profit and for-benefit. Learn more about our programs, people, and impact at presidio.edu.