Collaboration Fast-Tracked a Sustainability Program - Alegent Health December 4, 2008

Driving sustainability in a large organization calls for "whole-systems thinking," which is always more difficult than it sounds. A wide-ranging sustainability program involves not just internal key stakeholders and leaders but external partners, suppliers, and community organizations. A collective challenge is how to get the whole system on the same page, starting with the basic question, "what does sustainability mean to this organization?"

Hear how Alegent, a 9000-employee not-for-profit health care system in Omaha, Nebraska, took this challenge head-on. Alegent utilized a large-group intervention practice to accelerate and mobilize stakeholders around a sustainability vision and execution plan. The plan covers six streams of work: facilities, transportation, value chain-upstream, value chain-downstream, internal culture and external policy.

The discussion will be graphics-intensive, interactive, and experiential. David will demonstrate techniques and tools that mobilize teams around a broad set of sustainability initiatives, and can be used immediately and across industries.

What you will learn, do, and take away from this session:
* Understand how a complex, integrated sustainability program was launched and executed at Alegent Health.
* Learn how "top-down" and "bottom-up" governance and decision-making can work together
* Understand how to maximize the role of stakeholders outside the organization in a sustainability effort, including subject matter experts, suppliers, partners, area utilities, etc.
* Experience and learn how the use of a collaborative environment and compelling visual graphics, including technology, music, and hand-drawn graphics can positively impact sustainability results.
* Learn three collaboration techniques that can be applied to sustainability across industries

$25 members, students, affiliates, $35 all others, $40 at door.

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