Group Leadership
Chair
Karen Cecil
Cummins
Vice Chair
Michael Going
CNH Industrial
AEM Staff Contact
Julie Davis
Senior Director, Workforce & Industry Initiatives | 414-298-4157
Objective
Define and direct the implementation of a cohesive industry strategy on sustainability, promoting the positive global impacts made by member organizations.
Responsibilities
- Understand how sustainability is perceived, achieved and communicated throughout our membership.
- Understand how we compare to other industries by benchmarking automotive, electronics, aerospace, etc.
- Alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals in areas we can target as an industry as well as all those areas that we have an impact on.
- Establish and implement a sustainability index for our industry.
- Quantify and communicate all past successes (emissions reductions over time, productivity gains, safety improvements, standards development).
- Understand how our industry is perceived with regard to sustainability issues.
- Develop and deliver a unified industry sustainability message.
- Develop, promote and distribute best practices (life cycle analysis, chemical data collection, data quality, etc.).
- Ensure that this is an initiative that includes the entire supply chain.
2022 Priorities
- Develop a Maturity Curve for industry bench marking
- Align Responsible sourcing compliance through supply chain
- Focusing on the intersection of regulation and Sustainability deliver best practice guidance to begin the sustainability journey.
- Deploy a Sustainability measurement system for the industry
- Align Sustainability definitions and expectations through supply chain
- Develop a Supply Chain Sustainability Summit
- Develop and promote industry approved language for supply chain code of conduct