Group Leadership
Chair
Karen Cecil
Cummins
Vice Chair
Michael Going
CNH Industrial
AEM Staff Contact
Curt Blades
Senior Vice President, Agriculture Services | 414-298-4112
John Wagner
Director, Materials Management | 414-298-4164
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.
- Establishment and implementation of 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.