CSR Connect - Optimy's Podcast

This year has been challenging for everyone, but when it comes to social good challenges, few people had a year as demanding as this month's podcast guest: Shannon Gorman, President and CEO of the Queensway Carleton Hospital Foundation in Canada. As she was starting her position and COVID was hitting North-America, she needed to figure out how to have effective internal communication, engage with donors, and keep her staff safe. Listen here how she managed to do all of that while still supporting the hospital's needs.

In the past years, social inclusion has become a buzzword. But what really is social inclusion and what are the mechanisms we can use to achieve it? To answer all these questions, and many more, we talked to some experts from the CSR world. In this podcast episode, you will hear from Tomás Sercovich and from Chris Jarvis.

Caroline Modave shares some ideas on how to measure employee engagement, both internally and externally; how to make sure your middle management stays engaged with corporate volunteering activities; and how volunteerism can be used as a mechanism for employees branding.

In the third episode of Optimy’s CSR connect we discuss how social movements are connected with corporate social responsibility. To talk about such an important topic, we reached out to two experienced CSR professionals: Jerome Tennille and Andrea Gamson.

For this podcast episode, we interviewed Jerome Tennille, Consultant and Advisor in sustainability and social impact, as well as Manager of Social Impact and Volunteerism for Marriott International. We talked to him about different ways to get into a corporate social responsibility role, CSR myths and many other exciting topics. 

The Optimy podcast is a place to discuss CSR, corporate impact, and all things social purpose.