Sustainability Magazine February 2025 | Page 102

D & I

Peter It ’ s also important that we engage people and stakeholders into making policies and strategies . I come across a lot of organisations where they demonstrate their commitment online and say their CEO is committed to supplier diversity and they are having a spend target of so many percentages .

But then stakeholders say they weren ’ t part of that decision so have different insights and cannot make those commitments . If you make them part of it , make sure that they are part of the discussion and deliver input , then you have a very informed target that you ’ re developing and you get people much more engaged . They are part of the solution and I think that ’ s very important .

You need to be very transparent about what you are trying to achieve , making sure that you communicate that it ’ s part of your business and for your company strategy overall — but also you see ambitions .

You always want to make sure that you communicate very well that supplier diversity is part of ESG because it tackles the ethical social aspects . We really want to make sure that people understand that and they see that relationship , plus the relationship with the work that they do day-to-day , because then it becomes much more exciting for them to be participating .

JAVIER LÓPEZ GÓMEZ , GLOBAL HEAD OF CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY , SGS

TITLE : GLOBAL HEAD OF CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY

COMPANY : SGS

With more than 15 years of international experience in sustainability and climate change fields , Javier leads corporate sustainability at the world ’ s leading certification , inspection and testing company , SGS . By managing the execution of SGS Group ’ s sustainability strategy , Javier aims to positively impact the organisation .

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