SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAINS

Expanding the mission For Debbie, community work is not a side project. She argues that strong, resilient communities are essential to Intuit’ s mission of powering prosperity because the company cannot serve that mission if the communities around it are struggling.

That is why Intuit is looking to expand educational outreach as well. Debbie says future priorities include integrating eco-literacy and financial literacy programmes for students across the country.

Eco-literacy refers to understanding human interconnectness with the environment and developing a sustainability mindset, while financial literacy means knowing how to manage money, budgeting and basic economic decisions. For a company like Intuit, which provides AI and human expertise to help consumers and businesses with their finances, the pairing is strategically logical.

Her near-term priorities also include deepening decarbonisation across the company’ s operations and expanding support for small businesses and suppliers. That suggests the next phase will focus as much on operational execution as on outward-facing programmes.

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