Jessica Kirshenblat-Gooderham
About:
Jessica Kirshenblat-Gooderham acts as a strategic partner for companies integrating sustainability into their procurement business practices, through her role as a North America Customer Success Team Lead at EcoVadis. EcoVadis is a SaaS provider of sustainability ratings to facilitate improvements in supply chain practices, targeting procurement teams and their supply and service partners.
As a champion of CSR in business, Jessica is especially focused on the power of individuals to drive change within large organizations. She has been working in areas of strategy, category insights, trade management and customer development for close to 15 years, including over a decade at Fortune 500 companies in the Consumer Packaged Goods and Logistics industries. Jessica holds a degree in Business from Canada's Schulich School of Business and a certificate in Change Leadership from Cornell University.
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Tell us about your career path. How did you get into this field? Was it purposeful or by accident?
Throughout my life, I’ve been interested in both business and sustainability – more specifically, the integration of the two. When I was in business school, there was no focus or discussion on sustainability. A trend that became even more evident upon graduation. True, there was work happening through Corporate Affairs...