Ellen Weinreb

Weinreb leads Weinreb Group, a sustainability-centered recruiting and consulting firm. Over the past 15 years, Weinreb Group has provided sustainability services to companies including Nestle Waters, Levi Strauss, Nike, Clorox and Hewlett Packard. Weinreb lives in the intersection of human resources and sustainability. She is a headhunter by day and a GreenBiz contributor by night. Her column in GreenBiz, Talent Show (http://www.greenbiz.com/engage/featured-blogs/talent-show) identifies opportunities for the human resources department to move the sustainability dial forward for their company.

Program Session
One Great Idea: Looking to Your Employees for Innovation
Employees are an enormous resource for innovation. In this One Great Idea, Weinreb will identify companies who have identified over $100M in saving stemming from employee’s suggestions. She will highlight sustainability innovations as well as the systems that support the capturing of ideas.