Danielle Jezienicki's guest appearances

Danielle Jezienicki

Sustainable Nation

Sustaining Sustainability

Women Changing The World 

Mark Lewis

Brittany Bennett

Anne Kelly

Joel Makower

Levi Strauss

John Rogers

Amanda King

Tim Trefzer

Michael Kobori

Scott Paul

Jeff Wooster

Hunter Lovins

Meghna Tare

Joel Solomon

Nick Martin

OwlTail

In this episode, CSB Director CB Bhattacharya is from San Francisco, California by Danielle Jezienicki, Senior Director of Sustainability at Grove Collaborative. A certified B Corporation, Grove Collaborative creates and curates 150+ sustainable, high-performing brands. Their products are plastic neutral and carbon neutral, and the company has committed to being 100% plastic-free by 2025. Please note this episode was pre-recorded in July, prior to the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act in August 2022. Danielle’s final call to action still stands after the passing of this and other climate-related legislation. We encourage you to continue finding ways to move forward by engaging in conversations with your Elected Officials. With net revenue of over $300 million and nearly 500 employees, Grove Collaborative is devoted to more than just profits, and has made public commitments to support a deforestation-free supply chain, remove harmful chemicals from the home, and encourage justice and equity in the workplace and beyond.In fact, they recently exceeded their goal to source an additional $250,000 of products and goods from Black-owned businesses through 2021 by over $100,000.In this episode, Danielle and CB discuss... Grove’s commitment to going completely plastic-free by 2025, How companies can achieve their targets for scopes 1-3 to be net-zero with science-based approaches, Ways to lighten your footprint at home, and more.Sign up to receive bi-weekly episodes right to your inbox: bit.ly/csbpodcastemail   Submit your "Sustaining Sustainability" feedback and/or questions: bit.ly/csbpodcastfeedback   This episode was researched, recorded, edited, and produced by Prof. CB Bhattacharya and CSB Team of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Sustainable Business: www.sustainablebusiness.pitt.edu   Music: "Lively" by Dee Yan-Key From the Free Music Archive CC BY NC SA creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcod

In this episode, CSB Director CB Bhattacharya is from San Francisco, California by Danielle Jezienicki, Senior Director of Sustainability at Grove Collaborative. A certified B Corporation, Grove Collaborative creates and curates 150+ sustainable, high-performing brands. Their products are plastic neutral and carbon neutral, and the company has committed to being 100% plastic-free by 2025. Please note this episode was pre-recorded in July, prior to the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act in August 2022. Danielle’s final call to action still stands after the passing of this and other climate-related legislation. We encourage you to continue finding ways to move forward by engaging in conversations with your Elected Officials. With net revenue of over $300 million and nearly 500 employees, Grove Collaborative is devoted to more than just profits, and has made public commitments to support a deforestation-free supply chain, remove harmful chemicals from the home, and encourage justice and equity in the workplace and beyond. In fact, they recently exceeded their goal to source an additional $250,000 of products and goods from Black-owned businesses through 2021 by over $100,000. In this episode, Danielle and CB discuss... Grove’s commitment to going completely plastic-free by 2025, How companies can achieve their targets for scopes 1-3 to be net-zero with science-based approaches, Ways to lighten your footprint at home, and more. Sign up to receive bi-weekly episodes right to your inbox: <a href="http://bit.ly/csbpodcastemail" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bit.ly/csbpodcastemail</a> Submit your "Sustaining Sustainability" feedback and/or questions: <a href="http://bit.ly/csbpodcastfeedback" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bit.ly/csbpodcastfeedback</a> This episode was researched, recorded, edited, and produced by Prof. CB Bhattacharya and CSB Team of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Sustainable Business: <a href="http://www.sustainablebusiness.pitt.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.sustainablebusiness.pitt.edu</a> Music: "Lively" by Dee Yan-Key From the Free Music Archive CC BY NC SA <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcod" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcod</a>

47: Pursuing Incremental Milestones with Danielle Jezienicki, Grove Collaborative

In this episode, we talk to Danielle Jezienicki, Senior Director of Sustainability at Grove Collaborative, founding member of the Girls Club Mastermind, and encyclopedia for all things non-toxic and waste-reducing for your home and life.  This episode covers: 🌿Tips for making your lifestyle more sustainable 🌿Advice for setting and achieving impossible goals 🌿Managing life as a working mom 🌿How Danielle’s business dreams at 22 have manifested in the work she does today 🌿Words of wisdom for how to let the work you do in your sustainability career be enough 🌿What a waste audit is, and how it can help you reduce your environmental impact 🌿Reflections on how to keep perspective in your career journey 🌿Ways to make your gift-giving more sustainable any time of the year You can learn more about Danielle below: LinkedIn Cleanish Greenish Home And you can grab her sustainable gifting guide here. Ready to spend more time together? Check out the spaces below where my community hangs out: Girls Club ApplicationInstagramLinkedInMonthly Meditation

In this episode, we talk to Danielle Jezienicki, Senior Director of Sustainability at Grove Collaborative, founding member of the Girls Club Mastermind, and encyclopedia for all things non-toxic and waste-reducing for your home and life.  This episode covers: 🌿Tips for making your lifestyle more sustainable 🌿Advice for setting and achieving impossible goals 🌿Managing life as a working mom 🌿How Danielle’s business dreams at 22 have manifested in the work she does today 🌿Words of wisdom for how to let the work you do in your sustainability career be enough 🌿What a waste audit is, and how it can help you reduce your environmental impact 🌿Reflections on how to keep perspective in your career journey 🌿Ways to make your gift-giving more sustainable any time of the year You can learn more about Danielle below: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielleginach/#experience" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cleanishgreenishhome/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cleanish Greenish Home</a> And you can grab her sustainable gifting guide <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1k2CS0luKqh0La0nRvC3gKX0c1RV-gwRRWK8yrODKUhI/edit#slide=id.p" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. Ready to spend more time together? Check out the spaces below where my community hangs out: <a href="https://www.elisabethbest.com/girlsclub" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Girls Club Application </a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/lis.best/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram </a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/lis-best-coaching-for-impact/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn </a><a href="https://www.elisabethbest.com/monthlymeditation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Monthly Meditation</a>

EP 19: Making your life more sustainable, letting your work - and impact - be enough, and setting impossible goals with Danielle Jezienicki

Danielle Jezienicki is the Director of Sustainability for Grove Collaborative, the leading digital-first brand &amp; ecommerce platform for natural home and personal care products. A certified B Corp, Grove serves hundreds of thousands of households in the U.S. every month. Prior to Danielle’s current role at Grove, Danielle was as the Director of Corporate Social Responsibility at Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (WSI) where she supervised ESG reporting and sustainability initiatives for the Company and its West Coast brands including Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, Pottery Barn Teen, Williams-Sonoma, Rejuvenation and Mark &amp; Graham. Long inspired by the possibilities of sustainability-first consciousness provide, she was an Impact Analyst for four years at Sonen Capital, an investment firm that prioritizes socio-environmental outcomes in conjunction with financial returns. She holds an MBA in Sustainable Management at Presidio Graduate School and BA from Brown University. Danielle Joins Sustainable Nation to Discuss:  Establishing sustainability goals that are both practical yet challenging Addressing plastic use and the concept of being plastic neutral at Grove Reforestation efforts at Grove Advocating for legislation around safety and sustainability in consumer products Advice and recommendations for sustainability leaders  Danielle's Final Five Question Responses: What is one piece of advice you would give other sustainability professionals that might help them in their careers? I would say: your next job is not necessarily your dream job. Just find something that you're going to learn or work on that will eventually get you your dream dream job. It's all a stepping stone. Just keep learning; keep growing your experience. It will all be useful down the line. Get to work, roll up your sleeves. We have so much to do. What are you most excited about right now in the world of sustainability?  The focus on regenerative agriculture; this conversation about biodiversity. The shifting is thinking about sustainability as an add on: we use carbon and then we offset it. But becoming a more circular business, and circularity around sustainability. Understanding that it's all connected. It's all one ecosystem. We need to regenerate the soil and take back the materials. It's this growing consciousness about the role that sustainability plays and how important it is to regenerate, not just sustain.  What is one book you would recommend sustainability professionals read? I'm currently reading All We Can Save: Truth, Courage and Solutions for the Climate Crisis. It's really inspiring, and focused on women. I just also read The Overstory, which from a fiction standpoint will give you a good shake and remind you that this is really urgent. We just don't have time to waste. What are some of your favorite resources or tools that really help you in your work?  One thing I love that we have at Grove, we use Slack and we have a sustainability channel. I love hearing from non-sustainability people about sustainability things, because you end up in your own bubble inevitably. So I love hearing what other people have to say and what other people are hearing. It opens your world as to how it is that you should be engaging with people who aren't knee deep in this stuff day in, day out. Where can our listeners go to learn more about you and the work being done at Grove?  For me personally, LinkedIn is a great place. I try to share all of our major announcements. Then we have a sustainability page, sustainability report, plastic report- that's always on the Grove site: grove.co/sustainability or grove.co/beyondplastic. We will give you the latest and most transparent information: our plastic footprint, what percent is reusable. We're really committed to being super transparent about everything that we're doing.

Danielle Jezienicki is the Director of Sustainability for Grove Collaborative, the leading digital-first brand &amp; ecommerce platform for natural home and personal care products. A certified B Corp, Grove serves hundreds of thousands of households in the U.S. every month. Prior to Danielle’s current role at Grove, Danielle was as the Director of Corporate Social Responsibility at Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (WSI) where she supervised ESG reporting and sustainability initiatives for the Company and its West Coast brands including Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, Pottery Barn Teen, Williams-Sonoma, Rejuvenation and Mark &amp; Graham. Long inspired by the possibilities of sustainability-first consciousness provide, she was an Impact Analyst for four years at Sonen Capital, an investment firm that prioritizes socio-environmental outcomes in conjunction with financial returns. She holds an MBA in Sustainable Management at Presidio Graduate School and BA from Brown University. Danielle Joins Sustainable Nation to Discuss: <ul> <li>Establishing sustainability goals that are both practical yet challenging</li> <li>Addressing plastic use and the concept of being plastic neutral at Grove</li> <li>Reforestation efforts at Grove</li> <li>Advocating for legislation around safety and sustainability in consumer products</li> <li>Advice and recommendations for sustainability leaders</li> </ul> Danielle's Final Five Question Responses: What is one piece of advice you would give other sustainability professionals that might help them in their careers? I would say: your next job is not necessarily your dream job. Just find something that you're going to learn or work on that will eventually get you your dream dream job. It's all a stepping stone. Just keep learning; keep growing your experience. It will all be useful down the line. Get to work, roll up your sleeves. We have so much to do. What are you most excited about right now in the world of sustainability?  The focus on regenerative agriculture; this conversation about biodiversity. The shifting is thinking about sustainability as an add on: we use carbon and then we offset it. But becoming a more circular business, and circularity around sustainability. Understanding that it's all connected. It's all one ecosystem. We need to regenerate the soil and take back the materials. It's this growing consciousness about the role that sustainability plays and how important it is to regenerate, not just sustain.  What is one book you would recommend sustainability professionals read? I'm currently reading All We Can Save: Truth, Courage and Solutions for the Climate Crisis. It's really inspiring, and focused on women. I just also read The Overstory, which from a fiction standpoint will give you a good shake and remind you that this is really urgent. We just don't have time to waste. What are some of your favorite resources or tools that really help you in your work?  One thing I love that we have at Grove, we use Slack and we have a sustainability channel. I love hearing from non-sustainability people about sustainability things, because you end up in your own bubble inevitably. So I love hearing what other people have to say and what other people are hearing. It opens your world as to how it is that you should be engaging with people who aren't knee deep in this stuff day in, day out. Where can our listeners go to learn more about you and the work being done at Grove?  For me personally, LinkedIn is a great place. I try to share all of our major announcements. Then we have a sustainability page, sustainability report, plastic report- that's always on the Grove site: <a href="http://grove.co/sustainability" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">grove.co/sustainability</a> or <a href="http://grove.co/beyondplastic" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">grove.co/beyondplastic</a>. We will give you the latest and most transparent information: our plastic footprint, what percent is reusable. We're really committed to being super transparent about everything that we're doing.

Danielle Jezienicki - Director of Sustainability at Grove Collaborative