Impact reporting enables companies to voluntarily analyze and take responsibility for both the negative and positive ‘impacts’ of their business activities.
Tracking these activities -- from sourcing to production, from transportation to energy use, from labor practices to community engagement -- can serve as a key lever for change.
Building Accountability into the Furniture Industry
Our webinars and action guides aim to demystify impact reporting – cutting through jargon, providing a step-by-step process for creating publicly-available self-reporting documents.
Designed for those publishing their first impact report or looking to strengthen existing reporting.
What gets measured, gets done.
In this first of two webinars, we demystify the reporting process -
how to keep it simple, use data your company already tracks, and focus on progress over perfection.
Continuously evaluate and adjust your key strategy.
In our second webinar, leaders in the furniture industry explain how they use impact reporting to identify priorities and make meaningful changes.
We show how to combine data with visual storytelling for easier-to-read reports.
Mark Tremlett is the founder of Naturalmat, a British mattress manufacturer. As a champion-of-the-planet, Mark has prioritized sustainability from the company’s start.
Emily McGarvey is Director of Sustainability at Room & Board. Emily focuses on strategies that place sustainability at the center of furniture manufacturing.
Aileen Strickland McGee is Director of ESG at Steelcase. Aileen leads her team in reimagining systems across the company that center the wellbeing of people and the planet.
Our Impact Reporting webinar series was co-sponsored by:
Good Future Design Alliance (GFDA)
IIDA NY Sustainability Circle
Lot21
New York School of Interior Design, and
The Furniture Society
