Sustainable Development
Connecting the global licensed consumer products community with sustainable business strategies that mitigate risk, reduce waste, plan for future unknowns, address both supply chain and human capital and bring competitive financial advantage.
Providing consumer products manufacturers, brand holders and retailers with sustainable business strategies.
The future of retailing and consumer spending habits is quickly changing and will impact the ability to do business in the future. Sustainability is about options and opportunities – planning for them, and acknowledging that there is a better way to do business.
The growing constraint on our natural resources, as well as diminished financial capital, will impact our ability to make money in the future. As an industry, we can take steps to maximize our individual assets and offset the impending, and in some cases, inevitable risks, while incorporating money saving strategies. We have no choice, and in the end will be grateful for having done the right thing for our companies, our customers and our planet.
Where do I start?
Globally Green can help you answer these questions and help you to become a better employer, vendor and partner.
What can Globally Green do for me?
Sustainability is a business strategy that emphasizes efficiency, effectiveness and innovation, while at the same time benefiting our planet and generations to come. Three equal elements form the lynchpin of sustainability – people, planet and profit. Incorporating sustainability has become a requisite for doing business.
The growing constraint on our natural resources, as well as diminished financial capital, will impact our ability to make money in the future. As an industry, we can take steps to maximize our individual assets and offset the impending, and in some cases, inevitable risks, while incorporating money saving strategies.
We have no choice, and in the end will be grateful for having done the right thing for our companies, our customers and our planet.
Join Globally Green in bringing thought to the processes we practice while instilling a better work/life value proposition that addresses our shifting role as employers/ manufacturers to global citizens.
Benefits
- Cost savings
- Enhanced brand value
- Leadership in a global economy
- Decreased ecological footprint
- Positive corporate reputation
- Competitive advantage
- Active network of sustainability and licensing professionals
Services
- Business sustainability coaching
- Corporate communications
- Energy/material audits
- Sustainable packaging
- International licensing
- Consumer product development
- Branding/marketing
- Office/corporate/brand sustainability plans
- Licensee agreements
- Speaking/educational services
Whether compelled strictly by economics, or motivated by the desire to leave a lasting generational legacy, utilizing sustainable business strategies will positively impact your processes and bottom line.
Wherever you are in meeting your sustainability goals Globally Green will create a plan that delivers actionable results and meets your individual needs.
Working on retainer or as a project based engagement, Globally Green is part of an active network of sustainability professionals and will leverage and incorporate additional resources as needed.
Andrea's quest is to make the business case for how licensors, consumer goods manufacturers and retailers can transform their companies and brands with a sustainable bottom line focus. One of her immediate initiatives is to help the industry she loves to make the changes they need to hold their value with retailers as well as consumers. creating a more aware and pro-active relationship.
Andrea has spent the last 30 years on both the Licensee and Licensor side of the Entertainment Consumer Products business; 15 as Licensee, and 15 as Licensor. Her expertise lies in the positive commercialization and interconnectivity of global markets, cultures and opportunities.
She has now transitioned into sustainable business development and global business consulting and uses her experience of bringing compelling products to consumers, both domestically and internationally. With the onset of Covid-19, Andrea is working with CORE, the NGO founded by Sean Penn, to conduct drive through testing throughout Los Angeles.
Having held functional executive positions dedicated to the fields of Brand Management, IP Licensing, Project Management, Brand Evangelism, Business Development, Marketing/Sales and Sustainable Business Development, Andrea has worked with/or represented brands such as Levi’s, Walt Disney Company, World Poker Tour, Hallmark, Sybo, Saban Entertainment, Activision and most recently as SVP Global Licensing at Zag Studios.
Andrea grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and has lived/worked in Boulder, Denver, Cincinnati, Tokyo and Kobe Japan and traveled to 56 countries. She currently lives in Los Angeles. She holds a BA from the University of Colorado in Japanese Studies and in 2008 completed the inaugural Executive Graduate Program in Sustainable Business Management from the Presidio Graduate School. She is a long time Licensing International member and supporter, and a Founding Member of the Products of Change Group, a UK based industry collective focused on sustainability education and the sharing of best practices.
