Sustainability Council

In addition to tracking and reporting, we believe in the importance of educating our employees about environmental sustainability to rally them around ways they can make a difference in their personal and professional lives.

Our goal is to make it easy for our people to make decisions that are sustainable. In October 2019, we established a Sustainability Council, which now includes an ambassador program of 66 active members as of 2022. The mission of the inaugural Sustainability Council was threefold:

The ambassadors come from all areas of our business and represent over 90% of our offices. The Sustainability Ambassadors are responsible for raising awareness and encouraging engagement and participation on Sustainability efforts in their local market.
 
For example, one of these initiatives was our national Suit Up and Serve On event in 2021 in partnership with our Philanthropy team. For this event, we hosted a drive to collect gently used employee business clothes for donation to Dress for Success. This provided quality clothing to women entering the workforce and helped divert waste from landfills.
 
Since 2019, the Sustainability Council has accomplished the following:
 

• We conducted our first environmental assessment of our office spaces: 59% were in LEED, Energy Star and/or otherwise Sustainably Certified Buildings
• Green Review with our Office Suppliers Vendors: 50+ products we purchase regularly have been swapped to more eco-friendly options
• Equipped all offices with proper recycling and EWASTE bins and services
• Implemented a Sustainability Calendar to raise awareness, educate on ways we can make positive impacts and organize service activity options

Like many companies, during the pandemic and as part of our digital transformation, we automated our onboarding processes and created electronic versions of frequently used documents to significantly reduce our printing and paper usage. We want to continue our digital transformation so that everything in our operation can be done without printing paper. For the use of paper that cannot be avoided, we will pursue treeless options, where possible.

“We’re striving to educate and raise awareness throughout all of Insight Global to not only impact our actions as a company, but in our personal lives as well. Together, we are becoming a community where making earth-conscious decisions isn’t just what we should do, but what we want to do. Because ultimately, Being the Light to the world around us can’t happen without taking care of the planet too.”

 
Katherine Slater
Sustainability Program Manager