61: Multi-Solving with ESG with Liz Vescio

In this episode, Chris is joined from Canonsburg, Pennsylvania by Liz Vescio, the ESG Advisor at Crown Castle. Crown Castle is a S&P 500 company that owns, operates, and leases more than 40,000 cell towers and approximately 85,000 route miles of fiber, supporting small cells and fiber solutions across every major U.S. market. Its $10 billion investment in communications infrastructure within low-income communities affirms that Crown Castle is inclusively enabling connectivity between people, communities, and businesses. In her current role, Liz leads Crown Castle’s environmental, social, governance or ESG efforts. Through collaboration with leaders across the company, she identifies opportunities to achieve ESG goals, ensures alignment of ESG efforts to company goals, and is responsible for ESG public disclosure. In the episode Liz and Chris discuss: - Embedding your ESG strategy in your business identity - Being intentional with investing in your value chain - Collaborating across functions for more sustainability wins, and more... Referenced Materials in this episode: Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs, “ESG – Are We Experiencing a Reporting Revolution?”: https://www.picpa.org/keep-informed/insights/esg GreenBiz, “Is sustainability becoming all about accounting?”: https://www.greenbiz.com/article/sustainability-becoming-all-about-accounting?utm_source2=NYSE%20-%20ESG%20Newsletter%20-%202023_03_17 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