making your impact at work - a practical guide to changing the world from inside any company +...

Net Impact created 'Making Your Impact at Work' to inspire and empower social intrapreneurs - individuals working within organizations who find ways to integrate sustainability into their day jobs - to create positive social and environmental change. Making Your Impact at Work builds upon Net Impact's successful Impact at Work program, which cultivates a network of social intrapreneurs and provides them with support and resources to change their workplace. The Impact at Work program engages hundreds of committed professional members in workplace change programs. To learn more about Impact at Work and to join Net Impact, visit www.netimpact.org/impactatwork.Making Your Impact at Work is based on the stories of innovative and inspiring social intrapreneurs in the Net Impact network. The first section of the guide summarizes themes Net Impact identified in the experiences of the intrapreneurs profiled and provides a framework and model for other changemakers to follow. The second section includes individual case studies of 13 corporate changemakers and contains details on the planning and execution of their initiatives. While many of the individuals interviewed focus on environmentally themed projects, the strategies and approaches can apply to a variety of corporate responsibility initiatives, including topics like diversity, human rights, nonprofit partnerships, and more.In addition to reading this guide, current and aspiring intrapreneurs are encouraged to join Net Impact and utilize our Impact at Work resources to become part of an ongoing dialogue on corporate social and environmental change initiatives. Through the Impact at Work Program, professional Net Impact members can pose questions to the intrapreneurs profiled in Making Your Impact at Work via an online forum and call series, as well as access resources and templates for corporate change projects. The closing section of Making Your Impact at Work presents a call to action for our readers to become social intrapreneurs and provides more detailed information on resources offered by Net Impact. Net Impact encourages readers to share their own stories and feedback on Making Your Impact at Work by emailing impact@netimpact.org.Net Impact would like to thank eBay Inc. for its contributions and support in the development of Making Your Impact at Work. Drawing from its long history and deeply ingrained spirit of entrepreneurism and innovation, eBay Inc. empowers its 15,000 employees to make change inside the organization every day. Through the employee Green Team, more than 2,000 employees work together to make eBay a greener company. eBay Inc. believes that harnessing the power of employees' great ideas will create a stronger and more vibrant company and workplace. Thank you to eBay Inc., the Levi Strauss Foundation, and to the individuals profiled in this guide for their support of the Impact at Work program, this project, and Net Impact.Meet the Social IntrapreneursThe individuals profiled in Making Your Impact at Work represent a range of industries, projects, and backgrounds. They pursue both environmental and social change with varying levels of leadership support, in a variety of functional positions and industries. The intrapreneurs share a common belief that individuals at any level can create change that is valuable for the world and for the company, no matter how large or how daunting the task may seem. Brief profiles of the individuals interviewed appear below, and their stories appear in greater detail in the In-Depth Case Study section of this guide.Lisa Neuberger Fernandez, Accenture, Shoshannah Lenski, Boston Consulting Group, Hamlin Metzger, Best Buy, Suzanne Henricksen, The Clorox Company, Ajay Badhwar, Dow Chemical, Hilary Sinclair, eBay Inc, Seth Marbin, Jennifer Chin, Ramin Taleghani, Google, Mike Norelli, Ingersoll Rand, Jason McBriarty, Levi Strauss & Co, John Rockwell, McDonald. By Net Impact in partnership with Ebay