Kicking off our Employee Engagement two-part series, this session will dive deep into what’s currently happening with Employee Engagement in the midst of new hybrid work environments and continued uncertainty around in-person gatherings. Our panelists will share how, in this newest work environment, they are refining their engagement strategies (yet again) to foster community, support employees, and the causes that they are about and maintain connection.
Finally, we’ll share how Pledge 1% is guiding our members in small group settings as they develop their employee impact programs- and we hope that you will apply to join our next cohort launching in 2022! WePledge 1% is a program powered by Twilio, in partnership with Pledge 1%, to empower your employees to create positive change with a pledge to contribute 1% of their personal time, financial resources, or both to do good in their communities and beyond. Twilio has open-sourced their WePledge1% approach and partnered with Pledge 1% to share their learnings and best practices with all Pledge 1% members.
Amy Lesnick is the Chief Executive and President of Pledge 1%. With over 20 years of experience leading, scaling, and advising early-stage, high-growth ventures, Amy is a tech industry veteran. She’s especially passionate about the intersection of technology and social change, as well as initiatives that simultaneously empower individuals and engage communities.
Prior to leading Pledge 1%, Amy led the Full Circle Fund, a prestigious engaged philanthropy organization focused on cultivating the next generation of community leaders, as its CEO/Executive Director, functioned as Vice President for United Way of the Bay Area, and served as Indiegogo's Head of Cause. Amy's extensive experience also includes the McKinsey & Company, American Airlines/SABRE, and Netscape, where she launched Netscape’s first web-based email product and led Netscape’s first online news stand.
Erin Dieterich is the Director of NewRelic.org, the company's social responsibility function. She leads, designs, and manages programs and partnerships to support the company's social impact strategy, including community impact, nonprofit customer donations, and employee volunteerism. She also produces FutureTalks PDX, the monthly tech-talk series focused on innovation and diversity, equity, and inclusion in the technology.
Christina is passionate about helping companies channel their unique assets and people toward fueling more equitable, sustainable communities. Over the last 16 years, she has developed and led social impact strategies for Empower Retirement, Janus Henderson, The Denver Post and SendGrid. Currently she is the Director of Social Impact for Twilio where she oversees global philanthropy, impact investments, and employee impact.
Prior to joining Twilio, Christina was the Assistant Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility, Inclusion and Talent Acquisition at Empower Retirement. In that role, she led the vision, strategy and execution of the organization’s philanthropy, talent acquisition, diversity and inclusion initiatives.Â
Previously, she served as the Manager of Community Relations, Sponsorships and Events at Janus Capital Group (now Janus Henderson) where she managed the Janus Foundation, community relations, charitable sponsorship events and client programs. Before that, Christina was the Community Relations Manager for The Denver Post Ride The Rockies, an annual 425-mile bicycle tour across Colorado for 2,000+ cyclists that raised money for Colorado youth literacy programs.
Christina enjoys serving the community through nonprofit board membership and volunteerism. She currently serves on the Board of B:Civic and RAINN’s national leadership council. She has been a mentor for Stanford University’s Latino Business Entrepreneurship Network, a member of the Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation, a guest lecturer for CU Boulder's CSR Certification course, and a founding member of the American Red Cross’ young professionals committee.Â
Christina holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Emory University and an Executive Certificate in Corporate Community Involvement from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. She lives in Evergreen with her husband and two children where they enjoy skiing and hiking Colorado’s beautiful mountains.
Kathy is Program Director of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Foundation and Community Investment Lead for HPE. She helped launch HPE Gives, integrating a new employee-nominated grants program, revising HPE Foundation’s strategy, and galvanizing HPE Gives Champions across the globe. Since then, Kathy introduced a new initiative called HPE Accelerating Impact, focused on engaging employees to support tech nonprofits who are building original technology to scale for social impact. She manages HPE’s strategic grantmaking and nonprofit partner relationships.
She has also consulted other companies on corporate responsibility in her previous role with Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Prior to moving to the Bay Area, Kathy managed corporate partnerships for City Harvest, an anti-hunger nonprofit in New York City. Data and process-minded from the get-go, Kathy started her career in finance and change management at Barclays, where she was actively involved with company volunteering.
Nisha Kadaba is a Social Impact leader with deep experience working across the nonprofit, social enterprise and corporate sectors. She is currently at PagerDuty, where she builds strategic programs to leverage core company assets - people, product, and funds - to accelerate the impact of mission-driven organizations. Prior to PagerDuty, she led social impact at Playmob, a tech-for-good start-up that harnesses the power of games to address global challenges and drive action. Nisha’s passionate about building cross-sector partnerships at intersections of technology, business, and social impact. She’s previously held mutli-faceted roles at Room to Read and the CAA Foundation. Nisha received her MSc degree in Environment and Development at the University of Edinburgh and her BA in Political Science and International Relations from UCLA.
Pledge 1% is a global movement that encourages and empowers companies of all sizes and stages to donate 1% of their staff time, product, profit, and/or equity to ANY charity of their choosing. We provide a simple, flexible, and scaleable model to integrate giving back into the DNA of all companies, especially startups. Already thousands of companies around the world have taken the pledge, and dozens of VCs, incubators, and conferences have joined to push the movement forward.
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