Christy Cook Drives Solutions for Her Clients to Navigate ESG One of the newest acronyms that seems to be popping up at every turn is ESG. Christy Cook helps female leaders in small and medium businesses navigate the complex world of ESG and compete in the 21st century. What is ESG? Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) is a structure to help investors evaluate a company’s exposure to risk under the pillars of ESG. Socially conscious investors use ESG as criteria for gauging the viability of a potential investment. Most often, ESG issues include board diversity or employee treatment, supply chain resilience, or carbon accounting. “People often use the word sustainability and ESG interchangeably, but they are quite different. One definition that really resonates with me is that ESG looks at how the world impacts a company, whereas sustainability focuses on how a company impacts the world” Christy began her sustainability work while at Emory University in Atlanta well before there was a course of study for ESG. Her employer asked her to represent them on a committee of department heads that was studying the field of sustainability. The purpose of this group was to create a recommendation about the strategic direction of sustainability for the university. “We spent a year researching and discussing all the various areas of sustainability. Who are the most “sustainable” universities in the world and why? What are the best diets in the world and how do those diets impact the people and planet? The multidisciplinary approach and immersion into these complex topics was the best education.” Christy took that career step that began at Emory University and scaled her solutions to 8,500 sites in North America for Sodexo the 19th largest employer in the world. A career
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