Jocelyn Cascio, Supply Chain Sustainability Senior Manger at Intel Corporation is speaking at Demystifying the Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) & The Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI). This practitioner workshop is presented by Governance & Accountability Institute in collaboration RobecoSAM on October 24, 2017 and is being hosted at Baruch College/CUNY in New York City.  Jocelyn will be focusing on assessment questions for supply chain at the workshop.
MEET ONE OF THE SPEAKERS: JOCELYN CASCIO
Supply Chain Sustainability Senior Manager at Intel Corporation
Topic: Workshop 3: Supply Chain

A conversation with Jocelyn:
Q:  What is your involvement and experience at Intel Corporation in completing the RobecoSAM CSA for the DJSI each year? 
For the past 6 years, my team and I have owned completion of the Supply Chain section of the CSA. We analyze, synthesize and consolidate data from various sources and collaborate across internal stakeholders to ensure the most complete story in the application. We also own the SC section in Intel’s CSR Report.
Q:  What can attendees expect to learn from your session on Supply Chain?

• Insight on how Intel has evolved our Supply Chain Sustainability Program over the past decade and how we’ve integrated Sustainability into our standard supply chain processes.
• How we’ve leveraged Industry Associations like the EICC to create and proliferate standards and achieve the greatest possible reach across our global Supply Chain.
• What some of the key focus areas of our program are (e.g., Forced and Bonded Labor, Conflict Minerals, Supplier Diversity) and how we measure them.
• How our Supplier Capability Building Program supports and enables supplier performance improvement. 

Q:  What advice do you have or opportunity that you see for attendees who are considering attending the program and looking to improve their RobecoSAM CSA responses, and get on the DJSI? 
Build strong relationships internally with others in your company that work on the different programs comprehended in the CSA. Determine an overall lead as well as clear ownership for the various sections to ensure you are able to provide the most complete picture with all relevant data. Have a strong multi-stakeholder sensing process in place to ensure you comprehend the various, ever-changing and increasing priorities (including DJSI); this will enable you to stay ahead of emerging issues and be proactive versus being completely reactive and potentially losing points.
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CAREER BACKGROUND:
Jocelyn Cascio, Supply Chain Sustainability Senior Manager at Intel Corporation
Since 2009, Jocelyn Cascio has been the Supply Chain Sustainability Senior Manager at Intel, working internally and externally to integrate sustainability more deeply into the supply chain, define increased expectations for suppliers and lead capability building efforts.  She has spent her 20 year tenure at Intel in various roles across the Supply Chain, leading business process improvement and change management efforts on a variety of global, cross functional initiatives.  She is a Lean Six Sigma Certified Black Belt with a BA in Organizational Communication from Arizona State University and an MBA from Babson College.  She also holds Leading Organizational Transition and CSCMP Supply Chain Masters certifications.  Jocelyn’s personal passions include competing in equestrian sports as well as marathons and Ironman triathlons.
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The aim of this workshop is to increase the participants’ knowledge about the methodology behind the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) and the RobecoSAM Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) — in this session, specifically on selected criteria including Human Rights, Supply Chain, and Human Capital. A workshop session will also be included on how institutional investors are utilizing data from the CSA and ESG data in their investment decision-making.
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RobecoSAM and Governance & Accountability Institute expert representatives will contribute to the meeting overall and in particular present content (including analysis and slide decks) that address each of the criterion. Representatives from CSA-responding corporations that are high scorers in the respective CSA criterion will respond and share their perspective and experience in crafting responses to the CSA.
Participants can expect to take away a deeper understanding of:

• The DJSI 2017 – results and learnings.
• Effective approaches to assessing established and emerging sustainability topics in the CSA.
• Rationale, the business case, performance, and results from last year’s assessment, and learn more about major challenges for companies, especially in the CSA Criteria of Human Rights, Human Capital, and Supply Chain.
• How institutional investors/fiduciaries are utilizing ESG data.

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