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Executive Vice President
Meridian Group International, Inc.
Feb 2019 – Present1 year
Washington, DC
I manage business operations and programs globally and in three countries for Meridian, a women-owned small business that is a leader in workplace innovations in global supply chains.
As Meridian's strategist, I have transformed our business model to help companies design and implement cost-effective strategies and practices that can help them and their suppliers to approach their health functions (infirmaries, health providers, occupational safety staff) as strategic business resources. Meridian has also focused on workplace polices and standards that strengthen incentives at the global and local levels to ensure women -- and men -- workers have access to health information, products and services.
Under the leadership of the UN Foundation, we helped produced a new Framework for Corporate Action on Workplace Women's Health and Empowerment. This framework re-positions health as the centerpiece of women’s empowerment for women workers in low- and middle-income countries.
Meridian's driving interest is the best use of investments for worker health and gender equality. Meridian has been on the front lines of workplace programs and documented the business case. But purely programmatic approaches to worker health that lacks any connection to business systems have typically not been maintained by workplaces. This provides short term benefits, but is a waste of money and talent.
At Meridian, I developed a range of partnerships and collaborations, from Business for Social Responsibility, the UN Global Compact and the UN Foundation to Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Levi Strauss & Co. and Unilever Tea Tanzania & Kenya. We are currently an ally with the World Benchmarking Alliance and a partner on the Every Woman Treaty on gender-based violence.
I manage business operations and programs globally and in three countries for Meridian, a women-owned small business that is a leader in workplace innovations in global supply chains.
As Meridian's strategist, I have transformed our business model to help companies design and implement cost-effective strategies and practices that can help them and their suppliers to approach their health functions (infirmaries, health providers, occupational safety staff) as strategic business resources. Meridian has also focused on workplace polices and standards that strengthen incentives at the global and local levels to ensure women -- and men -- workers have access to health information, products and services.
Under the leadership of the UN Foundation, we helped produced a new Framework for Corporate Action on Workplace Women's Health and Empowerment. This framework re-positions health as the centerpiece of women’s empowerment for women workers in low- and middle-income countries.
Meridian's driving interest is the best use of investments for worker health and gender equality. Meridian has been on the front lines of workplace programs and documented the business case. But purely programmatic approaches to worker health that lacks any connection to business systems have typically not been maintained by workplaces. This provides short term benefits, but is a waste of money and talent.
At Meridian, I developed a range of partnerships and collaborations, from Business for Social Responsibility, the UN Global Compact and the UN Foundation to Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Levi Strauss & Co. and Unilever Tea Tanzania & Kenya. We are currently an ally with the World Benchmarking Alliance and a partner on the Every Woman Treaty on gender-based violence. |