Sustainable Practices: Leading the Green Business Revolution at Kyndryl with Faith Taylor

AI in sustainability: Kyndryl boosts ESG, compliance, supply chain, and careers with smart data.
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Kyndryl's Sustainability Officer is transforming sustainability into a strategic advantage using AI, data, and global innovation. Join Faith Taylor in a dialogue about how to create sustainable strategies.

Topics Covered:
• AI in Sustainability: How Kyndryl uses AI to optimize energy, water, and ESG reporting across global operations.
• Mandatory Climate Regulations: Adapting to global ESG standards like ISSB and EU directives with strategic alignment.
• Supply Chain Transparency: Leveraging IoT and blockchain for real-time tracking of materials, labor, and environmental impact.
• Data Collection Challenges: Solving lag times, data format issues, and timing gaps in sustainability reporting.
• Hybrid Sustainability Data Models: Merging spin and carbon data for more accurate, actionable sustainability insights.
• Sustainability as Profit Center: Driving short-term savings and long-term revenue through ESG innovation.
• Global Compliance Strategy: How Kyndryl aligns 60-country regulations with its ESG goals and business model.
• Career Paths in Sustainability: Key skills and strategies for graduates and executives to lead in ESG roles.

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Speaker Bio
Faith Taylor is the Global Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability Officer for Kyndryl covering ESG.

Kyndryl is the world’s largest IT infrastructure company with 240 data centers in +60 countries and over 60,000 employees with $16 Billion in sales. She is responsible for building and overseeing the company’s programs that ladder up to their strategic priorities.

In Kyndryl’s first 3 years since spinning off from IBM, they announced a Net Zero to 2040 goal validated by the Science Based Target Initiative and have achieved a 7% reduction in their Scope 1, 2 and 3 GHG emissions.

Further, they released Kyndryl’s Corporate Citizenship Reports outlining their commitments across all of their strategic priorities and ISG has named them an IT industry leader delivering sustainability services and products to global customers. They achieved silver certification from EcoVadis for their ESG performance, placing them in the top 15% of companies in their industry as well was named to Newsweek’s 2024 list of the Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces. Before joining Kyndryl, Faith was the Environmental Social Governance (ESG) leader for Tesla, working with their board, senior leadership, and associates to develop their program.

During her tenure at Wyndham Worldwide, she built the company's ESG programs from the ground up. Under her leadership, Wyndham became the hospitality industry’s Dow Jones Sustainability World Leader, and was listed as one of the Most Ethical Companies in the World by Ethisphere and Newsweek’s Greenest Company. Faith co-led the World Travel and Tourism Council’s Sustainability group and published the industry’s first ESG reporting guideline and framework.

She is currently on the Board of Directors for CMC Energy Services, a private company founded in 1977, and one of the largest woman-run energy efficiency companies in the U.S. She was President of the Women’s New Jersey Performing Art Center board where they have raised over $56 million dollars for arts education and community development in the last 25 years.
She has been named by Sustainability Magazine as one of the top 10 ESG women leaders in 2024. She is a graduate of Stanford University and has an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.