Sixty Minutes with Jimmy Jia and Joseph Fiksel

Originally aired February 27, 2020

Jimmy Jia and Joseph Fiksel join SSF Executive Director Edward Saltzberg for a sixty-minute conversation on turning isolated acts of corporate responsibility into coherent, system-wide strategies for sustainability and resilience.

The discussion draws on Jia’s The Corporate Energy Strategist’s Handbook and Fiksel’s Resilient by Design, exploring how organizations can reduce energy use, meet social responsibility goals, and apply systems thinking to thrive in a turbulent world.

Speakers

Jimmy Jia

Author, The Corporate Energy Strategist’s Handbook

Jimmy Jia works with boards, executives, and policy makers to quantify energy risks, innovations, and opportunities for improved capital deployment across energy and infrastructure assets. He is the author of The Corporate Energy Strategist’s Handbook, published by Macmillan.

Joseph Fiksel

Author, Resilient by Design; Co-Founder, Center for Resilience, Ohio State University

Joseph Fiksel is the author of Resilient by Design, published by Island Press, and one of the original enterprise sustainability and resilience thought leaders. He co-founded the Center for Resilience at Ohio State University and later served as Executive Director of the university’s Sustainable and Resilient Economy program.

Edward Saltzberg

Executive Director, Security & Sustainability Forum

Ed Saltzberg is the Executive Director of the Security and Sustainability Forum, where he leads conversations with global leaders on the intersection of environmental sustainability, security, and long-term resilience.