Sustainability that Pays: Leadership Perspectives on ROI

07:00-08:00 EDT | 12:00-13:00 CET | 19:00-20:00 SGT | +++ Register here (it’s free!): Registration link +++

This session brings together procurement leaders from organizations recognized for advancing sustainable procurement. The conversation will stay practical and experience‑led, focusing on how sustainability creates real business value—and how that value is shown inside and outside the organization. 

Participants will explore: 

• What sets these leaders and organizations apart, and which mindsets or choices enabled sustainability to become operational. 

• Why many companies still struggle, and where the biggest capability, incentive, or measurement gaps appear. 

• How each organization’s sustainability value proposition has taken shape—whether formalized or grown organically. 

• How teams, capabilities, incentives, and culture support everyday sustainable decisions. 

• Which investments have mattered most and where value is actually being created and measured. 

• What has progressed well, what remains challenging, and the hurdles to proving value in complex supply chains. 

You’ll walk away with: 

A clear, experienced-based understanding of what truly makes sustainability commercially meaningful—grounded in the real approaches and lessons shared by procurement leaders. 

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• WSPD is run as an SPP community event. We are very happy to bring this event to the global procurement community for free of charge for the 5^th consecutive year. If you haven’t done so already, please consider joining the SPP Community. Your support enables us to  continue delivering events, content and unique opportunities such as WSPD. Join us, if you share the values of The Pledge and our goal of making sustainable procurement the default. https://spp.earth/join/#the-pledge/We grow stronger with every person that joins.
• We have the bold vision of building a global community of procurement professionals engaging in radical collaboration to drive sustainability at scale. Our SPP safe, non-commercial spaces and platforms make this possible – and WSPD is one of these spaces. We ask attendees for active, respectful participation and to refrain from sales pitches and solicitation. Please read and adhere to the SPP Netiquette (spp.earth). And as always, if we can do anything to strengthen SPP spaces for you, let us know.
• The session will be recorded and shared on the SPP YouTube channel: Sustainable Procurement Pledge – YouTube – by participating you consent to being recorded.