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Kjersti A Lukens
kjersti.lukens@scheller.gatech.edu
Summary Sentence: Wilton, director of global workplace rights at Coca-Cola, on how this important topic impacts the company’s operations, supply chain, and stakeholder expectations.
Full Summary: Please join Brent Wilton, Director of Global Workplace Rights at Coca-Cola, for a discussion on Coca-Cola’s approach to business and human rights including how this important topic impacts the company’s operations, supply chain, and stakeholder expectations.
Brent WiltonPlease join Brent Wilton, Director of Global Workplace Rights at Coca-Cola, for a discussion on Coca-Cola’s approach to business and human rights including how this important topic impacts the company’s operations, supply chain, and stakeholder expectations.
An RSVP is requested to attend.
About the speaker:
Having trained as a labor lawyer in New Zealand, Brent has spent the last 28 years representing companies and their representative organizations across a range of labor and human rights issues in countries around the world. Prior to joining Coca-Cola as director of Global Workplace Rights in April of 2015, for the last 15 years, Brent has been based in Switzerland with the International Organization of Employers (IOE) representing the interests of business in 150 countries on global labor and social policy matters across the UN and wider multilateral system, particularly within the International Labor Organization. As a result, Brent has directly engaged with Global Union Federations, NGOs, Governments, other stakeholders and opinion makers in the negotiation and resolution of issues.
About the sponsor:
The Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business was founded in 2013 to act as a catalyst and connector, bringing together students, research faculty, companies, and entrepreneurs to create an environment where business-driven solutions to sustainability challenges can take shape and thrive. In all, Scheller provides students unparalleled breadth in environmental sustainability, ethics, corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship, and values-based leadership.
