Page Motes joins us today with her expertise in sales and compliance. She shares how tech giant Dell is working on ESG compliance, the transferable skills compliance professionals must have to advance, the significance of multi-disciplinary learning, and how customers can contribute to this by making a more significant social impact.
▶️ The Role of Digital Solutions in ESG with Page Motes:
Key points discussed in the episode:
(00:00:36) Page Motes lays out her professional background. She describes the fast-paced culture and vendors’ often-overlooked concerns in large companies. Since then, she has sworn to only be in a position to “use my talents to help advance goodness in the world.”
(00:11:13) Page Motes defines ESG in Dell as “all things environmental and then an aspect of the human rights piece.” She underlines the three most important skills for compliance professionals: knowing how to deal with ambiguity, being an ultimate connector, and exerting authority.
(00:14:37) Her message to compliance professionals hesitant to move into ESG: have the desire to learn different disciplines.
(00:17:30) Dell aims to deepen and broaden gathered data across its supply chain to disclose information based on government requirements properly. Some Scope Three categories remain difficult to report.
(00:19:49) ESG results brought Dell to create Eureka, a crowdsourcing tool for employees to share their ideas with higher-ups and have them kickstarted.
(00:23:58) The different corporate functions in Dell’s sustainability efforts.
(00:25:58) Page Motes predictions for Dell’s ESG endeavors – more customer involvement and collaboration.
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