About this episode
Organizations worldwide are putting greater focus on ESG (environmental, social and governance). As companies ramp up their efforts, leaders are determining how to integrate ESG into their projects. We discuss this with: Mauricio Bolaños, PMP, ESG operations and program manager, VMware, Heredia, Costa Rica: Bolaños discusses how his company’s ESG office works across business units to collaborate with project leaders to integrate and track ESG efforts in their projects, the value of incorporating ESG into risk management, and why he doesn’t see ESG as a competition. Abhay Bhavsar, PMP, head of ESG and safety, Fourth Partner Energy Private Limited, Pune, India: Bhavsar shares how his organization built buy-in for ESG practices across the enterprise, used data and stakeholder engagement to create its ESG agenda, and ensures teams utilize and report ESG processes on projects. Key themes [02:20] Educating and collaborating with teams to integrate ESG into projects [06:47] Factoring ESG into risk management [07:41] Embracing ESG to boost innovation and creativity [10:19] Building enterprise-wide buy-in for ESG [11:04] Using data to create Fourth Partner Energy’s ESG agenda [14:10] Ensuring ESG processes are put into practice—and reported—on projects