2013 Program

Canada’s Business and Sustainability Partnership

www.excelpartnership.ca

EXCEL

Canada’s Business & Sustainability Partnership

Since 1996 An Initiative of the Globe Foundation

Excellence in Corporate Environmental Leadership

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A tumultuous global economy continues to send mixed signals to companies

Productivity and competitiveness remain an priority for Canada

Environmental and social risks continue to shape license to operate and consumer preferences at home and abroad

Sustainability intertwines all of these and thus: the EXCEL program is intended to equip members

with the perspective and tools to remain corporate leaders during these complex times.

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With the loyalty of existing members, plus the addition of a new one

from a different sector, EXCEL retains its position as the inner circle

for Canada’s corporate sustainability leaders, and the country’s

longest standing business and sustainability partnership.

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Shari Austin

Vice President, Corporate Citizenship, RBC

Barbara Reuter

Vice President, Environment, OPG

Doug Hietkamp

Director, Sustainable Development Programs, Teknion

David Parker

Vice President, Sustainability, Teck

Gordon Lambert

Vice President, Sustainable Development, Suncor Energy

John Foster

Sustainability Lead, DuPont Canada

Brian Messinger

Director, Environment, Health and Safety, Graymont

Dave Lye

Vice President, Encana

James Gray-Donald

Vice President, Sustainability, Bentall Kennedy

Teresa Ehman

Director, Environment, Air Canada

Dan Gagné

Director, Corporate Responsibility & Environment, Bell

Normand Pellerin

Assistant Vice President, Environment, CN

Luc Robitaille

Director, Environment, Holicm

Lori Nickifor

Senior Manager, Environment, Services, Capital Power

Don Wharton

Vice President, SD, TransAlta Corporation

Helene Gagnon

Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility, Bombardier

Paul Hunt

Director Sustainability, Enbridge

Kelly Kowalchuk

Vice President, EH&S and SR, Nexen

Jon Mitchell

Director, Environment, Cenovus

EXCEL Corporate Representatives

EXCEL 2013 Program

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Reaching higher to improve risk management, competitiveness, internal engagement, and value chain performance sustainability.

Business Competitiveness and Sustainability

2013-Program Delivery at a Glance

1. Two Roundtable Workshops 2. Quarterly in-depth EXCEL Spotlight Management Briefs 3. Sustainability Report Benchmarking – Sampling best

practices from EXCEL members 4. EXCEL On-Sight Advisory services offering 5. Tracking EXCEL Partner trending through the Annual

Survey 6. EXCEL Teleconference/Webinars 7. EXCEL Breakfast meetings (in between Roundtables)

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Timing: May

Host and Location:

Delphi – Ottawa/Wakefield Mill

Themes + Issues to Cover:

Canada and Sustainability – what can industry leaders be doing to ensure Canada outperforms on competitiveness and sustainability leadership.

Stakeholder & employee engagement: reaching out to improve performance on sustainability and business results.

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Timing: Fall 2012

Host and Location: Encana/

Cenovus – Calgary ‘The Bow’

Theme: Sustainability

Management: Best Practices

Issues to Cover:

Risk management & materiality +

Organizational Structures & Accountability

Practices for Sustainability Performance.

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New Approach – for 2013 Spotlight’s will become quarterly research briefs – with more depth, case studies, embedded user-tools plus interviews with EXCEL members.

Topics: Q1 Risk Management – Defining Materiality, Determining

Opportunities and Risks, Establishing Priorities and Assigning Values.

Q2 Internal Sustainability Management - Organizational Structures, Governance, Employee Engagement and Embedding Sustainability.

Q3 Sustainability & Corporate Competitiveness – Connecting the Dots with Technology and Productivity, plus Value Proposition Proof Points

Q4 Reporting Practices & Communication- Trends, Priority Setting Approaches and New Developments for Third Party Standards.

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Topics:

1. Sustainability reporting: EXCEL benchmarking, GRI Updates, and Member strategies

2. Supply Chain Sustainability

3. Setting Sustainability Budgets and Defining Priorities

4. Social Metrics and How they are Applied

5. Other topics to be added based on member requests

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Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Organizational Stakeholder through the Globe Foundation – Enabling EXCEL members to engage on development related to the new G4 standards.

Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) – Delphi is the only Canadian consultancy partner to the CDP helping us keep EXCEL members up to date on relevant developments.

Academic – Connecting EXCEL programming topics with the latest research from Universities.

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EXCEL Web Update:

1. Updated interactivity

2. Forum feature enabling members

to interact online,

discussion groups on various

topics (informed by survey results)

1. Content from Roundtables posted in members areas for ease of access

2. Improved branding value for members of EXCEL

Canada’s Business and Sustainability Partnership

www.excelpartnership.ca

EXCEL

Partnership Coordinator

Ted Ferguson Vice President

The Delphi Group

Phone: 613-562-2005

Email: tferguson@delphi.ca

Managing Partners

John Wiebe President and CEO The Globe

Foundation of Canada

Chris Henderson Chair,

The Delphi Group

An Initiative of the Globe Foundation