by Edwin Merino | Sep 1, 2021 | Blog, Politics, Sustainability, System Thinking
“[Remember] the unadulterated political joy that millions of Americans felt 13 years ago when Barack Obama was elected the nation’s first Black president. They also feel like quaint snapshots of what seems now like another country,” CNN wrote as Obama turned...
by Edwin Merino | Aug 25, 2021 | Sustainability
Note: This post is a companion piece to this case study on Eileen Fisher and our systems thinking approach. That story lays out the building blocks for change that led us to the creation of the Sustainability Design Team. Eileen Fisher’s culture was like none I’d ever...
by Edwin Merino | Aug 19, 2021 | Sustainability, System Thinking
We were at an intensive workshop on sustainability in 2013 ago with Sara Schley. She turned to me and said, ‘Eileen, they need you to commit to this’ I stood up and said, ‘Yes, we have to do this!’ That was a turning point for me and for the company. As seemingly...
by Edwin Merino | Apr 14, 2021 | Blog, Sustainability
In early 2017, I was in my 4th year of working as a sustainability and women’s leadership consulting partner to the fashion icon Eileen Fisher. Eileen had just become a B Corp, and one of my favorite friends on the planet, Steph Ryan – who was an early B Corp employee...
by Edwin Merino | Apr 1, 2021 | Blog, Sustainability, System Thinking
Eileen Fisher’s culture was like none I’d ever witnessed in my quarter-century of working with corporations. The leaders, including VP of Manufacturing, VP of Sales, CFO, and more – the classic white male categories — were ALL women. And not just women. Not the...
by Edwin Merino | Mar 30, 2021 | Blog, Sustainability, System Thinking
The idea that problems are created and thus solved not in isolation, but by a system of players, who collectively have the wisdom to define, understand, and transform that system is what I refer to as the “System in the Room” approach. Let me explain. Imagine for...
