First Movers Erin Fitzgerald

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Established in 2009 by the Business and Society Program, the First Movers Fellowship is designed for exceptional business innovators who are integrating profitability and social value in their companies. The Fellowship meets a growing need for values-based business leaders who understand the interdependency of business success and the long-term health of society. Listed below are the 2009 Fellows, the inaugural class of First Movers. • Erin Fitzgerald, Director of Social and Environmental Innovation Consulting, Dairy Management Inc. DMI is the non-profit planning and management organization responsible for increasing sales of and demand for U.S.-produced dairy products and ingredients on behalf of America's dairy producers. Erin joined Dairy Management Inc. in 2007 as part of the newly-formed Strategic Insights team, whose mission is to assist the dairy industry in becoming more consumer-driven for long-term growth. In the process of identifying and assessing strategic market opportunities, she came to believe that sustainability can become a genuine differentiator for the U.S. dairy industry, strengthening its marketplace position while generating lasting economic, environmental, and social value. Erin is the driving force behind a DMI-led industry-wide effort focused on engaging the value chain to create a more sustainable industry. Her work encompasses building stakeholder relationships from farmers, processors, retailers, associations, universities, and NGOs to drive change and innovation across the dairy supply chain focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and building business value. She has led the effort to set industry-wide goals and build a long-term strategic plan for the dairy sustainability initiative. Prior to DMI, as Senior Manager of Business Development, she developed the U.S. business market for the Lowendal Group, a French operational cost-reduction firm. She also led multiple projects at Cardinal Health, focused on developing key performance indicators relating to sales growth in the Chicago, Illinois and Maurepas, France offices. While at Cardinal, she won the Chairman's Award for her project management focused on integrating to a pan-European business plan for sales and marketing measurement. From her experience in Europe, Erin developed a passion for engaging people across organizations and believes sustainable change can be achieved through contagious collaboration. She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. • Follow us on: • Facebook / aspenideas • Twitter / aspenideas • LinkedIn / aspenideas • You can also follow the Aspen Institute: • Instagram / aspeninstitute • Facebook / aspeninstitute • Twitter / aspeninstitute • LinkedIn / the-aspen-institute • Pinterest / aspeninstitute

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