About the presentation:
How does sustainability in a company become more than a purely formal key figure logic - and how can it be strategically anchored as an active, future-orientated design task? Using the industrial company Weidmüller as an example, the presentation will provide insights into the path from a strategic sustainability orientation to actionable, data-based management in everyday corporate life. The focus is on a pragmatic development process in which strategic goals were gradually converted into measurable key figures and a digital dashboard. It shows how sustainability can be operationalised beyond Paderborn University Page 4/4 Your details: Mission statements and pure reporting can be operationalised and how data supports transparency, prioritisation and organisational learning processes in transformation phases.
About the people:
Mark Edler is an experienced sustainability and environmental expert with over 25 years of professional experience in the fields of environmental management, occupational health and safety and sustainability strategy - particularly in industrial contexts. After completing his studies in technical environmental protection, he initially worked on waste management and operational environmental protection. He was then Head of Occupational Health and Safety and Environmental Protection at Wincor Nixdorf (now Diebold Nixdorf). Mark Edler has been Head of Corporate Sustainability at Weidmüller since 2016. In this role, he is responsible worldwide for topics such as sustainable value creation, the circular economy and the transformation towards more sustainable corporate processes. He also holds official positions, such as the chairmanship of the VDMA Sustainability Committee.
Dörte Foit is a research assistant in the Behavioural Economic Engineering and Responsible Management group at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute at Paderborn University. She studied International Business and worked in the field of Strategic Foresight. She was also a co-founder and long-time leader of the oikos Local Chapter Paderborn - Students for Sustainable Economics and Management. Her research and teaching focuses on sustainable transformation, sustainable management and the integration of digitalisation and sustainability into corporate strategies. She is currently working on the project "Strategic Management of Dual Transformation (DualStrat)".
Lecture series "UPB for Future"
For the fifth time, the Office of Educational Innovation and University Didactics is organising a joint lecture series on the topic of sustainability together with Prof. Dr. René Fahr 's department in the winter semester 25/26. The lecture series is entitled "UPB for Future" and is aimed at students of all disciplines and study phases, employees and interested members of the public. The ecological, social and economic dimensions of sustainability are addressed and discussed in weekly lectures.
