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About SLM
Our mission is to inspire, engage and equip business leaders to navigate this dynamic wave of opportunity. We want to paint a clear picture of what's driving change in today's business landscape; to point to the innovators, success stories and emerging best practices that can shed light on how to profitably innovate more sustainable business strategies, products, and practices, and in so doing, to help ensure your business a spot in the leaders circle in the decades to come.

Whatever your job description, market sector or company size, you can - and must - play a role in helping your company keep up. At Sustainable Life Media, through our flagship Sustainable Brands community, we offer a business-friendly environment where you can connect with the best ideas, credible thought leaders, and products and service solutions to help you meet your goals.

What is Sustainable Brands?
Brands today have a unique role in focusing corporate energy and also influencing culture. As Sustainable Life Media’s flagship brand, Sustainable Brands’ purpose is to replenish the world through better brands.  Its offerings currently include events, training, membership, and research that are all designed to engage corporate brand and sustainability professionals and help them uncover new avenues for decoupling business growth from increased drain on eco-system services and at the same time drive sustainable social well being for more of the global population.  Acting as a filter for key trends and emerging best practices, as well as a platform for change management, Sustainable Brands provides the inspiration, network and solutions businesses need to not only enhance their brand value, but foster sustainable economic advantage as well.

Why Sustainable Brands?
The world as we know it is at a pivotal point in history and humankind is now faced with an unprecedented challenge.  The social, environmental, and economic implications of population growth, over consumption of resources, and threats to biodiversity demand a dramatic shift from ‘business as usual’.  Smart companies realize that the opportunity is ripe for sustainable brands to help redesign, and in doing so, take the lead for the future.


What is the Sustainable Brands Conference?
Now in its 5th year, the Sustainable Brands Conference is an annual event that convenes over 800 top executives in the sustainability, brand, and design professions from global companies, as well as the social and eco-entrepreneurs that are leading the shift toward an abundant and sustainable future.  The conference has become the center of gravity for companies that are committed to leveraging sustainable innovation as a driver of business and brand value.  This premier conference is the highlight event of the year for professionals who are, or who wish to be part of the SB community to come together face to face, to catch up, re-calibrate and collaborate.


Who comes to the Sustainable Brands Conference?
Global companies who are leading sustainable brand innovation are sending their top executives in discipline areas such as brand strategy, sustainability, research & design, and communications. They are recognizing that embedding sustainability into the core of their business takes getting an entire team of multi-disciplinary leaders across all levels of the company on the same page -- sharing a sense of the operating context for the future, as well as an understanding of the key leverage points being tried and tested for responding to a dynamic operating landscape.  Many of these corporations are also recognizing the value of becoming a Corporate Member of the Sustainable Brands community. They are taking advantage of continuous networking opportunities and year round learning that puts them in the drivers seat in terms of setting standards and best practices for others.

Recognizing that innovation is often best suited to external, non-corporate efforts, the sustainable brands community also purposely attracts some of the top social and environmental innovators through it's unique SB Innovation Open program.  By bringing together the power of global business, with the nimble creativity and out of the box ideas of true change-makers and the eco-system of services and solutions that support both, the sustainable brands community is creating shift at a faster pace than would be possible in isolation.