Stephanie is the Director of SFU Beedie’s Centre for Corporate Governance and Sustainability and the founder of the Embedding Project – a unique public-benefit research project that brings together leading global firms to help them embed sustainability across their operations and decision-making as well as to contribute to positive systems change. She is a regular thought partner for the executive teams and boards of global companies interested in improving their sustainability performance.

For more than a decade, the Embedding Project has been bridging research and practice to support global businesses to embed sustainability. Bringing together leading global companies and business researchers, we undertake research as well as identify, curate, and develop practical tools that support change and change agency. At the heart of the Embedding Project is a set of reciprocal and enduring relationships among researchers, corporate sustainability practitioners, educators and key knowledge mobilization partners, built up through years of engagement, that facilitate the development of both theoretical and practical knowledge.

In this inaugural session, which took place in December 2023, Stephanie shared how this community was built and what it takes to maintain it. She also discussed how the Project’s approach to knowledge generation and knowledge mobilization has shifted over time and some of the important lessons learned along the way.