Leontien Hasselman - Plugge’s Post

Wat een top speech. Iemand die opstaat tegen een X-kabinet en de politieke pubers een lesje leert over volksvertegenwoordiging en niet “partijleider vertegenwoordiging”. "We mogen blij zijn elke dag in een democratie wakker te worden." Ja, als er mensen zoals Mirjam Bikker zijn die aan deze democratie bijdragen. #volksvertegenwoordiging #democratie #vrijheidvanmeningsuiting #debat

You have some friends who are just like you and that’s the reason why there are your friend Then there are some friends who are very different from you and that’s the reason why they are your friend I am very happy to have a friend for 40 years who can do things that I can’t. Who I learn from. Michelle Wiesman and I have shared 12 years of the same education and classes, but that had a very different result for both of us. I do not know an entrepreneur that is more structured and organized and intentional about where she spends her time on and what results she wants. If you are looking for executive coaching; just have a session with Michelle Wiesman or somebody from her company Flipmonday Yes, she can help with organizational structures, strategy, how to delegate, how to address company culture etc. etc.….. but she is also one of the only people I know that can make that practical for you on a day to day basis! And with practical I mean helping you with “if this is your strategy and this is what you should focus on….”; This is how you should organize your day; This is how you should organize your work and home life to do lists; This is how you should deal with the endless stream of emails; This is how to keep track of your goals every day and week; This is how you use Outlook and OneNote properly well to keep track!” And that is what I think everybody can use; sitting with somebody and getting organized a bit once in a while. Flipmonday has also trained many team members at ImpactBuying in "getting grip on their time". It is also a very practical training how to use existing tools to organize your work and make progress.     #gettingorganizedforcreatives #executivecoaching

In goed gezelschap om het te hebben over ketensamenwerking om te komen tot inzichten over klimaat impact van dierlijke producten. Verduurzamingvoedsel.nl KetenKennisDialoog 26 juni : CSRD en belang van meer robuuste LCA's voor dierlijke producten. https://lnkd.in/en9GehhW #climateimpact #carbon #productcarbonfootprint #positiveimpact ImpactBuying

Very honored to be able to tell our story of how important buying power is for retailers and manufacturers. Using buying power and selling power to create real change in more sustainable products, production processes and logistics is the future and necessary with all the upcoming legislations: #CSRD #CSDDD #EUDR #GCD If you want to know what we do?! ⬇️ You can find the interview for the PLMA - Private Label Manufacturers Association PLMA International Council - Amsterdam (Private Label Manufacturers Association) here: https://lnkd.in/e-tAbZPQ 💃🏼 "FMCG retailers and brands that map and collect data on their supply chain can use these insights to create change in environmental and social conditions, says Leontien Hasselman-Plugge, CEO of ImpactBuying Group. Hasselman-Plugge discusses how ImpactBuying helps retailers and manufacturers understand their supply chains, identify risks and make a positive impact on buying." Thanks for the interview Edgar Elzerman and Meryl Perrot #privatelabel #sustainablesupplychains #positiveimpact #buyingpower #duediligence #ESGdata #climateimpact Marjan De Bock-Smit Brechtje Helderweirdt

🥁 It is done! Anther important step has been taken in the EU Green Deal legal Framework. 🥳 Just today the #CSDDD passed the final vote in the EU Parliament. Although the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) has been watered down from its original version (e.g. limited scope, no director duties), it is still a major win! ➡️I feel the core work of ImpactBuying just got a place in Board room and on C-Suite agendas! 💫 Companies have to know and have to start applying due diligence on their supply chain; Where are products made and under which circumstances? What are their risks and impacts associated with the production, trading, shipping and packaging of those products? Who are all those suppliers in their global supply chains? Companies will need to prevent, end or limit their negative impacts on #humanrights and the #environment. These impacts are for instance #modernslavery, #childlabor, labor exploitation, loss of #biodiversity, pollution or destruction of natural heritage. Making supply chains visible end-to-end, gather all kinds of evidence to mitigate risks or prove positive impact... THE WORK we have been relentless doing for 15 years will now be governed by hard law (next to the UN Guiding Principles) into a domain where we know legal obligations are badly needed. The CSDDD will have indirect effects on many companies that operate in (global) value chains and who we talk to on a day-to-day basis. Even when these companies are not directly covered by the Directive, it will have an effect on them. As the CSDDD is the first of its kind, we can expect future due diligence regulations in other parts of the world that will be based on the same underlying framework (learning from problems, risks and impacts). Even a watered-down CSDDD still spreads knowledge about risk-based due diligence throughout value chains. These learning effects are hard to quantify, but they exist. Next step will be the high-level political approval in the Council in May before the final legal text will be published and transposition into national law starts. And as a bonus: in the same session, the Parliament also adopted the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (#PPWR). #duediligence #CSDDD #sustainablesupplychains #transparantsupplychains #provenpositiveimpact Marjan De Bock-Smit Marieke Jansz Brechtje Helderweirdt

At ImpactBuying we have been in the business of creating supply chain transparency for 15 years. We bring certainty to supply chain and product claims. ✅ And we see a gap between what the consumers, governments and media think companies know of where their products are made and under which circumstances and the reality we see in marketing efforts. It seems that the process has finally been set in motion to align the perception of consumers, governments and media with the actual state of sustainability and sustainability efforts. This will help companies start to make a change and focus on the honest story that does not need to be the best. There are many good stories of improvements to tell. The Green Claims Directive proposal was adopted in March, which makes it extremely risky to make claims for which there is no hard evidence, such as “natural, green, or artisanal / ambachtelijk”, but also “climate neutral” also becomes very difficult to claim. It is a difficult job nowadays as a sustainability manager to advise your company what to claim and what stories to tell about a supply chain. Imagine if you are in charge of the climate targets? 😳 Even the legislation and the standards are not always clear... Take the example of the recent drama going on in climate land. SBTi recently de-listed major companies like Walmart, Microsoft and P&G because they need to be more serious about their long term goals. Especially their Scope 3 reduction efforts. The same SBTi also announces this week that they will allow offsetting as Scope 3 reduction, which resulted in employees' push-back in a leaked letter to the Board. These are all signs of a previously voluntary initiative market that needs to mature suddenly very quickly; read my opinion in this article. If you want help what green claims you can make about your products and supply chains or want to join our Climate Impact Consortium where we work hard to get insights into #scope3 emissions directly from the supply chain; get in contact info@impactbuying.com #greenclaimsdirective #sustainablesupplychains Marjan De Bock-Smit Marieke Jansz Brechtje Helderweirdt

Celebrating new clients we get the privilege to work with has become our thing at ImpactBuying 🥳 It is so easy to get bugged down in day to day shenanigans and never ending urgent things to do and problems to solve. But is is so good and necessary to celebrate successes as well. It is still very special if a client chooses us to work with. They have given us the trust to ensure timely, accurate and complete data to show progress and report on their sustainability strategy and goals; trust to comply with new demanding legislation (like the CSRD, CSDDD, EUDR, GCD and ECGT soup...🤔); maintain detailed product data used in their day to day business, calculate product carbon footprints; communicate directly and on their behalf with their suppliers about all of this. We do not take that lightly and celebrate with the whole team in theme. The team that will be working on this client will share ideas and visions what success would be. Very happy to have been able to celebrate with Swedish treats, pizza for all and a wonderful pig cake lately 😉🎉 Want to join our team and make an impact; contact vacatures@impactbuying.com Find vacancies here: https://lnkd.in/eegGmmKc And thanks partner in crime Brechtje Helderweirdt for being a splendid party organizer #sustainability #ESG #CSRD #sustainablesupplychains #positiveimpact #supplychaintransparency

😳 There is a world of difference between two news items this week: Our partner Jumbo Supermarkten deciding that they will stop with discounts on fresh meat 👏🏼 and Appelsientje (fruit drink) adding a little bit of milk to their juices to avoid the Dutch sugar tax! 🤔 We see the divide in companies who take their role in society serious and the ones that take financial gains as their main driver. "If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail". We need to look beyond just financial metrics and also base decisions on #sustainability, health and well being of current and future generations. What interest me is that there are people within these organizations that use their knowledge, education, skills and time to come up with these solutions. Calculate and think through scenarios. I think the person working at Appelsientje could learn from Rutger Bregman’s moral ambition idea: what do you do in your daily job to improve the world? Finding mazes in the law to avoid taxes aimed at healthier choices, continue to add too much sugar in your products and increase the environmental footprint of your product? OR taking blunt decisions and a way forward for a better balanced plant-based vs meat-based protein transition? I have written a blog on it (in Dutch) We at ImpactBuying are always looking for people with this moral ambition who want to think with us how to use the buying power of their companies for the better. info@impactbuying.com Brechtje Helderweirdt Marjan De Bock-Smit Moniek Hop Kuna van der Kolk #sustainablesupplychain #moralambition