Join an SB Peer Cohort

SB Member Network Peer Cohorts are exclusive, ongoing peer-to-peer learning circles designed for sustainability, marketing, communications and R&D professionals to engage in guided discussion, meaningful exchange, and collective problem solving with their counterparts across market sectors.
 

Built on direct member feedback and trusted peer learning principles, these cohorts help you:

• Validate real-world approaches with practitioners facing the same hurdles
• Learn what’s working and what isn’t — without theory or sales pitches
• Build practical insights you can apply back at your company

How It Works
 

Peer Cohorts Are: 

• Small, curated groups of sustainability professionals 
• Structured around real issues you're currently facing
• Focused on shared learning, candid discussion, and real operational insights
• confidential (Chatham House Rule) to support open, practical exchanges
• Insights captured to share with members, free from attribution to any individual or brand

You'll Participate By: 

• Sharing challenges from your own work 
• Providing and receiving insights to/from peers
• Suggesting topics and challenges that shape future dialogue

For anyone within the member community embarking on a roadmap to adopt AI for sustainability.

This cohort will focus on sharing best practices for sustainable AI and exploring ideas on how to leverage AI to advance operational efficiency and sustainability goals.

Discussion themes include:

• How to leverage AI to advance operational efficiencies and sustainability goals (supply chain, packaging, product design, data for ESG reporting, marketing) 
• How to evaluate and plan for environmental impact of AI deployments

Brand / Retailer Communications Cohort*

For sustainability communicators, brand, and marketing leaders who want to:

• Elevate internal and external sustainability messaging
• Build stronger alignment with cross-functional partners
• Understand emerging practices in segmentation and stakeholder engagement

Discussion themes include:

• Audience strategy
• Internal communications
• Business case framing
• Media relations

Brand / Retailer Business Integration Cohort

For professionals embedding sustainability deeper into business operations, governance, and strategy.

Focus areas include:

• Cross-functional goal setting and integration
• Regulations and enterprise alignment
• Using data for decision making
• Workforce readiness for sustainability

A collaborative forum for sustainability, packaging, and compliance leaders to exchange real-world experiences, discuss challenges, and build practical readiness. Through peer-led case studies and open dialogue, members will gain actionable insights that improve business performance, drive sustainability outcomes, reduce risk, and help future-proof their organizations against changing regulations, customer expectations, and market dynamics.​​​​​​

Focus areas include:

• Interpreting regulatory requirements
• Managing EPR fee structures and reporting obligations
• Redesigning packaging for recyclability and reuse targets,
• Coordinating compliance across multiple jurisdictions. 

For internal employee engagement leaders working to attract and retain top talent and educate and enable employees to be solid sustainable brand ambassadors 

Focus areas include:

• Setting business goals for employee activation programs
• Educating your workforce
• Building and supporting green teams
• Empowering your workforce to evangelize your brand effectively 

Fill out the form to reserve your spot in one or more of these high-impact cohorts. Feel free to share with your colleagues! There is no limit for Brand or Retail members to the number of participants in cohorts.