2025 Summit Workshops
You asked for more opportunities to learn and take a deeper dive into key topics, and we listened. This year, we’re introducing optional pre-summit workshops to kick off your Summit experience. Running from 9:00–11:00 AM, these sessions offer a focused look at sustainability and leadership before the main program begins. Choose from two workshop options and take your Summit experience even further. Tickets are $40 for members and $50 for non-members.
From Data to Decisions: Using Open-Source Tools to Navigate Climate Risk
Your company’s long-term resilience depends on its ability to navigate a changing climate. But where do you even begin? In this hands-on workshop, we’ll equip you with the knowledge and tools to move from concern to action. You’ll learn to differentiate between climate risks and use the powerful Probable Futures mapping tool to uncover hidden vulnerabilities in your operations and value chain. Get ready to build a compelling business case for climate action that your leadership will understand and support.
Attendees will leave the workshop with the ability to:
- Screen for Risk: Utilize a powerful, open-source tool (Probable Futures) to conduct a preliminary physical climate risk assessment for their own business and supply chain.
- Make the Business Case: Understand and articulate how physical climate risks directly impact business strategy, operations, and financial performance.
Facilitator Bios
Sheila Ongie is the Head of Sustainability Strategy at thinkPARALLAX, a Certified B Corporation providing sustainability reporting, communications and strategy support. She is based in Portland, Oregon.
Her professional background includes over 20 years of experience in corporate sustainability, including in-house and consulting roles in sustainability consulting across retail, CPG, manufacturing and agriculture industries. Prior to joining thinkPARALLAX, she led the North American sustainability team at Lush Cosmetics.
Sheila’s educational background combines a hard sciences degree with an MBA in sustainable business from Presidio Graduate School. She specializes in the integrated development of sustainability strategies and communications, helping companies navigate complex challenges and embed sustainability into their core business.
Cam Hotto is a Strategist at thinkPARALLAX focused on integrating sustainability into business strategy. With a balanced perspective that aligns long-term sustainability with strategic growth, he’s supported clients across healthcare, agriculture, pharmaceutical, legal, insurance, and manufacturing industries. Cam has developed sustainability strategy and communications projects with influential clients, including Avantor, Blue Diamond Growers, and Merck. He is a strategic thinker with an entrepreneurial mindset, excited to help organizations advance sustainability and ESG impact.
Cam is a graduate of the University at Buffalo with a degree in Business Administration.
Lateral Influence: Tools for Strategic Change without Authority
Sustainability and ESG professionals are often tasked with leading ambitious change without direct authority. Success depends not on hierarchy, but on lateral influence—the ability to move peers, partners, and departments toward a shared vision. In this hands-on session, participants will explore coaching-based tools to strengthen their lateral leadership skills, build strategic alliances, and navigate resistance with empathy and clarity.
Drawing on real-world examples and coaching psychology, the session will help participants shift from “convincing others” to co-creating momentum across their organization.
Participants will:
- Identify common barriers to lateral influence in complex organizations
- Learn 3 coaching strategies to deepen trust, alignment, and ownership across teams
- Reflect on power dynamics and emotional intelligence in peer-level influence
- Leave with a plan to strengthen one strategic relationship in their ecosystem
Facilitator Bio
Asa Guilamo is the founder of Impact Compass, a coaching and consulting practice rooted in sustainability, resilience and purpose. Impact Compass equips sustainability leaders to lead with clarity, courage, and care.
Asa has over 20 years of global experience navigating influence and systems change across public, nonprofit, and corporate sectors—most recently as head of climate strategy in a large regional bank.
Over the years, Asa has realized and internalized how human change drives sustainability action and climate change solutions; because mindset, behavior and leadership shape the systems we need to transform. She now partners with corporate executives who are navigating complexity, urgency, and the weight of responsibility for the planet and its’ people on their shoulders. Through strategy consulting, facilitating workshops and individual coaching, she helps clients gain clarity, build resilience, and lead systemic change. She blends systems thinking, lived experience, and emotional intelligence to help change-makers lead strategically.