Celebrating 10 Years of Vegan Leaders 🎉
As we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Vegan Leaders in Corporate Management (VLCM), we reflect on a decade of empowering employees to champion plant-based initiatives within their workplaces. See our key historic milestones below and enjoy this quick video from our leadership.
This entire time we've remained an all-volunteer team, working in this rare niche and always developing new and better ways to get the plant-based agenda into corporate (wellness, green, diversity & inclusion, corporate responsibility) programs.
In the past decade, after first seeming impenetrable, the corporate world slowly started to embrace plant-based ideas. The next era will be about making these vegan improvements "normal" and widespread.
Our network of vegan employees is poised to grow and become a powerful voice in those corporate discussions. We currently have 8,000 supporters (almost 7,000 members on LinkedIn and 1,000 outside of LinkedIn). We have some vegans in practically all the major companies. Accenture, Amazon, Bank Of America, CBRE, Google, IBM and US. Federal Government are examples of organizations with 20 or more VLCM members each.
Join us in celebrating and continuing our collective mission to create a world where sustainability and plant-based options in the workplace are the norm, not the exception. The next decade of impact starts with you!
Thank you for your support,
Championing Sustainability: Carbon Labelling at Wembley Stadium
Special Connect and Learn
We are thrilled to bring you an exclusive webinar focused on "Workplace Dilemmas of Vegans (and How to Deal with Them)". VLCM is co-hosting with Greener By Default (GBD), an organization known for its innovative work in shifting food policies toward plant-based options. In this engaging session, you’ll hear from Stephanie Lynch, GBD Corporate Engagement Director, and Darina Janovova, VLCM Founder.
A Greener by Default (GBD) signature strategy is getting organizations to tweak their menus, so plant-based meals become the default (with options to add meat). This shift can be a surprisingly easy sell to employees, and employees often end up dramatically picking the default (vegan) options.
KEY TIP: You can adopt this strategy in your work in any food service setting. If you have an event with an RSVP, just switch your defaults. Make everyone by default have a plant-based meal and allow them the option to opt-out if they want. This single small shift in thinking can change the demand for plant-based meals as much as 60 percentage points. Here’s recommended guidance of what that can look like on invites if you’d also like to make a declaration of support for the sustainability effort.
Another easy and often tremendously successful strategy is implementing an oat-milk default in cafes or at coffee stations. By default serve all drinks with oat, and give people the option to switch to almond, soy, or cow milk. (Have you noticed that many coffee shops, especially in the US and western Europe, are adopting this model more and more?)
Oat milk in particular has one of the lowest carbon and water footprints of all milk options, along with being free of the top 12 allergens which is why we recommend that as our default milk option. And small changes add up: switching to oat milk in one latte saves enough water for two showers.
GBD has other strategies we encourage you to implement in your next event or recommend to your events teams to embrace. Check out more at: https://www.greenerbydefault.com/events.
Featured Corporate Vegan News
Volkswagen is redefining car interiors with a new vegan leather alternative made from hemp
Canada Strengthens Plant-Based Sector With $11M Federal Boost for Pulse Production
West Hollywood Implements Plant-Based Default for City Events
Norway Becomes Latest Country to Recommend Eating Mostly Plants in New Dietary Guidelines
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