Juan Valdez is a multi-national coffee producer, brewer, and retailer based in Colombia. For the intensive 7 week Management for Sustainable Development and Regeneration course, my team and I developed many proposals to address Juan Valdez’s main operating areas.
Skills gained from this project:
- Applied a system’s view to real-world problems for an organization
- Developed solutions that were cost-effective and moved the needle for sustainability in a corporate environment
- Utilized corporate challenges (inclusion, climate action, water management, and circularity) and turned them into opportunities
- Gained experience in corporate GRI reporting
- Learned the ins and outs of how coffee is cultivated and processed
- Experienced working in a diverse team of Colombian students
- Enhanced my Spanish speaking, writing, reading, and listening skillset
The six reports below detail the work that my team and I performed on Juan Valdez. Note: Semana translates to week in English.
- S1 – Understanding Juan Valdez’s impacts and choosing the appropriate impact analysis tool
- S3 – Climate Action
- S4 – Social Inclusion
- S5 – Water Management
- S6 – Circularity and Circular Economic Practices
- S7 – Improving the Sustainable Reporting Structure at Juan Valdez
Here’s a link to Juan Valdez’s corporate website: https://juanvaldez.com/en/home/