That can assist you get to know slightly bit extra about Alexandra and her new function, we sat down together with her to ask a couple of questions:
1. When did you first develop into concerned in sustainability and why is it so vital to you?
I turned concerned in sustainability on the age of 14, when my pals and I created a small NGO working in the direction of poverty alleviation in Romania. We have been residing in a really small city and there was a partnership between our city and one other village in Japanese Romania, due to this fact we had determined to accomplice with native youths to arrange tasks resembling cleansing the native river, funding scholarships and serving to the implementation of a homestay / small lodging established as a Neighborhood Primarily based Tourism undertaking. In the course of the faculty yr yearly, we organized fundraisers, utilized for grants and located personal sponsors. Each summer time we travelled to Romania by automobile from France with a paid driver since we have been nonetheless too younger to drive and arrange these tasks with our pals. It was thrilling to make pals and assist the neighborhood whereas travelling by Europe. It was then that I made a decision that working to enhance lives was what I wished to do in life; working in native growth and in the direction of sustainability. Since then, my skilled experiences have at all times led me to find new fascinating fields of works resembling microfinance, truthful commerce, social innovation, accountable tourism and extra. Main tasks that shield the planet and profit folks permits me to really reside the motto ‘Do what you like, love what you do’.
2. How can travellers profit from the sustainable journey motion?
Vacationers more and more take into account the environmental and social impacts of their travels, they’re conscientious that the alternatives they make whereas touring have an effect on the vacation spot and I consider they’re desirous to be taught extra about how they will make higher decisions to tread evenly. Touring responsibly allows them to cut back their carbon footprint, to assist locals enhance their livelihoods and to contribute to defending pure assets.
3. What in your thoughts is the chief function of a CPO and what do you most stay up for with this accountability?
A Chief Goal Officer appears to make sure that the aim of the corporate – why we exist – is demonstrated all through our group throughout our methods, branding and tradition, in addition to in our exterior relationships and communications. Our function is what drives our values, our capabilities to take-risks, and helps us to outline how to answer others in each a enterprise and societal context.The CPO’s function is to bridge the hole between management intention and guarantee motion takes place all through the group to help this imaginative and prescient. In a nutshell, our function and values have to be included into what we promote, how we work, and the way we deal with the folks each inside and outdoors of EXO.
I stay up for working with the groups in all our locations, so that folks working for EXO perceive how you can bond their day-to-day to our function and values and to make sure that their compensation is tied to their efficiency towards these priorities.
4. What are some key targets for us sooner or later?
We’re working in the direction of B-Corp certification as a result of we consider it can assist us to reset our core mission and values to build-back-better than earlier than. We additionally goal to proceed main local weather motion to cut back the environmental footprint of our enterprise in our locations, and create constructive alternatives for communities to profit from tourism, in addition to enriching workplaces the place folks working for EXO have a transparent sense of function and perceive the constructive impression of their work.
5. What function do folks have in making certain targets are met
As a part of my function, I stay up for making certain that targets are clearly outlined for every particular person working at EXO and that we develop a constructive working tradition the place EXO folks can be taught and thrive and have the chance to do nice work they are often happy with.
