AltaTerra Research and corporate sustainability managers to share best practices for employee engagement using performance incentives and tools for alignment on July 28.

PALO ALTO, California, July 19, 2011 – On Thursday, July 28 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific / 2:00 p.m. Eastern, AltaTerra will present the online briefing "Leading Employee Practices for Sustainability: Performance Incentives & Alignment.” This independent event, first in a three-part series, will feature CSR/Sustainability managers from Intel Corporation and Sabre Holdings (Travelocity), and address policies, practices and tools for integrating sustainability into day-to-day employee functions – including employee performance incentive structures, alignment, and supporting software tools.

Employee incentives and individual and corporate goal alignment have become increasingly critical, as corporate managers look to effectively engage a larger percentage of the workforce in the organization’s sustainability activities, and achievement of enterprise-level goals.

In this 90-minute interactive online briefing, AltaTerra Senior Analyst, Jackie Pitera will provide background into strategies for employee engagement for sustainability including current statistics on how engaged employees have better morale and are more productive.

Suzanne Fallender, Director of CSR Strategy & Communications at Intel Corporation will describe how performance incentives related to sustainability have been successfully integrated into Intel’s employee bonus program, why this is strategic for their business, implementation challenges, lessons learned, and results to date.

Leilani Latimer, Director of Sustainability Initiatives at Sabre Holdings, commonly known for their Travelocity business,will describe their Sabre Holdings' education and engagement program around sustainability, how they have created performance incentives, how and why they are using a supporting software tool, and program successes and challenges.

"Corporate employee engagement around sustainability typically starts with grassroots efforts and the formation of green teams,” said Jackie Pitera. "In order to engage a greater majority of employees managers need new policies, practices and tools that focus on what really matters to individual employees. We are excited to have two leading industry experts share what programs they have implemented to incentivize their employees to reach their sustainability goals,” she continued.

Further information and registration are available online at http://www.altaterra.net/events/event_details.asp?id=168800.

This online briefing, is the first in a three-part series on leading practices, policies and tools for employee sustainability engagement and behavior change. Register for the other briefings in this series at http://www.altaterra.net/event/employee_sustainability. By registering for all three events in the series you are eligible for a significant discount.

A limited number of press passes are available. Press pass requests may be submitted at www.altaterra.net/?presspass.