Procurement with Purpose: How To Create Impact in Your Everyday (Starting With Tampons)

Think procurement is just about price and supply? Think again.

Every purchase decision is a chance to drive social and environmental change — even in places you wouldn’t expect, like the bathroom.

In this session, Alec Mills, Co-founder of DAME, shares how a period product brand became a catalyst for better health, sustaiinability, gender equity, and workplace wellbeing — all through thoughtful procurement. Discover how schools, offices, hotels and public buildings are rethinking period care as a meaningful ESG lever, and how your own purchasing choices can unlock impact in surprising ways.

Whether you're in facilities, HR, sustainability or supply chain, this talk will leave you looking at your everyday contracts with fresh eyes.