S3E3 | Merger Mania: Page Motes Melds Ethics & Compliance With Sustainability In New Role at Dell

In today’s Principled episode, Page Motes shares her history at Dell Technologies as Senior Managing Director, Global Ethics and Compliance Officer and now as Strategy Lead of Sustainability. Motes discusses the difficulties and duties of overseeing and managing Dell’s ethics strategy and sustainability initiatives, and the impact of corporate activism, and she shares some advice for young people entering the E&C profession.

What You’ll Learn on This Episode

• [:50] What led you into ethics and compliance and how that has taken you into this new role as a strategy leader of sustainability at Dell? 

• [4:24] How does your E&C background help you in this new role, especially as E&C investor activism and ESG are coming together to push companies? 

• [6:34] How does your E&C background help you in this new role, especially as E&C investor activism and ESG are coming together to push companies?

• [11:53] What are two or three issues you're working on now in your new role in sustainability that is taking a lot of your time and focuses? 

• [14:32] What do you see now as one or two biggest drivers in this area that organizations need to prepare for, and how will these drivers impact E&C and sustainability teams and how they work? 

• [18:19] What advice do you have for young people, particularly women entering this E&C profession, and what do you wish someone had told you when you started that you didn't learn until later, maybe after a tough lesson?