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Hannah Jones is responsible for managing Nike’s global corporate responsibility efforts including responsible competitiveness, community investments, social innovation and considered product innovation. The goal of the team is to embed social and environmental innovation into the business model, leading to further business innovations, growth and social change. Nike has three long-term goals to guide this work:
Affect positive systemic change for workers in the apparel, footwear and equipment industries.
Create sustainable products and business models.
Deliver sport for youth inclusion.
Before joining Nike, Hannah served as a consultant to Microsoft and Kimberly-Clark on both companies’ community affairs programs. She also worked as the European manager of Community Service Volunteers Media, a UK-based non-governmental organization, where she led pan-European campaigns centering on youth issues. Hannah began her career as a reporter, researcher and producer for the social action unit of BBC Radio One and Radio Five.
She is a board member of Mercy Corps, a founding member of the business advisory council to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and was named a Global Young Leader in conjunction with the World Economic Forum in January of 2007.
Hannah’s favorite Nike innovations are those that have pushed the boundaries and involved taking risks. These include Nike environmental endeavors such as grinding up old shoes for use as sports grounds, using recycled bottles to make a marathon singlet and designing a children’s t-shirt that generated zero waste. “What other companies our size still manage to nurture this kind of creativity and innovation on an ongoing basis across the organization? she asked.
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