While most businesses are just now shifting their focus to sustainability, Belvedere Vodka had been quietly working on it for nearly a decade."We've been working on sustainability since 2012 and in a pretty serious way, but we didn't really talk about it before. It was something that we did," says Rodney Williams, President and CEO of Belvedere Vodka. "We reduced CO2 emissions from 2012 to 2017 by 42% and we were the first distillery to win a green energy grant in 2018 from the EU, that information before the pandemic was kind of great for people who wanted to nerd out and sustainability. But now it's germane to a much broader audience who is online, who is making decisions and online and finds this commitment to quality, this commitment to the environment important their decision process."On the latest episode of The Business of Marketing Podcast, we sat down with industry legend Rodney Williams during Mediaweek 2021 to discuss his career as a purposeful and empathic leader, his focus on advocating for and building inclusive corporations, and the power and importance of brand storytelling.Tune in to learn how Belvedere is distilled with purpose at its core, the ways in which they are nourishing the environment and reducing its carbon footprint, and how the ways it connects socially with its consumers and communities around the world.Brought to you by SAP Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.