Ann Lee-Jeffs
Senior Director Worldwide at Johnson & Johnson
Keynote address on Friday, October 28
“Sustainability, Collaboration: The Next Competitiveness"
Ann Lee-Jeffs is the founder and CEO of the Sustainability Collaborative and SustaiNext.
Currently, Ann is providing the visionary and inspirational leadership, for the Sustainability
Collaborative, and its educational and seminar operation SustaiNext.
Ann, working with the Collaborative chief strategist, is crafting the next generation sustainability
content concept, which is referred to as Universal Sustainability. Ann is also involved in the
Collaborative research, and at providing the leadership for the highly successful SustaiNext East
Summit conducted at Drexel University March of 2011. Future plans are that similar summit
programs are to be held at Arizona State University, November 2011, Washington, DC 2012 and
Dublin, Ireland, 2013.
Ann is also the founder of GreenPharma (GPh), where she led a team representing two dozen or
more organizations to drive next generation sustainability thinking across the pharmaceutical
sector that resulted in new ideas, and the establishment of best practices.
Ann is also one of founding members of the Healthcare Plastics Recycle Council (HPRC)
representing various stakeholders in the healthcare sector, to enable plastic recycle practices, in
the healthcare industry. Ann was instrumental in developing the current HPRC strategy that
addressed challenges and opportunities within HPRC.
Ann currently works as a Senior Manager at Johnson & Johnson worldwide environment, where
she provides leadership in integrating product stewardship and sustainability thinking into the
220 companies that are the JNJ corporation; and within that context, Ann leads several teams,
councils and networks within J&J that supports comprehensive sustainability as part of the JNJ
strategy which is designed to enhance JNJ competitiveness.
Ann has made many presentations on the subject of sustainability at numerous national and
international conferences, including the Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference, which
was sponsored by the United States EPA and the American Chemistry Society.
Prior to JNJ, Ann worked for Merck, Pfizer and Colgate Palmolive where she led teams and
programs to enable sustainability compliance. At Pfizer and Colgate Palmolive, Ann was one of
the first sustainability leaders to integrate environmental programs across the organization.
Ann is a graduate of Manhattan College with both an undergraduate in Chemical Engineering
and a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering.
Ann is most often referred to as a results oriented professional that is team focused, and she is
the proud mother of two very talented children.