Aimia promotes engagement through practical experience, and harnesses and encourages employee engagement in community and environmental causes around the globe.
A great example: Aimia’s Change Action Team.
In order to further foster employee engagement and leadership, Aimia created the
Change Action Team, a program that brings together employees from around the world to participate in an annual trip organized by one of Aimia’s brands and one of their respective not-for-profit partner organizations.
The experience offers employees the opportunity to share perspectives, foster employee leadership, help facilitate a deeper understanding of Aimia’s commitment to CSR both from an environmental and humanitarian perspective and gives each participant an incredible international learning experience.
In 2010, Aeroplan Canada led Aimia’s second Change Action Team experience working with its carbon management partner Offsetters. The team was composed of 11 Aimia employees as well as guides from environmental organizations. The team travelled to British Columbia, Canada for one week where they learned about clean technology and sustainability in the province. They visited both local community-based and industrial-scale clean technology projects that are supported by Aimia Canada in Vancouver, British Columbia, First Nations communities on Vancouver Island and the resort area of Whistler in the Coastal Mountains.
"For me the eye-opening thing about the trip was not just learning about responses to climate change, but seeing the web of connections between CO2 and ecology, conservation, community, business and heritage. I hope that we can recognize some of these links in our business plans here in the UK, and across the rest of the global group. It was an amazing experience, and I’ve made some great new friends in offices across all our different brands and countries.” – Brendan O’Donovan, Strategy Manager, Aimia, London
For a full list of the many Aimia’s employee engagement activities, read our latest latest CSR report.