2024 Distinguished Leadership Award recipient Raj Subramaniam explains how FedEx thinks about sustainability, data, culture and much more. 

FedEx aims to have carbon-neutral operations by 2040, and that will require careful management of 5,000 facilities and 200,000 motorized vehicles. How can FedEx do this while making millions of deliveries every day, continuing to innovate, and leveraging its data to improve supply chains globally? 

Join Dr. Lori Esposito Murray and guest Raj Subramaniam, President & CEO of FedEx, to find out the three principles today’s leaders need, how FedEx leverages physical networks and proprietary data, and its plans for meeting ambitious sustainability goals. 

(01:51) Leadership and Risk Management (03:58) Navigating the Pandemic (05:55) FedEx's World-Class Culture (08:49) Innovation at FedEx (13:50) Global Economic Insights: China and India (17:57) The Importance of Trade Policy (20:47) Sustainability Goals and Future Challenges

For more from The Conference Board: 

• 2024 Distinguished Leadership Awards 

• Organizing for Success in Corporate Sustainability 2.0 

• Silos to Synergy: Building a Cohesive Sustainability Strategy 

This Leadership in Challenging Times discussion is featured as a C-Suite Perspectives podcast and a special CED Policy Watch Webcast. Leadership in Challenging Times features timely and insightful discussions with the outstanding CEOs who are recipients of CED’s Distinguished Leadership Awards. Business leader honorees discuss the unprecedented challenges facing the nation and how they are helping chart a path forward for both their companies and communities in which they operate.