Jennifer Hilborn, Contributing Editor, Corporate Citizenship

An expert communicator with extensive Canadian and international experience, Jennifer draws on a varied background in publishing, public relations and corporate sponsorship.

In 1999, representing her then-employer, Ericsson, Jennifer successfully led the creation of a unique global tri-sector social issue partnership involving Ericsson, the International Red Cross/Red Crescent Organization, and the United Nations, aimed to address disaster response wherever it is needed throughout the world. Its huge success resulted in the inclusion of Ericsson as a ”good corporate citizen“ in the Millennium Report of the Secretary General of the United Nations, the first time such public recognition had ever been given by the UN to a corporation. In 2000 her expertise in this area was recognized when she was invited to participate as a panelist at the United Nations Economic & Social Summit.

In 2001 Jennifer also created her own column, bCause in a local Toronto newspaper, ETC News focusing on socially responsible corporations in her community. Her volunteer work also includes leading a weekly youth group and sitting on a selection committee for Flare Magazine’s 7th Annual Volunteer Awards.

Inspired by the power of Corporate Citizenship and Experience Marketing to influence an audience and the notion that society could be different if people had a greater sense of self-worth, Jennifer Hilborn left Ericsson in 2001 and formed The Esteem Dream and Esteemed Events with her business partner Sarah Varley.