Working Groups

SHI Working Groups

Please indicate which Working Groups you’d like to join here.

Scope 3 – Phase 2 Launched

Phase 1 companies continuing: Herb Pharm, the Synergy Company, Traditional Medicinals, Yogi, ES Botanics
New participants: Verdure Sciences, Asheville Tea Company, Blue Sky Botanics, Harmonic Arts

Benefits: Participants benchmark their emissions, access shared database, receive climate strategy guidance, and identify potential collaborative climate mitigation initiatives.

Co-organized with Zacharia Levine.

Beyond Certifications – Reactivating

This group will have 4 sessions in June/July 2026, starting with speakers from certifying bodies and auditors to share what’s working, what isn’t, and how they’re adapting. We’ll then define a collective work plan.

Benefits – Peer problem-solving. The goal is to move beyond discussing challenges to identifying potential solutions.

Storytelling and Marketing

Benefits for being involved include co-marketing opportunities, shared content resources, and other initiatives.

Quality, Sustainability, and Risk 

Peer to peer learning and joint problem solving around risk assessment tools, supplier evaluation frameworks, and other sourcing and quality practices.

Wild Plants – Focused Work Phase

We’re completing a series of guides on wild plants. If you want to actively contribute to guide development, join us. If there is enough new interest, this group will continue, otherwise it will close after we finish this body of work.

CEOs/Leaders/Owners

Peer to peer learning and support

Peer to peer Coaching Circles