The first Sustainability Leadership Forum (SLF) launched in Atlanta in 2008 with the purpose of gathering likeminded Sustainability VPs and Directors of Fortune 500 Companies to identify and address the complex issues regarding environmental and societal problems and opportunities in their businesses. Working through their issues, with the help of outside experts, SLF members develop viable, innovative best practices that their respective organizations sanction and implement within their organizations. Sustainability Leadership Forums are structured to succeed. Beginning with Atlanta in 2008, followed by Chicago, Dallas, London, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., each Sustainability Leadership Forum (SLF) has been established to function independently with its own by-invitation-only membership of Sustainability VPs and Directors of global corporations. The SLF’s corporate members within any individual city’s Forum are non-competing. Their representatives (two per company) meet bimonthly, taking turns to host at their respective places of business. In addition to a professional facilitator per group, invited guest experts share Best Practices. Membership is limited to 15 companies per city. The member-driven, non-competitive framework promotes meaningful relationships and trust within each group. The global nature of members’ operations further allows participants to make valued contributions and receive optimal value from others because they face opportunities and challenges of a similar scale.