Social and Environmental Impact Leader Rebecca Kline Coffey is the newly appointed Benefit Director to industry leading Design Collaborative Bergmeyer’s Board of Directors. As both a Certified B Corp and Massachusetts Benefit Corporation, Bergmeyer is committed to embedding positive impact directly into how the organization governs and operates its business. Coffey will work as an independent Benefit Officer alongside Bergmeyer’s Shareholder Board of Directors to effectively ensure Bergmeyer is advancing its public benefit objectives at the governance level by providing mission oversight, Board accountability, and strategic stewardship to strengthen the positive impact Bergmeyer has on the communities it serves.
“For Bergmeyer, purpose belongs at the center of how we govern, grow, and make decisions, and welcoming Rebecca as our Benefit Director strengthens how that purpose is represented at the Board level.,” says Bergmeyer President and CEO, Rachel Zsembery. “Rebecca’s experience helping mission-driven organizations align growth with impact will strengthen our governance and challenge us to think more intentionally about the decisions we make for our people, our clients, our communities, and the environment.”
Coffey brings a deep commitment to purpose-driven business, a strong belief in stakeholder accountability, and a perspective that aligns closely with Bergmeyer’s, that business growth and positive impact are not competing priorities, but complementary ones. In her new role Coffey hopes to use her experience working alongside B Corps and mission-driven organizations to help Bergmeyer navigate the practical realities of aligning business decisions with social and environmental impact.
"I'm honored to join Bergmeyer's Board as its Independent Benefit Director," says Coffey. "I have tremendous respect for companies that successfully link their business performance to contributing positively to people and the planet. I'm especially excited to work with Bergmeyer's thoughtful team and to help the firm continue to raise the bar for its industry."
In addition to her new role on Bergmeyer's Board, Coffey serves as Senior Consultant at Impact Growth Partners. Since the firm's inception, she has guided companies across diverse industries, from footwear and fashion to investment, through the process of measuring and improving their social and environmental impact, working with purpose-driven brands including Burton Snowboards, Cotopaxi, Humanscale, Grace Farms, Maker’s Mark Distillery, ButcherBox, and Vivobarefoot. Coffey brings over 25 years of combined nonprofit and for-profit organizational leadership to the field of stakeholder capitalism, having founded and led New Haven Farms, now Gather New Haven. A Deshpande Foundation Fellow and a member of the B Corp Consultants Network Leadership Circle, Coffey earned her MPA from Columbia University and lives in Vermont.
To learn more about Bergmeyer and its purpose-driven design work as a Certified B Corp, please visit www.bergmeyer.com.
Bergmeyer is a multi-disciplinary Design Collaborative of architects, interior designers, graphic designers, and brand strategists; inspired through partnership, thoughtfully creative; driven by curiosity and boldness to fulfill the potential of each relationship. Implicitly trusting of its people and process; Bergmeyer celebrates a culture of inclusion and connection to a shared purpose. Bergmeyer’s approach to design is empowering and ego-free, forming proactive partnerships with its clients and project teams to create a shared sense of ownership throughout the entire creative process. Bergmeyer designs for its clients’ clients, the people whose lives and experiences are enhanced by its work. Challenging its teams to focus first on understanding the end user - the customers, students, employees, visitors, and residents - while delivering on its clients’ vision and return on investment. Bergmeyer has offices in Boston, Los Angeles, and Columbus. Bergmeyer is proud to be a Certified B Corporation, serving as an active member of a global community with a common belief in using business as a force for good.
For more information on Bergmeyer please visit www.bergmeyer.com. To learn more about Bergmeyer’s experience becoming a Certified B Corp, and how to start your own impact assessment please visit https://www.bergmeyer.com/bcorp.
