Carla Post, Commissioner
Dranesville District
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Carla Louise Post is the sustainability manager for Leidos, where she leads the integration of social and environmental considerations into core strategic decisions. Driven by a strong passion for improving the state of our societies and consciousness, she is an advocate for ensuring businesses have a positive impact.
Carla leads the Sustainability Working Group (SWG), a cross-functional organization focused on improving Leidos’ environmental sustainability posture. Her efforts resulted in Leidos being ranked on Newsweek’s Most Responsible Companies 2021, #38 in the Newsweek Green rankings, the #1 greenest company in the Information & Technology category in 2017 and increasing corporate Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) scores in Climate Change and Supplier Engagement. She leads development of the Leidos Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Report and is a major contributor to the Ethisphere submittal, which has resulted in Leidos being awarded one of the most ethical companies for the past four years.
As the lead for the SWG, she is responsible for implementing strategies that reduce energy consumption and investing in renewable energy across the enterprise, improving employee awareness of environmental sustainability and educating employees on how to improve workplace behavior to reduce wasteful energy consumption. She collaborates with teams on real estate efficiency, including alternative workplace strategies and commuting programs. Leidos has achieved an absolute GHG reduction of about 58% compared to a 2010 baseline, more than double the 2020 goal of 25%. Further, under her tenure, the company has increased renewable energy purchases through Renewable Energy Credits.
Carla spearheaded the procurement and implementation of an enterprise Sustainability software to provide transparency to consumers, investors, and other stakeholders, as well as to enable impact reduction, achieve sustainability goals, and become an even more responsible business. Her multiple pro-active Earth Day campaigns have reached thousands of stakeholders. This is the third enterprise-wide software that she has both led, managed, and implanted for a multi-national company.
Carla transferred from the Corporate Real Estate team where she was the director for Environmental Sustainability/Employee Engagement to Corporate Communications to co-lead the formulation of Leidos’ new purpose-driven long-term sustainability vision, mission, and operating principles, including a focus on mental well-being. Prior to this transition, she developed and executed a successful communications strategy/change management plan across communication channels, audiences, and client groups for the new global headquarters and evolution of the Leidos Workplace of the Future.
Carla also manages and serves as the liaison between Leidos and The Women’s Center, an organization that provides mental health counseling, support, and education to the metropolitan area to help people live healthy, stable, and productive lives; Everfi, an organization that provides digital mental health support to students; and The George Mason Center for Psychological Studies and Sweet Farm, a non-profit addressing the global impacts on the food supply chain and the resulting shortages in our communities.
In a volunteer capacity, Carla served as both the partnership relationship lead for the Leidos Women’s Network and chapter president for the NoVA Women’s Network Employee Resource Group (ERG). She sees both her professional role as a sustainability manager and her volunteer roles in the ERG as intrinsic to supporting and educating women and girls. She works hard to provide opportunities for women to collaborate on shared interests and promote diversity across the company. Carla helped grow the ERG Chapter by 40%, becoming the largest chapter of the largest ERG. She received an Innovation Award for her work on an event series that gave members direct access to the Leidos Board of Directors.
As an elected board member of the McLean Community Center, Carla champions involvement in sustainability as well as advocates for community education, diversity and inclusion, and cultural involvement. She is an active volunteer with her children’s sports leagues and school PTAs. In her personal life, she is a volunteer for Virginia Democracy Forward and has worked over the past four years to support candidates that advocate for women’s issues as well as local and national candidates that include sustainability and climate in their platforms.
Born in Washington, D.C., Carla grew up in Crofton, Maryland, and spent summers in Bethany Beach, Delaware, with her extended family, all of whom were public school teachers and administrators. She grew up in a family of very strong women who were not afraid to lead or stand up against inequality and injustice. They fostered a sense of determination and confidence that has helped her to lead and advocate both in her professional and personal life.
Carla lives in McLean, Virginia, with her husband, two children, and 185-pound St. Bernard.