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in place. Third, employee engagement; it’s not just a responsibility of
the CEO, it’s a responsibility of every employee. We set a culture that
requires overall employee engagement to make the right decisions, to
take the right actions every single day, and even to get involved in their
own communities. From the little things like planting trees at our o昀케ces,
to the big things that we do in the design of our products and in the
manufacturing and execution as well.
You’re American, but based in Canada. With major nation-building and
infrastructure projects mentioned in the $1 trillion federal budget, how
can environment and energy stakeholders help super charge the delivery
of these new projects?
SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC CANADA PRESIDENT
EMILY HEITMAN WITH ENVIRONMENT
JOURNAL EDITOR CONNIE VITELLO AT THE
INNOVATION SUMMIT IN NOVEMBER 2025.
My personal and professional mission is to support growth in the
economy, the infrastructure and the future of Canada. We have an
outdated grid. We have outdated infrastructure that needs to be updated.
And we have exciting new projects to support. So, let’s update these
buildings, new infrastructure projects, and new investments, with
modern equipment but also make them digital. When we think about
sustainability, we believe that the equation for the future is “electric +
digital = sustainable.” The infrastructure of the past was not digital; as a
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