Monique Oxender

Chief Corporate Affairs Officer
Keurig Dr Pepper Inc.

As the Chief Sustainability Officer at Keurig Dr. Pepper, Monique Oxender leads the company’s efforts to Brew a Better World. Monique joined Keurig in 2012 and has navigated a path for integrated sustainability management throughout the company.

Monique Oxender serves as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, leading Keurig Dr Pepper’s sustainability, government affairs, corporate communications and internal communications work. She was previously KDP’s Senior Vice President & Chief Sustainability Officer, where she designed and implemented the organizational and strategic framework for the Company’s corporate responsibility platform. Before KDP, Monique held management roles with Ford Motor Company, where she designed and managed industry-leading supply chain sustainability programs and served in leadership roles for critical multi-stakeholder collaborations working with industry associations, the United Nations Global Compact, U.S. State Department, Department of Labor and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Monique serves on the Board of Directors for World Coffee Research. She is a member of the Strategic Advisory Council for The Erb Institute, a partnership between the Ross School of Business and the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. She was previously recognized as one of the Top 100 Leaders in Sustainability by Sustainability Magazine. She holds an MBA and a master’s degree in Resource Ecology from the University of Michigan and dual bachelor degrees from Miami University.

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Next-generation innovations: reimagining single serve coffee

As part of its multi-year commitment to reimagine its coffee system to develop and provide plastic-free pods as an option for consumers, Keurig Dr Pepper has engaged in research and development partnerships and implemented innovations that disrupt wh... View More

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Next-generation innovations: reimagining single serve coffee

As part of its multi-year commitment to reimagine its coffee system to develop and provide plastic-free pods as an option for consumers, Keurig Dr Pepper has engaged in research and development partnerships and implemented innovations that disrupt wh... View More

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When Goals Become Values: The Key to Industrywide Change

Every day, millions of Americans drink, on average, 2.1 cups of coffee; each cup takes about a hundred beans to brew1. Each bean must go through harvesting, wet milling, drying, dry milling, storing, shipping, trucking, roasting, grinding and packagi... View More

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Keurig Moves Toward a Sustainable Future

In the business world, we frequently hear executives asking what value a program brings to an organization, placing emphasis on immediate profit rather than long-term impact. At Keurig Green Mountain, we have designed our business on a model that cre... View More

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Collaborating Toward the Good Life: A Conversation with Keurig Green Mountain's Monique Oxender

A self-proclaimed “complexity junkie,” Monique Oxender, Keurig Green Mountain’s Chief Sustainability Officer, doesn’t bat an eye at tackling big, complicated issues. From the future of coffee to the recyclability of Keurig’s pods, Oxender a... View More

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Stronger Together: How Collaboration Is Propelling Keurig’s Sustainability Agenda

One of the greatest aspects of the corporate sustainability movement has to be the paradigm shift that has encouraged companies to collaborate to solve common issues – joining forces across industries and sectors, and even with direct competitors h... View More

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