Sustainability Champion Spotlight: Timothy Hierlihy

• Time with Sodexo:  12 years
• Location: Nova Scotia
• Industry: Education 
• Role: General Manager of Food Services
• Team: 150 employees (including management team)

Sustainability to Tim means keeping an open mind to growth that is not harmful and looking for ways to do that things that doesn’t deteriorate our environment or heath and well-being any further. 

Tim has had multiple roles at Sodexo over the past 12 years. All those experiences have cumulated to his current role as General Manager of Food Services for a university campus in Nova Scotia. Operating in a province with several sustainability norms and protocols, sustainability has to be a thought in everything he and his team does. 

Tim sits on the university’s sustainability committee as a partner and has tackled different initiatives on site for several years now, like eliminating styrofoam and only using paper fiber products, as well as going tray-less at the cafeteria to save water.  

His team has been composting for years, but only recently have adapted the WasteWatch powered by LeanPath (WWxLP) program on site, Sodexo’s global program to prevent and reduce food waste by allowing staff to track food waste in real time. In the short amount of time since the program started in January 2021, 30% of the total food at the University, which would have been wasted, has been donated to Meals on Wheels.