The Beekly: Mikayla Winter, Director of ESG Reporting at Wiley

​Most sustainability directors inherit a program. Mikayla Winter built one.

​When Mikayla Winter joined Wiley as Director of ESG Reporting, there was no playbook — just a mandate and a blank slate. Since then, she's stood up a full ESG reporting function at one of the world's oldest publishers - navigating an everchanging reporting landscaping, delivering inaugural regulatory disclosures in the UK and California, and preparing for new assurance requirements with heightened scrutiny over all ESG-related claims.

​We're going to get into the real stuff — not the polished version.

​How do you get functional leaders to own climate risks that aren’t top of mind? What does a DMA actually change about what you prioritize? How do you build a resilient program that can withstand personnel changes or leaves of absence?  And what does the company publishing leading climate and sustainability research think the field needs to drive meaningful progress?

​This one is for:

• ​Sustainability and ESG practitioners navigating multi-jurisdictional reporting

• ​Finance, legal, and ops leaders being asked to own or influence ESG-adjacent programs

• ​Anyone building a new function without the luxury of a predecessor

​Mikayla Winter is Director of ESG Reporting at Wiley, one of the oldest and most recognized names in publishing and learning with 200+ years of history and an international portfolio spanning academic research, professional development, and the For Dummies franchise. It's a global business with a genuinely complex sustainability footprint: outsourced paper supply chains, digital transformation pressures, SBTi-validated Net Zero targets, and regulatory exposure across multiple jurisdictions simultaneously.