Ep. 08 - Creating Responsible Supply Chains At Scale
Guest
Tu Rinsche
Duration
30 minutes
Host
Justin Dillon
When responsible sourcing stops being a "nice to have" and starts being mandatory.
Tu Rinsche has built human rights programs from the inside at Disney, Marriott, and HP, advised governments at the U.S. State Department, and led global investigations at NGOs like Walk Free and Transparentem. Now running her own advisory firm, All Rights Advisors, she joins the show to unpack what it really takes to operationalize responsibility at scale — and why the regulatory ground has shifted under every company that imports a product. This isn't theory. It's twenty years of hard-won wisdom from someone who's been in every room that matters.
In this episode
- Why responsible sourcing has shifted from a "nice to have" to a regulatory mandate — and what that means for procurement teams
- How global tariffs and trade saber-rattling are forcing companies to rethink supply chain responsibility, fast
- Building human rights programs from the inside at Disney, Marriott, and HP — what scales and what doesn't
- The career path of a corporate Human Rights Officer, and why so few companies have one
- What twenty years across government, NGOs, and global brands teaches you about the gap between policy and outcomes
- How AI is reshaping how supply chain risk gets identified, measured, and acted on
ABOUT THE GUEST
Tu Rinsche is the Founder and Principal of All Rights Advisors and an award-winning sustainability and social impact leader with two decades of experience across government, global brands, and the nonprofit sector. She began her career in public service as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Mauritania, then joined the U.S. Department of State's Human Rights Bureau, where she led policy on child soldier and cocoa labor issues. From there, she moved into the corporate world, developing a multi-million-dollar social innovation fund for responsible sourcing at The Walt Disney Company, leading human rights work across 30 brands at Marriott International, heading corporate responsibility at The Ritz-Carlton, and ultimately serving as Global Head of Human Rights at HP Inc., where she chaired the company's internal Human Rights Council. In the nonprofit sector, she held senior roles at the Minderoo Foundation's Walk Free initiative and at Transparentem. Tu holds a master's in international affairs from Columbia University and a bachelor's from The George Washington University, and was recognized with the Nomi Network CSR Award in 2019.
