Suzanne DiBianca was asked this question as part of a 2023 Fortune “Sustainability 101” interview series. She responded, “Well, I think we advocate for what we believe, but we also, to be inclusive you have to include everyone, including people who don’t agree with you. I try to learn from that. What’s going on? Why is the Chamber’s view the way it is? How can we advocate for what we believe? I’m not sure pulling out is the right answer. I think you can influence best from the inside. That’s why you see activist takeovers on the board of fossil fuel companies for example. I think the Chamber does a lot of things really well and a lot of trade groups do things well and I think it’s healthy to not agree 100% of the time, but we’ll continue to advocate internally on our point of view and eventually try and meet in the middle.”
In the fight for Build Back Better in 2021 (now known as the Inflation Reduction Act), Salesforce was identified as “trying to stake out a middle ground, distancing their own views on the bill from the Chamber’s without attacking the group.”11