Professional summary
I am an environmental policy/management and sustainability consultant of long standing (more than 25 years), who offers an informed and unique perspective on the many ways in which sustainability issues affect business and public sector organizations. I have an extensive track record of bringing clarity to complex sustainability and business management issues, developing innovative approaches and tools to establish the pertinent facts and enable confident decision making, and offering advice, guidance, and support to executives and managers seeking to improve both environmental/sustainability and financial performance. I offer an unusually broad perspective on sustainability issues and a unique ability to “connect the dots” and frame unstructured Read more
I am an environmental policy/management and sustainability consultant of long standing (more than 25 years), who offers an informed and unique perspective on the many ways in which sustainability issues affect business and public sector organizations. I have an extensive track record of bringing clarity to complex sustainability and business management issues, developing innovative approaches and tools to establish the pertinent facts and enable confident decision making, and offering advice, guidance, and support to executives and managers seeking to improve both environmental/sustainability and financial performance. I offer an unusually broad perspective on sustainability issues and a unique ability to “connect the dots” and frame unstructured problems. I bring a sense of urgency to drive positive corporate change, process redesign, quality improvement, and adoption of best practices so as to create the conditions needed for continued growth and profitability (or budgetary stability).
Major areas of strength include the following:
• Sustainability/Corporate Social Responsibility-thought leader and developer of significant and influential sustainability concepts, frameworks, tools, and research findings
• Business Management-experienced executive skilled in service operations, finance and budgeting, marketing, communications, and organization/human resource development
• Analysis-prominent, creative, and influential environmental management and business analyst
• Program Design, Deployment, Improvement-adept at formulating and launching new programs, and in evaluating and retooling existing audit, assurance, and other programs
• Project Management-successful director of several hundred consulting contracts/projects
• Training/Facilitation-skilled and effective trainer, workshop leader, and facilitator
• Professional Speaking-sought-after speaker and conference discussant
• Writing/Publishing-author of two recent, critically acclaimed books on organizational sustainability, and scores of published book chapters, peer-reviewed articles, original research studies, training/guidance documents, formal reports to the U.S. Congress, magazine articles, and other materials.
Clients
Corporate
• Bank of America
• PG&E
• M.A. Hanna
• Southwire
Federal
• U.S. Postal Service
• Environmental Protection Agency
• General Services Administration
• NASA
Industry/ Trade Associations
• Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries
• Council of Industrial Boiler Owners
• Direct Marketing Association
• Magazine Publishers of America
• American Petroleum Institute
Professional Associations
• National Association of Environmental Managers (NAEM)
• Boardsource
Corporate
• Bank of America
• PG&E
• M.A. Hanna
• Southwire
Federal
• U.S. Postal Service
• Environmental Protection Agency
• General Services Administration
• NASA
Industry/ Trade Associations
• Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries
• Council of Industrial Boiler Owners
• Direct Marketing Association
• Magazine Publishers of America
• American Petroleum Institute
Professional Associations
• National Association of Environmental Managers (NAEM)
• Boardsource