Conference Program

Speakers

Rob Abbott

Rob Abbott is a Certified Management Consultant and an internationally recognized authority on sustainability and its convergence with competitive strategy. His professional and academic work focuses on the ways sustainability influences value drivers and shapes strategy to create competitive advantage. He has written widely on this subject, and completed pioneering work globally.

Prior to forming ABBOTT STRATEGIES (www.abbottstrategies.com) in 1997, Rob spent over a decade helping many public, private, and not-for-profit organizations around the world improve their performance and reputation. His key appointments during this time were Director of Strategic Environmental Management Services for Golder Associates, one of the world's most respected consulting engineering firms (1995-97); and Principal-in-Charge of Environmental Services for Coopers & Lybrand, one of the world's largest and most respected business advisory firms (1990-95).

In addition to guiding his own firm, Rob is also a Founding Associate and Director of Strategy in the Centre for Innovation in Management (www.cim.sfu.ca) at Simon Fraser University (SFU), a Sessional Instructor in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at SFU, and a Founding Partner of MindStream™, a new company that harnesses the creativity and energy of employees and stakeholders and directs this toward creative destruction and business transformation.

The Centre for Innovation in Management (www.cim.sfu.ca) is a collaborative partnership between Simon Fraser University faculty, business leaders, researchers, facilitators, and social entrepreneurs. The Centre conducts research and provides advice and support in stakeholder relations; convenes multi-stakeholder conferences; designs sustainability measurement and reporting systems; and offers customized stakeholder relations education.

Bill Anderson

Bill Anderson has worked as director of the Resource Venture of the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce for the past 12 years. Each year the program helps hundreds of Seattle businesses implement sustainable business practices focusing in the areas of waste prevention and recycling, water conservation, stormwater pollution prevention and sustainable building. He was instrumental in the Chamber's recent establishment of a Business Sustainability Committee for its members. Prior to joining the Chamber, Anderson was the executive director of a nonprofit economic development organization in Moscow, Idaho. Before that, he managed economic development and employment training programs in Tacoma, Washington.

Matt Banks

Matt Banks works in World Wildlife Fund’s Climate Change Program on Private Sector Initiatives. He works with businesses and other stakeholders to build awareness and adoption of progressive corporate climate management strategies. Before joining WWF Matt worked for AtKisson, Inc., where he helped developed sustainability indicators for Nantucket Island, the city of Pittsburgh and the Trust for Pubic Land. Matt has also worked for the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) and was responsible for launching the greenhouse gas emissions inventory and local action planning process for the city of Boston.

Matt’s consulting experience at ERG included with clients on topics ranging from fuel cells, vehicle emissions testing, corporate energy efficiency, and emerging remediation technologies. In addition, he has worked for the Conservation Law Foundation, National Audubon Society, Maine State Planning Office and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He graduated from The Colorado College with a BA in Political Economy, a Minor in Environmental Issues and holds an MSc. In Environmental Science from Sweden’s Lund University International Masters Programme. In 2002 he received his certificate in Energy Planning and Sustainable Development at the University of Oslo.

Lynn Barker

Sustainability Strategist. Lynne Barker works for the City of Seattle’s Department of Planning and Development and is responsible for promoting sustainable building and sustainable community development. Lynne focuses on raising awareness of these issues internally and externally to market leaders. She identifies and resolves code barriers, and creates development incentives. Barker created her first job in sustainable building with Sellen Construction Company by developing and implementing Sellen’s Sustainable Building Program. Barker co-chaired the LEED™ Committee of the US Green Building Council, serves on the board of the US Green Building Council, and was a founding member of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council.

David Batker

David Batker directs the APEX Center for Applied Ecological Economics. An economist, he completed his graduate training in economics under Herman Daly, one of the world's most foremost ecological economists.

David has worked at the Centralia Coal Mine, the World Bank, and in non-profits in the United States and abroad. For the past seven years, he has co-directed the Asia Pacific Environmental Exchange (APEX). APEX applies ecological economics to address regional and internationalproblems in the areas of toxics, fisheries, forests, finance and trade. In July 2005, APEX will host the 2005 Conference of the United States Society for Ecological Economics in Tacoma, Washington.

In 2003, David was awarded the first Biennial Herman Daly Award for Ecological Economics by the United States Society for Ecological Economics for cutting-edge work in applying ecological economics. He is also known as a leading ecological economics educator.

Rob Bennett

Rob Bennett is manager of the Technical & Financial Services and Research & Policy groups of Portland, Oregon's Office of Sustainable Development, leading conservation program and policy development in the areas of energy conservation & renewables, green building, global warming reduction, and local food security. Rob established the City's Green Building program, G/Rated in 2000 and is currently developing an applied research & policy initiative to make the financial, political and ecological case for sustainable development and measurably advance sustainability goals in Portland.Rob has been active in community development and environmental planning for 10 years, including five with Portland's Office of Sustainable Development. Prior to coming to the City, he worked with a variety of public agencies and not-for-profit organizations. He sits on the board of the US Green Building Council's Cascadia Chapter.

Michael Braungart

Michael Braungart is founder of EPEA (Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency) and co-founder of MBDC, McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry in Charlottesville, Virginia. Dr. Braungart's work has been published in numerous journals on science, public affairs, design and environment in Europe and the US. In 1987, Professor Braungart founded the Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency, which creates products oriented toward a life-cycle economy and earned the Océ-van der Grinten Award in 1993. He also serves as Scientific Manager of the Hamburg Environmental Institute, the non-profit research center which produces the Top 50 Study -- ranking the quality of environmentally sound production of companies within the chemical industry.

Working in concert with designer William A. McDonough in their product design and development firm, Michael’s work addresses topics from particles to policy. He has initiated worldwide scholarly and scientific inquiry into the adverse environmental and physiological impacts of industrially produced consumer goods. In addition, Braungart's EPEA co-authored the Hannover Principles of Design: Design for Sustainability, which served as development guidelines for the World's Fair in Hannover, 2000. He currently concentrates his efforts at McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry and EPEA by working with major industrial producers, such as Nike, Monsanto and Interface on issues of materials assessment, waste and energy balances, life-cycle design, and designing for disassembly. Dr. Braungart is also active in designing new products, and along with William McDonough, was instrumental in the creation of the compostable fabric line Climatex®Lifecycle.

Anita M. Burke

Anita M. Burke is internationally recognized as a business leader in the area of organizational change and transformation. She is a frequent speaker on the topic of how to deliver change and profits by reducing/eliminating ecological and social footprints of existing hydrocarbon industrial infrastructures and new exploration. She has a proven track record in all aspects of the upstream and downstream portions of the oil business for delivering profitable technologies and organizational processes that deliver on the sustainable development and climate change strategic vision.

Ms. Burke worked for Shell Canada as a Senior Advisor – Sustainable Development and Climate Change. Her 18 years experience in the oil industry include: tool pusher North Slope of Alaska, offshore and onshore development permitting and social engagement, regional manager for environmental litigation and remediation for the retail services business, Project Director for Waste Management of the EXXON Valdez oil spill, refinery environmental and safety manager and recently as advisory to the Shell International Committee of Managing Directors on the opreationalisation of sustainable development and the energy portfolio implications of a carbon constrained future.

Her educational background in physics and environmental science bring a dynamic whole systems approach to problems of energy futures; one nested in Natural Capitalism and the basic underpinnings of nature as a model for systemic and profitable outcomes.

George Carellas

Mr. George Carellas is the Chief of Sustainability and Stewardship for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Environment, Safety, and Occupational Health). Mr. Carellas recently served as the DoD/Army Regional Environmental Coordinator for Region 4 from 1997-2003. Mr. Carellas graduated from Georgia Tech in 1971 with a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering degree. He served 6 years in the National Guard, taught high school for one year upon graduation from college; then worked as a production supervisor for a short time before entering the intern program with the Army.

Mr. Carellas worked in the Directorate of Logistics for five years and moved to HQs Forces Command (FORSCOM) in 1977, performing base closure and engineering functions. From 1984 to 1992, Mr. Carellas was the principle resource manager for the facilities and environmental accounts totaling over $1 billion annually and served as the Division Chief for all environmental, housing, resource management, and facilities engineering functions at the FORSCOM installations. From 1992-1997, Mr. Carellas served as the FORSCOM Environmental Chief.

Mr. Carellas is married to Michelynn (Mike) Carellas, who works for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Privatization and Partnerships) on the Residential Community Initiative. George and Mike have three children: Gina (31), Kara (28), and Mallory (17). In fact, Mr. Carellas considers one of his most monumental accomplishments is having successfully raised two daughters through the teenage years…one to go. Mr. Carellas has three granddaughters, and they know him affectionately as “Papa G”.Mr. Carellas is an avid sports fan, particularly following college football and basketball. Mr. Carellas enjoys playing softball, tennis, golf, and white water rafting; but his biggest pleasure over the last 20 years--outside of family life--has been coaching youth sports.

Tracy Casavant

Tracy Casavant, MES, P.Eng, Principal, Eco-Industrial Solutions Ltd. Tracy is one of the few consultants in North America with formal training in industrial ecology and eco-industrial networking (EIN). EIN involves building relationships between businesses, governments, and communities to more efficiently use resources like energy, water or land, or even municipal infrastructure.

Tracy holds a BASC in Chemical Engineering with Honours from the University of British Columbia, as well as a MES specializing in EIN from Dalhousie University. She is also a Director of the newly formed North American Eco-Industrial Development Council.

Along with its partners in the Eco-Industrial Group (Holland Barrs Planning Group, ERIN Consulting Ltd., Mark Jeffrey Consultants in Canada and e4 partners inc in the US), Eco-Industrial Solutions has worked on projects in Western Canada, Oregon, China, and Peru. These projects include the Maplewood Community Eco-Industrial Partnership Project in the District of North Vancouver, the design of the Hinton Eco-Industrial Park in Alberta, and an Eco-Industrial AuditTM at a major SaskTel facility.

Larry Chalfan

Mr. Chalfan is the Executive Director of the Zero Waste Alliance, a partnership of individuals, universities, businesses and government organizations dedicated to helping organizations become more competitive while they become more sustainable. It focuses on elimination of wastes of all kinds and supports the use of the tools of industrial ecology to work toward a cyclical industrial system without waste to nature. It provides management support, technical solutions and training and education. In addition, the ZWA is one of seven EPA designated Local Resource Centers (LRCs) in the country, to assist public agencies in the development o f environmental management systems.

He is a 30-year veteran of the semiconductor industry and previously was President and CEO of Oki Semiconductor Manufacturing, the first company in Oregon to achieve ISO 14001 certification for its environmental management system. To work toward sustainability, Oki added the System Conditions of the Natural Step to the ISO 14001 structure. He received MS and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State University. Current and past board service includes the Oregon State University college of Engineering and Bioengineering Advisory boards, The board of the Center for Watershed and Community Health and the Advisory Committee of the Oregon Natural Step Network. Mr. Chalfan has been a recipient of the Sustainable Oregon Award and was inducted into the OSU Engineering Hall of Fame.

Julie Colehour

Julie is an expert at developing strategy and managing complex accounts that span the spectrum of communications disciplines. With over 11 years in the marketing industry, her experience includes everything from marketing energy-efficient products and tourist attractions to launching packaged goods and products, national branding campaigns and issue marketing that transforms behavior. Under Julie’s guidance as co-president and principal, PRR’s marketing team has produced campaigns for issues as varied as health insurance enrollment and environmentally friendly lawn care that have garnered both regional and national awards and yielded significant results.

Her portfolio also includes projects demanding lower profile results, such as factory closures, where subtlety is of paramount importance. Julie’s skills enable PRR to successfully create solutions for a diverse collection of clients. Julie holds Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of Washington in marketing and environmental studies. She is co-author of The Environmental Marketing Imperative (Probus Publishing, 1994). Julie’s work has been recognized repeatedly over the years with various awards including four Silver Anvils from the Public Relations Society of America. She is a respected member of the communications profession and has given presentations to many industry groups including the American Marketing Association and the Washington State Recycling Association.

Dwight Collins

Dwight Collins, President of Colbridge & Company, provides consulting and training services in strategic planning, sustainable business, and green supply chain design & optimization. He also teaches Sustainable Operations Management at the Bainbridge Island Graduate Institute and at the Presidio World College. Dwight directs the Collins Family Foundation, which works to make our human presence on Earth sustainable. The Foundation organizes retreats and conferences and supports several nonprofits focused on sustainability. It is a cosponsor of this Seattle conference, Profitable Sustainability: The Future of Business.

Prior to founding Colbridge, Dwight consulted for several years in strategic planning and supply chain optimization for numerous companies in several industries including petroleum, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and carpet production. Major firms with whom he has worked include BP Chemicals, NOVA Chemicals, Borden Chemicals, Abbott Laboratories, IBM Microelectronics, LSI Logic, Cypress Semiconductor, Shaw Industries, and Rohm & Haas. Dwight earned a BS degree in Engineering Physics, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Operations Research, all from Cornell University.

Stampp Corbin

In 1997, Stampp Corbin founded RetroBox, the nation’s leading information technology disposal company specializing in the redeployment and recycling of personal computers, monitors, workstations, servers, networking equipment, and associated peripherals. RetroBox develops customized IT disposal plans for the largest companies in the U.S. RetroBox services reduce a company’s legal, financial, information security and environmental risk associated with IT disposal. RetroBox pioneered the information technology disposal industry, forging standards and services for the recycling and reuse of computing equipment.

Mr. Corbin also owns and is CEO of Resource One --one of the largest Central Ohio-based technology companies offering comprehensive technology lifecycle management services, including consulting, supply chain management, integration, deployment, infrastructure support and asset retirement.

Stampp Corbin has led the companies to achieve national recognition as leading providers of information technology services. RetroBox premiered at #115 on the Inc. 500 this past year, ranked as a top minority-owned business in Ohio by Diversity Business, was named #14 on the ICIC-Inc. Inner City 100, and for the second year in a row ranked in the top three of the fastest growing companies in Central Ohio by Business First.

Mr. Corbin’s serves on the Association of Ohio Recycler’s board; he is an appointed member of the Governor's Minority Business Council in Ohio; he was appointed as a National Advisor to the Small Business Administration during the Clinton Administration; and served on the National Board of Directors for the Human Rights Campaign 1996-2003.

Mr. Corbin graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics in 1982, and earned a Master's of Business Administration from Harvard University in 1986. From 1982 to 1987, Mr. Corbin performed as a top marketing representative with IBM. He has also held executive positions with Honeywell Bull.

Bob Cowen

Bob Cowan is currently; Manager of Facilities Engineering, at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He has served in this position for the last 5.5 years during which time he’s overseen an expansion program of 700,000 square feet which brought the Fred Hutch Campus to its current 1.3 million sq ft size. Also during this time his department has won energy conservation awards at the local, state and national levels, survived a 6.8 magnitude earthquake, a 100 year rain, numerous power and water outages, and more inspections than you can count: JAHCO, DOH, FDA, AAALAC, CAP the list goes on and on. The motto of the department is “World Class Research, World Class Facilities, World Class Facilities Engineering” and if you are ever in the area, please stop by so Bob can show you what he means. Bob has also has been appointed by the Mayor of Seattle to be on Seattle’s City Light’s Rate Advisitory Committee and he serves on the Seattle Chamber of Commerce Sustainability committee and on the South Lake Union Energy District study committee.

Prior to Joining Fred Hutch, Bob spent 22 years in the U. S. Navy, retiring as a Commander in the Civil Engineer Corps. A fantastic opportunity to “see the World” as Bob describes it. During his 22 years, he’s served as: the Commander of the Civic Action Teams, in Micronesia; on the staff of NATO, in Brussels Belgium; in charge of the Bachelor Housing program in Washington DC and with the Seabees in Cuba and Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean. Additionally Bob has served with Public Works Departments in Seattle WA, Seal Beach CA, San Diego CA, Philadelphia PA, and Gulfport MS.

Originally from Grosse Ile, Michigan (a small island between Michigan and Canada) Bob graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering and from the University of Florida with a Masters in Civil Engineering. Bob is married to the former Kristina Lindstam of Stockholm, Sweden and has three children Nicklas, 4, Clara, 3 and Hanna 1.

Charlie Cunniff

Mr. Cunniff has served as Executive Director of ECOSS, the Environmental Coalition of South Seattle since 1994. During that time, he and his staff have developed and implemented many environmental education programs for both residents and businesses. ECOSS works between and among the communities which represent business, residential, government and environmental interests. Over the last several years, he and his staff have developed the Environmental Extension Service (EES). The EES works with small and medium sized businesses on the issues of contaminated site cleanup, stormwater pollution prevention, alternatives to hazardous chemicals, energy and water conservation as well as neighborhood, political and infrastructure issues.

In addition to their Business Assistance programs, ECOSS operates a Multi-Cultural Household Hazardous Products Education Program. In this program, ECOSS staff work with people from a variety of cultures in their native languages. ECOSS staff members speak Amharic, Cambodian, Chinese, English, Spanish, Tigrinian and Vietnamese. ECOSS also works in the community on neighborhood planning, neighborhood building and salmon habitat restoration.Charlie Cunniff earned his Master’s Degree in Not-for-Profit Leadership from Seattle University and his Liberal Arts undergraduate from Boston College and Evergreen State College with a concentration in Energy and Environmental Systems.

For thirteen years Mr. Cunniff worked in the energy conservation consulting industry, deploying systems that included solar energy, heat recovery, energy management, heat pumps and radiant heat.

Oystein Dahle

Øystein Dahle is Chairman of the Touring Association of Norway. Mr. Dahle is also Chairman of the Norwegian branch of Worldwatch Institute, Worldwatch Institute Norden, chairs the Forum for Political Revitalization, and is a Professor at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo. As a former Executive Vice President for Esso Norway, he has extensive practical experience in the energy field that he brings to Worldwatch, along with an outstanding love and appreciation for the outdoors. Mr. Dahle is a graduate of the Norwegian University of Technology. He serves as Chairman of the Worldwatch Board of Directors.

Dianne Dillon-Ridgley

Dianne Dillon-Ridgley has served as a director of Green Mountain Energy Company since August 1999. Ms. Dillonridgley is currently the UN Representative in New York of the World YWCA ("World Young Women's Christian Association") which is based in Geneva, Switzerland. In April of 1999 she was appointed to the Oxford Commission on Sustainable Consumption located in the United Kingdom. Formerly the Acting Director of the Woman's Environment and Development Organization, Ms. Dillonridgley served this organization in various capacities starting in 1991, including Senior Policy Analyst from 1994 to 1998. While at WEDO, from 1994 through 1997, she was also president of Zero Population Growth, the nation's largest grassroots organization concerned with rapid population growth and the environment. In addition, she is a trustee of the Wallace Global Fund, a foundation committed to advancing sustainable development. She has served on President Clinton's Council on Sustainable Development since 1994 and is currently co-chair of the Council's International Task Force. Since 1997, she has been the Director of Interface Inc., a global manufacturer, marketer, installer and service provider of products for the commercial and institutional interiors markets.

Frank Dixon

Frank Dixon is a Managing Director at Innovest Strategic Value Advisors. As a leading thinker on addressing systemic barriers to sustainability, he developed the Total Corporate Responsibility methodology. TCR protects investors and society overall by engaging the financial and corporate sectors in working for system changes that hold firms more responsible. This approach makes sustainability the profit maximizing path. As head of research at Innovest, Frank oversees the sustainability analysis of over 2,000 firms around the world and helps financial sector clients develop high-performing socially-responsible investment products. His work also includes advising business and government on sustainability, system change and enhancing financial performance through increased corporate responsibility. Before Innovest, he worked as a management consultant in the energy and manufacturing sectors. Earlier he worked in the financial area, arranging debt and equity financing for major energy facilities and venture financing for early stage manufacturing companies. He has an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Alan Thein Durning

Executive Director and Founder, Northwest Environment WatchAlan Thein Durning is founder and executive director of Northwest Environment Watch (NEW), a Seattle-based research and communication center that monitors progress toward a sustainable economy and way of life in the Pacific Northwest and identifies key reforms for the region—many of which are market-based. An Oberlin College graduate, Durning spent eight years as a senior researcher at Worldwatch Institute prior to founding NEW. He has authored or coauthored numerous books and reports, including the award-winning volumes How Much is Enough? and This Place on Earth: Home and the Practice of Permanence. Most recently, Durning coauthored NEW’s Cascadia Scorecard: Seven Key Trends Shaping the Northwest, the first edition of NEW’s three-project to develop a regional index of progress. Durning lectures widely and lives with his wife and three children in Seattle. Most of NEW’s indicators data is online: www.northwestwatch.org.

Brent Erickson

Brent Erickson is Vice President in charge of the Industrial and Environmental Section at the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) in Washington, D.C. BIO is a biotechnology trade association with over 1000 members in all 50 states and 37 countries.

From 1978 until 1980 Mr. Erickson was involved in energy research at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Laramie Energy Technology Center. He served on the staff of United States Senator Alan K. Simpson (R-WY) as a legislative assistant handling energy, environment, and national defense issues. In 1993, Mr. Erickson became legislative director managing all legislative issues for the Senator Simpson who was then Assistant Majority Leader of the Senate.

In 1996, Mr. Erickson joined the American Petroleum Institute (API) as a Washington representative where he directed Congressional advocacy efforts on environmental and energy issues. In March of 2000, Mr. Erickson joined the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) and in January 2002 he was named Vice President for Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology. In May of 2001, he was elected vice-chair of the OECD Task Force on Biotechnology for Sustainable Industrial Development. He currently chairs the Bioenergy/Agriculture Working Group of the Energy Future Coalition. He also serves as a member of the board of the Western Research Institute, a non-profit research entity of the University of Wyoming Research Corporation.

Mr. Erickson holds a B.S. degree in Biology and an M.A. degree in International Studies from the University of Wyoming.

Gil Friend

Gil Friend, founder, president and CEO of Natural Logic, Inc., is a systems ecologist and business strategist with 30 years experience in business development and environmental innovation. Tomorrow Magazine called him "one of the country's leading environmental management consultants - a real expert who combines theoretical sophistication with hands-on, in-the-trenches know-how."

Mr. Friend combines broad business experience in management consulting, internet services, direct marketing, and television production with broad content experience in business strategy, systems ecology, economic development, management cybernetics, and public policy. "Nature's ecosystems have spent 3.85 billion years building efficient, complex, adaptive, resilient systems," he observes. "Why should companies reinvent the wheel, when the R&D has already been done?"

Mr. Friend has founded and managed companies in the fields of Internet, sustainable development and social marketing, and has developed management strategies and business, operating and marketing plans for large and small companies in a wide range of industries. He was a founding board member of internet pioneer Institute for Global Communications, and played key or founding roles in such seminal environmental enterprises as the California Office of Appropriate Technology, Turner Broadcasting's Planet Live, University of California's AgroEcology Program, and Buckminster Fuller's World Game.

Mr. Friend was co-founder and Co-Director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, one of the nation's leading urban ecology and economic development "think-and-do tanks," and CEO of The Arts of Peace, an early pioneer in television direct response marketing, and of SEND, Inc., a social marketing company, and principal in Gil Friend and Associates, a noted strategic environmental management consultancy. He holds an MS in Systems Ecology from Antioch University, a black belt in Aikido, and is a seasoned presenter of "The Natural Step" environmental management system.

Mr. Friend has written extensively on business, environment, and resource policy issues, and authors The New Bottom Line, an internationally distributed column offering strategic perspectives on business and environment, formerly distributed by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, now published by Natural Logic. He has lectured on business strategy and environmental policy at EnviroDesign, GLOBE 2002, the World Bank, Pacific Industrial Business Association, Nutek (Swedish Institute of Science and Industry), Sierra Business Council, Nike Training Center, National Restaurant Association, National Institute for Standards and Technology, Environment Canada (Canada's EPA), Instituto Technologico y Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Mexico), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oregon Solar Energy Association, and the "Systems Thinking in Action" Conference (partial list).

Mr. Friend has served as adjunct faculty to the Master of Arts in Business program at California Institute for Integral Studies, as visiting faculty at University of California at Santa Cruz, Goddard College, and University of Southern California, and has lectured at the business schools of Stanford University, and the Universities of California, Texas and Virginia.

He currently serves on the boards of directors of Natural Logic, Inc., the Sustainable Business Alliance, and on the advisory board of Future 500. He was technical advisor on industrial ecology to the California Museum of Science and Industry, served on the founding board of directors of Turner Broadcasting's Planet Live, Inc and of Internet pioneer Institute for Global Communications. He is a past board member of the International Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture, and Suntrain Transportation Development Corporation, and served on the City of Berkeley Environmental Commission, and the City of Oakland Sustainable Development Commission, and Advisory Board of the Corporation for Manufacturing Excellence.

Cate Gable

Senior Consultant, Director of Product Stewardship. Manages a number of Future 500 efforts, including conference planning for our 2004 Fall conference in Seattle, stakeholder engagement training, the Coca-Cola North America stakeholder engagement project, and the Western Electronics Product Stewardship Initiative (WEPSI). For WEPSI, Ms. Gable served as a lead facilitator exploring policy options for e-waste and electronics recycling in the eight western states, as well as a participant in the national organization (NEPSI) where she authored an EPA white paper on this subject. She is an experienced strategic planner and corporate trainer, with 20 years of wide-ranging experience administering programs, developing curricula, and delivering trainings at Citibank, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, the University of California, Berkeley, and a variety of other business, governmental, and not-for-profit institutions. She has authored a book on strategic planning and many articles in journals of corporate environmental management and social responsibility. She teaches a planning and sustainable business course at France's prestigious Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC).

Billy M. Glover

Director, Environmental Performance Strategy, Product Development, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group. Billy M. Glover is responsible for leading and integrating airplane environmental performance strategy across the Commercial Airplane Group. Airplane environmental performance includes such concerns as noise, emissions, cabin environment, design for environment and related issues.

Bill joined Boeing in January 1978, after graduating from Purdue University with a Masters of Science in Engineering from the school of Mechanical Engineering, specializing in engineering acoustics. He received his Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Engineering in 1976 from Purdue University.

Bill has held various engineering assignments involving 707, 727, 737, 747, 757, 767 and 777 airplanes, as well as product development, research programs, and government and commercial contracts. Bill has also had several assignments associated with government and industry relations.

Bill is an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics. He is Assistant Chair of the FAA Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee, Occupant Safety Issues Group. He is a member of the FAA RE&D subcommittee on Energy and Environment.

K.C. Golden

NW Climate Connections Project Director K.C. Golden is Policy Director for Climate Solutions, and directs the NW Climate Connections project. From 1999 to 2002, KC was a special assistant to the Mayor of Seattle for clean energy and climate protection initiatives. In that capacity he helped to engineer Seattle City Light's commitment to become the nation's first climate neutral electric power utility, and the City's commitment to exceed the goals of the Kyoto protocol. KC was formerly Assistant Director of Washington’s Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development, where he directed the Energy Division and the state’s energy policy office. From 1989 to 1995, he was Executive Director of the Northwest Energy Coalition, a regional alliance working for a clean, affordable energy future. He was a Kennedy Fellow at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he received a Masters degree in Public Policy.

Bert Gregory

Bert Gregory is President & CEO of Mithun, a Seattle-based architecture, design and planning firm and a national leader in resource sensitive and sustainable design. Mithun is probably best known for its design of the REI stores and IslandWood, the innovative outdoor learning center on Bainbridge Island. Bert served as design team leader for both of those projects. He is currently the design leader for Lloyd Crossing, a cutting-edge sustainable urban design plan for 35 blocks in Portland’s city center. Bert also lead the firm’s efforts to develop the City of Seattle’s Blue Ring City Center Open Space Plan, which is part of an urban design strategy to enhance Seattle’s downtown core, and the team that worked with the Urban Environmental Institute to put together the Resource Guide for Sustainable Development in an Urban Environment. Bert’s national impact in design leadership has been noted by the American Institute of Architects, IIDA, and CoreNet Global, which honored the firm with the 2003 Sustainable Design Leadership Award. He is a recognized expert in resource efficient design and speaks frequently around the country on sustainable building and design.

Wayne Grotheer

Wayne joined the Port in 2001 and is the Manager of Health Environmental and Risk Services. Prior to joining the Port, he had over 20 years of environmental management experience in the federal government and in the chemical industry. He has also held senior management positions in the high technology industry and has advanced degrees in engineering and business.

Kevin Hagen

Kevin Hagen is principal of Shuksan Energy Consulting, a leading advisor to business for sustainable energy and green power procurement strategy. Over a 20 year career with Fortune 500 companies to successful entrepreneurial organizations in the US and Europe, Mr. Hagen has held leadership roles in Product Development, Marketing, Sales and Business Strategy. He served as Director of Sales and Marketing for Distributed Generation Markets with Xantrex Technology and Director of Business Development with its predecessor entity Trace Engineering, the leading supplier of power electronics and controls for the Renewable Energy industry.

He has been recognized for innovation on both the supply and procurement side of the RE industry and was a founding participant in the EPA’s Green Power Partnership Program. He is a frequent speaker, author and advocate for Renewable Energy and sustainable business practices. Mr. Hagen received his BS from Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY with a background in both Engineering and Business and is currently enrolled in the Bainbridge Graduate Institute’s MBA in Sustainable Business.AffiliationsAdvisor, Northwest Sustainable Energy for Economic Development (NWSEED), Seattle, WAPast member of the Board, American Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA), Washington DC

Debra Hall

Debra Hall serves as the Director of Accountability Programs, coordinating the reporting and stakeholder engagement program involving the 70+ Ceres endorser companies and the Ceres coalition of 80+ environmental and investor groups. She manages a number of coalition-endorser dialogues, the Ceres-ACCA reporting awards program and program development for the Ceres Annual Conference. Before joining CERES in 1999, Ms. Hall was a regional manager for Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) and led the BSR environmental team's green product design and green building design programs, and worked with nearly 100 companies throughout the US and Asia to develop and implement more sustainable business practices. In the 1990¹s, Ms. Hall served as project manager for master planning and environmental review for the $2 billion modernization of Logan Airport in Boston, and as an economic development advisor to Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. She has a Master's Degree in City and Regional Planning from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Williams College.

Hamilton Hazlehurst

Development ManagerAs Development Manager, Hamilton Hazlehurst is responsible for managing Vulcan's interests in a variety of commercial, residential, biotechnology and mixed-use projects currently under development in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood.

During his 20-year real estate career, Hazlehurst has developed more than two million square feet of office properties. Before joining Vulcan in 2001, Hazlehurst worked at Seattle's Wright Runstad & Co. from 1984-2001. Among his many accomplishments, he served as the project development manager for several high-profile developments including Seattle's World Trade Center, Microsoft's World Headquarters and Dearborn @ 5/90.

Hazlehurst also served as a project architect from 1983-84 at Curtis Beattie & Associates in Seattle. He holds a master's degree in architecture from Rice University Graduate School of Architecture and a B.A. in art history from Princeton University (Magna Cum Laude).

Carsten Henningsen

Considered a pioneer in the field of socially and environmentally responsible investing, Carsten founded Progressive in 1982 as the first investment management company in the Pacific Northwest specializing in the field. He co-founded Portfolio 21, Progressive's global mutual fund committed to investing in companies that incorporate environmental sustainability into their business strategies. He is a graduate of Stichting Nijenrode, The Netherlands School of Business and the University of Puget Sound. Carsten has served on the national board of directors of The Social Investment Forum, 1000 Friends of Oregon Foundation; ARABLE: the Association for Rural Agriculture Building the Local Economy; the Ecotrust Council; the City of Portland Sustainable Industries Committee; the financial advisory Committee of NCAP: Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides; and the development committee of the McKenzie River Gathering Foundation.

Carsten testified for Oregon's Anti-Apartheid Bill which passed in 1987 and recently worked on tobacco divestment legislation.

Today, socially and environmentally responsible investing is the fastest growing segment of the financial services industry. More than $2.1 trillion is invested using social or environmental screens. One of the primary reasons for this astounding growth is the competitive financial performance from screened investments along with growing public awareness of the link between responsible business and a viable future.

The classic response of business has been to view environmental initiatives as harmful to the economy and the bottom line. However, a growing number of corporate leaders disagree. Corporations are now beginning to apply sustainability principles in their business strategies. These visionary corporations recognize the environmental crisis and see sustainable business practices as a competitive advantage.

Corporations must take a central role in creating a sustainable economy that does not undermine the productive capacity of nature. Many companies now recognize the enormous business opportunity in providing products, services and technologies that are needed to create a sustainable society. These companies are developing cleaner energy sources, resource efficient production methods, products that are designed to be reused and rebuilt, raw materials that are benign, and processes that produce little or no waste. These companies are shaping a new economy that supports a healthy human balance with nature.

As investors, we can choose to divest from companies that are contributing to our environmental crisis and support companies that are working toward a sustainable future. I invite you to join the millions of investors who are bringing their values and their investments together.

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Aileen Ichikawa

Director of CAP Gap Audit and CAP Alliance
Ms. Ichikawa directs the development of the CAP Gap Audit software to simplify stakeholder performance measurement and reporting. She is responsible for product development, design, inventorying and validating the criteria that make up the leading global standards of corporate ethics, accountability, responsibility, and sustainability. Ms. Ichikawa directs the strategic alliance known as the CAP Partner Alliance, consisting of world-class service providers in the area of corporate accountability and sustainability. The alliance has a global reach in over 30 countries with a combined force of 7,000 professional consultants. She has twenty years of experience in the technology sector, serving in systems engineering, technology marketing, channel management, country management, business development, strategic alliances at IBM, Motorola, and Rolm, in both the domestic as well as international arena.

Emma Johnson

Emma Johnson serves the northwest region’s Solid Waste and Financial Assistance Program at the Washington State Department of Ecology as a Sustainability Specialist. Johnson administers grants of local waste reduction and recycling projects, moderates risk waste reduction and technical assistance, coordinates product stewardship, composting, and sustainable practices at the northwest regional office, and serves as technical assistance for business applications with the Technical Resources for Engineering Efficiency (TREE) team. Prior to working at Ecology, Johnson completed her Bachelor’s of Arts in “Politics, Development, and the Environment” at Huxley College of Western Washington University.

Tachi Kiuchi

Chairman of the Future 500. Tachi Kiuchi is one of Japan's most iconoclastic corporate executives. As Chairman and CEO of Mitsubishi Electric America, he built the Mitsubishi Electric brand in the U.S., and managed the company's transition from the old to the new economy. As Managing Director of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, he broke with Japanese corporate norms to champion a "living systems" approach to business that included rapid adaptation, financial transparency, openness, cultural diversity, executive positions for women, and environmental sustainability. He even forged a bold agreement with Rainforest Action Network (RAN) to promote corporate sustainability.

Today, as Chairman of the Future 500, and CEO of Tokyo-based E-Square, Kiuchi informs and inspires business leaders all over the world, and develops profitable and sustainable business practices at computer, electronics, automobile, and other companies.

Kiuchi is a popular keynote speaker at major global conferences on business, the environment, and Japanese-U.S. relations. In his spare time, Kiuchi skydives, runs marathons, climbs Mount Fuji, rides his bicycle to Future 500 headquarters in downtown Tokyo, and does 1600 push-ups a day.

Ken Larson

Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, Hewlett-Packard CompanyKen Larson is the Corporate Social Responsibility Manager for Hewlett- Packard Company. Based at HP's Roseville, California site, Larson is responsible for ensuring that HP’s business practices add to shareowner value as well as appropriate, desired social value and environmental sustainability for customers, employees, partners and communities around the world.

He works with external stakeholders to understand the emerging standards and expectations of corporations in the area of global citizenship and engages with groups, public/ private/ industry based, to communicate HP’s positions and contribute to the discussion in today’s fast changing environment.He also works closely with teams throughout HP that are involved in developing and implementing the various policies, programs and activities that make up our overall global citizenship engagement. Larson has had a number of key positions in HP in his 20 plus year career, including California Public Affairs manager, and a variety of roles in human relations, including education, staffing and employee relations.

Larson has a Master’s of Public Administration from UCLA and a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Affairs from Occidental College. He completed a year of graduate study in social welfare at the University of Stockholm, Sweden.HP (NYSE:HPQ) is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing. For the fiscal year ending on Oct. 31, 2003, HP revenue totaled $73.1 billion. More information about HP is available here.

Gary Lawrence

Gary is a nationally, and internationally, recognized expert in sustainable development. He has over 20 years of experience assisting public sector, private sector and NGO organizations with research, analysis and strategic planning toward the integration of sustainable development concepts in urban & regeneration planning, strategic planning, organizational development and evaluation. In addition to project work, Gary is frequently an invited speaker and lecturer throughout North and South America, and Europe on topics related to sustainable development and urban planning.

He was honored to serve as a member of the US Delegation to Habitat II, as Senior Policy Advisor to the Global Environment Center for US Agency for International Development and as Scientist-in-Residence at the University of Essen, Germany.He serves on the Leadership Committee for the US Smart Growth Network, the Advisory Committee for the UN Center for Urban Settlement's Best Practices Center, Advisory Committee for the Center for Small Business and the Environment and other organizations. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Huxley College of Environmental Studies at Western Washington University.

Profession: Sustainability Consultant Qualifications: MA, Public Administration, University of Georgia; BA, Philosophy, Central Washington State College
Professional Associations: Senior Policy Advisor, Global Environment Center for the US Agency for International Development; Advisory Committee, UN Center for Urban Settlement's Best Practices Center; Member, Advisory Committee for the Center for Innovation & the Environment, Washington DC; Member, Steering Committee for Meeting America’s Housing Needs, Washington DC; Member, Steering Committee for Smart Growth Network, Washington DC; Member, National Summit Planning Committee for the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, Washington DC

Valerie Lee

Ms. Valerie Ann Lee is co-founder and president of Environment International Ltd. (EI), a Seattle-based environmental consulting firm comprised of an interdisciplinary team of scientists, policy analysts, attorneys and engineers. Since EI’s inception in 1994, the team has been developing innovative, practical and cost-effective strategies for environmental management and sustainable development for a variety of business and government clients.

Ms. Lee has 20 years of combined experience as an environmental engineer, attorney and facilitator/mediator. She has worked on a wide range of environmental management and sustainable land use issues, helping businesses and governments achieve win-win situations for economies and the environment by designing and implementing environmental management systems (EMSs), overseeing community brownfields redevelopment projects, facilitating group strategic planning processes and providing regulatory compliance and environmental policy advice to many different organizations in the United States and abroad.

Before becoming a consultant, Ms. Lee spent six years as a Trial Attorney with the US Department of Justice, where she worked on high-profile cases involving natural resource damages, hazardous wastes, water pollution and air pollution. She is a nationally recognized expert on natural resource damage assessments (NRDA) and has recently written a comprehensive reference deskbook on the subject titled Natural Resource Damage Assessment Deskbook: A Legal and Technical Analysis, published by the Environmental Law Institute. In recognition of her expertise, Ms. Lee was appointed as a member of the Technical Resource Group for the Governor’s Sustainable Washington Advisory Panel through which she assisted in the development of a toolbox for sustainability. As a former vice-chair of the American Bar Association Committee on Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Ms. Lee conducted an annual summary of national progress in sustainability.

Ms. Lee received a master’s degree in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her law degree from the Yale Law School. She is a member of the State of Washington Bar, the District of Columbia Bar, and the Bar of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Michelle Long

Ms. Long is the Executive Director of Sustainable Connections, a NW WA business network comprised of more than 300 locally owned business and farms, committed to collaboration, buying local first, a healthy environment, and a strong community. She also commits 20% of her time to educating other communities about sustainable economic development through workshops and trainings. Michelle Long has founded and run several businesses and organizations that focus on supporting mission-driven small and medium sized business, including coordinating the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies in its first two years of operation, and co-founding Viatru (aka World2Market).

Her organization’s work has been featured in places such as CNN, USA Today, the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, Orion, In Business, and Grist. She is a regular speaker about local living economies and sustainable economic development, and gives workshops on creating Think Local First campaigns, running successful grassroots non-profit organizations, and forming local business networks. Ms. Long lives with her husband and colleague, Derek Long, in their log home in the Mt Baker foothills of Washington State.

Hunter Lovins

L. Hunter Lovins, Esq., is a founder of Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) and co-creator of the Natural Capitalism concept. In 1982 she co-founded RMI with Amory Lovins, and proceeded to lead that organization as its CEO for Strategy until 2002. Under her leadership, RMI grew into an internationally recognized research center, widely celebrated for its innovative thinking in energy and resource issues. By the time she left, the institute had grown to a staff of 50 people and a $7 million annual budget, half of it earned through programmatic enterprise.

In 2001, Hunter was named one of four people from North America to serve as a delegate to the United Nations Prep Conference for Europe and North America for the World Summit on Sustainable Development. She is also a Commissioner in the State of the World Forum's Commission on Globalization, co-chaired by Mikhail Gorbachev, Jane Goodall, Jose Ramos-Horta, Vandana Shiva, George Soros and others.

Lovins has co-authored nine books and dozens of papers, and was featured in the award-winning film, Lovins On the Soft Path. Her latest book, Natural Capitalism, co-authored with Amory Lovins and business author Paul Hawken, was released in September 1999. It has been translated into a dozen languages and was the subject of a Harvard Business Review summary. Recent articles by her have appeared in World Link, World Business Academy Review, American Prospect, and Los Angeles Times.

Trained as a lawyer (JD, Loyola University School of Law, Los Angeles), Lovins has managed international non-profits, created several corporations, and is in great demand as a speaker and consultant. Her areas of interest and expertise include Natural Capitalism, globalization, governance, land management, energy, water, green real-estate development, and community economic development. She has taught at dozens of universities, including an engagement as the Henry R. Luce Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College.

Joel Makower

Joel Makower is a leading voice on business, the environment, and the bottom line. A bestselling author of more than a dozen books, he is co-founder of Clean Edge, a pioneering firm that is helping to build companies and markets for clean energy, clean transportation, clean materials, and other leading technologies. Joel is also editor of The Green Business Letter, an acclaimed monthly newsletter on corporate environmental practices, and founder of GreenBiz.com, the leading Web site on business and the environment.

Joel speaks to business leaders about the potential of clean technology to address business and society needs in both the developed and developing world -- and to generate huge profits for both innovators and investors. The new clean-tech era, he maintains, is represented by a diverse and disperse corps of companies, from start-ups to multinational giants, with support from forward-thinking investors, researchers, politicians, and customers.

Joel also counsels mainstream companies on how to integrate environmental thinking into their operations in a way that aligns environmental responsibility with business success. Being environmentally responsible, he says, is about growing productivity and profits and ensuring companies stay competitive in an age of growing expectations by stakeholders. It's about creating value in its myriad forms -- increased sales, decreased costs, new product innovation, increased ability to attract and retain employees, new market development, reduced risk, and improved reputation.

Joel's messages are upbeat, empowering, and focused squarely on the bottom line. Topics and Themes: Putting clean technology to work for your business and the world Emerging clean-tech opportunities for investors and innovators,The profits and pitfalls of environmentally responsible business practices.

Dr. Brian and Mary Nattrass

Dr. Brian and Mary Nattrass are Managing Partners of Sustainability Partners, Inc., an international consultancy focused on the strategy and implementation of sustainable business practices and values-driven innovation.

They act as sustainability advisors to many leading organizations, both public and private, including Fortune 500 companies, NASA, and the U.S. military. Brian and Mary are coauthors of three books on the theory and practice of corporate responsibility and sustainability. Their most recent book, DANCING WITH THE TIGER—Learning Sustainability Step by Natural Step (2002), focuses on the dynamics of values-driven innovation, organizational transformation, and the integration of more sustainable business practices.

Their second book, COMMUNITY SUSTAINABILITY TOOLKIT (2001), is a manual for community sustainable development. Their first book together, THE NATURAL STEP FOR BUSINESS—Wealth, Ecology and the Evolutionary Corporation (1999), has become an international sustainability bestseller, and is used by businesses, universities, and government agencies around the world. Both Brian and Mary are Batten Fellows of the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia, where they are conducting research for their next book.

Nik Blosser

Nik Blosser serves as President of Celilo Group Media, Inc. Celilo Group Media is a publishing and marketing consulting firm focused on expanding markets for sustainable products. The company has a staff of 14 and offices in Portland, Seattle and St. Paul, Minnesota. The company's primary publications are Chinook Book: The Coupon Book for Healthy Living and the Northwest business publication Sustainable Industries Journal. Nik has run the company since inception in April 1999 and has broad management and political experience in the business, government and non-profit sectors.

Previous work experience included managing major political campaigns in Oregon and a marketing and government affairs consulting practice, with clients that included Portland General Electric, Seattle City Light, Puget Sound Energy, Liberty Northwest Insurance and the Portland Development Commission. He is a co-founder of the Oregon Business Association, Board Chair of Sokol Blosser Winery in Dundee, Ore., a board member of the Hanna Andersson Children's Foundation, and was appointed by the Governor to serve on the Oregon State Parks and Recreation Commission. He received a bachelor of arts and sciences degree in aeronautical engineering and English from Stanford University in 1993.

Michael J. Phillips

Chairman, Russell Investment Group. Graduated with honors in law from University College, London, 1977. AIIMR, London Society of Investment Analysts, 1977.

Michael J. Phillips is chairman of Russell Investment Group, global leaders in multi-manager investing. He served as chief executive officer from 1993 to 2003. He is a board member of Frank Russell Company, Frank Russell Investment Company, Frank Russell Trust Company, and Frank Russell Company Limited (London).

In 1981, Mike joined Russell in the London office and became the managing director in 1983. There, he helped build a European presence for Russell. In 1986, Phillips moved to company headquarters in Tacoma, Washington, USA, to serve as director of international consulting. In that capacity, he led Russell's efforts to establish offices in Toronto, Sydney and Tokyo.

Mike became president of Russell in 1990.
Before joining Russell, from 1971-1981, Mike was an investment analyst and a portfolio manager at Barclays Investment Management Ltd. in London, where he was responsible for managing internationally diversified pension fund assets. Mike also taught investment courses at City of London Polytechnic School of Business Studies.

Under Mike's leadership, in 1994, 1996 and 1998, Russell was awarded Washington CEO magazine's "Best Companies to Work For" in Washington State. In 2001, Russell was ranked number 11 on Fortune magazines "100 Best Companies to Work For in America".

Entering its fourth decade of pioneering a new approach to managing money, Russell manages approximately $95 billion for both institutional and individual investors. Russell created and now maintains the widely used Russell Indices, including the Russell 2000® index.

Mike graduated with honors in law from University College, London in 1970; becoming a Fellow in 2002. He spent a year on Voluntary Service Overseas in South Africa before attending university. He has participated in several advanced management programs including the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts Investment Management (ICFA) Workshop at Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Advanced Management Program on Strategic Planning, and IBM's Advanced Management Program. He currently has the UKSIP designation and is a NASD registered representative.

Mike is a board member of the Tacoma Youth Chorus, a board member of the Harold LeMay museum, and on the advisory board of the University of Washington Tacoma.

Gifford Pinchot

Co-founder, Chairman, Bainbridge Graduate Institute. Director, Center for Business Ecology. In early 2002, Elizabeth and Gifford Pinchot and Dr. Sherman Severin founded The Bainbridge Graduate InstituteI to help people with global values become good at business. Combining their collective expertise in business innovation and business education, they designed BGI to offer world-class sustainable innovation and management training.

Gifford Pinchot is an author, speaker, and consultant on innovation management. His best-selling book published worldwide in 15 languages, Intrapreneuring: Why You Don't Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur (Harper & Row, 1985), defined the ground rules for an emerging field of enterprise: the courageous pursuit of new ideas in established organizations. The word intrapreneur, coined by him to describe the intra-corporate entrepreneur, has been included in the American Heritage Dictionary and Webster¹s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary.

In his second book, The End of Bureaucracy and the Rise of the Intelligent Organization (Berrett-Koehler, 1994), written with Elizabeth Pinchot, Gifford broadened his vision to include a revolutionary way of organizing all work from the most innovative to the most mundane. In 1999 Berrett-Koehler released his third book, Intrapreneuring in Action: A Handbook for Business Innovation.

Pinchot & Company, the firm he leads, helps companies to reduce bureaucratic obstacles, and to design and implement more effective and sustainable business practices. Pinchot & Company audits and helps improve the environment for innovation, trains intrapreneurial teams to succeed, helps managers to be better sponsors of innovation, facilitates strategic and business planning meetings, and designs reward systems more favorable to innovation and wise long-term management. Its client list includes many of the largest and best-run firms in the United States. . Building on the conservationist heritage of his family, Mr. Pinchot devotes one-third of his time to facilitating groups addressing environmental issues.

Mr. Pinchot graduated with honors from Harvard University with an AB degree in economics, he then studied neurophysiology at Johns Hopkins University.

Elizabeth Pinchot

Co-founder, Dean of Faculty and Students, Bainbridge Graduate Institute. For the last 15 years, as co-founder and president of Pinchot & Company, an innovation consulting and training company, Mrs. Pinchot has taught senior executives in large organizations in leadership development and intrapreneurship programs, and entrepreneurs in startups, ranging from high-tech to social service companies. She has advised the executive directors and senior staff of many non-profit organizations.

In her early career she was senior curriculum developer for the first computer-assisted education project at Stanford University, a joint venture of IBM and Stanford University. Later she was awarded a two-year full fellowship from the federal agency, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and received a Master¹s degree in Education from the University of Oregon.

She was founding director for the University of Oregon Day Care Center in Eugene, Oregon, also supervising the many college students who worked there for credit. Subsequently, she was an Instructor in Child Development for three years at Lane Community College, while also holding the director position of the LCC Laboratory School, a Head Start teacher-training program.

For eight years Mrs. Pinchot chaired the board of a model progressive school that doubled in size and solvency, and also chaired a start-up environmental education facility towards a significant founding grant. In earlier years she was a staff clinician in an outpatient clinic delivering psychological services to individuals, groups, and families.

She has written numerous articles on management, business ethics, and business ecology for Executive Excellence and other publications. These have included Balancing the Power, Can We Afford Ethics, and Waste Not, Want Not: Industrial Ecology as a fruitful area for quality and participation. In 1994 she published (with co-author Gifford Pinchot) the book, End of Bureaucracy and the Rise of the Intelligent Organization (Berrett-Koehler.) She has published chapters in several books, including Integrity at Work (Executive Excellence, 1998), Coaching for Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 2000) and the forthcoming Leadership as Partnership.

Mrs. Pinchot attended Wellesley College and graduated from Stanford University in philosophy and psychology. She received an MS from the University of Oregon in education and child development, and another MS from Goddard College specializing in organization and developmental psychology.

Andrea Ramage

Ms. Ramage works for CH2M HILL, a global project delivery company. The firm provides a range of services to private industry and public-sector clients. Its principal markets are in the fields of security, telecommunications, environment, facility services, federal and military facilities management, industry and manufacturing, nuclear services, power and energy, transportation and water and wastewater.

Ms. Ramage leads two sustainable business programs for CH2M HILL:In 2000, she initiated the Corporate Environmental Performance program, which seeks to reduce the company’s environmental “footprint” through a variety of projects. These includes improvements in supply chain management, waste reduction & recycling, commuting and business travel, and energy and emissions. Strategic activities of the program include promoting the company’s signing on to the UN Global Compact in November 2003 and publication of a Sustainability Report in 2004.

Second, Ms. Ramage just recently took on the leadership of the CH2M HILL’s National Sustainable Development Program. In this role, she is responsible for expanding the firm’s capabilities with respect to sustainable solutions, fostering the development of new tools and resources for sustainable problem-solving, and assisting with business development and client work.

Christopher Ratcliff

Christopher P Ratcliff AIA NCARB serves as Principal of Ratcliff, for Ratcliff Architecture. Mr. Ratcliff carries on a three-generation family tradition in the practice of architecture and is president of the firm his grandfather founded in 1906. He has directed numerous projects for healthcare, institutional, and academic clients, focusing on the design of groups of buildings in campus-like settings. He takes pride in creating a sense of place and in offering creative and sustainable design solutions to the built environment.

Callie A. Ridolfi, P.E.

Callie is the founder and president of Ridolfi Inc., an environmental engineering and consulting firm concerned with sustainable design, waste management, water resources, and habitat restoration. Honored to be ACEC Washington 2003 Engineer of the Year, she has managed oversight of waste management activities on behalf of EPA Region 10, supported NOAA on Commencement Bay cleanup and restoration, and has worked with dozens of Tribes in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Callie obtained a M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Washington and a B.S. in Mining Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, and is currently studying at Bainbridge Graduate Institute.

Walt Roberts

Walt is a board member of the Performance Center and a partner of Transformation Systems, International LLC. Walt has extensive experience working with groups, institutions and communities that are exploring new ways of working and learning together in order to generate more of the results they truly want.

Walt offers innovative approaches and tools to the design and facilitation of forums, conferences and generative group processes. Walt’s work is based on the observation that the quality of our thinking and interactions is, for the most part, what determines the quality of the results we can produce. At the same time many of our more complex and important challenges require a systems approach, purposeful inquiry, and a collaborative effort between stakeholders whom often have very diverse perspectives. How can we convene forums where larger groups of people can effectively engage in higher quality conversations? Exploring this question is at the heart of Walt’s work.

As a pioneer in the application of real time electronic polling during face-to-face meetings, Walt has advanced the state of the art of highly interactive group processes. He successfully combines his solid facilitation skills and the immediate group feedback technology with other innovative approaches to group work and learning that include appreciative inquiry, future search, open space, National Issues Forum, dialogue and participative design.

Walt brings his unique blend of design, facilitation, technology and approach to group processes such as strategic assessment, think tanks, focus groups, brainstorming, visioning, team building, prioritizing, strategic planning, consensus building, decision making, multi-stakeholder alignment, action planning and mobilization initiatives. For example, Walt was key designer in the Complete Communities for Clackamas County Project.

This project sought to engage as many citizens as possible in defining the most important quality of life issues to be addressed and to identify the common and unique values across local communities. This comprehensive 18-month initiative won the 2002 National Public Education Award from the American Planning Association. Thousands of residents participated, and the program is considered a model in community planning.

Walt directs his energies to projects that cover a wide variety of subjects and issues such as The Natural Step, corporate and social responsibility, education reform, tax reform, sustainable fisheries, affordable housing, innovative ideas for public policy, transportation/land use/urban growth, community building and sustainable practices in the coffee industry to name a few. Walt lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Tammy. He is an avid wind-surfer and adventurer. He loves sailing, rafting, hiking, climbing and camping. His spirit is that of an explorer.

Jean Rogers

Jean has over 15 years experience in management consulting and environmental engineering for multinational clients throughout the US and Europe. Dr. Rogers works with clients to improve the performance of their organization, facilities, and projects by improving their sustainability profile. Her expertise includes strategic planning; technical, economic and environmental evaluation of products and facilities; materials and process optimization; and risk management. Social equity, minimization of environmental impacts and economic viability of projects is at the heart of improving triple bottom line performance. Jean’s emphasis is on integration of more sustainable practices into design and operations, cross-fertilizing innovative ideas across the industries she works in. Through establishing relevant indicators and metrics, she links sustainability assessment and reporting with tangible long-term benefits thereby maximizing return on investment. Jean has advised the Global Reporting Initiative, a division of the United Nations Environmental Programme, on development of sustainability indicators for corporations. She has conducted life cycle analysis and developed road maps for sustainable products and facilities. She has proven ability to enhance competitive advantage for a wide variety of clients, including manufacturing, high tech, consumer products, and cultural organizations. She applies her strong combination of business strategy, design skills and environmental engineering to development and implementation of more sustainable practices for clients worldwide.

Jean was recently awarded a post-doctoral Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 1997-1998 where she conducted research and taught in sustainable design. She has also been an exchange scholar to Russia under a USAID technology transfer program, 1994. Currently, she is providing sustainability consulting to clients such as the California Academy of Sciences, the International Museum of Women, Deutsche Bank and the NYC 2012 Olympic Committee to infuse sustainable practices into their organizations, operations, programs, and facilities.

Rita Schenck

Executive Director, IERE - Institute for Environmental Research and Education. IERE is a nonprofit organization that supports environmental decision-making based on factual information. We obtain and help others obtain the knowledge and skills they need to make better environmental decisions. IERE has offices in Washington State and in Iowa.

Rita Schenck, Executive Director of IERE, holds a doctorate in oceanography (concentrating on ecotoxicology and biogeochemistry) and many years experience in industry, managing environmental programs. Rita represents the US in negotiating life cycle standards under the ISO 14000 standards (Environmental Management Systems). She is also a consultant to the US EPA Science Advisory Board. Rita has been working developing the Agricultural EMS Program, and doing research on Biodiversity/Land Use indicators.

Sara Severn

Director, Sustainable Development, Nike Inc., USA. Sarah was born and educated in England and gained a degree in psychology and biological science. For fifteen years she pursued a career in market research and advertising, but became increasingly interested in environmental issues and the role of business in responding to consumer concerns. In 1993 Sarah joined Nike European Headquarters to establish their Consumer Insights department. As a strong advocate for business and the environment she was invited to take on a newly formed role as European Manager for the Nike Environmental Action Team (NEAT) in late 1994. In May of ’95, she relocated to World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon as Global Director of NEAT. The department became part of Nike’s Corporate Responsibility division when that was established in 1998.

Under Sarah’s guidance, Nike developed corporate policies and programs encompassing a range of environmental areas including organic cotton, PVC phase out, climate change and forest products. NEAT introduced environmental management systems into Nike owned and subcontracted footwear manufacturing operations which have subsequently been expanded to incorporate health, safety and labor aspects of manufacturing. The group also initiated programs related to product design and materials usage. In 1999 sustainability teams were established in the footwear and apparel business units and the work has expanded substantially. In that same year, NEAT launched a major sustainability learning initiative with a cross-functional group of managers to further stimulate the integration of sustainability into all business practices.

In June 2000 Sarah took on a new role as Director of Sustainable Development. In this role she focuses primarily on stakeholder engagement, the continued integration of sustainability into the business, product stewardship, corporate sustainability initiatives and corporate reporting. Sarah serves on the steering committee of the Oregon Natural Step network, the Board of Directors of the Natural Step U.S, and the Advisory Board of Sustainable Northwest.

Bill Shireman

President and CEO of the Future 500. Called a "master of environmental entrepreneurism," Mr. Shireman has over 20 years of experience developing and implementing programs that align the interests of major corporations and their stakeholders. Shireman develops profitable business strategies that drive pollution down and profits up. As President and CEO of the Future 500, Shireman helps the world's largest companies and most impassioned activists - from Coca-Cola, General Motors, Nike, Mitsubishi, and Weyerhaeuser, to Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network, and the Sierra Club - work together to improve the profits and performance of business.

Advocating technology as a driver of green growth, Shireman has led the development and deployment of these and other tools, at diverse companies in Asia, Europe, and throughout North America. While CEO of the largest state recycling lobby in the U.S., he wrote California's bottle bill recycling law, shown by EPA and academic studies to be the world's most cost-effective. He advocates market-based environmental policies - contending they can be more effective than many command-and-control laws.

Most recently, with former Mitsubishi CEO Tachi Kiuchi, Shireman wrote the popular book, What We Learned In The Rainforest - Business Lessons from Nature, featured in the Harvard Business Review, which declares the business-as-machine era over, and shows how companies can become as innovative as the rainforest, leveraging feedback to grow more profitable and sustainable than ever.

Dennis Stiles

Mr. Stiles is directing a strategic development initiative in Bio-Based Products. The intent of this initiative is to establish Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as the leading institution for providing technology to convert biomass to chemicals, as well as to create recognized leadership in specialized chemical and biological science niches relevant to economically attractive biomass conversion within the “bio-refinery.” His responsibilities include directing research investments in biological and chemical process development, coordinating interactions with US government agencies and private partners, facilitating project and product development, and identifying products for commercial development.

Mr. Stiles has been with PNNL for 15 years, applying operations research, mathematical modeling, and similar systems analysis techniques to projects involving new process operations, system designs, operating plans, or management strategies that must optimize multiple performance measures such as cost-effectiveness, operating efficiency, and human performance. Much of this work has also resulted in setting requirements for new technology, or guiding development of advanced processes, devices, and software. His previous program management assignments at PNNL have involved environmental remediation, transportation/storage/treatment of highly hazardous materials, and design of new manufacturing processes.

David Stitzhal

David Stitzhal serves as Coordinator of the Northwest Product Stewardship Council. The Council's mission is to integrate product stewardship principles into the policy and economic structures of the Pacific Northwest. Stitzhal is also President of Full Circle Environmental, Inc., a Seattle-based resource conservation consulting firm established in 1993. Stitzhal has worked in the field of solid waste and recycling for over fifteen years and holds a Masters Degree in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University. His undergraduate studies at Swarthmore College included completion of pre-Med requirements, and resulted in a double-major Bachelors Degree in Psychology and Sociology/ Anthropology. His daughter Kaya is eight, and loves hiking, travel, and cartwheels.

Barbara J. Thompson

Director of Safety, Health and Environment, Boeing Commercial Aviation Services. Barbara is the Safety, Health and Environmental Director for Boeing Commercial Aviation Services. She has 20 years of experience in the Environmental and Safety fields. For Boeing’s Commercial Aviation Services she works with the airline customers to address their environmental and ground safety challenges and opportunities.

At Boeing she has had a variety of assignments that emphasized pollution prevention throughout the life of the aircraft. Her previous assignments included environmental auditing, waste treatment and storage technologies, remediation management, environmental management for BCA’s Everett site and leading the environmental program for Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

She received MBA and a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington. She has participated in the development of an ozone maintenance plan for the Puget Sound region. The mother of 2 active sons, she loves to read, bike and practice yoga.

Jennifer Tice

Associate, Ross & Associates Environmental Consulting, Ltd. Jennifer Tice is an Associate at Ross & Associates Environmental Consulting, Ltd., where she has provided policy analysis, facilitation, and project management support to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Lean Manufacturing and Environment Steering Committee since June 2003. Ross & Associates won an international Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing Research in 2004 for a report