How to Integrate Sustainability - SF 2010

Featuring Keynote Speakers:

Gil Friend, author of The Truth About Green Business.  

Gil Friend is President and CEO of Natural Logic, a sustainability consulting firm. Gil is a systems ecologist and business strategist with nearly 40 years experience in business, communications, and environmental innovation, Friend combines broad business experience with unique content experience spanning strategy, systems ecology, economic development, management, and public policy. 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.” Gil is a founding board member of the Sustainable Business Alliance, Sustainable Berkeley, and the California Sustainable Business Council and serves on the executive board of OpenEco.org and the advisory boards of CleanFish, WattBot, Green World Campaign, and was cofounder and codirector of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a leading urban ecology and economic development “think-and-do tank,” where he pioneered the current “green roof” trend more than 35 years ago.

John Adams, Ph.D.

John is a professor, speaker, author, consultant, and seminar leader – has been at the forefront of the Organization Development and Transformation profession since 1969. His early articulation of issues facing organizations has provided a guiding light for the evolution of organization and change management consulting.    John has served as the Co-Chair of the Executive Faculty and the Co-Chair of the Organizational Systems Ph.D. Program at the Saybrook Graduate School (San Francisco), and is a guest faculty member at The Bainbridge Island Graduate Institute in the MBA in Sustainability program.   His latest book, Thinking Today as if Tomorrow Mattered: The Rise of a Sustainable Consciousness, is the culmination of several years’ research, speaking, and writing. John is founder of Eartheart Enterprises, an international speaking, publishing, and consulting business. His clients have come primarily from the health care and high tech areas, including work with (Health Care) the NIH, the NHS in the U.K., Holy Cross system, Sisters of Mercy system; and (High Tech) Hewlett Packard, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Sun Microsystems, Naval Air Systems Command.

Alexander & Kathia Laszlo, Ph.D.’s

Kathia Castro Laszlo, Ph.D., and Alexander Laszlo, Ph.D., are Co-Founders of Syntony Quest. They catalyze leadership and learning opportunities for individuals and their communities through programs and projects that foster evolutionary learning communities and evolutionary development. Through participatory action research, teaching, and consulting, they empower people with the competencies to engage in self-directed sustainable development. In 2002, Kathia and Alexander received the Förderpreis Akademischer Klub award of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, for their work in social innovation and sustainable development, and were finalists for the 2003 Beyond Gray Pinstripes award of the World Resources Institute and the Aspen Institute for their educational work in sustainable business.

Odin Zackman, founder of Dig In

Odin founded DIG IN in 2004. Odin has twenty years of experience in community and environmental education, organizational and leadership development, and facilitation and community design. Dedicated to building community on a local level, and connecting communities nationally and globally, Odin strives to link lessons from nature and working in community with building more effective organizations and efforts for social change. Odin has worked with a range of environmental and community development organizations and consulted widely on a range of issues with non-profit, public and private sector groups. He has worked on national environmental policy issues, in youth engagement, in community building and organizing, and in leadership development for social change. Odin has trained extensively in facilitation, conflict resolution and permaculture and ecological design. He has offered workshops and classes around the country and holds degrees from Oberlin College in Politics and Environmental Studies (BA), Tufts University’s Agriculture, Food and Environment program (MS) and the University of California, Santa Cruz in Ecological Horticulture (certificate). He is also the recipient of a Salzburg Seminar fellowship on Environmental Policy and Public Dialogues.

Location

Citizen Space

425 2^nd St., Suite 100

San Francisco, CA <Map>

10 min from Montgomery BART

Parking across the street

Time

10AM - 4PM

First Friday of the month

February - May, 2010

Cost

$250.00 {Scholarship funds may be available}