CHAMPIONING SUSTAINABILITY

A Creative Forum for organizational change leaders

Download the flyer for the next Championing Sustainability in Redwood City.

Visit the page of the past Championing Sustainability on February 8, 2008 in San Francisco.

Is your company or non-profit ready to meet the challenges in becoming a successful sustainable organization?
Are you prepared to take on the role of a sustainability leader?

Championing Sustainability is a one-day creative forum— an interactive, collaborative exploration of what it means to lead sustainability efforts. The outcomes of this forum are:

• Help you understand key principles for sustainability and how to begin incorporating them into your organization
• Introduce you to diverse frameworks to assist you in generating innovative ideas and strategies
• Launch you on the design of a sustainable strategy for your own organization using creative and systemic processes
• Enable you to lead strategic conversations as a core sustainability competence

Sustainability and organizational success are more closely linked than ever, as the mounting feedback from culture and Earth clearly indicate the need for revising our practices. Now more than ever, a collaborative and whole-systems approach to the design of processes, structures and products is essential to produce thriving businesses, communities, and ecosystems.

The challenge is to focus on an integrated bottom line—creating economic, social and environmental value simultaneously. Meeting this challenge, and seeing the possibilities for living more balanced and fulfilling lives through the businesses we lead, requires us to begin by thinking anew. This creative forum will provide some practical guidelines for new ways of envisioning the world, while taking your knowledge and skills to the next level for championing sustainability in your organization.

And remember—sustainability is not a destination but a journey. Let's take it together!

Some organizations that have participated in Championing Sustainability

Bridgeway Capital Advisors
Business for Social Responsibility
City of El Cerrito
Clif Bar & Co.
Dig-In
Elemental Enterprizes
Flowing Dragon Swords
Forest Ethics
Genentech, Inc.
Global Genesis
Greenbank Associates
Green MBA
Green Squared Consulting
Horn Murdock Cole
Jonathan Rubenstein & & Associates
IDEO
Kennedy Jenks Consultants
Livability Project
LFR Inc.
Medtronic
Metro Vancouver
New Resource Bank
Northgate Environmental Management, Inc.
Presidio School of Management
Resource Catalysts
SasAx Inc
St. Mary's College of California
Sustainablebizness.com
The Culinary Edge
Tomorrow Makers Inc.
Universidad del Medio Ambiente (UMA)
Urban Alliance for Sustainability
Visionary Partnership

Kathia and Alexander Laszlo are co-founders of Syntony Quest, an organization that offers consulting, research and workshops in the areas of leadership and organizational transformation for sustainability. They are recipients of the Swiss Förderpreis Akademischer Klub award for their work in social innovation and sustainable development. They impart MBA and Ph.D. courses on strategy, leadership, and systems thinking at six universities in the US and internationally, including Presidio School of Management and Saybrook Graduate School. Kathia completed her Ph.D. in Human Science with a focus on Social and Institutional Change from Saybrook as a Fulbright Scholar from Mexico. Alexander holds a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Policy from the University of Pennsylvania.
Miriam Karell is founder of Three Point Vision, a consulting firm that inspires business leaders to integrate creativity, community and consciousness into their daily practices. She assists organizations in setting up green teams, developing sustainability programs (assessments, trainings and strategic planning), and getting green certified by the Bay Area Green Business Program. She is former sustainability champion at a medium-sized consulting firm and has a Masters in Strategic Leadership Towards Sustainability from Blenkinge Institute of Technology in Sweden.