Championing Sustainability: A Creative Forum for Organizational Change Leaders
“Fantastic workshop geared toward helping various disciplines understand
what ‘sustainability’ is and how we can work together to get there.”
- Deni Chambers, Principal, Northgate Environmental Management, Inc.
Are you prepared to take on the role of a sustainability leader?
Is your company or nonprofit ready to integrate sustainability principles to become financially, socially and environmentally successful organization?
We invite you to join fellow leaders from diverse industries in a creative and participatory exploration of championing sustainability. This one day forum will –
• 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 is not a destination but a journey. Achieving true success in our organizations will depend on our ability to think and act in a new way. A collaborative and whole systems approach to the design of processes, structures and products is now essential to produce thriving businesses, communities, and ecosystems. This creative forum will give you practical guidelines and will take your knowledge and skills to the next level for championing sustainability.
Tuition
All rates are per a person and include materials, coffee breaks and a vegetarian lunch
Before January 16th After January 16th
Individual Rate $295.00 $395.00
Team Rate (3 or more) $195.00 $295.00
Register online at www.acteva.com/go/syntony (checks and credit cards accepted)
Venue
The ArtHouse is a creative urban space in downtown San Francisco. It provides a collaborative work environment designed to support interactive group processes.
1360 Mission Street, Suite 200 (between 9th and 10th in the Civic Center area, two blocks South of Civic Center BART)
About the creators and facilitators of Championing Sustainability:
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.
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 and impart MBA and Ph.D. courses on strategy, leadership, systems thinking, and the human dimension of sustainability. They are faculty members at 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 Graduate School as a Fulbright Scholar from Mexico. Alexander holds a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Policy from the University of Pennsylvania.
Ken Homer is the owner of Leading Sustainable Conversations, a consultancy that holds the stance that all change in human systems is coordinated through the medium of conversation. Leading Sustainable Conversations invites people to explore what they care about most and to align their concerns with the actions they take — both individually and collectively – to shape a livable future. Ken is a certified Integral Coach and a co-developer of the World Café dialogue process.
