My sustainability journey began 5,000 miles from home. While working for the Japan Times, I had the unique opportunity to live in major business hubs across the globe—Berlin, Bangkok, Dubai—and interview the CEOs and managing directors of some of the biggest companies in the world.

In each, I asked about their companies’ business model, their customers, and the next new exciting product they were launching. I also always asked about their companies’ social and environmental initiatives.

More often than not, my interviewee’s face would turn blank and a rapid shift in conversation topic was sure to follow.

Almost none of these industry leaders had made climate change awareness a legitimate factor of their business model or developed a “green” strategy for the future.

Knowing the monumental influence of business on people, cultures, and societies, I realized that the world was in need of a global transformation of “business as usual.”

In 2008, I completed a degree at the Presidio School of Management and earned an MBA in Sustainable Business. The year before I co-founded EcoTuesday, a national networking forum that facilitated vital connections and essential change in the business community. EcoTuesday hosted more than 300 events in 12 cities across the country and brought together hundreds of sustainability professionals, making a positive impact in each city.

Since then, I have had the honor to work with companies big and small, and I love working with businesses to start, engage, and energize their Sustainability Teams.

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