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Darcy
Hitchcock is the president of a consulting firm specializing in the
implementation of sustainable business practices and co-author of
The
Business Guide to Sustainability .
She has more than 25 years experience in helping organizations change
(total quality management, self-directed work teams), and she applies
that experience to moving organizations toward sustainability.
Hitchcock is also a senior associate at the Zero Waste
Alliance, where she runs their sustainability assessment service.
She created SCORE (Sustainability Competency & Opportunity Rating
& Evaluation) in conjunction with Zero Waste Alliance and the
International Sustainable Development Foundation. SCORE is a sustainability
self-assessment tool that can help an organization determine where
it is on the road to sustainability as well as help it identify new
opportunities along the way. Organizations that have used the SCORE
assessment include companies such as Nike, Doubletree, Progressive
Investment Management, and SERA Architects as well as cities such
as Santa Monica and Corvallis.
Hitchcock wrote a series of step-by-step how-to guides
on such topics as Developing a Business Case for Sustainability,
Developing an Implementation Plan, Greening Your Supply Chain, Training
Employees on Sustainability (based on The Natural Step), Identifying
Your Environmental Impacts, Developing Sustainability Metrics and
Targets, Partnering with Vendors, and Making Sense of Sustainability:
An Employee Primer.
She has also co-authored several other business books,
including Why
Teams Can Fail and What To Do About It ,
and The
Work Redesign Team Handbook ,
and she has written numerous articles for such periodicals as Waste
Management World, the Vancouver Business Journal, The Columbian,
and the Journal for Quality and Participation.
Hitchcock teaches change management and practical sustainability
strategies for government in the University of Oregon's Sustainability
Leadership Program. In addition, she co-designed and facilitated the
Implementing Sustainability Professional Certificate Program at Portland
State University.
Her speaking topics include:
Making the business case for sustainability. This involves explaining
how sustainability fits into business and corporate strategy, how
sustainability helps businesses foresee threats and opportunities,
and how it contributes to competitive advantage and enhanced profitability.
Implementing sustainability in organizations. How to launch an explicit
sustainability initiative, understand the stages and pitfalls of
program development, empower employees, and speed the adoption of
new and more sustainable practices.
Sustainability frameworks. Conceptual tools, or frameworks, to move
beyond the abstract concept of sustainability and focus on the down-to-earth
substance and actionable elements of practical programs. Covers
the most useful sustainability frameworks currently in use, their
strengths and weaknesses, and how they can be combined to develop
a practical sustainability program.
The Natural Step. How to use this conceptual framework to guide
the sustainability efforts of business organizations is explained
in an unusually clear and understandable fashion. Transforms a tool
that some in business find too abstract into a practical resource
for business leaders and managers.
Sustainability assessments. How to do sustainability assessments
of overall business practices as well as of specific areas such
as greenhouse gas emissions, energy use and solid waste management.
Includes both explanation of tools and how to measure results.
Making communities sustainable. Drawing upon diverse international
examples - from Curitiba, Brazil and Kerala, India to Monteverde,
Costa Rica - Hitchcock explores how resource constraints spur creative
problem solving, and how the solutions created and lessons learned
by cities in the developing world can be applied to U.S. cities.
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Personal reflections on a 2006
visit to the Refuge. Hitchcock shares what she learned about climate
change (it is clearly visible and having an effect on a variety
of species), oil (drilling in the winter does not eliminate environmental
damage), and the Refuge's wildlife (despite assertions that this
place is a 'wasteland', it is beautiful and packed with wildlife).
Includes a slide show.
For more information about Darcy Hitchcock and her speaking
topics, experience, fees and availability, please call our toll-free
number, 866-658-4848, or send us an email message here.
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