David Gershon 'Empowering Change'

Publications from Empowerment Institute

	Low Carbon Diet A 30 Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds by David Gershon $12.95 Place order here
	Green Living Handbook A 6 Step Program to Create an Environmentally Sustainable Lifestyle by David Gershon $14.95 Place order here
	Journey for the Planet A Kid's Five Week Adventure to Create an Earth-friendly Life by David Gershon $12.95 Place order here
	Journey for the Planet Coach's Guide (Educator Curriculum) by David Gershon $29.95 Place order here
	Water Stewardship A 30 Day Program to Protect and Conserve Our Water Resources by David Gershon $12.95 Place order here
	Livable Neighborhood About Making Life Better on the Street Where You Live by David Gershon $19.95 Place order here

Behavior Change at the Community and Organizational Level

Empowerment Institute is the world's premiere consulting and training organization specializing in the methodology of empowerment. Its state-of-the-art empowerment tools have been applied over the past twenty-five years to achieve measurable behavior change at the community and organizational level. Its clients consist of public sector agencies, corporations and non profits. The following represents its specific skill set.

behavior change program design
voluntary participation strategies
large scale system change
organizational transformation
community organizing
transformative leadership training
empowerment coaching
community and organizational visioning
replicable systems design and transfer
peer support system design
empowerment-based group facilitation
empowerment-based team building
program assessment and measurement
program management
innovation diffusion strategy design
social architecture
transformational technologies
national and community public policy
social marketing
public sector partnership development
public sector financing

Empowerment Institute’s programs have received many awards including Renew America’s top honor for community participation, EPA’s environmental quality award, and citations from the President's Council on Sustainable Development, U.S. Department of Energy, Oregon Department of Energy and a number of state environment and energy offices.

An In-Depth Look at Empowerment Institute’s Core Competencies:

Proven behavior change and participation tools

Empowerment Institute has developed a highly effective set of tools for behavior change and voluntary participation. Working with over 150,000 people, these empowerment tools have produced significant and measurable behavior change and participation in a wide diversity of communities and organizations. These tools include behavior change program design, peer-to-peer recruitment, peer support group meetings, leadership training and empowerment coaching. These empowerment tools have been continually refined over many years and at this point are considered by many the state-of-the-art. One major academic research study reported that this model ‘is unsurpassed’ in changing behavior.

A replicable community or organizational large system transformation mode

Empowerment Institute has developed a proven, replicable and customizable system for implementing a community, regional, national or organization-wide transformation process. It includes design of the social architecture for large scale system change; social diffusion strategy for taking the behavior change program to scale; and design and transfer of replicable project management systems. Depending on the clients choice, Empowerment Institute either develops the behavior change project and then transfers it to them or implements the project directly.

Substantial experience working with public sector organizations, corporations and non-profits

Empowerment Institute has over two decades of experience working with public sector organizations, corporations and non profits in the area of behavior change and voluntary participation strategies. It has consulted, designed and delivered programs addressing a diversity of topics including leadership development, organizational transformation, education, environment, safety, health, and neighborhood revitalization. Empowerment Institute has also designed measurement and assessment tools that help organizations increase their effectiveness in program implementation.

About David Gershon

David Gershon is the author of nine books, including the best selling Empowerment: The Art of Creating Your Life As You Want It. The founder and CEO of Empowerment Institute, he is one of the world's leading authorities on behavior change and large-scale transformation. At the height of the Cold War, he conceived and organized, in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund and ABC Television, one of the planet’s first major global initiatives, the First Earth Run, which engaged millions of people in the passing of a symbolic torch of peace around the world. Since that time, he has addressed issues ranging from environmental behavior change to organizational talent development, from emergency preparedness to low-income neighborhood revitalization. He has lectured at Harvard, MIT, and Duke and served as an advisor to the Clinton White House and United Nations on behavior change and sustainability issues.