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 Ms. Anita Burke is internationally recognized as a thought leader in the area of a sustaining and thriving global existence. Her experience in transformational organizational development and systemic cultural and economic change within multinational corporations is rich with insight and useable tools. She is a frequent speaker on the topic of how to deliver change and profits by reducing and eliminating the negative ecological and social footprints of existing industrial infrastructures.  
  Sara Metcalf has been involved with the SoL Sustainability Consortium since 2001 and has helped facilitate the Women Leading Sustainability (WLS) workgroup since 2003. Sara’s involvement in SoL began while she was part of UTC Fuel Cells. Now a PhD Candidate in geography at the University of Illinois, Sara studies the social dimensions of sustainability that manifest as intertwined dilemmas of social inequity and environmental pollution in urban areas. Sara earned Master’s degrees in chemical engineering and management from MIT in 2001 as part of the Leaders for Manufacturing program, where she studied alternative vehicle technologies. In addition to UTC, she has worked with Intel and General Motors. Sara utilizes methods of dynamic modeling and systems thinking in both her industry and academic work.
Physicist Amory Lovins is cofounder and CEO of Rocky Mountain Institute (www.rmi.org) and Chairman of Fiberforge, Inc. (www.fiberforge.com). Published in 29 books and hundreds of papers, his work has been recognized by the "Alternative Nobel," Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell Prizes, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Benjamin Franklin and Happold Medals, nine honorary doctorates, and the Heinz, Lindbergh, World Technology, and Time "Hero for the Planet" Awards. His best-known recent books are Natural Capitalism (www.natcap.org), Small Is Profitable (www.smallisprofitable.org), and Winning the Oil Endgame (www.oilendgame.com).
 
  Dr. Bryan Smith is an internationally recognized author, speaker and consultant to business executives on creating innovation and competitive advantage by leveraging the driving forces of global sustainability. Prior to founding Broad Reach Innovations, Bryan was a Senior Partner for eighteen years at Innovation Associates, the firm that pioneered the field of Organizational Learning. With Peter Senge, he is a co-author of three groundbreaking business bestsellers: The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook (1994); The Dance of Change (1999); and Schools that Learn (2000). All three books are full of practical tools and experience from his in-depth work helping organizations create profound, sustainable change.
Hal Hamilton is executive director of Sustainability Institute. Sustainability Institute uses tools of systems thinking and organizational learning to support work on complex issues of sustainability. Hal’s current projects include leadership of a Sustainable Food Laboratory, a multi-sector dialogue and action project with food system leaders from business, government and civil society in the US, Europe and Latin America. In the early 1990s Hal was founding co-chairman of the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture.  
 

John Elkington is a co-founder of SustainAbility, and has been chair of the organization since 1995. In 1989, he was elected to the UN Global 500 Roll of Honour for his “outstanding environmental achievements”. John is the author or co-author of over 40 books and published reports, including the million-selling Green Consumer Guide and The Chrysalis Economy: How Citizen CEOs and Corporations Can Fuse Values and Value Creation . His book Cannibals With Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business was a finalist in the Global Business Book of the Year Award.

Personal website: www.johnelkington.com .

Jacquelyn Ottman , president of J. Ottman Consulting and author of Green Marketing: Opportunity for Innovation, helps businesses develop and market environmentally sustainable consumer and BTB products.  Specific services include new product concept generation and evaluation, and marketing strategy development and execution. Ms. Ottman is also available for keynote talks and half or full day versions of her firm’s IDSA-endorsed “Design:Green” workshops on sustainable product design. Some of her firm’s clients include 3M, IBM, Pitney-Bowes, and the U.S. EPA’s Design for Environment and Energy Star label program.
  
  Don Seville is a facilitator and system dynamics modeler with the Sustainability Institute, which provides systems-based research and consulting on challenges of environmental, social, and economic sustainability.  For the past 10 years, Don has worked in a number of public policy and corporate strategy arenas, including sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, energy utility strategy, and forestry. His approach to client projects uses the analytical power of systems thinking to help organizations understand the drivers of persistent problems and to shape strategic options.  
Joe Laur is a founding partner of SEED Systems, a company dedicated to promoting sustainable development in business through the use of organizational learning and systems thinking disciplines, in combination with scientific conditions for sustainability. He is one of the original founders of the SoL Sustainability Consortium and serves as a co-steward of the group.  
  Sara Schley is a founding partner of SEED Systems, a company dedicated to promoting sustainable development in business through the use of organizational learning and systems thinking disciplines, in combination with scientific conditions for sustainability. She is one of the original founders of the SoL Sustainability Consortium and serves as a co-steward of the group.
John R. Ehrenfeld—Sustainability change agent. This title I invented tells the story. I offer an alternative path to sustainability from the standard sustainable development, triple bottom line approach.
Sustainability is the possibility that humans and other forms of life will flourish on the planet forever. My story leads to a way to re- design your offerings and the way you operate such that sustainability begins to show up. The focus on human being is intentional. Care of the [environmental] world needs a re-awakening of what it is to be human first. I am available for training and consultation.
  
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