Duncan Berry. Duncan brings 20 years of systemic thinking and practical experience to bear as an expert in the design manufacturing and marketing of sustainable products. As founder and president of several large scale textile companies, Duncan pioneered the design and production of high volume, sustainable home and apparel products. He has created field to shelf "supply chain communities" in the Americas, the Indian Sub-Continent, the Far East and Africa. He has also spent much of his career value engineering "green" products so that they can be made available to everyday people.

His "creating business value" strategy is simple: Design beautiful and functional product, identify the social and environmental value in how they are produced, verify their authenticity and then tell the story clearly to the customer. This has proven to be an effective combination in growing market share and margins with today's "values" sensitive female consumer.

His professional career has been focused on the retail environment and brands: Wal-Mart, Target, Penney’s, Bloomingdales, Neiman Marcus, Gaiam, Roots, Disney, and Warner Brothers.

Duncan has a degree in design from the Evergreen University and is very active in the land conservation community on the west coast.

Scot Case. Scot is an internationally recognized expert on green purchasing and responsible sourcing. His enthusiastic approach, keen strategic insights, and vast network of experts help his public and private sector clients create additional value by integrating environmental and social considerations into strategic planning, purchasing, and other business decisions.

Recent clients include: the Government of the Philippines, World Bank, Wal-Mart, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, University of Miami, and the Green Electronics Council. He has a B.A. and M.A. in political science from Virginia Tech.

Frank Dixon. Frank Dixon is an author and consultant specializing in sustainability, system change and enhancing financial performance through increased corporate responsibility. For six years, he was the Managing Director of Research for Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, the largest corporate sustainability research firm in the world. At Innovest, he oversaw the sustainability analysis of more than 2,000 firms. Based on his observation that systemic issues compel all firms to act unsustainably, he developed a new sustainability approach focused on system change, called Total Corporate Responsibility. Before Innovest, he worked in the energy and finance areas.

He is currently advising Wal-Mart and other firms on sustainability. He has an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Geoff Huntington. Geoff specializes in leading complex, tactical sustainability initiatives requiring participation and buy-in of stakeholder groups. He brings 20 years of experience designing and implementing transparent decision making processes and project implementation strategies.

Through strategic listening and questioning, he helps clients design and execute sustainability initiatives that draw upon the untapped business value derived from identifying and integrating the environmental and social potential of the supply chain and marketing value-based products.

Current projects focus on identifying key attributes defining sustainable practices and designing tools for measuring, verifying, and creating incentives to drive the supply chain to create market value for the client.

In both the public and private sectors, Geoff has employed an ethic of community participation to lead bold initiatives encouraging holistic, sustainable solutions to complex problems in the business and natural resource arenas.

Before joining Blu Skye to serve Fortune 50 clients, Geoff spent a decade as an environmental trial attorney followed by nine years of service as a member of the natural resources cabinet of Oregon's Governor in key policy roles and as an agency director. Geoff resides with his family in Oregon where he is also a part time faculty member of Oregon State University College of Forestry.

Chris Laszlo. Chris is a partner and co-founder of Sustainable Value Partners, LLC. www.SustainableValuePartners.com.

He is Blu Skye's Partner for Executive Education. He has led over 100 executive seminars and spoken widely on "Sustainability for business advantage" inside companies, at major conferences, and at leading business schools including Case Weatherhead and the European business school INSEAD in the Advanced Management Seminar and CEDEP program.

The Financial Times has called CEDEP "One of the Executive Education world's best-kept secrets" www.cedep.fr.

He is a former executive of Lafarge SA and consultant with Deloitte Touche. He is also the author of The Sustainable Company: How to Create Lasting Value through Social and Environmental Performance (2003, paperback 2005) www.SustainableCo.com.

His forthcoming book, Sustainable Value, will be released in Spring 2008.

Jeffrey Pfeffer. Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University where he has been teaching since 1979.

He has led executive seminars in 28 countries and lectured in management development programs and consulting for many U.S. companies, associations and universities. He currently serves on two corporate boards of directors.

Dr. Pfeffer is a member and Fellow of the Academy of Management and a member of the Industrial Relations Research Association. He has won the Richard D. Irwin award for Scholarly Contributions to Management as well as several awards for books and articles. He has authored/co-authored twelve books and published more than 120 articles and book chapters.

Dr. Pfeffer has served on the faculties of the business schools at the University of Illinois and the University of California at Berkeley. From 1994-1996, he served as Director of Executive Education, responsible for all of the Stanford business school's executive education activities. During the 1981-1982 academic year he was the Thomas Henry Carroll-Ford Foundation Visiting Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.

Dr. Pfeffer received his BS in Administration and Management Science and his MS in Industrial Administration from Carnegie-Mellon University. He obtained his PhD in Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Joe Rinkevich. Joe supports companies in their efforts to realize new areas of competitive advantage through innovative sustainability strategies. His expertise comes from over fifteen years of successfully identifying business leadership potential and clear, actionable guidance in product design, supplier relationships and systems thinking. Joe enables breakthrough action that generates near-, medium- and long-term value for clients.

Recent clients include: Wal-Mart, eBay, Nike, BASF, DuPont and Ford Motor Co. Joe is also part of a team of investors and entrepreneurs building a biofuels development and manufacturing business based on principles of renewable distributed energy and industrial ecology. He has a B.S. degree in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master of Environmental Planning degree from the University of Virginia. Joe, his wife Whitney and their children Sasha and Evan live in Charlottesville, Virginia.

David Cooperrider. David L. Cooperrider is an Academic Partner of Blu Skye, Professor and Former Chairman of the Department of Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University and the founder of The Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit – worldbenefit.cwru.edu.

David is world renowned as a founder of Appreciative Inquiry, a strength-based approach to organization change. His current work combines Appreciative Inquiry with multi-stakeholder cooperation to enable positive change in very large and complex systems.

To this end, David was the initiator and program co-chair of the Global Forum of business leaders and academics held October 2006. The forum was convened by the United Nations Global Compact, the Academy of Management, and the Case Weatherhead School of Management. In 2004 David designed and facilitated an historic Leaders Summit of the United Nations Global Compact between Kofi Annan and 500 business leaders to "unite the strengths of markets with the authority of universal ideals to make globalization work for everyone." Among his highest honors David was invited to design a series of dialogues among 25 of the world's top religious leaders, started by His Holiness the Dalai Lama who said, "If only the world's religious leaders could just know each other, the world will be a better place." These dialogs resulted in the formation of the United Religions Initiative.

David has published nine books and authored some 50 articles.

Our Associate Partners.

We maintain dynamic relationships with the academics, scientists, entrepreneurs, and authors on the front lines of sustainability. Click through the pictures above to see just some of the people with whom we frequently collaborate.