Speaking: Turning Sustainability Challenges into Management Opportunities
Drawing on scholarly collaborations across more than a dozen countries, decades of work with organizations and universities, and expertise in integrated management and sustainability, we bring a systems perspective to today's most pressing business challenges.
Speaking engagements connect research, management best practices, and real-world examples to help audiences see sustainability not as a separate initiative, but as an opportunity embedded within business management. Whether addressing executives, managers, educators, or students, presentations are customized to the audience and designed to provoke new thinking, create practical insights, and inspire action. Contact us to develop a participatory speaking engagements, and facilitated learning opportunities.
Speaking
Engagements
We confidently deliver compelling stories and actionable practices with many successful speaking engagements at conferences, professional associations, consulting engagements, and corporate events. We work with enterprises to ensure the message will relate to an audience, and provide the credibility to back up the message with evidence-based practices. We are passionate about change management, the integration of more sustainable business practices and making a difference at your event.
EN-ROADS Climate Interactive Sessions: Turning Climate Complexity into Action
Climate change is a systems challenge—and understanding the interactions among energy, technology, policy, business, and society is essential to identifying effective solutions.
Using the EN-ROADS Climate Solutions Simulator, developed by Climate Interactive in partnership with the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative, Robert Sroufe facilitates interactive sessions that enable participants to explore the potential impacts of different climate strategies in real time. Rather than simply listening to a presentation, participants test assumptions, propose solutions, and see how combinations of actions can influence global temperature outcomes.
Sessions can be customized for executive teams, businesses, universities, professional organizations, conferences, and community groups. Participants explore questions such as: Which interventions have the greatest leverage? Where are the tradeoffs and unintended consequences? How do energy, transportation, buildings, industry, land use, carbon pricing, and emerging technologies interact?
The result is an engaging, evidence-informed experience that moves the climate conversation from “What is the problem?” to “What combination of actions can make a difference?”
Program Design
Every aspect of effective curriculum and training programs should have clear objectives or end goals to achieve. Good curriculum can be fluid - it allows room for flexibility, monitoring and evaluation by those who helped design and deliver it. Assurance of learning aligned with accreditation standards enable 360 degree feedback, improvement opportunities, and continuous improvement. The integration of sustainability into programs, courses and training modules should provide sufficient scope for the cultivation of emerging skills, diverse interests, and best practices.
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Public Comment
We are available to work with you on collaborative projects. With a background of effective scholarship, writing, and public facing messaging, we help distill complex thoughts and ideas into simple, clear language that's quickly understood by others. Our ability to do this can help you tackle dense subject matter, breaking it down into uncomplicated, meaningful information.