How to Implement Sustainability Practices for Bottom-Line | P.J. Simmons | Talks at Google
41co-author of "The Green to Gold Playbook: How to Implement Sustainability Practices for Bottom-Line Results in Every Business Function"
P.J. Simmons is co-founder and Chairman of the Corporate Eco Forum, a network of senior Global 500 executives focused on spreading best and "next" practices in corporate sustainability and accelerating eco-innovation.
P.J. has worked for over 15 years to connect sustainability issues to the mainstream of public, foreign policy, and business affairs. After serving as a research assistant on international environmental affairs at the National Security Council (1993-1994), P.J. founded the Woodrow Wilson Center's Environmental Change & Security Program (ECSP)—a globally preeminent research effort that assembles top government officials, business leaders, and scholars to explore the nexus of global environmental, population, and international security concerns. He also founded and edited Washington DC's first consumer guide to environmentally friendly businesses, The Greener Business Guide (2000).
P.J. directed the Carnegie Endowment's Managing Global Issues program, which produced Managing Global Issues: Lessons Learned (2001)—a pioneering analysis on the role of government, business, and non-profits in solving 16 transnational challenges, including arms control, environment, poverty, health, and human rights. He was senior advisor and grant maker at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, where he founded a nonpartisan effort that assembled hundreds of leading experts and advocates to produce U.S. in the World: Talking Global Issues with Americans. P.J. served twice as the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Deputy Chair for Energy & Climate Change and directed the first CGI University climate program. He also was Director of Strategy at Saatchi & Saatchi "S" (for Sustainability), where he advised clients on corporate-wide sustainability strategies in the electric utility, consumer goods, pharmaceutical, and publishing sectors.