7/31/2019 Sustainability Workshop for Hawaii Business Leaders

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Sustainability Workshop for Hawaii Business LeadersKahului 7/25 * Kailua-Kona 8/1 * Honolulu 8/8 * Lihue 8/10

Register online at www.sesphawaii.com/workshop

The State Workforce Development Council, under the State Energy Sector Partnership (SESP) and

job training grant, is conducting workshops for business leaders in Hawaii interested inincorporating principles of sustainability into their organizations.

This highly interactive, full day workshop will include four sessions:

1. Sustainability 101 for business . Seven core concepts of sustainability with case studies of how local businesses are using these strategies to thrive.

2. Communications for sustainability . Marketing, sales, and customer loyalty strategies thatalign your internal and external corporate communications with your sustainability efforts.

3. Opportunities for sustainability. Innovative growth strategies for your business including no-

cost and low-cost meas ures to improve re source use while cutting costs.4. Engaging the green workforce . Getting the most from your sustainability programs through

employee engagement and green team development.

Workshop presenters:

Scott Cooney, M.S., M.B.A.Sco$ Cooney is an adjunct Professor of sustainability in the MBA programat UH-Manoa, and the Principal Advisor at the GBO Group, a sustainabilitystrategy consulDng rm based in Honolulu. A Phi Beta Kappa, Sco$ hasstarted, grown and sold several green businesses. Sco$ has been projectmanager or client lead in sustainability training work for Eastman Chemical, Wal-Mart,Johnson & Johnson, uke Energy, NBC Universal, Procter & Gamble, and several others.McGraw-Hill published Sco$s rst book, Build a Green Small Business, and mostrecently Sco$ has developed GBO Hawaii, an educaDonal board game about greeningHawaiis economy. Find out more at www.GBOGroup.com .

Shanah TrevennaNamed by Hawaii Business Magazine as one of ve that will shape Hawaii for the next 50years, Shanah Trevenna is a leading sustainability educator, author, and consultant.Shanah has a decade of corporate experience at IBM and Philips, specializing inorganizaDonal change and sustainability training. Her clients include Johnson Controls,Family Programs Hawaii, Punahou, the Kokua FoundaDon and the Hawaii epartment ofEducaDon. Shanah designed Sustainability 101 for Small Business in Hawaii for KCC andrecently published a textbook, Surng Tsunamis of Change, A Handbook for Change Agents , which received College Educator InternaDonals 2011 Sustainability ChampionAward for its innovaDve framework for implemenDng organizaDonal change.

SESP is funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and made available through the U.S. Department of Labor--Employment and Training Administration. All ARRA funds must be used in compliance with federal equal employment opportunity regulations.

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