 Visible Strategies’ Client Services team has 20 years experience guiding government and business leaders around the world – including Al Gore’s Live Earth team and Al Gore Ambassadors - on how to best apply triple bottom line management principles (i.e. social, environmental, economic) and 21st Century tools to address the challenges organizations face today. The team has over 35 years combined experience facilitating workshops and helping drive action around strategic and sustainability plans.
Using the following unique 3-step engagement process that will save months if not years over conventional consulting engagements, the team will help you apply SEE-IT to best suit your needs and achieve your vision.
1. GET-IT
- Understand how the world is changing.
- Understand what leading organizations are doing to address this change.
- Understand what your organization must do to address this change.
- Create a compelling vision of the future for your organization.
2. PLAN-IT
- Build your vision into SEE-IT.
- Create goals that will demonstrate when the vision has been achieved.
- Identify strategies that will lead to achievement of the goals.
- Identify actions to be taken and indicators that show how successful these actions are.
3. DO-IT
- Determine different internal and external SEE-IT views to maximize management efficiency and stakeholder engagement.
- Assign management responsibilities for scorecards, configure software to ensure timely updating and to ensure reward programs drive actions towards the vision and goals.
- Determine launch strategy and appropriate feedback mechanisms to maximize two-way dialogue and mutual learning.
SAMPLE CLIENT SERVICES TEAM MEMBERS
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Colin Grant, CEO & Founder
Colin is a 20-year sustainability industry veteran having guided business and government leaders around the world and often speaks on triple bottom line management approaches and world topics and trends. He's an award-winning businessman and holds a Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in Economics and Biotechnology, including an Honours in Technology and Business Studies.
Main areas of expertise: Strategic sustainability advice, strategic planning, performance indicators, stakeholder engagement |
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Edna Aguinaga, Manager of Client Services
Edna has a strong passion for nature. She has worked in the environmental sector for over 10 years, in developing and developed countries. She holds a Master’s degree on Environmental Science and Technology from the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in The Netherlands and a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from La Salle University in Mexico. She has extensive experience with corporate and non-profit sectors and has worked and facilitated workshops in more than 25 countries.
Edna’s role at Visible Strategies is to work with clients on their strategic plans and the steps taken to move these plans into action. Examples of the Visible Strategies clients she has worked with include City of Whitehorse, the B.C. Ministry of Education, District of North Vancouver, The Planning Institute of British Columbia, Washington University in St. Louis, and the Rivershed Society of British Columbia.
Main areas of expertise: Strategic advice, project management, performance Indicators, stakeholder engagement, community Work, capacity building
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Renate Sitch, Project Consultant
Renate’s passion for the sustainability industry is inspired by the natural beauty in which she grew up in. While traveling and living in Asia she witnessed first-hand the effects of high pollution levels and over population issues. After studying Recreation and Tourism at Humber College in Toronto and graduating from Royal Roads University with a Bachelor’s of Commerce in Entrepreneurial Management, she completed a Masters in Strategic Leadership Towards Sustainability with the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, Sweden.
Renate's role at Visible Strategies is to work with clients within government, business, and non-profit sectors assisting with strategic and sustainability plans, and moving these plans into action. Examples of clients she has worked with include the Earth Policy Institute (Lester Brown's "Plan B"), Alliance for Innovation, Novex Couriers, Bantrel, City of Victoria BC, City of Richmond BC, City of San Francisco, San Mateo County, City of Richmond CA, City of Palm Bay, Marin County, City of Durham NC, and more.
Main areas of expertise: Strategic advice, project management, stakeholder engagement, strategic sustainability, capacity building
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