Each month’s presentation will be held at the University of Idaho Boise and is designed for business executives in search of practical solutions that will help businesses make a commitment to sustainability and improve their bottom line by focusing on people, profit and planet.

» Monthly sessions on the first Thursday of every month
» University of Idaho Boise, 322 E. Front Street, Legacy Pointe (1st Floor)
» 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
» RSVP to professionaldev@uidaho.edu or 334-2999.  Space is limited.
» Bring your own lunch – drinks and cookies will be provided.

More consumers are incorporating sustainability criteria into their purchase decisions.  Resources that our businesses and our customers have come to depend on are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive.  New environmental regulations are being introduced worldwide that are changing the competitive dynamic in many industries.  These shifts create both tremendous opportunity and significant risk for our organizations and challenge us to rethink and redesign the products and services we offer our customers.  In this session Professor John Lawrence will discuss how to incorporate sustainability into product and service design processes to meet this challenge.  Further, Professor Lawrence will discuss how to integrate design, sustainability and strategy in ways that will allow our organizations to capture real value from our investments in sustainable product and service design.

April 1st Planet: How Building Owners and Tenants Can Save Energy and Reduce Operating Costs with Building Commissioning and Energy Benchmarking.  Presented by Brad Acker, Integrated Design Lab, College of Art and Architecture.

May 6th Profit: Lean Business Principles.  Presented by Larry Stauffer, College of Engineering.

June 3rd People: The Power of Play in Today’s Corporate Office: Creating an Environment of Success One Game at a Time.  Presented by Shauna Corry, College of Art and Architecture.

July 1st Planet: Waste Minimization.  Presented by Darin Saul, Sustainable Idaho Initiative.

August 5th Profit: Are Sustainability Reporting Metrics Value Added Information?  Presented by KD Hatheway Dial, College of Business and Economics.

September 2nd People: Workplace Flexibility.  Presented by Patricia Kempthorne, Twiga Foundation.

October 7th People: Sustainability Is More Than Crushing Cans – Leadership Principles for Creating Healthy Organizations.  Presented by Michael Kroth, College of Education.

November 4th People: Preparing the Green Collar Workforce – Investing in STEM.  Presented by Jim Gregson, College of Education.

December 2nd Planet: The Power of Place.  Presented by Sherry McKibben, College of Art and Architecture.

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