Tag Archives: Jennifer Woofter

Well Beyond Recycling: The Evolution of the Chief Sustainability Officer

By Alexandra Kueller | Published: November 11, 2014

In 2011, the Weinreb Group released CSO Back Story, which highlighted Chief Sustainability Officers (CSO) at the time and provided an analysis on the position and the evolution behind the title. Three years later, the Weinreb Group published a follow-up to the initial report, now examining the shifts and growth of the position over the last few years.

Posted in Culture and Leadership, sustainability trends, The Hub | Also tagged Chief Sustainability Officer, CSO, csr, Ellen Weinrib, Weinreb Group | Comments closed

Make Your Sustainability Pitch a Dialogue, Not a Soliloquy

By Jennifer Woofter | Published: May 19, 2014

While sustainability can be a very complicated and technical challenge, at its core sustainability is about people. And when something is about people, you can bet that personal dynamics, interpersonal relationships, and emotional intelligence come into play.

I’m always on the lookout for ways to increase my persuasive abilities, and so I was glad to come across 5 Ways to Have a Great Conversations, a recent article in Fast Company written by Harvey Deutschendorf, an emotional intelligence expert, speaker, and internationally published author.

Written below are Duetschendorf’s five suggestions, followed by my own reflections and commentary. For my fellow sustainability practitioners, I believe there are a lot of gems to learn and utilize here. I look forward to trying out some of these strategies on you the next time that we meet!

Posted in Communication | Also tagged Dialogue, Effective Listening, emotional intelligence, sustainability, sustainability business case, sustainability consulting, Sustainability pitch, sustainability selling | Comments closed

6 Tips For Getting Executives to Buy-In to Sustainability

By Jennifer Woofter | Published: April 2, 2014

What do executives have in common with school kids? They both can be pretty picky says Laura Vanderkam, as outlined in the Fast Company article 6 Quick Lessons from the School Lunch Line for Pleasing Picky Customers. According to Jennifer Woofter, these helpful tips can also be applied to sustainability efforts when trying to convince executives to green-light a project. My team has taken the article’s six lessons which are listed below and added our own commentary.

School kids and executives aren’t so different, according to Laura Vanderkam

Posted in Behaviour Change, Business and Sustainability, Thought Leader | Also tagged executive buy-in, sustainability | Comments closed

Why Your Sustainability Leadership is Failing: 10 Suggestions for Achieving Greater Impact

By Jennifer Woofter | Published: December 4, 2013

Do you find that you aren’t achieving the results as a sustainability practitioner that you’d like to get? Do you want to be a more effective leader but don’t know what to change about your approach? The article, Why You’re Not a Leader, by Mike Myatt was published on Forbes earlier this year and is helpful in providing a framework by which to analyze sustainability leadership skills.

Jennifer Woofter, President of Strategic Sustainability Consulting reflects on how to be an effective sustainability leader.

Mike’s points are in bold italics followed by suggestions from Jennifer Woofter, the President of Strategic Sustainability Consulting, on how to best to apply it to sustainability.

Posted in Behaviour Change, Business and Sustainability, Leadership, Thought Leader | Also tagged corporate sustainability, csr, leadership, Mike Myatt, sustainability, Why you're not a leader | Comments closed

Five questions to ask a sustainability consultant before you hire them

By Jennifer Woofter | Published: May 17, 2013

Posted in Business and Sustainability, Organizational Culture | Also tagged Strategic Sustainability Consulting, sustainability, sustainability consulting, sustainability consulting hiring | Comments closed

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