Sustainability Workshop for Hawaii Business Leaders

The State Workforce Development Council, under the State Energy Sector Partnership (SESP) and job training grant, will be conducting workshops for business leaders in Hawaii interested in incorporating principles of sustainability into their organizations. Workshops will be conducted on the Big Island, Kauai, Maui and Oahu. This highly interactive, one-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. Engaging the green workforce. Getting the most from your energy, waste, and water programs through employee engagement and green team development. 3. Energy, water, and waste saving techniques for business. No-cost and low-cost measures that will help you improve your resource use while cutting costs. 4. Communications for sustainability. Marketing, sales, and customer loyalty strategies that align your internal and external corporate communications with your sustainability efforts. Workshop presenters:

Scott Cooney, M.S., M.B.A.

Sco$ Cooney is the Principal Advisor at the GBO Group, a sustainability strategy consul=ng rm based in Honolulu. He is also a green business author, educator and serial eco-entrepreneur who has started, grown and sold several green businesses. Sco$ teaches sustainability at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the MBA program at the Shidler College of Business. Sco$ has been project manager or client lead in sustainability consul=ng work for Eastman Chemical, Wal-Mart, Johnson & Johnson, Duke Energy, NBC Universal, Procter & Gamble, and several others. McGraw-Hill published Sco$s rst book, Build a Green Small Business, and most recently Sco$ has developed GBO Hawaii, an educa=onal board game about greening Hawaiis economy, and is currently developing iPad and Android Applica=ons to bring the game online. Sco$ is a Phi Beta Kappa who holds an MBA and an MS in Conserva=on Biology. Find out more at www.GBOGroup.com and at www.GBOHawaii.com.

Shanah Trevenna
Named by Hawaii Business Magazine as one of ve that will shape Hawaii for the next 50 years, Shanah Trevenna is a leading sustainability educator, author, and consultant. With degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Western Ontario and Urban Planning from UH, as well as a decade of corporate experience at IBM and Philips, she specializes in organiza=onal change and sustainability training. Her clients include Johnson Controls, Family Programs Hawaii, Punahou, the Kokua Founda=on and the Hawaii Department of Educa=on. Shanah designed Sustainability 101 for Small Business in Hawaii for Kapiolani Community College and recently published a textbook, Surng Tsunamis of Change, A Handbook for Change Agents, which received College Educator Interna=onals 2011 Sustainability Champion Award for its innova=ve framework for implemen=ng organiza=onal 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.