Susan Briski, MBA Featured

Susan Briski is Principal and founder of Sustainable Progress Consulting, provides consulting services to leading organizations to help them create a sustainable future and improve their triple-bottom-line performance; where business, the environment, and people prosper. She helps people understand and apply sustainability principles in practical, common sense ways, and provides systematic approaches to produce measurable improvement. Her clients include businesses, colleges, nonprofits, and community groups. Susan has 20 years of experience in high-tech corporations, including Hewlett Packard and Agilent Technologies, as an engineer, project manager, and manager in Manufacturing and Research and Development. She is knowledgeable about the latest environmental and sustainability trends, models and practices and has expertise in Environmental and Sustainability Management Systems including ISO 14001, the Global Reporting Initiative, The Natural Step (a framework for organizational improvement), and The Ecological Footprint. Recently she has been working with Paul Dolan on designing a CEO Roundtable for some of the world’s largest businesses to take a stand on solving global warming. She is a member of the Sustainable Enterprise Coalition, which designs and implements sustainability conferences and workshops in Northern California. Susan is a fellow of the Leadership Institute of Ecology and the Economy, where she remains actively involved in designing and delivering classes to incoming participants. She was also actively involved in Sustainable Sonoma County, holding sustainability workshops and working with companies to implement sustainability management systems. Susan graduated with a GreenMBA in May of 2003. She also holds an M.A. in Humanities and Leadership with an emphasis in Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community; and a BS in Mechanical Engineering. Susan teaches Eco-Commerce Models.

What people are saying about the GreenMBA

"Learning how to "breakdown" a project has been a fabulous tool for me in business.  I am a Facilities/Project Manager by training and have to think "systemically" in my daily work day, however, getting fully engaged in a "project" for class and working on a "team" project takes you deeper into the process.  How to use systemics and critical thinking in determining whether a project is ready "for the street" or whether it needs to be drilled deeper to get the core of what will make it successful.  It's a study in chaos and systems planning.  I find myself thinking about who will be my next "test case" - or victim!!!"

Linda L. Schanfein
Cohort B
GYMBA