Sustainability Workshop for Hawaii Business Leaders

Kahului 7/25 * Kailua-Kona 8/1 * Honolulu 8/8 * Lihue 8/10 Register online at www.sesphawaii.com/workshop
The State Workforce Development Council, under the State Energy Sector Partnership (SESP) and job training grant, is conducting workshops for business leaders in Hawaii interested in incorporating principles of sustainability into their organizations. This highly interactive, full 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. Communications for sustainability. Marketing, sales, and customer loyalty strategies that align your internal and external corporate communications with your sustainability efforts. 3. Opportunities for sustainability. Innovative growth strategies for your business including nocost and low-cost measures to improve resource use while cutting costs. 4. Engaging the green workforce. Getting the most from your sustainability programs through employee engagement and green team development. Workshop presenters:

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

Sco$ Cooney is an adjunct Professor of sustainability in the MBA program at UH-Manoa, and the Principal Advisor at the GBO Group, a sustainability strategy consulDng rm based in Honolulu. A Phi Beta Kappa, Sco$ has started, grown and sold several green businesses. Sco$ has been project manager or client lead in sustainability training 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 educaDonal board game about greening Hawaiis economy. Find out more at www.GBOGroup.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. Shanah has a decade of corporate experience at IBM and Philips, specializing in organizaDonal change and sustainability training. Her clients include Johnson Controls, Family Programs Hawaii, Punahou, the Kokua FoundaDon and the Hawaii Department of EducaDon. Shanah designed Sustainability 101 for Small Business in Hawaii for KCC and recently published a textbook, Surng Tsunamis of Change, A Handbook for Change Agents, which received College Educator InternaDonals 2011 Sustainability Champion Award for its innovaDve framework for implemenDng organizaDonal change.

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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.