Beyond the Checklist: The All-Important People Side of Environmental Sustainability

Featuring Steve Wilton and Mary Wilson Callahan, Ph.D. MBA

Living and working green goes well beyond “clean tech.” Most energy audits and carbon calculators recommend products and methods that a company can obtain to become more energy efficient and environmentally friendly, but true sustainability requires enterprise-wide attention to “the people side.” Steve Wilton and Mary Callahan discuss the kinds of communications, collaborations, and culture change a company must integrate to become thoroughly and lastingly green.

About the speakers:

Steve Wilton has been helping people think differently about their business strategies and opportunities for over 15 years by using proven innovation techniques. After four years in an ad agency and two years in direct marketing, Wilton served as president and CEO of a 200-employee, consumer products manufacturing and marketing company. During that time he helped institute quality programs and efforts to become a “green company.” In 1998 the company received the Pennsylvania Governor’s award for environmental excellence. In 1999, the U.S. commerce department picked the company as one of 125 companies in the country to receive the prestigious “Best Manufacturing Practices” award.

Wilton also worked as marketing director for a collaborative software company, as a consultant/trainer to ad agencies, and as Deputy Director of Al Gore’s The Climate Project. Through creative collaborations, Wilton helps others discover and invent new pathways to green.

Mary Wilson Callahan, Ph.D. MBA specializes in organizational effectiveness, agile leadership, and team development in growing companies. She is a member of a rare species – a researcher, writer, and trainer with extensive experience in the trenches of the business world. Her doctorate in Adult Learning and Organization Development was earned after a 25-year career in information systems, manufacturing, marketing, and finance roles in major information technology organizations.

During her career, Dr. Callahan has worked in some of the country's fastest-growing high tech companies, progressing through increasingly responsible functional and project management positions across corporate value chain. She has also managed economic development projects for business incubators, industry associations, and local governments. She is consistently guided by the principle that her work will provide maximum value when it is focused on continual learning and building high performance teams.

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