Transportation to the event: There is a Denny's school bus arranged to depart at 6:30 SHARP that night from the loop in front of University Centre to take students to the RRC. The bus seats 48 people and is first-come-first-serve.
Speaker bio: Bob is a leading expert on the business value of corporate sustainability strategies and has given over 275 keynote presentations to corporations, governments, academics, and NGOs. Bob applies business and leadership development experience from his 34-year career at IBM Canada to engage the business community in proactively avoiding risks and capturing opportunities associated with sustainability issues.
He is the author of The Sustainability Advantage: Seven Business Case Benefits of a Triple Bottom Line (2002) on the quantified business case for sustainability strategies and The Next Sustainability Wave: Building Boardroom Buy-in (2005) on why some companies are committed to sustainability, why others are not, and how to overcome senior executive resistance to making that commitment.
Bob is on the advisory board of The Natural Step Canada, the faculty of the Sustainable Enterprise Academy (SEA) and Education and Sustainability Academy (SEdA) sponsored by the York University's Schulich School of Business, and the faculty of Sustainability and Beyond sponsored by the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.
He has a BSc from McGill University (1964), an MEd from the University of Toronto (2000), and a PhD from the University of Toronto (2005). A resident of Ontario, he is the proud owner of his second hybrid car, a Honda Accord.
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