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Sustainable Innovation Workshop
Workshop Details
Bringing a product from concept to customer is an interdisciplinary process that involves a wide diversity of skills: designers’ creativity, engineers’ pragmatism, operations leaders’ effectiveness, marketers’ insight. So why would you use one-size-fits-all sustainability practices?
We’ve developed a Sustainable Innovation Workshop that provides clarity to where each sustainable innovation tool fits into your job and your company.
We will train you in the tools most useful at each stage of the innovation process. You’ve probably heard of some of these sustainable innovation tools, like carbon footprinting, life cycle assessment, and green marketing.
So if you’re a professional working in a design, technical, operations, strategy, or marketing role, and are interested in—or have been tasked with—infusing more sustainability into your job and career, attend our workshop to gain exposure to these tools of sustainable innovation.
Through this workshop, you’ll develop a complete Sustainable Innovation Toolkit, including:
- Biomimicry
- Life Cycle Assessment
- Green Chemistry
- Sustainable Operations
- Industrial Ecology
- Green Marketing
Registration Deadline
The deadline to register for this workshop is Friday, October 9 at 12:00 Noon.
Location
The workshop will be held at the Forefront Conference Center in Waltham, MA. Directions can be found at http://www.forefrontcenter.com/directions.htm.
Summary Agenda
8:30-9:00 AM: Continental breakfast and networking
9:00-12:00: Sustainable innovation tools for Product and Process
12:00-1:00: Luncheon buffet (http://www.forefrontcenter.com/dining_luncheon.htm)
1:00-4:00: Sustainable innovation tools for Company, Supply Chain and Customer
4:00-4:30: Wrap-up and general Q&A
4:30-5:00: Networking; facilitators available for individual questions
Available Discounts
- A 10% discount is available for paid members of a student or professional Net Impact chapter. Please enter code netimpact if you qualify for this discount (membership status will be verified). You can join or review your membership at www.netimpact.org.
- A 10% discount is available for each additional attendee that you refer to this workshop. Please instruct these attendees to enter your name in the "Referred by" section of the form. A partial refund of $39.50 for each referred attendee will be processed on your registration at the conclusion of the event, to the limit of the full refund.
Cancellation Policy
You may cancel your registration by October 5, 2009 for a 50% refund. Past that date, you will be charged the full amount of your registration.
Contact Us
If you have additional questions, please contact:
- Asheen Phansey
- Asheen (at) QuakingAspenLLC (dot) com
- (617) 379-1536
- Rudy Ruggles
- rudy(dot)ruggles (at) comcast (dot) net
- (617) 633-6254
When & Where
Forefront Conference Center
404 Wyman Street
Waltham,
MA 02451
Thursday, October 15, 2009 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (ET)
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Asheen Phansey & Rudy Ruggles
Asheen Phansey
Quaking Aspen, LLC
Asheen Phansey has developed a deep expertise in sustainable business through academic and professional pursuits. He has been implementing sustainable innovation strategies since 2007, and founded Quaking Aspen in 2008 to help companies develop their sustainability toolkits. Quaking Aspen’s client work includes ecological product stewardship for Avery Dennison and green marketing strategy for the Conservation Law Foundation.
Asheen has traveled the US giving talks on practical tools for sustainability. These include guest lecturing for Hunter Lovins (coauthor, with Amory Lovins and Paul Hawken, of Natural Capitalism) in her Principles of Sustainable Management class at the Presidio School of Management, and at various other universities, companies and conferences.
As an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College, Asheen teaches an innovative MBA elective called Sustainable Entrepreneurship Inspired by Nature, a biomimicry-infused business strategy course that was highlighted in BusinessWeek and The Economist.
Asheen is also a dedicated member of Net Impact, the international organization for socially- and environmentally-responsible business. He has served on the executive leadership team of the Net Impact Boston professional chapter since 2007 and has spoken at several Net Impact national conferences.
Asheen holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA, Technology Entrepreneurship, from Babson College. He draws on his prior experience in technology and management roles in the biotechnology, software, and aerospace industries, including a lead role at a contract pharmaceutical manufacturing startup involved in processing high-risk oncology drugs.
Rudy Ruggles
Collaborative Innovation Services, LLC
Rudy Ruggles is the President of Collaborative Innovation Services, LLC, a consultancy helping organizations use the tools and principles of sustainability to create innovative solutions to strategic and organizational challenges. His work combines his 20 years of professional experience working with clients in multiple industries to enhance their organizational learning, knowledge management, and innovation capabilities with his expertise in environmentally and social responsible business practices, particularly as they apply to product design and development. Along with his client work in this area he has earned a Certificate in Sustainable Design from MCAD and chaired the 2001 Product Development & Management Association's annual conference.
Prior to Collaborative Innovation Services, Rudy worked as an Experience Leader with Monitor Executive Development (part of the Monitor Group) and as a Research Leader at the Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation. He has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern and did his undergraduate work at Georgetown University. Rudy has written several articles for major publications, including "Disruptive Innovation of Social Change" with Clayton Christensen for the Harvard Business Review (Dec. 2008), and has published two books: Knowledge Management Tools and The Knowledge Advantage. He is also a founding member of Net Impact Boston and the Weston Climate Group, and serves on the Weston Environmental Baseline Committee.