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Deborah Fleischer is president of Green Impact, a strategic environmental consulting practice that helps companies engage employees, strengthen relationships with stakeholders, launch profitable green initiatives and communicate about their successes and challenges. She is the author of Green Teams:  Engaging Employees in Sustainability and is a regular contributor to http://www.triplepundit.com.

 

She is a LEED AP with over 20-years of direct experience working with businesses, governmental agencies, and non-profits on environmental and sustainability challenges. She brings deep expertise in sustainability strategy, green teams, stakeholder engagement, program development and written communications. Her background includes a Master in Environmental Studies from Yale University and a Master in Public Administration from Harvard.

You can follow her occasional tweet @GreenImpact, contact her directly at Deborah@greenimpact.com or call her at (415) 302-2655.

She has helped a variety of non-profits and foundations develop new programs and strategies, including the California Environmental Dialogue, Environmental Grantmakers Association, Marin Community Foundation and the Sonoma Land Trust. She has also held senior positions with the City of San Francisco Department of Environment, helping them to develop their green purchasing program, and Sustainable Conservation, developing programs for landowners that supported environmental protection and generated economic returns.

She has a track record of successfully managing large, complex projects and stakeholder dialogues, and has written many environmental reports and documents, including Sustainable Consumption and Production: Strategies for Accelerating Positive Change, a report that develops a funding strategy for grantmakers interested in sustainability. She has completed trainings at Peter Senge's Center for Organizational Learning, The Harvard Law School, Grove Consultants and The Institute for Social Change.

In her free time, you will find Deborah mountain biking or hiking the hills of Marin, practicing yoga, or creating multi-media paintings.

Sustainability Strategy catalyze action Program Development design - implementation Written Communications research - reports