David A. Bainbridge has focused for almost 40 years on the challenge of sustainable management of resources and people. His pioneering work has included: developments in environmental impact analysis, land capability evaluation (including costs), planning for sustainable communities, natural heating and cooling research, alternative building materials research and education (including straw bale building systems), research and education work in agroforestry and sustainable agriculture, desert and grassland restoration, and environmental accounting and sustainable management for businesses. He is the author of 12 books, many book chapters and more than 300 articles and reports on sustainable management. He helped develop the sustainable management program at the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management and taught sustainable management, environmental management reporting, ethics, and other courses, served on doctoral research committees (for the Doctor of Business Administration degree) and assisted with campus and university sustainability initiatives until his retirement in 2010. His current writing and research focus will remain on true cost accounting, sustainability reporting, resource management and high efficiency irrigation systems.

Ms. Sandra Vijn-Kumar started her work in the sustainability field at the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), where she worked with hundreds of companies, non-profits and other stakeholders on sustainability reporting and the development of the latest version of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Guidelines (G3). At the Dubai-based Centre for Responsible Business Sandra continued her path in sustainability through awareness raising and capacity building activities to support member companies of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry. She focused on stakeholder engagement, sustainability reporting trainings, and development of award and certification programs, and sustainability assessment tools. She was one of the six ISO 26000 Social Responsibility working group experts that represented the United Arab Emirates. Sandra has given presentations about sustainability reporting for a wide range of audiences in cities like Dubai, Sao Paolo, Auckland, Sydney, London, Amsterdam. Sandra currently lives in Arkansas, USA, where she works as a freelance sustainability consultant. She is a GRI Trainer for the ISOS Group.

Ms. Carrie McChesney, Founder and CEO, Concept Green, LLC
Entrepreneur, communicator and sustainability expert, Carrie McChesney has over 15 years experience managing corporate publication projects. Carrie’s firm, Concept Green, helps large organizations develop credible sustainability programs, performance measures and communications. Prior to founding Concept Green, Carrie managed GRI reporting, Dow Jones Sustainability Assessments, sustainability program development and key performance indicators for an investor-owned utility. Carrie had her first GRI “aha” moment in 2006 when she participated in the development of the Electric Utility Sector Supplement and published her first GRI corporate sustainability report. She’s been a big fan of the Global Reporting Initiative ever since. Carrie is delighted to work with the ISOS Group and looks forward to sharing the power of GRI at upcoming ISOS Group training sessions.