I am an excellent conceptual thinker with the ability to connect the big picture to the detailed implementation. I apply systems approaches to today’s complex problems, simplifying things so they are manageable in real world conditions. I have extensive international experience in successfully working with diverse actors with different interests. Focus areas include:+ Facilitation: bringing together diverse stakeholders for common purposes including roundtables, networks and multi-stakeholder initiatives, creating shared learning platforms.+ Research and Evaluation: applied research in sustainability. Project, program design and evaluation. Matching methods to needs. Developing usable Theory of Change and results-based frameworks.+ Sustainable supply chains: Working with businesses, developing countries, small scale farmers, technical standards, analysis, planning, integrating sustainability into the business operations, creating performance metrics frameworks, leadership training.+ Voluntary standards: Design, development and implementation of Monitoring and Evaluation systems. Managing for impact, benchmarking and using M&E as an organizational strategic tool.Based in US Appalachia, lived and worked in Europe and Latin America.Specialties: Facilitation multi-stakeholder initiatives, Managing for Impact, Sustainable Development, Monitoring and Evaluation as a Strategic Tool, voluntary sustainability standards, certification, Not for profit management, project design and Impact Assessment
Listed skills include Sustainable Development, Public Policy, Sustainability, International Development, and 12 others.
