Kenneth Alston Email & Phone Number

Charlottesvvile, Va Usa

Earlysville, Va

As a part-time, or ‘fractional’ Chief Sustainability Officer, I coach and advise CEOs and Executive teams of medium to large-sized companies with a mission to achieve more sustainable growth in change management and communications processes.

London Area, United Kingdom

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

🌎 MY EXPERTISE: As a part-time, or ‘fractional’ Chief Sustainability Officer, I coach and advise CEOs and Executive teams of medium to large-sized companies with a mission to achieve more sustainable growth in change management and communications processes.🌎 HOW I DO THIS: I think and implement with a sustainable, blue & circular economy mindset. Through my in-depth understanding and implementation experience of sustainable blue & circular product design and business integration expertise I am able to apply this approach to ANY business, product or service at scales from the molecule to the business, university, city, island, region and country.✅ Create awareness of sustainable circular & blue economy benefits for Leaders in Government, Business Executives, Faculty, Product Designers, R&D, Marketing, Communications, Procurement & Operations.✅ Presentations and hands-on, practical strategy & implementation executive workshops.✅ Benchmarking & expert analysis of sustainable, blue circular economy opportunities.🌎 WHAT OTHERS SAY: "Ken is a seasoned international expert in Circular Economy Implementation, both in-company and as a consultant! Highly recommended!" G. Bruggeman, Eindhoven Area, Netherlands,🌎 CASE STUDY: Defining the elements of Blue Economy & Circular Economy - subject matter expert for Island sustainability in 11 Caribbean Islands for the International Development Bank (2018).

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

🌎 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Globally recognized speaker on Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Circular Economy, Blue Economy with the authoritative voice demanded internationally by businesses and governments alike. He has presented to audiences from 50 to 1,000 and is recognized as a passionate speaker with a persuasive style that has audiences nodding in approval and demanding more. 🌎 WHERE YOU'VE SEEN ME: Keynote speaker at Circular Glasgow, Scotland (February 2018). Circular Economy Forum of the Americas conferences: Medellin, Colombia (2017) and Santiago, Chile (2018). C&A Foundation, Shanghai, China. Conferences including Sustainable Brands, Sustainable Cosmetics, Greenbuild, European Congress of Chemical Engineering in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America including China, Belgium, France, Germany, Scotland, The Netherlands, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru. 🌎 CASE STUDY: Selected by the U.S. State Department as "Goodwill Ambassador" to tour Germany, presenting at several Earth Week events representing the United States Government (2015).

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

🌎 DESIGN FOR A SUSTAINABLE CIRCULAR ECONOMY WORKSHOPS: Hands-on, practical workshops from 0.5 to 3 days - tailored to your business or organization. ✅ Teach the benefits of implementing Sustainable, Blue & Circular economic business models. ✅ Hands-on green product design workshops to create positive footprints in a sustainable blue and circular economy. ✅ Integrate Blue Economy, Circular Economy & cradle to cradle design principles in product development process for consistent green product concept development.✅ Create compelling communications to avoid the reputation risks of "Greenwashing".🌎 CONTACT ME: To book a Circular Economy Workshop

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

🌎 In a 30 minute call I will identify the critical missing elements in your sustainability, blue and circular economy strategy & goals. We will review the valuable business benefits you are virtually certain to be missing. You will get clear on the problem and how to fix it. After our call, if you want me to coach you to achieve these benefits we can discuss that. Never-the-less, at the end of the call you will see what you've been missing and will have a road map for creating a new complete strategy for a sustainable blue & circular economy.📆 BOOK ME HERE: You can select a time and day for our call. Please complete the short questionnaire in preparation for our call: https://calendly.com/kenalston/30min

Charlottesville, Virginia

🌎 My EXPERTISE: Understanding and applying Cradle to Cradle design principles and practice in new product development processes to consistently generate innovative product concepts intentionally designed for a sustainable circular & blue economy. How to get materials and products Cradle to Cradle Certified.🌎 HOW I DO THIS: By creating the business case from transitioning to a beneficial, sustainable circular & blue economy. Innovating new product ideas, reducing risks and improving profitability. ✅ Implementing Cradle to Cradle design principles & practice with Executives, Marketing, R&D, Procurement and Communications specialists in companies, governments & universities.✅ Presenting the benefits of Cradle to Cradle Design Principles and Product Certification in companies.✅ Completing our proprietary "SUSTENTATION SCAN(TM)" of your product to see how it fits (or not) with sustainable circular & blue economy and cradle to cradle design principles & certification.✅ Adding design principles to new product development 'stage-gate' processes in companies to create products intentionally designed for a sustainable blue & circular economy. ✅ Creating compelling corporate communications to publicize leadership actions and tell meaningful client facing stories on sustainable blue & circular economy achievements without greenwashing.🌎 WHAT PEOPLE SAY: "You won't find a more knowledgeable thought leader on the work of the C2C system..." Lewis Perkins, President, Cradle to Cradle Products innovation Institute.🌎 WHERE YOU'VE SEEN ME: Taught Cradle to Cradle (C2C) design principles and Cradle to Cradle Certified Product Standard to staff and accredited assessors at the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation institute. Consulted at Steelcase, Herman Miller, Shaw, Nike, Waste Management, Coca-Cola, Walmart, Proctor & Gamble, Georgetown University...🌎 ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜ ᴍʏ ᴠɪᴅᴇᴏ ᴏɴ ᴄʀᴀᴅʟᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴄʀᴀᴅʟᴇ ᴅᴇꜱɪɢɴ ᴘʀɪɴᴄɪᴘʟᴇꜱ ⏯

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

🌎 MY EXPERTISE: Expert knowledge of Sustainable Development .👨‍✈️✈️ Developed comprehensive e-learning training course for US Air Force online University (>14 hours seat learning time). 📦 Started and managed the most successful program of Green Blue, namely the Sustainable Packaging Coalition. Presented at Darden Business School, University of Virginia and subsequent meetings at Starbucks and Mead Westvaco.

Racine, Wisconsin Usa; Frimley Green & Egham Surrey Uk.

🌎 MY EXPERTISE: In depth knowledge of global fast moving consumer goods products and packaging. Over 20 years of Marketing, R&D, Procurement, Operations, Corporate Environmental & Communications experience.❓HOW I DO THIS: By creating the business case for sustainable circular economy; by creating meaningful goals, collecting, assessing and communicating progress worldwide on corporate sustainability goal achievements without Greenwashing. 💲 Saved millions of dollars and reduced business risk through the implementation of product and process design changes to address the challenges of Corporate Sustainability & Social Responsibility.Implemented packaging innovations to become PVC free ahead of regulatory requirements. Led marketing, procurement and manufacturing operations to design, develop and commercialize new innovative products including sustainability and environmental benefits.

Food scientist working on Ribena, Lucozade and Quosh products.

Mba, Business And International Marketing

Masters in Business Administration

B. Tech., Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Organized and managed the Student Film Society from 1973-1976. Created a 6-week lecture series on the History.