Sustainability: Take the lead.

The Canadian Institute for Sustainability and Resilience in partnership with The Sheridan Institute of Technology is pleased to announce a special groundbreaking presentation on October 18, 2010 by internationally recognized thought leader on sustainable development, Dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt, Founder of The Natural Step.

Dr. Robèrt has successfully nurtured a global movement that has spread to 15 countries and engaged thousands of people in hundreds of organizations.  For the past 20 years Dr. Robèrt has worked with brand-name organizations such as IKEA, Swedish McDonalds, Nike, Scandic Hotels, and Electrolux to help them pioneer sustainable solutions and transform their organizations. Over 100 municipalities around the world are also using the approach that Dr. Robèrt created. Dr. Robèrt is also a Fellow of the World Business Academy, an advisory board member at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Doctor of Public Service at the University of Portland, a professor of sustainability at the Blekinge Institute of Technology, and a member of the EU Roundtable on Sustainability. He is the Chairman of the international research program Real Change, which recruits university, private and public sector partners across the globe, applying a unifying framework for sustainable development. In 1999 Dr. Robèrt won the Green Cross Award for International Leadership and in 2000, he won the Blue Planet Prize, often considered the ‘Nobel Prize’ for ecological sustainability. In 2006 he was included in the publication “100 Visionaries of the 20th Century,” and he was recently given the prestigious honour of being named an Ashoka Fellow.

Dr. Robèrt has made a global impact in promoting and implementing sustainability. The author of several books and dozens of scientific articles, he is a world-class speaker, teacher, scientist, social entrepreneur and leading thinker on the root causes of the global sustainability challenges we face today.