Susan Briski

Susan Briski, Principal and founder of Sustainable Progress Consulting, provides consulting services to leading organizations to help them create a sustainable future and improve their triple-bottom-line performance; where business, the environment, and people prosper.  She helps people understand and apply sustainability principles in practical, common sense ways, and provides systematic approaches to produce measurable improvement.  Her clients include businesses, colleges, nonprofits, and community groups.  Susan has 20 years of experience in high-tech corporations including Hewlett Packard and Agilent Technologies as an engineer, project manager, and manager in Manufacturing and Research and Development.  She is knowledgeable about the latest environmental and sustainability trends, models and practices and has expertise in Environmental and Sustainability Management Systems including ISO 14001, the Global Reporting Initiative, The Natural Step (a framework for organizational improvement), and The Ecological Footprint.   In the last year she has been working with Paul Dolan on designing a CEO Roundtable for some of the world’s largest businesses to take a stand on solving global warming.  She is on the Sustainable Enterprise Coalition which designs and implements sustainability conferences and workshops in Northern California.  She is a fellow of the Leadership Institute of Ecology and the Economy, where she remains actively involved in designing and delivering classes to incoming participants.  She was also actively involved in Sustainable Sonoma County, holding sustainability workshops and working with companies to implement sustainability management systems. Susan graduated with a Green MBA in May of 2003.  She also holds an MA in Humanities and Leadership with an emphasis in Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community; and a BS in Mechanical Engineering. Susan just joined the Green MBA faculty co-teaching Eco-Commerce Models.

What people are saying about the GreenMBA

"The GreenMBA is a departure from Business-As-Usual. Where most business schools include the environment and CSR as electives or footnotes, they serve as our foundations. I feel honored and fortunate for the opportunity to participate in this transformative process--of myself and the business world.

Small cohort sizes are amazing--we each have a voice that is heard regularly and the instructors have the freedom to use the most creative and effective exercises with such an intimate group."

Janine Elliott,
Cohort R