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About Andrew Winston - Author and Green Business expert:

Andrew Winston, founder of Winston Eco-Strategies, is the author of Green Recovery, a strategic plan for using environmental thinking to survive hard economic times. He is also the co-author of Green to Gold, the best-selling guide to what works – and what doesn’t – when companies go green.

Andrew is a globally recognized expert on green business, appearing regularly in major media such as The Wall Street Journal, Time, BusinessWeek, New York Times, and CNBC. Andrew is dedicated to helping companies both large and small use environmental strategy to grow, create enduring value, and build stronger relationships with employees, customers, and other stakeholders. His clients have included Bank of America, Bayer, Boeing, HP, IKEA, Johnson & Johnson, and Pepsi. Andrew also serves on the Sustainability Advisory Board of the Kimberly-Clark Corporation, the Executive Environmental Advisory Council for Hewlett-Packard (HP), and as a Sustainability Advisor to PwC.

Andrew bases his work on significant in-company business experience. His earlier career included advising companies on corporate strategy while at Boston Consulting Group and management positions in strategy and marketing at Time Warner and MTV. After these more traditional roles, Andrew pursued his passion to explore the overlap between business and environment. He served as the Director of the Corporate Environmental Strategy Project at Yale’s renowned School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Today, Andrew is a highly respected and dynamic speaker, reaching audiences of thousands of people around the world and acting as a practical evangelist for the benefits of going green. He also writes extensively on green business strategy, including a weekly column for Harvard Business Online, regular pieces on Huffington Post, and a strategy e-letter, Eco-Advantage Strategies. For his efforts, Andrew was named a “Planet Defender” by Rock the Earth.

Andrew received his BA in Economics from Princeton, an MBA from Columbia, and a Masters of Environmental Management from Yale.

What Andrew Winston Talks About:

The Greening of Business: Why It’s Unavoidable and How You Can Profit From It
Andrew will describe how the world's best companies use environmental to innovate and profit in a crowded, resource-constrained world. Through fun and fascinating examples from a range of industries, Winston demonstrates how leading companies…

• Get Lean: Amp up energy and resource efficiency to save millions
• Get Smart: Use data about products and supply chains to save money, drive performance, and serve customers better with innovative new products
• Get Going: Engage and excite employees to solve the company’s, the customer’s, and the world’s environmental challenges
• Get Creative: Rejuvenate innovation efforts by asking tough questions such as Can we operate with no fossil fuels?

Winston makes the case that the pursuing sustainability is not optional anymore, but it saves money, drives innovation, and represents a new and fundamentally better way of doing business.