Conference Presentation | Monday, September 22, 2008 | 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Environmental Sustainability: Your Risks, Responsibilities, and Rewards

Abstract: Learn how you can help your company fulfill customers’ and regulators’ increasing demands for products and operations with smaller-carbon footprints. See how peers at other companies have done so, and receive nuts-and-bolts recommendations for doing so at your company. Participants will be given a map on which to plot their own company’s current and desired positions for beyond-regulations environmental and social responsibility, and will be coached in driving desired improvements.

Pamela J. Gordon
Conference Chair and Speaker
President, Technology Forecasters Inc.
Director, TFI Environment

President and Founder, Ms. Pamela J. Gordon leads a growing strategic consulting firm serving some of the world's best-known electronics companies in best-practice outsourcing and supply-chain methods. Before founding Technology Forecasters Inc., in 1987, Ms. Gordon was a senior analyst at Gnostic Concepts, Inc., an electronics industry market-research firm. She wrote the book Lean and Green: Profit for Your Workplace and the Environment, published October 2001 by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Ms. Gordon is a Certified Management Consultant by the Institute of Management Consultants, and was Chair of the IMC's Northern California chapter. A prolific author, Ms. Gordon has penned hundreds of articles for trade and business journals. Ms. Gordon is also quoted in more than 50 journals and newspapers and is a popular guest lecturer. She is a Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society graduate from San Jose State University.

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