partner,
Greenland Enterprises

For over ten years, Georges has been engaged in solutions-based, business-driven, and whole-system approaches to sustainable development. He is a founder of Greenland Enterprises, a consultancy specializing in strategic leadership towards sustainability for accelerating the role businesses and other organizations play in sustainable development. For two years Georges was the Head of Market Intelligence for the Institutional Equities Group at LaBranche Financial Services in New York, where he was an NASD Series 86/87 licensed analyst.

Prior to Wall Street, he was engaged with private equity deals working with eco-efficiency start-up companies and on residential and commercial real estate projects. He has worked with design-build firms on four residential green building projects

in Vermont and Colorado, and is certified in Permaculture design. Georges’ master’s thesis research focused on carbon reduction projects under the Kyoto Protocol and EU Emissions Trading Scheme, and he presented results at the 2006 Make Markets Work for Climate conference in Amsterdam.

Georges is also a Senior Fellow at Second Nature, and a Trustee of Stratleade Sustainability Education. He holds a Master of Strategic Leadership toward Sustainability from Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, Sweden, and a B.A. in History and Environmental Studies from Dartmouth College. He is a member of SoL, The Society for Organizational Learning, participating actively in the SoL Sustainability Consortium’s Carbon Commons working group.