About
A career spent making sustainability survive contact with the project.
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The way we plan and run projects is either accelerating our crises or helping to pull us back from the edge. There is no neutral setting. |
I've devoted my career to that idea. Early on, I worked inside the systems I now spend my time trying to change. I consulted with the big firms, served in local government, and worked with top-tier banks. Eventually I left to found GPM because I was tired of treating sustainability as a side conversation instead of the operating system for how we design and deliver projects.
At GPM, I led the development of the PRiSM™ methodology and the P5 Standard for Sustainability in Project Management. Both are now used worldwide to bring sustainability into the core of project selection, governance, and delivery. My work has fed into international standards and frameworks, from helping shape the UN Sustainable Development Goals (including SDG 12 on responsible consumption and production) to serving on working groups for the Global Reporting Initiative, where we translate sustainability from marketing language into measurable obligations.
Most of what I do lives at the intersection of sustainability, strategy, and project management. Decarbonization. Regenerative development. Climate and nature risk. The reality of turning big commitments into real projects with budgets, trade-offs, and political constraints. I advise boards and executives, write standards and guidance, teach, and design tools that help organizations align what they build with what they claim to stand for. People sometimes describe me as the architect of the standards, methods, and credentials behind Sustainable Project Management®. I take that as a reminder to keep pushing the profession into territory it still resists.
My thinking shows up in books, guides, and articles, including work published with Forbes and across professional and academic communities worldwide. The through-line is always the same: integrity over greenwash, regeneration over less harm, accountability over slogans. If an idea cannot survive contact with a real project team under pressure, I am not interested.
Leadership means service. You leave a campsite better than you found it. Responsibility does not end at your own front door.
The principles I learned in Scouting, long before the frameworks and credentials.
Today, as a professor, standards writer, and consultant, I bring that same mindset into boardrooms, classrooms, and project teams. An Eagle Scout still in active service. A teacher at SKEMA Business School. A standards writer for the PMI-GPM joint venture. A father of two.
The work, in one sentence
The work is open to anyone ready to close the gap between their sustainability story and their actual impact, with practical ways to do it through projects. That is the conversation I am interested in having.