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Amy Fetzer

Amy Fetzer is a journalist, author and consultant specialising in sustainability. Amy’s work focuses on creating engaging communications – from environmental white papers, research reports and articles to briefing documents, case studies and workshops – that inspire, entertain and inform. Her goal is to empower individuals and organisations to become more sustainable and successful.

Amy has a MSc with Distinction in Sustainable Development, winning The Roland Clift Prize for Environment and Sustainability Research for her dissertation. Amy’s clients range from Hewlett Packard, Sodexo and Footprint Media to Canvas 8, the Department of Energy and Climate Change, BBC, Green Futures and The Guardian. For examples of Amy’s written work, visit www.amyfetzer.co.uk or for more info on speaking and training, click here. Amy lives in Sevenoaks, England.

Shari Aaron

Shari Aaron is an innovative, strategic thinker and a thoughtful business leader in sustainability and market research.  She excels at helping clients uncover driving consumer forces, identify changing marketplace dynamics and translate sustainability into successful business decisions. (CV can be found here:  Shari Aaron)

Shari is passionate about fostering collaborative relationships between consumers, companies, non-profits and the media, to ensure all voices have a role in improving the impact of business on society and society on business.

As a former Partner at Yankelovich, Supervisor of Account Planning at Ogilvy & Mather and Founder of Fresh Marketing (www.freshmarketing.com), Shari has worked with many distinguished clients including ClimateCounts.org, Coca-Cola, Hasbro, Kraft, Liz Claiborne, Ogilvy & Mather, StartingBloc, P&G, The Princeton Review, The Toy Industry Association, Red Cross, UNICEF and Uncommon Schools.

Shari is a steering committee member of New York Women Social Entrepreneurs where she is spearheading Emerging Sustainability Leaders (NYWSE ESL) – a corporate sustainability training program.

Shari lives in Weston, CT  (USA) with her husband Steve and her sons, Jake and Michael.