Caroline Rennie, Managing Partner
Caroline Rennie
Caroline Rennie has worked in the Environmental domain for 25 years with companies, government and NGOs in the US and Europe. She served as Environmental Affairs Director for Schmalbach-Lubeca PET (formerly Continental Can, and, at the time the largest manufacturer of PET preforms in the world) and then Tetra Pak UK. Prior to that she was political advisor for the Vice Chair of the California Integrated Waste Management Board; a role she took after serving as Marketing Manager for Envirothene, a plastics recycling firm in Los Angeles.
Caroline worked for the Institute for Local Self Reliance as lead author on Salvaging the Future, a study exploring the economic value inherent to a city that mined its waste streams for material. She served as Chair of Petcore (PET container recycling organisation in Europe), the Board of the National Recycling Coalition in the US, and worked with the Chicago Board of Trade as they set up their recycling commodities exchange.
Leadership and Change
Caroline has worked in change management, communications and leadership for Tetra Pak International, leading and supporting large scale change projects such as incorporating the environment/sustainability into business, and implementing and managing a customer satisfaction programme. She has developed and run leadership, communications, change and sustainability trainings, and is dedicated to highly participatory, experiential learning that links meaningfully to every-day life.
Caroline has a certificate in “Leading Meaningful Change” from Pro-Dev’s International Professional Development Programme, and is licensed to provide the Springboard programme for women, and Coaching for Great Work.
Derek Stephenson
Derek Stephenson
Derek Stephenson, master strategist and partner in ren-new, has over 30 years experience in sustainability. He created the Blue Box programme, Ontario’s household recycling programme, and has since worked with industry, government and NGOs to develop legislation, regulations and financing mechanisms for the recovery and recycling of products as diverse as packaging, waste electronics, and municipal hazardous waste.
Derek founded RIS and grew it to five offices in Canada, the US, and the EU before selling it to Enviros. He later ran Strategy Matters in Canada, and consults to industry and government in Europe, Australia and the Americas.
Partners
Robert Blood, Founder and Managing Director of SIGWatch
SIGWatch: SIGWatch – ‘SIG’ stands for Special Interest Group – is a global network specialising in activist and NGO tracking and issues analysis. Publishing the well-known SIGWatch newsletter on global activism since 1997, SIGWatch has several hundred readers within many of the world’s leading multinationals across all sectors.
SIGWatch conducts bespoke NGO and issue monitoring for clients and have completed multiple analytical and forecasting projects for the banking, pharmaceutical, energy, chemicals and food industries.
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