Jean Brittingham
Director (North America), The Prince of Wales’s Business and the Environment Programme , Responsible Business
My name is Jean Brittingham and I have been involved with the Business and the Environment Programme for over five years as faculty to the US Seminars. I recently took on a full-time role as the Director in North America.
When I attended the BEP in 2001 it was just a few weeks after the September 11th terrorist attacks and the United States was still in shock. The BEP seminar put into stark relief how systems pressures, false economics and post-industrial consumerism were draining not only our eco-systems and the services they provide, but also critically straining the fabric of our societies. A strong participant in environmental stewardship since my childhood in Oregon during the Tom McCall years, I found myself newly enlisted as a corporate sustainability activist!!
During my years as a senior manager at CH2M Hill, I had the opportunity to work to integrate sustainability into the fabric of their project delivery approach and worked to make sustainability measures as acceptable and “normal” to clients as the quality management processes they have come to value. I’ve also had many opportunities to work with great clients on infrastructure programs where we could integrate sustainability into the values framework for deciding when and what to build, or not build!
My other passion is empowering young women to actualize their full potential. I am creating a Web 2.0 mentoring and lending site to encourage and support women entrepreneurs in the developed world as a response to the continuing loss of the value of women’s creativity in our most “advanced” societies.
I’m just learning to ski (I live in Utah) and am further motivated to arrest global warming so we can save the snow!!
