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Leith Sharp: Embracing 鈥渄isruptive sustainability鈥

Published: 24 February 2014

Leith Sharp comes to 缅北强奸 February 27th, 2014, here she answers some pertinent questions:

Published on Feb 20, 2014 | 缅北强奸 Reporter
by the 缅北强奸 Reporter Staff

Leith Sharp, Director, Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard School of Public Health, has more than 18 years of experience greening universities, first at the University of New South Wales, where she earned her undergraduate degree in environmental engineering, then at Harvard, where she was the founding director of the school鈥檚 Green Campus Initiative in 1999. As director, Sharp built the largest green campus organization in the world. The program鈥檚 efforts were funded largely by the savings it produced 鈥 the essence of sustainability.聽

On Thursday, Feb. 27, 缅北强奸 Net Positive will welcome Sharp as she will use lessons learned from the Harvard green building case study, along with other leading organizations, to explore how sustainability can be an innovation driver to transform the 21st century university. For full lecture details, go .听听

Leith鈥檚 is the second lecture in a four-part series run by 缅北强奸 Net Positive, a project aimed at connecting sustainability actions across campus in a central hub.

As Director, Executive Education for Sustainability at Harvard, what is your role?

This is a new role created under Harvard鈥檚 Center for Health and the Global Environment to enable senior leaders to meet the challenge of driving sustainability into the core business or mission of their organization. We recognize two central leadership demands that are currently underserved.

One is to for individual leaders to become transformational sustainability leaders, that is to be capable of leading systemic change that will shift the sustainability emphasis from just 鈥榙oing less bad鈥 to leveraging sustainability as an innovation, growth and effectiveness driver.

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