What We Do

This page describes our work in general terms, and includes on-line links at the end of this page. For more specific descriptions of our service offerings, please go to Sustainability Services. To download brochures in PDF format, click here.

In sum:

We help organizations of all kinds
do sustainable development.

For real.

Companies, governments, communities, investment groups, regional initiatives ... our client list is very global and very diverse. That's because the methods we use work virtually anywhere, and they produce excellent results. We've helped create strategies for approval by groups of Prime Ministers, and we've also helped prison officials redesign their operations. Our tools have been used by global corporations, by regional economic development programs, and by small Asian villages. We are confident that they will work for you.

Indicators. Systems. Innovation. Strategy.

These are the building blocks of sustainability work. We've been leaders in developing their use, over nearly fifteen years of professional engagement, and we have integrated our experience into a powerful method called "ISIS". Indicators, Systems, Innovation, Strategy ... this perspective permeates everything we do, and it has helped us to design, initiate, and accelerate sustainability initiatives all over the world.

Consulting. Training. Speaking. Facilitation.

We do all this and more, whatever it takes to make sustainability real. Our global network of practitioners is wide and deep. And we are especially interested in empowering people to empower other people … using our tools, training courses, and group process methods.

Research. Writing. Publication. Web Development.

We also help people understand and communicate sustainability, in clear and compelling terms. We want to make it possible for people to get involved in the process of communication and change, through innovative on-line applications, stakeholder engagement processes, art programs … whatever's needed, whatever works.

See Sustainability Services for more specifics, see the Accelerator for a summary of our tools, and look below for some on-line examples of our community- and region-based work:

http://www.SustainablePittsburgh.org/

See the "Clients" page for more specifics on what we do.

See the AtKisson Accelerator for an overview of our toolkit.

Contact us directly for more information on our consulting services, or on our program for licensing our tools and methodologies.