A Brief History & Profile

AtKisson, Inc. is the parent company to an international network of companies and licensed affiliates around the world, called the AtKisson Group.  The common Group mission is to promote sustainability, and to accelerate the process of sustainable development.

Since our inception, our work has been founded on systems and sustainability theory, mixed with best-practice methods for practical implementation and change, a sense of passion for our work, and a commitment to quality and creativity in working with our clients and customers.   

The AtKisson Group began as AtKisson + Associates, a sole proprietorship, in 1992.  The company was founded by Alan AtKisson, also a co-founder of the internationally recognized volunteer initiative, Sustainable Seattle.  (Several other early AtKisson associates were also Sustainable Seattle volunteers.)

From the beginning, the company was a sought-after source of fresh new ideas, well-tested experience, and best-practice methods, for a wide variety of clients ranging from cities, to Fortune 500 corporations, to small non-profit groups.  The Group's early projects were in support of the sustainability leaders of their time, and they built our competency in indicators and assessment, organizational development, initiative design, training, strategic planning, meeting facilitation, communication, and other critical skill areas.  

Out of these projects we developed a set of proven tools and methods for advancing sustainability, and these have now been brought together into the AtKisson Accelerator toolkit.  Development of the Accelerator, and the beginning of our international certification and licensing program in 2002, made possible the spread of our tools and methods to other professionals, as well as to other countries and cultures.  The 2002 founding of our European company, AtKisson Europe AB in Sweden, provided us with a model for international collaboration.  Now, all AtKisson Group associates and partners operate under the same licensing terms and conditions ... and towards a common purpose, adapted to local needs and conditions.

The Group also continues to innovate, creating new processes, training programs, and methods in response to the needs of our clients, and in response to the world's current needs for making sustainability a practical reality.

The international breadth and depth of our network gives us considerable advantage in providing cutting edge, best practice support to our clients, rapidly, and at reasonable cost.  

We look forward to continuing our own sustainable development, and to the possibility of working with you to advance the prospects for a successful and sustainable future.  

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P.S. The name AtKisson has been retained, at the recommendation of many advisors, as the international brand because of its memorable capital K, Alan AtKisson's history in the field of sustainability, and the international adaptability of a name versus a specific word or phrase. And yes, the capital K is genuinely part of Alan's last name, going back many generations.