Bob Willard

Bob Willard is a leading expert on quantifying and selling the business value of corporate sustainability strategies and has given over a thousand presentations to corporate, government, university, and NGO audiences. Bob applies his business and leadership experience from his 34-year career at IBM Canada to engage the business community in proactively avoiding risks and capturing opportunities by using smart environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies.He has authored six books: The Sustainability Advantage (2002), The Next Sustainability Wave (2005), The Sustainability Champion's Guidebook (2009), The New Sustainability Advantage (2012), Future-Fit Business Benchmark (co-authored, 2016), and the free, open-source Sustainability ROI Workbook (2017). His extensive Sustainability Champion Slide Decks provide further capacity-building resources for sustainability champions. He is using material from all these resources, and numerous ready-to-use tools that are based on them, in the courses he teaches in the certificate program. Bob serves on the board of the Future-Fit Foundation and the B Corp Standards Advisory Council. He was one of five inaugural inductees into the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP) Hall of Fame in 2011, received Clean50 awards in 2015 and 2017, and earned 'Best for the World - Overall' awards for certified B Corps in 2013, 2014, 2017 and 2018. He is an ISSP Certified Sustainability Professional and received a PhD in sustainability from the University of Toronto in 2005.More information about Bob and his resources for sustainability champions can be found at www.secondglancephotography.com