Objective
Professional Direction
Leading executive or account manager. Highly visible role with dynamic team promoting products, programs, organizations with high societal benefit or sustainable development solutions.
Enthusiastic detail orientated team leader with 12 years experience in small business management and success in cost control by operating efficiency. Proficient in Internet technologies, experienced with managing staff up to twenty and accustomed to following regulations including organic certification. Natural products industry insider involved with organic production and sustainable business models. Ethical business standards and outstanding analytical skills.
Conscious Profitability
I understand financial budgets and associate sustainability with long term cost effectiveness. Profitability is essential to continue in a commercial enterprise, but my employment endeavors have a goal greater than simple maximization of financial gain. Sustainable development, organic agriculture, plant medicine, fair trade, biodiversity and nutritional equity are examples.
Ethical Standards
Hard work creates competitive advantage. I am involved with projects that actively look for solutions to the challenges of our times and use the market to promote and encourage ethical behavior. I support transparency.
Professional Collaboration
I work well in an energetic team environment. I am independent and highly motivated, yet I appreciate collaborating with co-workers and professional contemporaries to find solutions. There is strength in diversity. I have an excellent network of peers that offer balancing viewpoints and foster professional strength. I like to consult.
Technology Integration
I see great opportunity for technology to encourage sustainable development and provide efficient alternatives to resources intensive patterns. Information sharing and distance collaboration are excellent examples. I support open source software development.
Plant Based Solutions
The natural world provides many financially sensible solutions to environmental health issues facing people today. Traditional herbal medicine is relevant. Working with renewable plant resources is a practical way to serve society in harmony with our environment. I advocate biodiversity.
