We aspire to have the greatest impact in ensuring human and ecosystem vitality by offering world-class consulting and design services that accelerate the implementation of sustainable practices in global business.
Chad Upham Principal
MBA Sustainable Management, Presidio School of Management
BFA Graphic Design, Art Center College of Design
LEED Accredited Professional, U.S. Green Building Council
Chad's unique approach to design blends exquisite information design with bold, inspiring messages and imagery. His strengths in typography, branding, and experience design deliver world-class visual communication systems. Through his work, Chad seeks to inspire hearts and minds to local and global citizenship utilizing campaigns that educate and create personal emotional connections. Chad attributes his respect for nature, communities, and cultures to his experience as a international traveler and as an Eagle Scout.
Clients have included: Human Rights Watch, The California State University, and Presidio School of Management. While employed at EDAW, a global landscape architecture and planning firm, Chad played an instrumental role in design projects for: George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate, FEMA, Schuylkill Banks in Philadelphia, The Tampa Riverwalk, and Texas State Parks. Chad has also held teaching positions at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington DC.
Becki Hack Senior Writer
MBA Sustainable Management, Presidio School of Management
JD, Baylor Law School
BBA, University of Oklahoma
For more than 14 years, Becki Hack has been an enthusiastic and energetic leader of education and change, working with Fortune 500 corporations, non-profits, governments, communities, and individuals. She has served as a lawyer, business best practices benchmarking manager, writer, and organizational change consultant. Becki has worked with organizations such as Johnson & Johnson, Deere & Co., Air Products, Boeing, Office Depot, Chevron, Coors, Bank of America, HP, Texas Instruments, IBM, ConocoPhillips, UPS, and Northrop Grumman Space Technology.
Becki has managed projects, delivered training and presentations, and published articles and reports on numerous topics including business process management, operations, knowledge management, teams, continuous improvement, performance measurement, and change management. Being an advocate for knowledge’s role in innovation, she is especially pleased to have co-authored a book on education best practices, Educators in Action: Examining Strategic Improvement Efforts (APQC 2004).
Rebecca Ho Senior Consultant
MBA Sustainable Management, Presidio School of Management
BA Business Economics, UC Santa Barbara
AA Fashion Design, FIDM, San Francisco
Rebecca is an avid researcher passionate about sustainability—ecological, social and economic as well as personal—and is committed to empowering others by providing relevant research/information and facilitating connections. Rebecca's professional journey has ranged from a Fortune 500 corporation to a small wholesale business, as well as a job with a non-profit teaching English in China.
Commited to personal development and inspiring others to lead fully engaged lives, her proudest achievements include: completing the SF to LA AIDS Ride (on a mountain bike); completing a 23 day Outward Bound alpine mountaineering program in Alaska (at age 30 when the average age of the other participants was 18 and 80% male); and training for and completing a marathon and three century bike rides while raising thousands of dollars for cancer research for Team In Training with which she experienced being a participant, mentor and honoree co-captain.
Paul Smith Copywriter
MBA Sustainable Management, Presidio School of Management
BA, Advertising, San Jose State University
Paul combines his passion for making a difference in the world with a keen eye for communicating in a way that is relevant, powerful, and memorable. He creates copy writing that engages on an emotional level without sacrificing critical details. Headlines, images and captions are crafted to tell the whole story in a cohesive brand voice. His overarching talent is "bottom lining" complex ideas, in a way that is understandable and accessible to a variety of audiences, internal and external to a company.
Paul believes in the power of connecting people and resources to create a greater impact then they might have on their own. He has succeeded in generating these powerful collaborations, both for his own and other organizations, amplifying their impact while making their work in the world easier. As project leader on the revamping of site content for GreenHome.com, he helped increase sales by 12%. His 10+ years experience as a Massage Therapist has served to deepen his understanding of what drives and motivates people, seeing beyond the surface, into what truly matters to them.