WiserEarth Area of Focus Stewards

Robert W. Hollis is a Co-founder of Carnegie Partners, LLC an executive search and consulting firm specializing in environmental management.  He has more than twenty years of experience in management and executive search consulting.  Carnegie Partners is a member of One Percent for the Planet, an organization comprised of companies that donate at least 1% of annual sales to certified non-profit environmental organizations.  Carnegie Partners job boards include WholeEarthJobs.com and RecyclingJobs.com.

Prior to co-founding Carnegie Partners, Mr. Hollis worked as an executive recruiter and Chief Operating Officer for a privately owned Chicago search firm and held a variety of management positions with multiple divisions of a Fortune 500 corporation in California where he had direct responsibility for a workforce comprised of more than 300 managers and associates.

Mr. Hollis’ recruiting experience includes a wide range of senior and mid-level positions and encompasses a variety of industries and functions. His project management experience includes leading executive development workshops to create individually customized performance plans for more than 150 Fortune 500 executives.

Bob is a past president of the Carnegie Mellon University Chicago Area Alumni Association and the SAE Chicago and Sacramento Area Alumni Associations.  He has served as an associate board member of the Union League Club of Chicago Boys and Girls Clubs, and as a board member, officer, advisor and Development and Communications Committee Chair for the California Resource Recovery Association.  He is an elected board member and past president of the Springfield Meadows Community Services District in El Dorado Hills, CA, and serves as an electronics waste advisory group member for the California Integrated Waste Management Board.  He has served as Co-coordinator of America Recycles Day for the State of California, as the Summer Tour Coordinator for HeadCount, and is a co-founder and executive committee member of the California Sustainable Business Council. He is a board member of ConservationValue, advisory board member of RocktheEarth and the Class of 1986 Giving Chair for Carnegie Mellon University.  Mr. Hollis currently serves on the Education, Membership and Recruitment Committees for the California Special Districts Association, the Development committee for Earth Island Institute, and as a Board Member of Universal Remediation, Inc, a hydrocarbon bioremediation company based in Pittsburgh, PA.  He is a volunteer emergency responder for the California Dept of Oil Spill Prevention and Response and provides pro-bono web hosting services for numerous non-profit environmental organizations, including Gunter Pauli’s Zero Emissions Research Initiative (ZERI).  He is a member of the Planning Conservation League and the Sierra Club.

Bob has been a speaker at events for the Illinois Association of Personnel Services, Carlson Learning Company, the California Resource Recovery Association and the Science and Technology Council of the U.S. EPA.  He is the recipient of multiple Gold Consultant awards from Carlson Learning Company and has been hired by industry leading organizations to train their management teams in advanced interviewing, selection and development techniques.

Mr. Hollis' academic background includes a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon University, a graduate business and liberal arts education from The University of Chicago and post-graduate studies in environmental management at Harvard University.  He is a member of the Carnegie Mellon Alumni Association of Sacramento and the Harvard Club of San Francisco.