CAST "Calling All Societal Truths"

Michelle Dyer is Vice President of Boston-based Second Nature, a non-profit with a mission to build the national (US) capacity to make sustainability the foundation of all learning and practice in higher education.  She has fifteen years of experience in management consulting and project management, specializing in transformational change and negotiation in the energy, health, higher education and entertainment (film, television, and music) industries. Before joining the Second Nature team, Ms. Dyer was a founding partner of Greenland Enterprises, a consultancy specializing in strategic leadership towards sustainability for accelerating the role businesses and other organizations play in sustainable development. Before founding Greenland Enterprises, she worked in the energy sector, and was part of a team that negotiated an amended $1 billion outsourcing deal between BC Hydro, one of the largest electric utilities in Canada, and Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing firm. She also worked on the re-structuring of BC Hydro's transmission line of business, a project which created a new organization to manage a $3 billion, 500kV bulk transmission system.

Ms. Dyer is a member of the National Expert Advisory Board of the Green Schools Alliance, and the Green Advisory Council of Green Realty Trust, which has registered an offering with the SEC for the first all-green REIT. She is a member of the U.S. Partnership for the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, and a volunteer for Stratleade Sustainability Education.

Ms. Dyer’s graduate research focused on carbon reduction projects under the Kyoto Protocol and EU Emissions Trading Scheme, and she holds a Master of Strategic Leadership toward Sustainability from Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, Sweden, and a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Art and Culture Studies from Simon Fraser University. She is a member of The Society for Organizational Learning, participating in the Sustainability Consortium and the Women Leading Sustainability working group.