Darcy Hitchcock   

Darcy Hitchcock is the president of a consulting firm specializing in the implementation of sustainable business practices and co-author of The Business Guide to Sustainability.  She has more than 25 years experience in helping organizations change (total quality management, self-directed work teams), and she applies that experience to moving organizations toward sustainability.

Hitchcock is also a senior associate at the Zero Waste Alliance, where she runs their sustainability assessment service. She created SCORE (Sustainability Competency & Opportunity Rating & Evaluation) in conjunction with Zero Waste Alliance and the International Sustainable Development Foundation. SCORE is a sustainability self-assessment tool that can help an organization determine where it is on the road to sustainability as well as help it identify new opportunities along the way. Organizations that have used the SCORE assessment include companies such as Nike, Doubletree, Progressive Investment Management, and SERA Architects as well as cities such as Santa Monica and Corvallis.

Hitchcock wrote a series of step-by-step how-to guides on such topics as Developing a Business Case for Sustainability, Developing an Implementation Plan, Greening Your Supply Chain, Training Employees on Sustainability (based on The Natural Step), Identifying Your Environmental Impacts, Developing Sustainability Metrics and Targets, Partnering with Vendors, and Making Sense of Sustainability: An Employee Primer.

Hitchcock teaches change management and practical sustainability strategies for government in the University of Oregon's Sustainability Leadership Program. In addition, she co-designed and facilitated the Implementing Sustainability Professional Certificate Program at Portland State University. 

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