The WES Network

Founder: Andrew Winston

Andrew Winston, founder of Winston Eco-Strategies, is the author of Green Recovery, a strategic plan for using environmental thinking to survive hard economic times. He is also the co-author of Green to Gold, the best-selling guide to what works - and what doesn't - when companies go green.

Andrew is a globally recognized expert on green business, appearing regularly in major media such as The Wall Street Journal, Time, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, and CNBC. Andrew is dedicated to helping companies both large and small use environmental strategy to grow, create enduring value, and build stronger relationships with employees, customers, and other stakeholders. His clients have included Bank of America, Bayer, HP, Pepsi, Boeing, and IKEA. Andrew also sits on the Sustainability Advisory Board of Kimberly-Clark Corporation.

Andrew bases his work on significant in-company business experience. His earlier career included advising companies on corporate strategy while at Boston Consulting Group and management positions in strategy and marketing at Time Warner and MTV. After these more traditional roles, Andrew pursued his passion to explore the overlap between business and environment. He served as the Director of the Corporate Environmental Strategy Project at Yale's renowned School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Today, Andrew is a highly respected and dynamic speaker, reaching audiences of thousands of people around the world and acting as a practical evangelist for the benefits of going green. He also writes extensively on green business strategy, including a weekly column for Harvard Business Online, regular pieces on Huffington Post, and a monthly strategy e-letter, Eco-Advantage Strategies. For his efforts, Andrew was recently named a "Planet Defender" by Rock the Earth.

Andrew received his BA in Economics from Princeton, an MBA from Columbia, and a Masters of Environmental Management from Yale. He lives in Riverside, CT with his wife Christine and two young sons.

Senior Consultant: Robyn Smith Luhning

Robyn Luhning is a freelance corporate sustainability specialist who has worked in and with a wide range of companies from consumer goods to electronics to media. Her work has covered all angles of sustainability strategy, including concrete areas such as corporate reporting and stakeholder communications, environmental management systems, and strategies for meeting new regulations abroad.

As the Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility at the Colgate-Palmolive Company from 2003 to 2005, Robyn was responsible for developing and publishing Colgate's first corporate sustainability report and improved Colgate’s ability to identify and address issues of concern to stakeholder groups. Before joining Colgate, Robyn worked at Vivendi Universal in New York City in 2002, where she served as the Environmental, Safety, and Sustainability Coordinator. Prior to that, she worked with CH2M Hill in Sacramento, California as a Staff Scientist.

Robyn graduated from Yale University in 2002 with a Master's Degree in Environmental Management and completed her undergraduate education at New College of Florida in 1997. Robyn spent time with the US Peace Corps in Madagascar. She lives in San Francisco, California with her husband and son.

Extended Network and Partners

Winston Eco-Strategies has partnered with and can draw on experts in environmental science, federal and global policy, green building, Corporate Social Responsibility strategy, and environmental and social reporting. Colleagues include leaders such as:

DOMANI is an executive level consulting and management firm that has helped dozens of large corporations realize new bottom line value through precise, market driven sustainability strategies. An interdisciplinary team of experts identifies cost-efficient approaches in emerging areas that are critical to succeeding in the new global economy, including energy and process improvement, climate change strategy, green building, and strategic sustainability.

FD is one of the world's most sought-after communications consultancies. Over the past 20 years, we have helped many of the world's leading organizations harness the power of communications to solve critical business challenges. We pride ourselves on the intellectual capital of our people, the depth of our industry expertise and our focus on seamless results-driven execution. Our clients range from the world's largest multi-national corporations to emerging leaders in high-growth sectors to leading government organizations. Corporate Social Responsibility is one of the most powerful drivers of business culture and brand value available to our clients. At FD, we walk clients through a period of research and due diligence in order to ensure that CSR campaigns are aligned with business objectives, brand position, and the needs of all stakeholders.

J. Ottman Consulting is a marketing consulting and new products firm with the mission of helping businesses, government agencies, and not-for-profit groups meet consumer needs more sustainably. Founded nearly twenty years ago by Jacquelyn Ottman, their pioneering work in green marketing and eco-innovation has guided the communications and product strategies of hundreds of clients. Ottman is the author of the ground-breaking book, Green Marketing: Opportunity for Innovation. Their most recent initiative, Design:Green, transforms business by showing the way towards new products, new business models and green marketing strategies that are at once sustainable, innovative and profitable.

Framework:CR, a leading corporate responsibility and financial reporting and communications firm, has a long history of helping clients communicate their value and vision to their stakeholders. Framework:CR principals understand the interrelationship between economic, social, and environmental risks and opportunities and financial results, giving them a unique and valuable perspective as communication around financial and corporate responsibility performance begins to converge. Framework:CR works with companies of all sizes, sectors, and global regions.