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Anca Novacovici – Founder and President
Eco-Coach was founded by Anca Novacovici in order to promote environmental awareness and provide businesses and individuals with services and tools that would make the transition to a more sustainable way of living and working easier.
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Anca started Eco-Coach in early 2006 because of her passion for the environment and sustainability, her experience in management consulting, and her interest in green, healthy buildings and interior spaces. Anca is a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Accredited Professional and is on the Board of the Green Building Institute.
Prior to starting Eco-Coach, Inc, Anca was a management consultant working independently and with other consultants on a variety of projects. She has over eight years’ experience in strategic planning, change management, business process redesign, benchmarking, training and communications. Her clients have included small and large businesses, government organizations and non-profits in various sectors, including energy, health care and telecommunications.
Anca obtained her Masters of Business Administration in International Management from Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management, and her Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.
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Cindy Olson – Vice President, Marketing and Business Development
Cindy Olson is a Vice President with Eco-Coach and, among other responsibilities, assists with the development and delivery of training materials. She educates clients and assists them in directing, implementing and documenting the best |
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sustainable practices for the new economy at the business and residential level. From designing eco-communities & creating community gardens to financial planning on Wall Street, Cindy has a kaleidoscopic wealth of experience that connects with her breadth of knowledge and interests. Cindy has created the eco-voyager and eco-auditor curriculum which includes collaborative, group learning exercises with a hands-on, practical study guide, workbook, trainers manual, exercises, PowerPoint presentations, pre- and post- training self assessment surveys, written evaluations, case studies/best practice documents group learning modules, and trainee evaluations. Cindy also has helped to create the on-line Green Jobs Workbook, to be released in early 2010.
Cindy has certificates in a variety of disciplines including: energy auditing, whole building design, sustainable agriculture, permaculture, holistic management, watershed management as well as entrepreneur training from the Kaufman Foundation, and her Series 6 and 7.
Relocating to Washington to join Eco-Coach, Cindy's energies are directed towards transforming one business and family at time. In addition, she advocates for a sustainable tomorrow with the National Academies of Science and advises climate action groups, such as 1Sky and CarbonfreeDC. In New York, Cindy developed a training curriculum of life skills, including financial competence, for the New York Independent Living Centers to help educate those trying to stand on their own two feet. With an entrepreneur spirit, she helped start new businesses, including Trilingual Services, Core Contracting, and ECOTOO, and created partnerships between government and community stakeholders. Cindy also helped start non-profit organizations, including CarbonfreeDC, Aids Artifacts, and taught non-profit management and grant writing for the City University of New York. She has lectured and facilitated workshops for such diverse organizations as Federal Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health, Queens College, Brooklyn Union Gas, the Fulton Street Mall, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Mount Sinai Medical Center. Her degrees are from New York University and Drew University.
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Lester Myers – Vice President, Business
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Les Myers provides advisory services in organizational integrity and responsibility to corporations, exempt organizations, and other entities. He assists leading organizations in evaluating, designing, and implementing sustainable practices for managing human, |
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environmental, and financial capital for long-term organizational success and positive environmental and social impact.
Les previously served as a director at KPMG Forensic in Washington, D.C., specializing in fraud risk management and investigative services. Prior to this, he led KPMG’s Exempt Organizations Tax Practice in Washington, serving prominent religious, charitable, trade, and educational organizations, including the Smithsonian Institution, the American Red Cross, and AARP.
Les teaches business ethics, law, and Catholic social thought at Georgetown University and he previously taught at the Jesuit University of San Francisco, where he held the first appointment in ethics at the School of Business and Management. He also has taught in continuing legal education programs at the Georgetown University Law Center.
As a Caux Round Table Fellow, he advises the organization’s global leadership on issues of organizational integrity and responsibility; co-directs retreats for scholars and executives; plans and hosts conferences and lectures; publishes thought leadership; and represents the organization to corporate, governmental, nongovernmental, and intergovernmental organizations.
Les serves on the advisory board for the Georgetown University Corporate Counsel Institute. He also is a faculty member for Board Advisory Services for the National Association of Corporate Directors.
He has published in scholarly and popular venues, including the Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, and he speaks to scholarly and professional organizations.
Les earned his B.S.B.A., cum laude, in accounting, and his M.B.A., in accounting and finance, both from Xavier University. He holds an M.A. in philosophy from Georgetown University, and he designed and earned the first Georgetown Ph.D. in business ethics. He also holds a J.D. from Georgetown, where he served as associate editor and author for the American Criminal Law Review. In addition, he studied business at the Universitaire Faculteiten Sint-Ignatius Te Antwerpen in Belgium, and law at the University of Cambridge, England.
Les is a CPA in the District of Columbia, Ohio, and Virginia, and is certified in financial forensics by the American Institute of CPAs. He is admitted before the Maryland Court of Appeals (inactive), and the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. He also has received Eco-Assessment training to support the Certifiably Green Program of the Sustainable Business Network of Washington.
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Lynn Anne Miller - Partner, Sustainability Communications & CSR
Lynn Anne Miller is our partner in sustainability communications and the founder of 4GreenPs. 4GreenPs is an award - winning strategic marketing firm that connects green brands with mainstream consumers and builds sustainability communication programs for corporate leaders. The company designs and executes creative, results - driven marketing |
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strategies by focusing on the 4Ps of marketing - Product, Price, Place and Promotion – with a green twist.
Prior to founding 4GreenPs in 2006, Lynn worked for more than 20 years
with successful venture-backed start- ups and Fortune 500 firms, including Telegy Networks, Texas Instruments, American Mobile Satellite, Comsat, and CBS Inc. She developed one of the first corporate SEO strategies in 1997, and was an early social media adopter, winning the first Shorty Award for Best Green Content on Twitter and Nielsen Media Research’s recognition for her blog.
She serves on the Board of the Independent PR Alliance, a section of the National Capital Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. She holds a BA from Lehigh University, an MA from the University of Paris I/ Sorbonne, and an MBA from Georgetown University. She is a recipient of the Lehigh University Alumni Award, the University’s most prestigious alumni honor for service to the university, community, and profession.
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Natalie Avery – Sustainable Hospitality Consultant
Natalie Avery is an experienced sustainable hospitality consultant who has worked with a range of restaurants, bars and nightclubs, helping them to better manage hot button issues around noise and trash, to improve community relations, navigate government licensing and regulatory processes |
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and to grow their businesses in healthy, sustainable ways. She has provided one on one consultations with hospitality operators around ways to foster more responsible business practices. She has also worked with an array of government, non-profit and business stakeholders to develop a more constructive and sensible approach to what has become an increasingly common urban planning problem – how to foster a city that is both vibrant and livable.She has extensive experience working with diverse stakeholders to improve community stewardship, reduce conflict and build sustainable, mutually beneficial solutions.
Past projects include work with a group of restaurants to coordinate a shared waste management system utilizing compactors, designed to help them stay in compliance with city regulations and decrease waste removal costs. She has also worked with several establishments in DC helping them to develop solid noise management plans and to improve training of frontline and managerial staff. In 2010, she co-chaired the Alcoholic Beverage Regulatory Administration (ABRA) Noise Task Force and helped to foster buy-in for a more proactive, best practices approach to noise management.
Natalie directed the MidCity Business Association for over two years, which gave her a key understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by hospitality and nightlife operators as they seek to implement positive changes. She has also worked as a researcher and writer with a range of non-profit organizations, including the Responsible Hospitality Institute, The Urban Institute, Living City Block and the Community Foundation of the National Capital Region.
Natalie obtained a Masters Degree in International Relations from American University School of International Service and a Bachelors decree in Literature from American University.
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Dan Triman – Sustainability Consultant
Dan Triman has worked for many leading green businesses in the Washington, D.C. area, and high profile clients. Dan is a LEED Accredited Professional (LEED AP), and a Certified Sustainable Building Advisor (CSBA). He has completed the courses offered by Green Roofs for Healthy Cities as part of their Green Roof Professional Accreditation. |
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Dan has a wide range of experience in green and sustainability consulting. He has been the project manager for several LEED projects in the LEED NC, LEED EB, and LEED ND Rating Systems. He has also provided Green Communities consulting on several projects. He has conducted green charrettes, prepared presentations, and managed documentation for green building projects. He has been the Sustainability Coordinator / Manager at several Engineering / Architecture firms.
He also has co-authored several books including Green Career Guides in Portland, Oregon and Washington, D.C. They include Portland 2008 Green Guide to Networking and Jobs, Portland Green Guide to Networking and Jobs (2009), and D.C. Metro Area Green Career & Jobs Guide. He also helped write the majority of the content for the Sustainable Business Network of Washington’s (SBNOW) Green Business Certification Guide to be released very soon.
Dan has also provided construction services for clients such as natural building, green roof installation and maintenance, solar panel installations, carpentry, materials testing, engineering design, and project management.
Dan has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park.
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Caryn Sykes – Sustainability Consultant
Caryn Sykes has been an advocate of sustainable business for over 15 years. She is the founder and principal of Whole Hearth, a business that helped home owners make their living spaces healthier, more energy efficient and more environmentally |
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sustainable. She is also one of the founders of the DC Net Impact Professional Chapter, and performed many of the Eco-Coach home eco-audits for Carbon Free DC’s Extreme Green Home Makeovers, a project that helped DC low income homeowners make their homes greener.
Caryn has also worked as a market analyst for the environmental industry for Frost & Sullivan, and has 10 years of experience in accounting and business planning services and consulting for businesses and nonprofits, including banking, entertainment, technology, real estate, environmental, health care, human services, legal, and government contracting organizations.
Caryn obtained her Master of Business Administration/Master of International Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Arizona. |
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