"Having an overall vision is extremely powerful. From that you can generate key directions that people can clearly understand. Everyone has got to have something that they can focus on and use as their point of reference. I think that you have to have that otherwise it’s really easy to derail the program, to have short-term problems supercede long-term solutions and visions. I think sustainability has to be such a high priority that it meets your vision and everything else is secondary." Hugh O’Reilly, Mayor, Resort Municipality of Whistler

We helped to design, facilitate, and implement a process of comprehensive community engagement in sustainability as part of a unique public-private-NGO partnership for community sustainability. We advised the consortium of sustainability early adopters, which included the municipal government (Resort Municipality of Whistler), the town’s largest employers (Whistler-Blackcomb, the mountain operator, and the Fairmont Chateau Whistler, the pre-eminent hotel in Whistler), the tourism marketing board (Tourism Whistler, representing more than 6000 members who own property or run businesses in Whistler), members of the Chamber of Commerce, and the local environmental watchdog organization, Association of Whistler Area Residents for the Environment (AWARE).. We conducted sustainability workshops, trained sustainability innovators in each early adopter organization in the principles and practice of effective organizational change, and provided on-going coaching and consultation on sustainability implementation projects and processes. We coauthored a Community Sustainability Toolkit for Whistler as a resource of best practices and strategies for community sustainable development. Contact us to discuss how we may provide value to your organization.