About
Greenleaf Advisors advances a Healthy and Sustainable World by bridging enterprises and people across disciplines to help achieve their goals while protecting the land, water, and energy resources upon which they depend. Our consulting advice and transaction services enable clients to prosper through their contributions to a more sustainable future.
Our strength comes from the experience of our staff, service partners and Board of Advisors. We work across disciplines and sectors to deliver solutions to complex challenges that threaten natural resources and the services they provide. We engage science, policy and business leadership to achieve lasting sustainable results.
Why do leading organizations choose Greenleaf Advisors?
People
Our staff, service partners and board bring a deep foundation of experience and commitment to sustainability and client service, while building a healthy and sustainable world.
Experience
We have built respectful relationships within the business, scientific and government sectors, as illustrated by our extensive track record.
Communication
We communicate effectively across the full range of community interests, including science, business, policy and capital, to create sustainable solutions. We are cross functional and multi-disciplined.
Results
By bridging sectors of interest, we enhance our clients’ impact and opportunities. We build upon the work of specialists by connecting experts in various fields and providing strategic guidance.
Mission and Vision
Greenleaf’s mission is to enable the development of a healthy society by developing business strategies and nurturing partnerships that protect natural resources and raise the quality of life for all.
Our vision is to live in a world where business and society are aligned in centering a thriving society and healthy planet to improve quality of life for all.
Our shared values guide the work of our staff, partners, and board.
Respect. We respect stakeholders from all sectors and their diverse perspectives.
Results. We value tangible results that contribute to a healthy and sustainable world.
Sound Science. We respect both natural and social sciences in guiding business and policy decisions.
Reliability. We offer advice that is grounded in and consistent with our implementation experience.
Trust/Integrity. We leverage open, transparent relationships for collaboration and shared gains.
Innovation. We support innovation of market-based solutions to a healthy and sustainable world.
Leadership. We champion those with courage to create positive change in the face of difficulties.
Community. We value community engagement to progress a healthy society.
Nature. We value nature and the full variety of life on earth (biodiversity).
Greenleaf Advisors Story
Greenleaf Advisors was founded in 2002 to build bridges across sectors and between disciplines to advance economic and environmentally sustainable solutions for public health. Our clients are committed to building their enterprises based upon contributions to the sustainable use of resources. We continue to grow through the delivery of services and development of relationships that advance a healthy and sustainable world.
Our first assignment was to help one of the world’s largest real estate companies, Jones Lang LaSalle, serve its clients with sustainable real estate development solutions. Subsequent experience with The Nature Conservancy and its many partners advanced the protection of the largest freshwater watershed on earth, The Great Lakes – this involved addressing five of the top six threats to freshwater biodiversity, including climate change, pollution, invasive species, habitat destruction, and altered hydrology.
Our work has always been grounded in the advancement of sound science and collaboration to inform community practices and policies. With a growing appreciation for the similarities between ecological and human health, and the need for business practices to be at the heart of each, we positioned the firm in 2009 to more fully integrate and bridge across the scientific, policy, and business communities to develop integrated, sustainable solutions that benefit all stakeholders.
Greenleaf Advisors works in North America’s Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions to help sustainability oriented companies secure clients and expand markets, as well as attain supportive national and state policies by bringing leading science to the community and government engagement. We advise state and regional governments on the protection of water resources by bringing technical advice, strategic and tactical planning, and stakeholder engagement to the process. Our university and research clients and partners inform agricultural best practices to protect soil and water resources with our project management, facilitation, and communication/outreach support. We enjoy bringing parties together to shine their bright lights on matters of great importance for achieving beneficial and sustainable results for all. We invite interested parties to contact and contribute to that growing beam of sustainable light.
In 2011, we established Greenleaf Communities as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) ‘sister’ organization to ‘advance a healthy and sustainable world’ specifically through the advancement of applying research intelligence to inform changed policies and practices that reduce environmentally-mediated causes of disease. We recognize that environmental impacts on water and food security, together with events related to climate change, are likely to influence population movements and exacerbate disease, adversely affecting human health. Greenleaf Communities addresses this challenge by recruiting and organizing multidisciplinary teams of scientists, technologists and community leaders to work together across their areas of expertise for the advancement of changed practices that eliminate toxic exposure from food, water, air and urban environments. We invite new participants and support to this growing community of intelligence committed to preventing unnecessary human illness..
Learn more at the Greenleaf Communities website.