Applied Sustainability and Custom Partnerships with Companies

The Fowler Center provides strategies, tools, and methods to build Sustainable Value in businesses, organizations, and regions.  The center facilitates successful change management to assure strategic growth, to provide a shift in thinking and culture, and to address disruptive changes in the environment, such as rising societal expectations and declining resources.  The center’s whole-system approach to change ignites breakthrough innovation that generates real business value.

Products:

• Workshops and Seminars – Combining theory, best practices, and practical exercises, these programs offer a general introduction to Sustainable Value as a strategic advantage.
• Sustainability Circles in partnership with True Market Solutions – These circles take businesses through a peer-based learning process with curriculum co-developed by the Fowler Center and True Market Solutions. One full day of training per month for six months culminates in a custom sustainability implementation plan with metrics. Register now for Sustainability Circle Previews.
• Sustainable Value Institute – a multi-day, multi-company working session that allows each company group to receive a tool-kit of concepts, techniques, and approaches for creating Sustainable Value, and develop concrete solutions and action plans to be implemented in their respective environments.
• Whole System Appreciative Inquiry Summits – an intensive change-management methodology that engages the entire system – shareholders, stakeholders, and other potential players – in a strength-based, co-design process for Sustainable Value creation.

Clients:

• American Hospital Association
• American Red Cross
• Boeing Corporation
• Carter Center
• City of Cleveland
• Cleveland Clinic
• Dairy Management Initiative
• Dealer Tire
• E4S - Entrepreneurs for Sustainability
• EPA
• Fairmount Minerals
• First Energy
• GoJo
• McKinsey
• Notre Dame Cathedral
• Parker Hannifin
• Sherwin Williams
• Taylor Companies
• United Nations
• United Way of America
• Vadxx
• Weatherchem