Disruptive Sustainability: An Innovation Driver for the 21st Century
Dr. Leith Sharp - Director, Executive Education for Sustainability at Harvard - Leith's is the second lecture in a series run by McGill Net Positive – an initiative of the McGill School of Environment in collaboration with the McGill Office of Sustainability. This project aims to develop a vision of a sustainable building for environmental, social and economic sustainability activities in campus.
Leith Sharp has more than 18 years of experience greening universities, first at the University of New South Wales, where she earned her undergraduate degree in environmental engineering, then at Harvard, where she was the founding director of the school's Green Campus Initiative in 1999. As director, Sharp built the largest green campus organization in the world. The program's efforts were funded largely by the savings it produced—the essence of sustainability.
Leith will use lessons learned from the Harvard green building case study, along with other leading organizations, to explore how sustainability can be an innovation driver to transform the 21st century university. She will dive into the transformational leadership challenge of deeply integrating sustainability into the core mission and business of the university, unearthing the enormous risks, opportunities and meaningful moments ahead.
Thomson House Ballroom
3650 McTavish
3:30pm
Thursday, February 27th