Sustainable Business Consultants – Inspirational Speakers – Writer
s – Facilitators
This blog is written by Michael Luehrs and Guy Bigwood, with help from a few invited guests. 
Named as meeting industry “Green Leaders”, the blog was created to share experiences, opinions, best practices and mistakes from the front line of sustainability and the meetings industry; Particularly from their involvement in various pioneering sustainability projects such as the UN Climate Change Conference COP15.
Guy Bigwood
Recognized as a pioneer and expert on CSR and sustainability in the meetings industry, Guy Bigwood manages a global consulting organization focused at implementing and advising on sustainability projects within associations, corporates, convention bureaus and venues worldwide.
Example clients include the COP15, the UN Global Compact, Visit Denmark, Wonderful Copenhagen, Novo Nordisk, The Bella Center, MPI, ICLEI, UFI, First Choice hotels, World Summit on Climate Change, the International Climate Change Conference, the Costa Del Sol CVB and the Estoril Congress Center.
Guy founded and manages the CSR program in MCI Group, the leading global events and association management company with 37 international offices in 4 continents. His challenge is to make MCI’s 800 employees more sustainable in their day to day work (and personal lives).
He is president elect of the Green Meeting Industry Council, on the MPI CSR Taskforce and very active within the UN Global Compact and Climate Change communities. During the last 2 years he has delivered over 80 keynote presentations and workshops inspiring over 9000 people to get into action about sustainability and CSR. See a video of guy in Keynote action
Michael Luehrs
Michael is the MCI Sustainability Services manager, responsible for promoting sustainable practices within the MCI organization and to MCI’s clients.
Recognized as an industry expert on sustainability in the meetings industry, Michael consults to associations, corporates, cities and venues worldwide.
In 2009 Michael led consulting projects with the World Business Summit on Climate Change, the International Climate Change Conference, European Wind Energy Conference and COP15. At the UN Climate Conference, where he led and achieved BS8901 certification
He has over 17 years of experience in the hotel industry with proven talent in sustainable business development, education and management of sound environmental operational plans.
He was formerly the Director of Operations and Sustainability Coordinator at the award winning Hilton Portland Double Tree where he proudly repositioned the hotel as one of the leading green hotels in the US. He helped the hotel win 6 “green” awards including the Green Seal Certification and the State of Oregon’s Sustainability Award
Developing Standards
Guy and Michael are highly involved in the BS8901, ISO250, GRI and APEX Standard development processes for the meetings industry. See this article if you want to know more about these standards.
Together they have written numerous whitepapers, reports and are currently researching for a book.
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