Benefits for Government Employees

SSNE’s seminars address the common barriers and drivers of many government employees, such as:

Need to do more with less money and resources?

Identification of long term sustainability issues can drive more effective cost management, and lead to innovations that protect and enhance quality of life in your town/region.

Need more funding?

Early adopters have and are finding new sources, and getting funds for piloting innovations in a step-by-step, low risk way.

Need to get your citizens and stakeholders constructively involved?

Sustainability principles and strategies can help you link long term threats to current citizen concerns, and connect you with forward thinking citizens ready to roll up their sleeves and contribute.

Want to be more of a leader?

Learn from those on cutting edge, and how their lessons can help you catalyze positive change in a low risk way.

Get better connected to leaders in socially responsible government and business.

A little breathless from the speed of change in business and society?

These Seminars will help you to better predict environmental and societal shifts, and emerging regulatory and voluntary standards. You’ll be able to see the connections between diverse vectors. For example, energy, childhood malnutrition and health care costs are all linked by the hard choices many of our citizens make between heating and eating.

Need more leadership from the top, and collaboration intra and inter agency and with the business community?

The strategic frameworks, strategic questioning, and teamwork skills you’ll learn will help you deep willingness to undertake joint projects.

Concerned about Public Health and Safety?

We’ll help you re-define the risks, costs and benefits of your situation in a more rational, holistic way. Systemic approaches can lead to structural changes to budgets, creative cost management and effective, long -term problem prevention.

Looking for leverage to promote smart growth and limit sprawl?

Learn best practices for getting beyond NIMBY, bringing in unexpected, powerful stakeholders, and engaging elders and youth in powerful alliances.

Looking to create meaningful jobs with good wages?

Equitable, sane economic development based on principles of sustainability will require a wholesale re-making of a large proportion of our region’s social, economic and physical infrastructure. Every government function, from planning to purchasing will have a role in making this happen. We’ll look at the potential and pitfalls inherent in your and others’ situations, and at some of the data that strongly indicates sustainable strategies mean better employment prospects.