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Join sustainability champions from around the world to convene, network, learn and help shape the profession.

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You fill many different roles as a sustainability professional, often all in the same day. You act as an individual and as a leader inside an organization. You can also be an agent of change in society. Come learn from the best and brightest how to excel in all these capacities.

Hear stories from the field from organizations like Alaska Airlines, Ernst & Young and The Nature Conservancy. Gain insights from keynoters such as Bob Massie, the President and CEO of the New Economics Institute, and Rob Dietz, author of Enough Is Enough. Learn about emerging trends and strategies from thought leaders from Presidio Graduate School, Exponent, Inc. and Sustainable Plant magazine. Hear from Karen Weigert, the Chief Sustainability Officer of The City of Chicago. It’s all here at the ISSP Conference 2013.

Network extensively with other tal-ented professionals from around the world.

There will be plenty of opportunities to learn from each other at the ISSP Conference 2013. Over morning coffee and at evening receptions, you’ll have a chance to connect with sustainability professionals from around the globe who are working on similar projects and who have similar interests and challenges. Check out the latest tools and information at a vendor fair and share best practices with your peers. Rub elbows with the best and brightest in the field including some of the industry pioneers who will be inducted into the ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame.

Conference sessions are designed to provide you with new skills, knowledge and tools from industry experts and to provide you with the opportunity to influence the shape and future of the sustainability profession.

Participate in the event’s signature ISSP Sustainability Lexicon Project™. Help build consensus on common terminology used across various disciplines. Contribute your ideas about the future of the profession in a discussion with your peers to help inform the selection of an optimal format for a professional certification in sustainability. Come to the ISSP Conference 2013 and influence the direction of our emerging profession.

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CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

At a ceremony during ISSP Conference 2013 in Chicago, four more major figures in the sustainability profession will join the ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame™, which was established in 2011 to formally recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to the field of sustainability and to the professionals who serve it. They are:

Alan AtKisson • President and CEO of AtKisson Group. Alan has helped hundreds of organizations and leaders worldwide develop sustainability strategies, design initiatives, manage complex programs, assess progress, and find better pathways to effective sustainability leadership.

John Elkington • Founding Partner & Executive Chairman of Volans, a future-focused business working at the intersection of the sustainability, entrepreneurship and innovation movements. John is also co-founder of SustainAbility, where he remains a non-executive member of the board and of Environmental Data Services.

Hazel Henderson • Founder of Ethical Markets Media, LLC and the creator and co-executive producer of its TV series. She is an interdisciplinary economist and political theorist and contributor to the creation of the ethical investment industry.

Hunter Lovins • President and Founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions, which educates senior decision-makers in business, government and civil society to restore and enhance the natural and human capital while increasing prosperity and quality of life.

Wednesday May 8 Pre-Conference Workshops• Leadership Skills for Change Agents, Bob Willard• Launch of Consultants Cohort 2013, Jennifer Woofter• Accounting for A Sustainable Future, Marisa Mackey

Thursday May 9• Welcome from Karen Weigert, Chief Sustainability Officer, City of

Chicago• Keynote by Rob Dietz, author of Enough Is Enough• ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame™ Presentation• Panel Discussions:

- Hall of Fame Inductee Wisdom Panel Discussion- Sustainability in the Industrial Sector, panel led by Paul Studebaker, editor of

Sustainable Plant- Green Guerilla Strategies: Leading Green From the Middle, presented by Jacqueline

Drumheller, Environmental Affairs Manager, Alaska Airlines• Regenerative Development, presented by Ed Quevedo, Interim

Dean of the Faculty at Presidio Graduate School• How To Truly Integrate Sustainability, presented by Kevin Wilhelm,

CEO of Sustainable Business ConsultingFriday May 10

• Keynote by Bob Massie, New Economics Institute• ISSP Sustainability Lexicon™ Project Group Discussion• Panel Discussions:

- Sustainability: View from the C Suite moderated by Bob Pojasek, Sr. Managing Scientist and Sustainability Lead at Exponent, Inc. and ISSP Board Member

- Corporate Responses to Climate Adaptation and Eco System Services- Panel of Local Sustainability Leaders

• Spirituality - At the Heart of Sustainability, presented by Julian Crawford, Director of ecoSTEPS and ISSP board member

• Facilitator Training by KJ McCorry, CEO of eco-efficiency and ISSP board member

• ISSP Local Chapter Formation Workshop, led by ISSP chapter members from around the world

• Closing Ceremony

See the entire schedule at SustainabilityProfessionals.org.

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1 32BEFORE THE CONFERENCE (May 8 at the MilleniuM KnicKerbocKer hotel)Leadership Skills for Change Agents

Launch of Consultants Cohort 2013

Accounting For A Sustainable Future

Come a day early to ISSP Conference 2013 to study with ISSP Hall of Fame Founding Member Bob Willard. Bob will lead a workshop that prepares sustainability professionals at any level in the organizational hierarchy to lead an organizational change to a sustainable enterprise. Bob teaches how to quantify the business case for sustainability strategies.

Join a six-month intensive program for sustainability consultants. The program kicks off with a 3-hour workshop with Jennifer Woofter, President of Strategic Sustainability Consulting. Through October, you’ll meet in a bi-weekly online conference to discuss the course curriculum, exchange ideas, and explore best practices with your colleagues.

Marisa Mackey, Senior Manager of Education Services for the Sustainability Standards Accounting Board (SASB), will lead a workshop about sustainability accounting standards that enable companies to describe material sustainability issues affecting performance and long term value creation.

The International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP) is the world’s leading professional association for sustainability professionals. ISSP is a non-profit member-driven association committed to moving the profession of sustainability forward through building strong networks and communities of practice. Formed in 2007, ISSP boasts more than 700 members from every continent in the world. Members share resources and best practices, and de-velop themselves professionally. Webinars, webchats, on-line courses, special reports, resource directories, salary surveys, and a professional competency study are just a sampling of the rich content offered to members. An independently organized

chapter of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals