Keynote Speaker, Jim Harris - Principal, Strategic Advantage, Toronto, ON, CANADA

Session: Going Green Drives Bottom Line Benefit

Wednesday, October 14 at 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM 

Jim Harris is one of North America's foremost management consultants on change and leadership.

As a professional consultant, speaker and author with more than 20 years of experience, he addresses such topics as organizational innovation and creativity, environmental leadership, energy efficiency, and creating common organizational mission and vision.

Jim Harris works with leading businesses and Fortune 500 companies; most recently with IBM on how low carbon leadership drives profitability. His new book, Green Means Green, to be published in 2010, documents hundreds of case studies on how environmental leadership is best for the bottom line, especially in these recessionary times.

His recent book, Blindsided! is a #1 international bestseller, having hit the top spot on the Financial Times of London's European Edition of Best Business Books. He is also the author of The Learning Paradox, another bestseller, and co-author of national bestseller, The 100 Best Companies to Work for in Canada.

He is an authorized presenter of the award winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, about the current state of our environment and he used to teach Dr. Stephen Covey's work, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Learn more about him at www.jimharris.com.

Going Green Drives Bottom Line Benefits

Jim Harris asserts that going green drives bottom line profitability by forcing businesses to cut waste and to strive for greater efficiencies in business operations. He backs up his statement with research and outlines functional drivers and trends that predict retailers, who practice environmental leadership, will continue to go green at an accelerated pace to capture better long-term, bottom line results. He will share with us other findings he's researched and what that can mean to PRSM members today and in the future.