FD Element and our team of experts are experienced market leaders in applying enterprise wide, turn-key solutions for sustainability – from providing baseline assessments and creating strategic roadmaps, to delivering projects and the tools to communicate about them.
FD Element provides clients with the capabilities to develop strategy, assist in board and senior management approval, and then provide best-in-class experienced implementation assistance.
The value of a turn-key enterprise solution for sustainability lies in leveraging enterprise wide opportunities. Each client has beside them the team they need to set goals, develop strategic roadmaps, execute on those plans, and measure success.
As recognized market leaders in designing, developing, and implementing sustainability platforms, we work with clients on individual component projects as well as complete turn-key solutions that include:
Baseline Assessments of Present States
FD Element’s independent and objective auditing process
enables clients to measure and quantify their existing
assets and accurately evaluate day-to-day operations to
identify strong ROI opportunities across all areas.
Marketplace and Competitor Intelligence
FD Element helps clients develop competitive advantages
through a comprehensive look at best-in-class
competitors’ positioning, messaging and proof points on
sustainability.
Sustainability Communications and
Green Marketing
FD Element’s experience in establishing market positioning
and developing authentic messaging helps clients
leverage investments in sustainability into new product
and service offerings that resonate in the marketplace.
Creating Sustainability Roadmaps
FD Element is experienced in helping clients to develop
strategic and tactical roadmaps that clearly define
sustainability's role in driving revenue and cutting costs
across an organization's direct business operations and
supply chain.
Risk Analysis and Mitigation
FD Element's experts work with clients to identify potential
risks associated with sustainability issues, including, but
not limited to, governance, environmental, compliance,
and employee health and safety to provide the foresight
needed to mitigate future risks.
Optimizing Business Performance
FD Element works with clients to target the most efficient
and cost-effective opportunities for making enterprise-
wide sustainability improvements.
Compliance and Reporting
FD Element's experts use industry-leading understanding
of key sustainability policies, regulations, reporting
requirements and certifications, to help clients maximize
existing resources in making sustainability improvements.
This includes LEED Certification, the UN Compact, and
the General Reporting Initiative (GRI).
Global Green Building and Real Estate
FD Element's experts are experienced working across
five continents improving the environmental and financial
performance of buildings, utilities and transportation
solutions.
Climate and Agriculture
FD Element's climate policy experts have extensive
experience in helping clients develop and implement
initiatives to confront climate change, land-use and
sustainable agricultural policies and programs.
In delivering our turn-key solutions for sustainability, FD Element helps clients unlock opportunities, while providing ongoing implementation and project execution support.
Our sustainability counselors are available on an as-needed basis to provide the best planning, advice and program design.
Grant Draper
Sustainability Communications and Green Marketing
Compliance and Reporting
Grant has extensive experience in developing marketing
campaigns for green and sustainable marketplaces and
provides clients with insights and practical guidance on
compliance and reporting issues related to sustainability.
Don Millar
Sustainability Communications and Green Marketing
Risk Analysis and Mitigation
Don brings market-leading abilities in communicating clearly
and creatively on sustainability issues to offer clients a unique
capability to assess complex risks and design impactful
solutions.
Barry Barovick
Optimizing Business Performance
Barry provides clients with innovative and profitable business
advisory, transaction, development and management services
that help to improve their business’ performance.
Joseph Castellano
Baseline Assessments of Present States
Joe uses expertise in construction management to help
clients implement sustainable processes in their supply
chains to ensure long-term cost and energy efficiencies.
John Click
Optimizing Business Performance
John uses his experience in the energy and transportation
sectors to help clients truly understand where and how they
can improve their sustainability efforts in a way that will attract
investment and ensure long-term stability and growth.
Julie Gupta
Marketplace and Competitive Intelligence
As a senior consultant who helped Wal-Mart achieve zero
waste and 100% renewable energy use, Julie uses her
expertise in sustainable business strategy and supply chain
management to assist clients in understanding the state of
the marketplace and their competitive assets.
Suzanne Hunt
Climate and Agriculture
As an expert in biofuels and energy, Suzanne leverages her
experience in environmental research, policy education and
planning to help clients constantly find new ways to measure
and improve their sustainable business practices.
Elizabeth Kulik
Green Building and Real Estate
Elizabeth uses her extensive experience in real estate
investment and operations, business strategy and value
creation to help clients inform their strategic real estate
portfolio decisions.
Liza Murphy
Creating Sustainability Roadmaps
Liza's expertise lies in helping companies respond to
environmental and social concerns by working with them to
design and develop strategic sustainability roadmaps that
help capitalize on future market opportunities.
Joseph Strickland
Baseline Assessments of Present States
Joe is a design and construction expert who assists clients
with tax depreciation studies, replacement cost analysis, and
purchase price allocations that help assess and mitigate the
risks associated with sustainability improvements.
Rob Watson
Green Building and Real Estate
Creating Sustainability Roadmaps
As the founder and pioneer of the United States Green
Building Council (USGBC) LEED Green Building Rating
System, Rob helps clients understand and apply green
building technologies and services, policies, regulations
and certifications to their organizations and daily business
operations.
Mike Whalen
Risk Analysis and Mitigation
Mike is an expert at risk analysis and mitigation and helps
clients improve the performance of their most critical and
complex capital projects.