Nov 10, 2022
Virginia Cinquemani is the founder and director of Green Gorilla Consultants Ltd (www.thegreengorilla.co.uk), a unique training and coaching company focusing exclusively on empowering sustainability professionals to become the most confident and assertive version of themselves, and to successfully accomplish their sustainability projects even when their stakeholders think sustainability is a waste of time and money!
Virginia is a qualified architect, project manager, BREEAM AP,
ISO14001 Lead Auditor and Practitioner Coach, with a lifelong
passion for sustainability.
She is the author of SustainABLE: How to Find Success as a
Sustainability Professional in a Rapidly Changing World, a
practical guide for those that have a passion for sustainability
but cannot make an impact.
Virginia is also an Assistant Lecturer in Sustainability and
Environmental Management at Coventry University.
During her previous long career at BRE, Virginia was the author of
Integrating BREEAM throughout the Design Process (the best-selling
publication that for the first time helped assessors tackle BREEAM
assessments strategically), and of BREEAM Healthcare (on behalf of
the NHS) and BREEAM Higher Education (on behalf of AUDE and HEFCE);
additionally, she managed the BRE Innovation Park and the BRE
Academy membership scheme.
Virginia's book:
https://www.thegreengorilla.co.uk/sustainable-the-book
More from Virginia:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/virginiacinquemani/
1:30 Introduction
3:20 How do you define sustainability?
16:38 How do you sell sustainability?
22:37 Effective Communication
25:07 Sustainable - Virginia Cinquemani's latest book