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ISE Principals

Joel Harmon, Ph.D., Executive Director ISE; Professor of Management 973-443-8792

B.S. in Mathematics from The City College of the City University of New York; Masters and Ph.D. with highest honors in Psychology at The University of California at Los Angeles.

Jeana Wirtenberg, Ph.D. is President & CEO of Transitioning to Green, LLC www.transitioningtogreen.com and the Transitioning to Green Foundation www.TTGFoundation.org whose mission is helping organizations and individuals thrive in the emerging green economy.

Jeana is author of “Building a Culture for Sustainability: People, Planet and Profits in a New Green Economy (ABC-CLIO/Praeger, forthcoming Jan. 2014), featuring nine case studies of some of the most sustainable companies in the world (Alcoa, Alcatel-Lucent, BASF, Bureau Veritas, Church & Dwight, Ingersoll Rand, Pfizer, Sanofi, and Wyndham Worldwide). She is lead editor of The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook: When It All Comes Together, published in 2009 by Greenleaf Publishing and AMACOM www.TheSustainableEnterpriseFieldbook.net. From 2010 through 2012, she wrote a weekly newsletter on Sustainability for the Wall St. Journal.

Jeana is editor of “Transitioning to the Green Economy” a Special Issue of People & Strategy Journal published by the Human Resource Planning Society (HRPS) 1Q 2010. She wrote “Unleashing Talent for a Sustainable Future,” Chapter 37 in The Talent Management Handbook (2011) and “Sustainable Enterprise for the 21st Century,” in The Business of Sustainability: Trends, Policies, Practices, and Stories of Success (2011).

Formerly, Jeana was HR director at Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), where she was responsible for a variety of functions to transform the firm and build organizational capacity. Previously she held positions in AT&T and led research programs in the U.S. federal government at the National Institute of Education and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Jeana’s consulting firm focuses on building sustainable enterprises through leadership, culture change, collaboration, and learning www.whenitallcomestogether.com. She serves as articles editor for the organization effectiveness knowledge area for People and Strategy www.hrps.org and is on the leadership team of the Global Community for the Future of OD.

Jeana Wirtenberg, Ph.D., Senior Advisor, External Relations and Services
973-335-6299
jwirtenb@fdu.edu
jwirtenberg@optonline.net

Kent Fairfield, Ph.D;
Faculty Lead on Sustainability Education, ISE; Assistant Professor of Management, Silberman College of Business, Fairleigh Dickinson University Ph.D., M.A., Columbia University; MBA, Harvard Business School

Formerly a Vice President at the Chase Manhattan Bank, Kent Fairfield then founded Kent Fairfield Associates, consulting on teams, leadership development, and change management. His current research concerns interdependence between employees and managers, between groups, and between organizations. He emphasizes learning from experience in his teaching, including requiring students to conduct community service projects and carry on mentor relationships with executives.

Kent Fairfield, Ph.D., ISE Faculty Lead on Sustainability Education; Associate Professor of Management
201-692-7230
kent@fdu.edu

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Mr. Polsky works on several ISE projects, including the Sustainable Business Incubator. He is a sustainability change-agent. He has extensive sustainability and green economy experience, as well as unique cross-sector experience working in government, for environmental groups, business, and as an adjunct professor. He focuses on helping groups and key individuals understand sustainability more deeply, providing multidisciplinary perspectives, facilitating cross-sectoral communication, and introducing unfamiliar sustainability concepts.

He was the Sustainability Team Leader at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, led an interagency sustainability work group, and advised sustainability initiatives. He has taught sustainability courses at Cook College, Kean University, Montclair State University, NJIT, and Ramapo College. He was a marketing manager at AT&T Microelectronics. Currently, he is the Director of the Land Trust, buying and preserving 251 acres of land for the environmental group, the Passaic River Coalition.

He volunteers for many environmental and sustainability groups at all scales, ranging from some in his town (Cranford), the State, to internationally, helping NGOs and students in South Africa, Brazil, and Europe.

He has published in The Seton Hall Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, Greenbiz.com, and occasionally writes op-ed pieces for local and state newspapers; makes presentations on aspects of sustainability; and testifies to state agencies.

As a perpetual student, he has a BA in Psychology from Rutgers College, an MBA in Economics and MA in Humanities & Social Thought from NYU, and is pursuing a Certificate from NYU’s Center for Global Affairs. He has taken additional courses with some of the giants of the sustainability field. He was named a Finalist as “Green Executive of the Year” by NJBiz Magazine.

Matt Polsky, Senior Fellow, Public Policy
908-276-6881
polsky@fdu.edu
innovator3@hotmail.com

Bill Russell, M.B.A;
ISE Senior Fellow, Sustainability Metrics B.A., University of Maryland; MBA , Rutgers University

Mr. Russell is a leader in advancing sustainable development aligned strategies, management systems, process improvement programs, performance measurement systems and implementing best practice information technology solutions. He works with a broad range of worldwide clients including small and large corporations; government and intergovernmental organizations; NGOs, non-profits and Universities.

Bill is a Principal of Transitioning to Green, LLC (TTG), whose mission is to help companies and individuals identify business and career opportunities that are emerging in conjunction with a new Green Economy. TTG responsibilities include leading its Sustainability Assessment and Consulting Services and administering its membership and LinkedIn social media communities including its network of affiliated sector and function specific Green Business practitioner leaders. He also serves as a Green Career Coach for the TTG, ISE and FDU’s Petrocelli College Green Career Certification and Job Development Program which is a New Jersey State DOL’s Eligible Training Provider List (ETPL) service (http://view.fdu.edu/default.aspx?id=7795) for unemployed workers.

Bill is also a Managing Director of SustainEdge, helping that St. Louis-based company transition its business from general project management services to its current focus on holistic Sustainability Program Management and helping companies journey towards sustainability while maintaining and enhancing profits.

Bill is co-author of The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook, published by Greenleaf Publishing and previously served as the US environmental practice leader of PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is an adjunct professor at FDU and in conjunction with ISE is advising communities on how to become more sustainable, including serving as Chairman of the Green Team for Leonia, New Jersey.

Bill Russell, Senior Fellow, Sustainability Metrics; Principal, Transitioning to Green
201-592-0055
wgrussell@prodigy.net

B.S., Ness Nadia College of Commerce, India; M.B.A., Xavier Labor Relations Institute, India; M.S., Ph.D., Texas Tech University

Dr. Farias' core areas of expertise are organizational design and change, with specific emphasis on the design of High Performance Work Systems. He is particularly interested in the application of complexity theory to the organization sciences. He has published in journals like the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Human Resource Planning Journal and Organizational Development Journal. He has presented his work at major conferences like the Academy of Management, the Irish Academy of Management and the Eastern and Western Academies of Management.

Jonathan Cloud, M.A;
ISE Fellow, Sustainability Innovation B.A. (Hons), Victoria University of Wellington, N.Z.; M.A., Sociology, York University, Toronto, Cana

Jonathan Cloud is a lifelong environmentalist, community organizer, and entrepreneur. An early pioneer in passive-solar design and construction in Canada in the 1970s and 80s, as well as an environmental community activist, he received a UN Environment Award in 1985, in recognition of his work in renewable energy, conservation, and appropriate technology.

His career has spanned journalism, politics, invention, housing design and construction, database, software, and Internet development, financial services, networking, nonprofits, network marketing, and sustainable business development.

He has lived in over a dozen countries, spoken several languages, and published articles and translations. His passion, however, is human transformation and empowerment in the broadest sense. He was a longtime volunteer and IFLP Leader with Landmark Education, a university lecturer, a Millionaire Mind graduate, and the founder of a successful local business network in one of the wealthiest areas in the U.S.

His current focus is on assisting entrepreneurs with start-up ventures in renewable energy, CO2 reduction, and other environmental technologies, as well as with emerging business models involving carbon trading, sustainability consulting, and sustainable social enterprises.

Olena Rudna;
Research Associate, Institute for Sustainable Enterprise BS, State Academy of Culture, Kharkiv, Ukraine; MBA Candidate, Fairleigh Dickinson University.

As an FDU student team leader, Olena won one of five Honorable Mentions in Aspen Institute's2013 Business & Society International MBA Case Competition. She was actively engaged in promoting social corporate responsibility practices during her professional career. Olena made efforts to diminish negative environmental impact of a production process. Her research interests include supply chain management and sustainable development.