About GreenBizCheck
GreenBizCheck is a global technology-based environmental certification program for any company with an office. Office buildings and associated activities are responsible for nearly 35% of all carbon emissions. Our program helps companies to quickly implement sustainable environmental practices which save money, conserve energy, water, resources and minimize waste.
Companies are provided with a 200+ point online assessment with immediate reporting and action planning.
The assessment incorporates the following sections:
- Energy conservation
- Water consumption reduction
- Waste reduction
- Transportation and travel
- Supply chain sustainability
- General environmental issues
- Voluntary Carbon Compensation Program
Points are awarded for compliance and implementation of each element of the assessment (questions have varying weightings to reflect their relative importance and impact).
Companies are then given guidance as to the necessary steps to be taken to achieve certification.
GreenBizCheck Certification
Best Practice: For companies that achieve 70% of the total points score available
Excellence: For companies that achieve 80% of the total points score available
World Leadership: For companies that achieve 90% of the total points score available
Background
Climate change is probably the toughest challenge ever faced by the human race but it gives rise to the biggest opportunity to businesses that take action now.
Our research shows that professional firms are looking for a way to show customers and staff that they are making a real contribution to the environment. The 2007 World Economic Review polled 14,000 people with 86% of respondents concerned about climate change.
There is now a strong wave of enviro-consciousness in the business community. Even the most conservative business publications are regularly reporting on the activities of green companies and the impact of business on the environment.
Our Head Office People
We are business people just like you who are extremely concerned about the ramifications of climate change and would like to utilise our skills, experience and contacts to take action about this potentially devastating issue. To contact us or to arrange a meeting with your local distributor please visit the contact us page.
Nicholas Bernhardt, MBA
Managing Director
Nicholas has held senior management positions at Nomura Securities, Standard Chartered Bank & Ameco Financial Services. He has gained extensive experience in Private Banking, Asset Management & Investment Banking in the financial centers Zurich, Tokyo, London and Hong Kong. He has also specialized in Project Management, M&A and consultancy work both in Australia and overseas.
Nicholas holds an MBA from Zurich University. He is very concerned about the ramifications of climate change and wants to apply his business skills, experience and network to do something about this potentially devastating problem.
Tony Hall B.Ec MBA
CEO
Tony is a former Associate Professor of Management Consulting and founder of Navigator Consulting, a specialist business improvement firm established for nearly 10 years. He has previously worked with a mixture of companies such as News Corporation, Thompson Financial and Roche Pharmaceuticals in a number of senior management roles.
His career has covered accounting, company analysis, international marketing, sales & marketing and leadership development. Trained at Ernst & Young in Sydney, Tony now specializes in business planning, strategy, business growth, professional selling, marketing, mergers and acquisitions.
A regular conference speaker and author of two books, Tony also holds a B.Ec and MBA from the USA. He is passionate about the environment and is keen to utilise his business skills and experience to a business which will help companies reduce their environmental impact.
James R. Carlopio, B.A., M.A., Ph. D.
Academic Advisor
James took on the role of Director of the Centre for Executive Education, Associate Dean Executive Education and Clinical Professor of Management for the period from 7-2007 to 1-2008, and is currently Associate Professor of Management, Faculty of Business, Technology and Sustainable Development, Bond University, Gold Coast Queensland.
James was a member of the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) from 1990-2007 where he was a regular contributor to their world-class executive education and MBA programs as a subject leader and developer, a cohort leader and a senior lecturer. James was the Director of the AGSM's Accelerated Development Program, a three-week residential executive development program for high-potential managers, from 1994 to 1997, and was the Head of the Organizational Behaviour Group for 2005-2006. His education has focused on psychology with a B.A. (Springfield, MA.), an M.A. (University of Manitoba, Canada) and a Ph. D. in Applied and Organisational Psychology (Old Dominion, Virginia).
Melissa Parish
Environmental Officer
Melissa is currently undertaking a Bachelor of Environmental Science, majoring in Natural Resource Science & Ecology at the University of Queensland. Awarded with a Deans Commendation for High Achievement, Melissa is placed in the top 3 percent of students in the Faculty of Science. Working as a research assistant for Dr McAlpine at the University of Queensland, Melissa has gained experience in mapping and modelling landscape change, integrating biodiversity conservation into planning, sustainable natural resource management, modelling climate impacts of landscape change, and landscape history.
Equipped with excellent research skills and a scientific understanding of the natural world, Melissa is passionate about developing and implementing environmentally sustainable solutions to help reduce our ecological footprint.
Marc Greenstock
Director of IT
Marc has worked in the ICT industry for well over 10 years, having established his first client focused business in 1998. He brings with him a wealth of technical knowledge in system architecture and development and has a keen interest in green IT.
Marc is a member of the Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS) and a foundation member of the Web Standards Group.
Holly McCarthy
Market Research Manager
Holly has a Bachelor of Media and Communication Studies and has worked in the Marketing industry for the past nine years.
Having worked for a major transport company and a large Australian manufacturer, Holly is very concerned about the environmental energy and resouce wastage that occurs in the everyday work environment and wants to help educate work places on how to be just as effective using less resources.