Month: January 2017

Co-CEO & Co-Founder IO Sustainability, LLC & Senior Fellow, US Chamber of Commerce Foundation Corporate Citizenship Center

IO Sustainability. IO (Impacts and Outcomes for Sustainable Development) identifies strategic solutions for private, public, and civil sector organizations that maximize economic, social, and environmental value for the long-­‐term.

Steve has over 20 years of experience in sustainability and corporate responsibility (S&CR). He has advised leading companies across a wide variety of industry sectors on how to improve sustainability performance in a way that drives competitive success. He has been a senior executive at two leading S&CR organizations. For AccountAbility he served as the Director of Global Advisory Services and a member of the Board of Directors. For the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Steve served as the Director of Research and Development. Under his leadership both organizations demonstrated growth in revenues, reputation, and international presence.

Steve is co-­‐author of two books on S&CR: Beyond Good Company: Next Generation Corporate Citizenship and Untapped: Creating Value in Underserved Markets. He is the lead author of the landmark research report: Project ROI – Defining the Competitive and Financial Advantages of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability. Steve obtained his MPP from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government and his A.B. from Brown University.

Senior Vice President, External Affairs – Northwestern Memorial HealthCare

Robert Christie joined Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) in May of 2001 as Vice President of Government and Legislative Relations. In this role, he is responsible for the hospital’s advocacy and lobbying activities at the local, state, and federal, levels of government.  In 2010, Mr. Christie was promoted to Vice President External Affairs which combines Community Relations and Community Services with the previous Government and Legislative Relations and functions into one department.  Mr. Christie is active in the American Hospital Association and the Illinois Hospital Association advocacy programs and he is the past chair of the Government Relations Steering Committee of the American Association of Medical Colleges.  In 2007 he was named as the Illinois recipient of the AHA Grassroots Champion Award for his outstanding advocacy efforts on behalf of the hospital industry. 

Prior to joining NMH, he spent 14 years as the director of public affairs at FMC Corporation and 6 years as director of government relations at Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO).  Mr. Christie has been active in a number of state and national organizations including the National Governors Association corporate fellow’s steering committee.  He is a board member of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce and is the immediate past chair of their political action committee and serves on the boards of the Civic Federation, Illinois Issues public policy magazine and Metropolitan Family Service of DuPage county.  He earned a BA in political science from Western Illinois University in 1976.