Darcy Hitchcock is the head of a consultancy firm that specializes in the adoption of sustainable business practices. She applies her more than 25 years of expertise assisting organizations in transition (total quality management, self-directed work teams) to guiding them toward sustainability.

Hitchcock oversees the Zero Waste Alliance's sustainability assessment program as a senior associate. Together with the International Sustainable Development Foundation and the Zero Waste Alliance, she developed SCORE (Sustainability Competency & Opportunity Rating & Evaluation). An organization can use the sustainability self-assessment tool SCORE to assess where it is in its sustainability journey and to spot new opportunities. Companies like Nike, Doubletree, Progressive Investment Management, and SERA Architects, as well as towns like Santa Monica and Corvallis, have all adopted the SCORE assessment.

Developing a Business Case for Sustainability, Creating an Implementation Plan, Greening Your Supply Chain, Training Employees on Sustainability (Based on The Natural Step), Identifying Your Environmental Impacts, Creating Sustainability Metrics and Targets, Partnering with Vendors, and Making Sense of Sustainability: An Employee Primer are just a few of the topics Hitchcock covered in a series of step-by-step how-to guides.

She has also written numerous articles for publications like Waste Management World, the Vancouver Business Journal, The Columbian, and the Journal for Quality and Participation. She has co-authored several other business books, such as Why Teams Can Fail and What To Do About It and The Work Redesign Team Handbook.

In the University of Oregon's Sustainability Leadership Program, Hitchcock teaches change management and useful sustainability tactics for government. She also collaborated on the Implementing Sustainability Professional Certificate Program at Portland State University, which she co-designed and oversaw..

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