Sarah Brooks

As a Principal Advisor, Sarah supports communities, businesses and other organizations with integrated sustainability planning and education and delivers hundreds of presentations and training workshops on The Natural Step Framework. Sarah also leads the Sustainable Business Program at The Natural Step Canada. In this capacity, she is responsible for developing The Natural Step’s service offering for business and managing the team of Natural Step advisors who work with businesses across Canada.

As a Principal Advisor, Sarah is working with a wide range of partners to share her expertise on sustainability and strategy development, including a comprehensive sustainability training, strategy and visioning program for The Landmark Group of Builders and a strategic positioning and organizational change program with ISL Engineering and Land Services. Past clients include multi-national chemical company Rohm and Haas (now Dow Advanced Materials); SMART Technologies; BC Hydro; Accommodation and Real Estate Services of British Columbia; the City of Ottawa, the County of Hawaii; and many others.

Sarah holds a masters degree in “Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability” from the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden and an undergraduate degree in Geography from Mount Allison University. She is certified natural building instructor and also a certified Hatha Yoga Teacher.

Publications

• Lead Author: Brooks, S., Magnin, A. and O’Halloran, D. (2009) ‘Rock On!: bringing strategic sustainable development to music festivals’ Progress in Industrial Ecology – An International Journal, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp.285–306.
• Co- author: Experience Using The Natural Step Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development Of Canada’s Flax Industry. 2009. Proceedings of International Conference for Sustainability Measurement and Modelling.
• Published through Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden: Master’s thesis in strategic leadership towards sustainability Rock On!: Bringing strategic sustainable development to music festivals. Thesis based on application of a framework for strategic sustainability and an in-depth collaboration with International Music Concepts, Sydney, Australia.