December Breakfast - Implementing Lasting Change in Taipei - Portland, Oregon USA

Doubletree Hotel Portland
1000 NE Multnomah St
Portland, OR 97232

Transformation in any organization is difficult to achieve. How can true and lasting transformation to sustainability be achieved in one of the world’s most densely populated cities?

Bob Wise, of Cogans Owens Cogan and Team Oregon will explain how the city of Taipei is approaching sustainability and how the Natural Step Framework, the UN Urban Environmental Accords, and natural system principles are being used to create a new vision of what a city can be in the 21st century.

SPEAKER: Bob Wise specializes in visionary and practical approaches to sustainable development, strategic planning and public policy development and management as Senior Project Manager at Cogans Owens Cogans. He was planning director or policy development advisor to four U.S. Governors (New York, Idaho, Arizona and Oregon) and served for seven years as the Executive Director of the Council of State Planning Agencies/National Governors Association, the think-tank for U.S. Governors. Bob received a Masters degree in Public Administration from the State University of New York at Albany and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Idaho.