Sustainable WNC

Steve Cochran is an internationally-recognized and nationally-prominent leader, speaker, writer, and advocate and practitioner in the field of sustainable enterprise, working with private industry, government, academia and the non-profit world to achieve that goal.

He is the co-founder of Sustainability Strategies, LLC: an Asheville NC-based strategic planning and management consulting firm helping cross-sector clients transform and evolve themselves as sustainable enterprise. He works with a highly-diverse client base locally, nationally and internationally.

Steve serves as Chairman of the Board of the Washington DC-based United States Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development, with more than three hundred multi-stakeholder and cross-sector partner organizations. The US Partnership is the national response to the United Nations ‘Decade of Education for Sustainable Development’ (2005-2014). He served as a ‘sustainable development policy’ delegate in 2006 to both the “G8 Civil Summit” in Moscow, and the United Nations “Global Civil Society Forum” in Dubai.

In Asheville, he serves on the board of the Community and Economic Development Alliance (for the “HUB” Plan), the board of the Clean Air Community Trust, the Board of Visitors of Warren Wilson College, and is the co-founder of the Sustainability Alliance of the Mountains (SAM).