President and Founder

While building his firm, Dr. Bruce Piasecki taught at Cornell University, Clarkson University, and RPI, becoming a tenured faculty member at a young age, and then a Director of a Masters of Science graduate program. Currently, Dr. Piasecki is the president and founder of AHC Group, Inc., a management consulting firm specializing in energy, materials, and environmental corporate matters since 1981. He works with a set of outstanding executives from major firms known as Senior Associates at AHC Group.

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He is the author of several seminal books on business strategy, valuation, and corporate change, including the Nature Society's book of the year, In Search of Environmental Excellence: Moving Beyond Blame (Simon and Schuster, 1990). His articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, Technology Review, Carpe Articulum, and the Christian Science Monitor.

His latest book, The Surprising Solution: Creating Possibility in a Swift and Severe World, has significant internet exposure and has gone global and viral in short order. Recently, a number of journalists and publications, such as David Gibbons and Carpe Articulum, have run 30-year retrospectives on the impact of his work.

Since 1990, Dr. Piasecki and his staff have run hundreds of benchmarking workshops for numerous multinational Corporate Affiliates, involving key executives in site remediation, power markets, emerging issues, and governance concerns since Enron. From working for Toyota to working on growth and sustainability issues for the people running Warren Buffett's Shaw Industries to other large entities like Suncor Energy and FMC, Piasecki's approach is warm, humanistic, and inclusive, making the firms compete on price, quality, and social needs. He has coined a new phrase — social response capitalism — to define new forces at work in the 21st century.

With his last books attracting the attention of change agents and board members globally, Dr. Piasecki has moved the field of environmental and energy strategy closer to financial markets and mainstream financial diagnostics. His books have been adopted in a variety of academic subjects from globalization, corporate strategy, social history, and the evolution of financial tools.

Read Bruce Piasecki's Op/Ed piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer: "Social Responsibility Is Entering the Corporate World"
(August 6, 2007)

Sample Publications

Dr. Piasecki is the author and co-author of seven books:

• The Surprising Solution: Creating Possibility in a Swift and Severe World (2009)
• World Inc. (2007), now in 7 foreign editions, and it has won awards on globalization
• Environmental Management & Business Strategy: Leadership Skills for the 21st Century (1998)
• Corporate Environmental Strategy: The Avalanche of Change Since Bhopal (1995)
• In Search of Environmental Excellence: Moving Beyond Blame (1990)
• America's Future in Toxic Waste Management (1988)
• Beyond Dumping (1984)

Corporate Strategy Today is the AHC Group's executive monograph series, published by Lexis Nexis.

SEE ALSO:

• Leadership Case Studies for more details on Dr. Piasecki's publications.

Lectures

For speaking engagements, please contact Leading Authorities, Inc. at 1-800-SPEAKER email Matthew Jones or visit Bruce's page at the Leading Authorities website.

Selected Speaking Topics: Going Global, Going Green Social Leaders and Business Leaders: Cut from the Same Cloth? To Master the Task of Tomorrow, Manage the Challenge Today Recruiting and Retaining Talent in Modern Times Developing Leaders We Can Trust Money Doesn't Manage Itself Learn more about these topics here »

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