Gordon A. Enk

Vice-President of Strategy & Co-Founder

Gordon EnkDr. Gordon A. Enk is the Vice President for Strategy for the Enterprise for a Sustainable World. He is also the Principal of Partners for Strategic Change and the President of the Research and Decision Center. His experience includes: Creating the Center for Economic and Environmental Studies at the Institute on Man and Science (Rensselaerville, NY); Serving as the Director of New Product Development and New Ventures at International Paper Co.; Leading the Strategic Services Division as a Vice President of H. A. Simons, Ltd. (Vancouver, BC); Serving as the Vice President of Strategy and New Venture Development at Industra, Inc. (Seattle, WA). He has also led major efforts focused on developing an understanding of how to develop a participatory process of strategic change.

Gordon served on the Advisory Board for the Corporate Environmental Management Program at the University of Michigan and the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Center for Sustainable Enterprise of the University of North Carolina. He has been an Executive-in-Residence while teaching at the University of Michigan and taught courses on Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Washington, University of Michigan and the University of North Carolina. He currently serves as Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at the Johnson School of Management of Cornell University.

We believe that business - more than either government or civil society - can improve the state of the planet, and prosper in the process.