{"id":2969,"date":"2018-02-21T13:53:17","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T13:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=2969"},"modified":"2018-04-15T23:37:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T23:37:22","slug":"bob-willard","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/speaker\/bob-willard\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Willard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob is a leading expert on quantifying and selling the business value of corporate sustainability strategies. He has given over a thousand presentations to corporate, government, university, and NGO audiences. His six books, two DVDs, business case worksheets, and extensive Master Slide Set provide capacity-building resources for sustainability champions.<\/p>\n<p>He previously worked 34 years with IBM Canada, \u201cretiring\u201d in 2000. He serves on the boards of Forum for the Future U.S. and the Future-Fit Foundation, and serves on the B Lab Standards Advisory Council. He was inducted into the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP) Hall of Fame in 2011, received a Clean50 award in 2015, and is a three-time winner of a \u201cBest for the World Overall\u201d award for B Corps. He is an ISSP Certified Sustainability Professional and has a Ph.D. in sustainability from the University of Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>His mission is to ensure his three children and three grandchildren\u2019s quality of life is at least as good as he has enjoyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2970,"template":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}