Our clients
We’ve worked with hundreds of organizations and teams around the world since 2009.
Who we’ve worked with
Our clients include international and national non-profit organizations of all sizes, United Nations agencies, and universities that lead in addressing pressing 21st century sustainable development challenges: ecosystem resilience, food security, energy, water, education and health, among others.
They include companies that wish to demonstrate that you can actively engage with social and environmental issues and also be a dynamic and competitive force in the marketplace – whether you are selling fashionable clothing, coffee capsules or cement.
We work with those convening multi-stakeholder groups and stewarding systems change and transition towards a more sustainable, green economy, including via better, more responsible, commodities such as aluminium, biofuels, cocoa and cotton.
We also work on different scales, from small team initiatives to very large and long processes, such as running facilitation teams for the World Water Forum and IUCN Conservation Congress, facilitating multi-year certification and standard development and revision processes, and multi-stakeholder and multi-phase strategic planning exercises.
And we are there also for individuals who are looking to influence better-world change and would like some help along the way.
Some recent clients
We’d be happy to provide references. Just drop us an email: contact@brightgreenlearning.com
Testimonials
What some of our clients and partners have said about Bright Green Learning.
Working with Lizzie and Gillian for the UN Cares annual global Task Force working session was a great pleasure. They helped us think about new and more efficient ways to handle parts of the meeting that we’ve been doing for years. Lizzie was thorough and creative in helping us plan the agenda, ensuring interactivity and suggesting, in particular, the “Point-Counterpoint” process for looking at a long-standing and contentious issue, which was a great way to objectively examine all sides of the question, and because of which we have a new insight about how to address it.
Gillian was a very skilled facilitator, calmingly “holding the whole,” keeping us on track and adapting, as needed, to ensure we achieved all our meeting goals. Feedback from meeting participants has been very positive and we would work with Bright Green Learning again with pleasure and gratitude.
Running my own social micro-enterprise, I have found peer-partnering with Bright Green Learning – with trusted peers who share core values and at the same time bring diversity – a greatly enriching practice. We are small companies with the potential and ambition for big impact. It is critical that we avoid business blindness and stagnation. Peer-partnering with Bright Green Learning opens new doors, increases innovation, and encourages reflection and learning for us all. What’s more, it maximizes the credibility, performance and capacities of our respective businesses.
The Bright Green Learning Academy provides effective tools to help address complex challenges. The courses have helped to sharpen some of the hard analytics needed for my job but have also had a positive impact on the qualitative side. I really appreciate digging deeper into the subject of systems thinking and exploring methods to examine the components and interaction of all elements in a defined environment. I also appreciate developing tools to improve my interrogative skills. Often the information we need from people is readily available if we just know how to formulate our questions correctly.
Though I have worked with Gillian in many ways for over 15 years I am continuingly impressed by her professional standards, her efficiency, and her competence. She is more proficient than anyone I have ever met at structuring a workshop to meet the needs of the client and then running it. We have worked together in Japan, China, Mexico, Thailand, the US, and numerous East and West European nations. Still I always learn something from her when we collaborate.When I work with someone, I need to be able to agree on individual responsibilities, and then concentrate on my own obligations, assuming the others will handle their part with excellence and on schedule. Gillian always meets those expectations.
I normally work on training programs that have a major emphasis on systems thinking and modeling. Even though she did not have formal training in those areas, Gillian has become a valuable partner for me. Some trainers start from their standard workshop method and search for which of your needs it might satisfy. Gillian starts from a thorough analysis of your needs and then searches for the workshop method that will be most useful. Plus she is a really nice person.
