Sustayne is based on the life work of Bainbridge Graduate Institute’s (BGI) founder Gifford Pinchot III, and features content by BGI Dean and author Jill Bamburg, and Social Enterprise Group founder Kirsten Gagnaire.
KIRSTEN GAGNAIRE, Founder of the Social Enterprise Group and Sustayne, brings a depth of experience and passion for addressing social and environmental issues through profitable business ventures and is a national leader in the field of social enterprise. After founding her company, Social Enterprise Group (SEG) in 2000, Kirsten worked to assist organizations and individuals in all sectors to develop efficient and effective social enterprises. She consults with, speaks to and teaches social entrepreneurs throughout the world. In her quest to find an efficient and scalable way to provide technical assistance to this field, she partnered with Gifford Pinchot III to develop a comprehensive methodology, Sustayne, for leading groups of entrepreneurs through the development of their social ventures. Additionally, she is Vice Chair of the board of Social Enterprise Alliance, a rapidly growing membership organization. Kirsten is a contributor to articles and books regarding social enterprise and was named one of the Puget Sound’s Top 40 Under Forty Business Leaders.
Prior to starting SEG, Kirsten was Administrator of Strategic Planning at Casey Family Programs. Before working at Casey, Kirsten was a consultant with KPMG Peat Marwick, specializing in management, technology, and organizational development consulting for health and human service agencies. Her fusing of social issues and business expertise began internationally--first as a marketing intern at the Russian-owned world trade center in Moscow and later as a small enterprise development Peace Corps volunteer in Mali, West Africa. She holds a degree in International Business from Seattle University and lives on Vashon Island, WA with her two amazing children.
GIFFORD PINCHOT III is President and co-founder of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute. He is a well-known author, speaker, and consultant on launching businesses and innovation management. He has helped to launch over 700 businesses, several of which are each doing over a billion dollars in sales. He has built four companies and sold three of them, one for a profit of over 100 to one for the original investors.
Gifford has published three books; the first, in 1985, INTRAPRENEURING: Why You Don’t Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur, was a business best-seller and introduced the concept of intrapreneuring—creating innovation within existing organizations. Intrapreneuring has now been published worldwide in fifteen languages and is a classic text in business education. The word “intrapreneur,” which Gifford coined to describe the intra-corporate entrepreneur, has been included in the American Heritage Dictionary and Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary. In 1999 he co-authored Intrapreneuring in Action—A Handbook for Business Innovation, the long awaited follow-up.
In his second book, The Intelligent Organization (Berrett-Koehler, 1994), written with Elizabeth Pinchot, the vision was broadened to include a revolutionary way of organizing all work from the most innovative to the most mundane in a way that increases intrapreneurship and promotes democratic participation.
From 1983 to 2005, Gifford led Pinchot & Company, a firm that helps companies launch new businesses and to design and implement more sustainable business practices. Its client list includes half of the Fortune 100, and numerous government and non-profit organizations as well as clients on every continent except Antarctica.
Gifford has facilitated numerous sustainability projects and has licensed two of his inventions. He graduated with honors from Harvard University in 1965 with an A.B. degree in economics, then completed his coursework for a Ph.D. in neurophysiology at Johns Hopkins University.
JILL BAMBURG, MBA, is the Dean of the BGI MBA Program, a founding faculty member and the lead architect of the curriculum. Prior to co-founding BGI, Jill served as a member of the core faculty at Antioch University/Seattle for 7 years, teaching courses in marketing, strategy and general management. In her private industry career, she served in a variety of senior level marketing positions at Aldus Corporation, creators of PageMaker software and architects of the desktop publishing revolution.
Jill has recently completed a book on the challenges of bringing mission-driven businesses to scale. Titled Getting to Scale: Growing Your Business Without Selling Out, it was published by Berrett-Koehler in the summer of 2006. She has a BA in English from Washington University and an MBA from Stanford University.
ANNA HURWITZ, Consultant at the Social Enterprise Group, is involved in all phases of client work, from generating proposals to writing deliverables. She specializes in gathering and distilling information, specific projects include: feasibility studies (Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Center for Fathers & Families), business development (Transitions, Plymouth Housing Group), social enterprise assessment (Barista Training & Education Program, TreeMo). She has designed, and is responsible for, most of the materials for Sustayne, including the Client Toolkit, Consultant Guide and the website Sustayne.com.
Anna's varied background includes 15 years experience of art event production, two decades of office management, and includes graphic design production, research, writing and the culinary arts. Her career has followed an unusual path that has taken her from research assistant for the Congressional Research Service in Washington, DC to surveying flood plains on the Maine coast to assisting with the design of Special Reports for the Wall Street Journal in New York City to cooking in the only five star restaurant in the Pacific NW. She has produced dozens of art events in Brooklyn, NY and Seattle, WA. She is a driven organizer who uses her multiple-disciplinary approach to find creative solutions for clients and the organizations she works for.
Members Social Enterprise Alliance the association of individuals and organizations building effective, more sustainable nonprofits through earned income strategies.
