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KoAnn is a seasoned business-to-business media executive with a consistent track record of success over 18 years producing record-breaking business results across a wide variety of media and markets. Formerly Senior Vice President with Miller Freeman, Inc. now CMP media, she has successfully launched over 40 conferences, trade shows, magazines, websites, research studies and even books - the largest of which have attracted tens of thousands of people from around the world. Her involvement with business and the environment dates back to the mid-1980s when she launched international conferences on improving log utilization, reducing Waste Paper, and eliminating ozone-layer destroying chemicals (CFCs or chlorofluorocarbons).
Prior to founding Sustainable Life Media, KoAnn founded Organizations That Work, a management consultancy focused on her passion for helping companies deliver breakthrough financial performance through purpose-driven leadership practices and improved organizational alignment and learning. Since 2003, she has devoted her full attention to the emerging field of sustainability, helping various media entrepreneurs and NGO's such as Sierra Club, Greenbiz.com and others, establish their own paths to effectiveness and economic sustainability. In 2005, through SLM, she produced the first international conference on Cradle to Cradle Design in Practice with Bill McDonough, Michael Braungart, Peter Senge and others.
Having spent ten years building online and event franchises for emerging technology markets, she is keenly aware of how a neutral media platform can help catalyze a new marketplace. Through SLM, she and her team hope to provide an open space for many to benefit from innovating for sustainability. KoAnn lives with her entrepreneurial husband, Steve and their two sons, Josh and Jake on the San Francisco Peninsula.
