Gifford Pinchot, co-founder of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute in Washington state, leader of the Pinchot & Company consulting firm and author of three books including a business best seller, will serve as the University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business scholar in residence for the 2005-06 academic year.
Pinchot will focus his work in the school's Robert H. and Beverly A. Deming Center for Entrepreneurship.
"Gifford Pinchot is an invaluable academic and business resource for the Deming Center and the Leeds School of Business," said Paul Jerde, director of the Deming Center. "His 1985 best seller, "Intrapreneuring: Why You Don't Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur," was critical in popularizing the concept that corporations can think entrepreneurially, and the Bainbridge Institute is a major force in sustainability education."
As scholar in residence, Pinchot will provide lectures, serve on panels, and counsel students as well as consult with Leeds School faculty and staff on the Deming Center's new Sustainable Applications in Global Enterprise efforts.
Pinchot and his wife founded the Bainbridge Graduate Institute to prepare diverse leaders to build enterprises that are economically successful, socially responsible and environmentally sustainable. The institute achieves this mission by preparing its students and helping other business schools integrate sustainability into their programs. It offers both an MBA and certificate in sustainable business.
Pinchot's consulting firm helps companies reduce bureaucratic obstacles and design and implement more effective and sustainable business practices.
In addition to the 1985 "Intrapreneuring," Pinchot has published "The End of Bureaucracy & the Rise of the Intelligent Organization," written with his wife Elizabeth Pinchot and "Intrapreneuring in Action: A Handbook for Business Innovation" written with Ron Pellman.
In business, Pinchot was the founding chairman and later CEO of Consensus Development. In addition to BGI, Pinchot has founded four companies and has two patents under license. Prior to forming Pinchot & Company, he was founding president of a management consulting company that specializes in innovating solutions to business growth problems.
Pinchot's family has a long conservationist heritage, and he devotes one-third of his time to facilitating groups addressing environmental issues. His long history in the sustainability movement includes facilitating the Forest Market Transformation project for the World Bank and the Systems Group on Forests, and the Fredericia Refinery Project for the Rocky Mountain Institute.