Ken is a change management consultant who has over 30 years experience in developing and implementing corporate and natural resource sustainability and environmental management strategies. The present focus of Ken's work is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) which includes sustainability policy and strategy development, sustainability management and reporting. In response to the necessity of developing remedial and adaptation actions due to climate change, Ken is substantially engaged in directing work involving energy reduction, minimization of greenhouse gas emission, and moving towards carbon neutrality.
Ken has also spent some time in his career developing a Research Institute which provides environmental and social performance data to organizations for Socially Responsible Investment (SRI). He has an MBA and was also formerly a Principal Consultant in natural resource management at URS Australia and the Snowy Mountain Engineering Corporation (SMEC) Australia, where he worked mainly in the field of water and catchment management.
Prior to his career in environmental and CSR consulting, Ken was involved in agricultural research spending the first part of his career in pesticide research and soil and plant nutrition diagnostic work, culminating in his appointment as Assistant Director in Consumer Protection and Public Health at the State Chemistry Laboratory in Victoria, Australia. He later worked in the policy area at the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs before being appointed as Manager of the State Water Laboratory, Victoria, Australia. The Laboratory was later privatized as Water EcoScience Pty Ltd and Ken was appointed General Manager and later as General Manager Australian Water Technologies, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.
As an environmental and CSR consultant, Ken has gained a reputation of excellence in technical quality and customer service. He has worked with Terence Jeyaretnam, the other Net Balance Founding Director, over the past ten years implementing environmental and sustainability strategies within companies, developing sustainability indicators and establishing frameworks for sustainability data management. At the beginning of 2007, Ken and Terence set up Net Balance Management Group providing sustainability services to corporations in both private and public sectors. They also set up Net Balance Foundation to meet similar demands in the Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) and non-profit sectors, recognizing the importance of the role SMEs and NGOs has to play in developing and achieving sustainability goals.
Ken has a passion for most things French. He recently made an investment to pursue his love of France. A cottage in the SE of France near the Spanish border is available for those who share similar passion and are willing to travel to that part of the world to explore.
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