Formal Bio
Kady is Founder and Chief Transformation Officer at the Sustainability Studio. Recently, Kady lead the global Climate Smart team with Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Previously she lead the Energy Business Partnerships team at the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) in Ontario. Kady was Director of Environmental Sustainability Solutions at Atrium Health in Charlotte, North Carolina one of the largest public, not-for-profit hospital systems in the U.S. She also served as a Sustainability Leader at University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto for almost a decade. Kady practices (eco)system science to transform organizational culture, making pro-environmental behaviours easier in large complex work settings. Through participatory and collaborative techniques Kady creates the conditions for staff and executive engagement, positive disruption and simple solutions to emerge and persist for the long-term. Protecting environmental and human health, as well as conservation of natural and economic resources are the outcomes of her programs. She is currently focused on a Multi-Solving Framework that embraces the complexity of behaviour, learning and social decision making that complements traditional energy management practices and climate preparedness approaches for commercial and institutional organizations.
Kady has worked at the intersection of health systems, energy systems and sustainability for over 20 years in North America and Globally. Kady works with clients to amplify climate action with; creative and inclusive strategic network weaving, ecosystem thinking, and sustainable business. Working at the leading edge of sector scale climate preparedness and low carbon innovation within complex organizations she has rare expertise linking invisible human behaviours with technical, financial and social systems to create the conditions for investment, prototyping and scaling.
Kady has worked at the intersection of health systems, energy systems and sustainability for over 20 years in North America and Globally. Kady works with clients to amplify climate action with; creative and inclusive strategic network weaving, ecosystem thinking, and sustainable business. Working at the leading edge of sector scale climate preparedness and low carbon innovation within complex organizations she has rare expertise linking invisible human behaviours with technical, financial and social systems to create the conditions for investment, prototyping and scaling.
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Comprehensive program, policy and governance changes introduced across multi-campus hospitals in Canada and U.S.A. with full engagement of executive and frontline staff
: Award-winning energy and sustainability programs
: Comprehensive behavioural science and organizational learning theory and practice
: Substantive improvements in environmental, financial, risk mitigation and human wellbeing objective
Created and implemented sustainability business tools to manage risk, influence social norms, increase feedback loops, improve knowledge mobilization and encourage follow-through
: Increase commitment to sustainability decisions and actions
: Simultaneously protect infrastructure, assets, and human wellbeing
: Meet the diverse needs, interests and scope of stakeholders within sectors and across communities
: Preserve natural and economic resources to complement business objectives.
Designed and delivered an internationally recognized multi-modal energy efficiency and conservation program achieving utility savings of $2M
: Founder of Energy Connect, an energy performance program embracing the complexity of human behaviour and social decision-making to reduce carbon and save money
: Mitigate business risk to protect infrastructure, assets, and wellbeing
: Reshape specific sustainability practices to improve knowledge mobilization and encourage follow-through
: Award-winning energy and sustainability programs
: Comprehensive behavioural science and organizational learning theory and practice
: Substantive improvements in environmental, financial, risk mitigation and human wellbeing objective
Created and implemented sustainability business tools to manage risk, influence social norms, increase feedback loops, improve knowledge mobilization and encourage follow-through
: Increase commitment to sustainability decisions and actions
: Simultaneously protect infrastructure, assets, and human wellbeing
: Meet the diverse needs, interests and scope of stakeholders within sectors and across communities
: Preserve natural and economic resources to complement business objectives.
Designed and delivered an internationally recognized multi-modal energy efficiency and conservation program achieving utility savings of $2M
: Founder of Energy Connect, an energy performance program embracing the complexity of human behaviour and social decision-making to reduce carbon and save money
: Mitigate business risk to protect infrastructure, assets, and wellbeing
: Reshape specific sustainability practices to improve knowledge mobilization and encourage follow-through