BIGGREENACADEMY - Key Persons
Bettine has a special interest with degrees in Energy & Environmental technology and Business with Finance.
She is passionate about learning and developing skills, particularly for better sustainability. She's loves the way the Big Green Academy aims to help everyone do the same.
Bettine firmly believes that as individuals, each of us drive societal change and have the opportunity to contribute to a better future in every way we can.
Bettine is particularly interested in better construction and using procurement standards and processes to make it happen.
Job Titles:
- Lead Trainer for the Energy Institute
- Principal, Energy & Sustainability
James has 25+ years' experience
supporting and leading up change in energy and sustainability across many organizations. He's an engineer with a passion for doing better by combining people and technical solutions - that's the mission of his business the Discovery Mill.
James is also a Lead Trainer for the Energy Institute, MSc Module Leader for London City University, Consultant Editor for Croneri, a regular contributor to industry conferences and head judge for international awards.
He lives in South-West England with his wife and two children and regularly experiments with new ideas to live and breathe better sustainability at home too.
John is truly 'Ingenious' at
rallying everyday champions at work and communicating what makes an idea worth believing in - indeed Ingenious Ideas is the name of his company!
Along with James, John originally created the Big green concept and the approach for the first series of Big green events. Over the years, he has added in creativity across the full media spectrum - online and offline, awareness-building and more results-driven.
Probing for hidden meanings, discovering insights and contributing to successful integrated campaigns are what he does best.
He continues to provide strategic input to everything we do.
Job Titles:
- Officer
- Forums Coordinator
Mike is a US energy efficiency
and sustainability champion. For the Big Green Academy, he's a coordinator for day-to-day communications within our forums.
Mike is a former naval officer with a knack for translating strategic goals into concrete actions and achieving continual process improvement.
Monica is based in Italy with
degrees in Energy & Environmental Technologies and International Economics. At work, she helps organizations and people take advantage of incentives for better energy and environmental performance.
She's very enthusiastic and passionate about our vision and mission, seeing it as a great opportunity to make a difference by working more closely together.
Monica has worked on energy and water improvement reviews and supporting audits for organizations to help meet the European Energy Efficiency Directive requirements.
Monica keeps working to become a better sustainability specialist.
with outreach to Australia, Praveen is currently managing the facilities and services for a Commercial office complex.
With a focus on sustainability and people, and degrees in energy, it is his firm belief that changing our behaviors and habits is what will deliver better sustainability developments and meaningful progress in the fight against dangerous climate change.
Praveen sees working with others as the big opportunity for the Big Green Academy. He loves supporting us in engaging people to share ideas, ask questions and find solutions for everyday challenges within the community forums.