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Businesses, Non-profit organizations, event planners and companies across the country have worked closely with our booking agents to hire Gil Friend for a speaking engagements, guest appearances, product endorsements and corporate events. Many of those same clients have continued to turn to our speakers bureau as we can easily align Gil Friend’s availability with their upcoming seminar, gala, annual conference, corporate function, and grand opening. Our close relationship with Gil Friend’s booking agent and management team further enables us to provide inquiring clients with Gil Friend’s speaking fee and appearance cost.

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Gil Friend (born March 4, 1949 in Brooklyn, New York) is a business consultant, author, system ecologist, and strategist in sustainable business, clean technology, and communications. He is widely considered one of the founders of the sustainability movement, and was named by the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP) to their first Sustainability Hall of Fame, acknowledging “those people that have contributed the most to the emerging field of sustainability” (along with Ray Anderson, Amory Lovins, Karl-Henrik Robert and Bob Willard).

Friend holds an M.S. degree in Systems Ecology from Antioch University, has a black belt in Aikido, and is a seasoned practitioner of “The Natural Step” environmental management system.

Friend is author (with Benjamin Privitt and Nicholas Kordesch) of the 2009 book, "The Truth About Green Business" (FT Press), providing a business handbook for sustainability strategy and implementation, as well as an audiobook version, "The Green Business Field Guide," released in 2013. He is coauthor of "Biofuels Development and Soil Productivity" (1982); and has contributed chapters to several books, including "Worldchanging: A User’s Guide to the 21st Century", "Sustainable Enterprise Report", "Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook", "Sustainable Food Systems", and "Stepping Stones". From 1992 through 1998, he wrote a column for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate entitled The New Bottom Line, focusing on business and the environment. Friend also maintains a blog on these subjects, Strategic Sustainability and contributes to Worldchanging, GreenBiz and other blogs on sustainability and business issues.

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