The mission of Sustain NW, LLC is to promote and advance sustainable
practices in the Pacific Northwest through training, leadership
and connection. In addition to training and
consulting, Jill is also a personal success coach -
assisting individuals in finding and following their
passion.
As a trainer and consultant, Jill Sughrue brings 27 years of
corporate casualty risk management experience to the sustainability arena, assisting both public and private
entities. Among other projects in the past few
years, she worked
with the City of Vancouver and Clark County,
respectively, and their partnering organizations on
the 2008 and 2007 Southwest Washington Sustainability
Conference and Trade Shows, and with the City of
Vancouver on development of the
City's sustainability policy and metrics.
Since 2007, she has facilitated
Earth Advantage
Institute's S.T.A.R.
certification program (Sustainability Training for
Accredited Real Estate Professionals), training over 500
realtors in identifying, understanding and marketing
'green home' features and benefits.
Jill is a co-facilitator of the
NW Sustainability Consortium, a
Peer Learning Network, where
12 or so non-competing
organizations come together to
learn from each other (and
invited presenters) how to make
Sustainability work.
In June 2009, Jill
successfully completed the Sustainability Leadership
Certificate Program through the University of Oregon. She is an adjunct instructor at Clark
College in Vancouver, a founding member of the
International Society of Sustainability Professionals
(ISSP), and a member of and associate with
The Natural Step Network
in Portland, Oregon.
One of 3,000 international presenters with
The Climate Project trained by Nobel-laureate and
former Vice President Al Gore, she has given a
customized version of The Inconvenient Truth
slideshow to dozens of audiences since January 2007.
In 2009
Jill co-founded and continues to chair the board of the
Lower Columbia
Alliance for Living Sustainably (LOCALS), a
non-profit corporation and member of the
Business
Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE). In April 2007, she
co-hosted the STEP IT UP Global Warming rally at Esther
Short Park in Vancouver as part of the National Day of
Climate Action. That same
spring she founded a monthly networking forum for local
businesses, educators, individuals and government
representatives to celebrate and accelerate sustainable
practices in Clark County, which later formalized as
LOCALS.
An active volunteer, mentor and presenter with the
Northwest Earth Institute,
Jill also assisted in development of two of NWEI's discussion
guides: Sustainable Systems at Work and
Global Warming: Changing CO2urse.
Jill is passionate about sustainability, which she considers the only long-term, viable solution to the
increasing risk and associated hazards of global warming.
An endorser
of The Earth Charter,
she encourages everyone to become familiar with this
inspiring global initiative to create a peaceful, just
and sustainable global society.
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As the insurance director for Portland General
Electric Company (PGE) from 1990 to 2005, Jill was responsible
for the management of property and casualty risk associated with
the operation of the investor owned utility with over 2,800
employees. Prior to joining PGE, she was an account executive
for six years with Alexander & Alexander, Inc., international
insurance broker, with clients ranging from the City of Portland
to NERCO, Inc., PacifiCorp’s mining subsidiary.
In the course of her career in risk management, which started in 1978
at the corporate headquarters of Evans Products Company in
Portland, Jill has managed numerous projects, including:
- Successful negotiation of multi-million dollar property insurance claim settlements. .
- Preparation and reconciliation of annual operating budgets over $10 million.
- Analysis of the corporate cost allocation mechanism leading to new procedures.
- Orchestration of high-profile industry forums between insurers and clients.
- Chair of an industry conference, which netted record proceeds for the professional association.
Professionally and in the community, Jill has demonstrated her leadership and communication abilities as:
- Facilitator of experiential leadership workshops at PGE.
- Certified trainer of personal safety and self-defense skills
with the
WomenStrength program.
- President, Oregon Chapter of the Risk and
Insurance Management Society (RIMS).
- Mentor to high school students at St. Mary’s Academy
and RIMS national chapters.
- Speaker at risk management venues, including RIMS, Edison Electric
Institute, U.S. Council on Energy Awareness and the American Society of Safety Engineers.
Jill earned her Associate in Risk Management (ARM) from the American Institute of Chartered Property and Casualty
Underwriters and was an ARM 54 instructor for two years. Her philosophy of life-long learning commenced at Oregon State
University in 1973 and continues to this day via workshops and coursework at local and regional
universities and numerous professional venues.
For more information or a formal resume, please
contact Jill directly.
