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169: Empowering Sustainability Professionals with Virginia Cinquemani
Finds your purpose and follow it. — Virginia Cinquenani
On today’s episode of the Sustainable, Virginia Cinquemani, the founder and director of Green Gorilla Consultants, a company focused entirely on sustainability professionals, joins us to talk about how we can empower sustainability professionals and help our clients what sustainability is all about.
Virginia is also a qualified architect, project manager and BREEAM AP. She’s very passionate for sustainability and has written a book to help sustainability professional in their works called “Integrating BREEAM throughout the Design Process”.
In this episode, Virginia shares how she and Green Gorilla Consultants is enabling professionals to become stronger and more fulfilled in their work so that they can spread the message with sustainability further. She also talks about how she’s addressing the frustrations of people who work within the sustainability sphere and why technical skills are not enough when working on sustainability projects. Moreover, we also discuss how to seel sustainability and adapt to your client’s language, how to reduce the performance gap within our own work, as well as the current state of the construction industry in the UK.
In this episode, Virginia and I talk about:
- How coaching and further training help sustainability managers work better?
- Why technical knowledge of sustainability is not enough when you’re a sustainability professional
- Using a language that’ll enable you to communicate better with your clients and help them grasp and understand what sustainability is
- How to sell sustainability
- What sustainability means for Virginia
- Forgetting the word “sustainabiluty” and how to shift the polarization from people who’re comfortable using language that doesn’t connect with others
- Educating your clients, actively listening, and adapting to their needs
- Virginia’s thoughts on the current happening within the UK construction industry
- Using sustainability as a way of achieving quality to make businesses more resilient
- Reducing the performance gap within our work
Where to reach Virginia:
More About Green Gorilla Consultants:
Green Gorilla Consultants is a unique leadership training and coaching (CPD Accredited and IEMA Approved) company focused on empowering sustainability consultants, letting their inner green gorilla loose, and become stronger, more assertive, and more resilient by providing them with the best toolkit to confidently stand on their own and take on sustainability projects.
To know more about Green Gorilla, you can visit their website here.
Mentioned in this episode:
- Episode 168: Embodied Carbon with Anthony Pak
If you enjoyed this, check out episode 144: The Role of Coaching in Creating a Sustainable World
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Finds your purpose and follow it. — Virginia Cinquenani
On today’s episode of the Sustainable, Virginia Cinquemani, the founder and director of Green Gorilla Consultants, a company focused entirely on sustainability professionals, joins us to talk about how we can empower sustainability professionals and help our clients what sustainability is all about.
Virginia is also a qualified architect, project manager and BREEAM AP. She’s very passionate for sustainability and has written a book to help sustainability professional in their works called “Integrating BREEAM throughout the Design Process”.
In this episode, Virginia shares how she and Green Gorilla Consultants is enabling professionals to become stronger and more fulfilled in their work so that they can spread the message with sustainability further. She also talks about how she’s addressing the frustrations of people who work within the sustainability sphere and why technical skills are not enough when working on sustainability projects. Moreover, we also discuss how to seel sustainability and adapt to your client’s language, how to reduce the performance gap within our own work, as well as the current state of the construction industry in the UK.
In this episode, Virginia and I talk about:
- How coaching and further training help sustainability managers work better?
- Why technical knowledge of sustainability is not enough when you’re a sustainability professional
- Using a language that’ll enable you to communicate better with your clients and help them grasp and understand what sustainability is
- How to sell sustainability
- What sustainability means for Virginia
- Forgetting the word “sustainabiluty” and how to shift the polarization from people who’re comfortable using language that doesn’t connect with others
- Educating your clients, actively listening, and adapting to their needs
- Virginia’s thoughts on the current happening within the UK construction industry
- Using sustainability as a way of achieving quality to make businesses more resilient
- Reducing the performance gap within our work
Where to reach Virginia:
More About Green Gorilla Consultants:
Green Gorilla Consultants is a unique leadership training and coaching (CPD Accredited and IEMA Approved) company focused on empowering sustainability consultants, letting their inner green gorilla loose, and become stronger, more assertive, and more resilient by providing them with the best toolkit to confidently stand on their own and take on sustainability projects.
To know more about Green Gorilla, you can visit their website here.
Mentioned in this episode:
- Episode 168: Embodied Carbon with Anthony Pak
If you enjoyed this, check out episode 144: The Role of Coaching in Creating a Sustainable World
SUBSCRIBE TO SUSTAINABLE: THE PODCAST
If you’re enjoying Sustainable: The Podcast be sure to subscribe to your preferred Podcast Platform to get notified on the latest episodes. Let me know your thoughts about this episode by leaving a review and rating.