Steps to establishing a cohesive and effective sustainability management team A graduate of Presidio's Graduate School of Sustainable Management, Jamie Simon was Red Bull North America's first Director of Sustainability, establishing the global giant's internal sustainability platform. Currently, she is a Managing Partner with Canopy Strategies--a team of professionals aimed at delivering forward-looking corporate social responsibility vision through applied, practical solutions. With a long history of project and team management, Simon provided valuable insight into creating the infrastructure, communications platform and time frame needed to facilitate an effective Green Team. What once was just a glorified buzzword has gone on to become the most substantial business practice movement of the past century. Sustainable business is no longer just a hypothetical notion, but a necessary aspect to any successful business model. With the impetus and desire to put a "Gr…