The Gagliardi Group - Who Are We?

Carl Gagliardi, President

Carl Gagliardi has made a career of helping organizations develop sustainable business programs, systems and policies that meet their most ambitious environmental leadership goals at the lowest possible cost.

Before establishing The Gagliardi Group in 2005, he created and was director of International Paper's Environmental Business Services group, a groundbreaking function that anticipated and worked at the cutting edge of the market-based environmental movement.

Gagliardi has designed or helped draft environmental programs and policies for hundreds of major corporations, including North America's top retail superstores, manufacturers, commercial printers, financial institutions, catalogers, paper merchants and universities.

Before joining International Paper in 1993, he was the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Associate Administrator for education and public affairs. Gagliardi is the co-author of "The Paper Consumer's Guide to Climate Change," and he has contributed to numerous other environmental guides and guidelines, from the WRI/WBCSD Greenhouse Gas Protocol to the DMA Environmental Resource guide.

Kathi Rowzie, CEO

Kathi Rowzie leads The Gagliardi Group’s efforts to help companies develop and implement winning sustainability communications strategies. She has nearly 30 years of corporate communications/public affairs, agency public relations and government media relations experience, and has helped many well-known corporate names effectively communicate important issues to key stakeholders.

Rowzie has crafted successful strategies to proactively communicate environmental leadership as well as plans to leverage environmental sustainability against market-based campaigns targeted against corporations. In addition to developing a wide range of effective sustainability communications tools, she has written numerous corporate sustainability reports, including one of the first North American reports developed in accordance with the internationally recognized Global Reporting Initiative standard. Rowzie is also a published author of sustainability-related articles that have appeared in leading industry and business publications.

Before joining The Gagliardi Group in 2006, Rowzie directed communications for International Paper’s uncoated and coated papers businesses. In this role, she developed and implemented communications strategies for the paper business groups and managed communications for the company’s 13 paper mills. Her experience also includes nearly a decade leading public, business and community relations for GEICO Corporation and representing the company as a lobbyist.