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 manufacturers,
financial institutions, retailers, commercial printers, catalogers and paper merchants.
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 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.
She has crafted successful strategies to help clients proactively communicate environmental leadership and
has developed a wide range of effective sustainability communications tools. In addition, she has written numerous corporate
sustainability reports in accordance or aligned 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 and community relations for GEICO Corporation and representing
the company as a lobbyist.
