CSR Profile of SmithOBrien

Whether we are building the business case, changing the culture, or helping to implement leading operational practices, SmithOBrien, founded in 1992, has one goal in mind -- "to phase ourselves out of a job with the confidence that our clients can successfully lead and sustain their investment in corporate responsibility and sustainability."

With extensive industry experience in moving companies beyond compliance, SmithOBrien senior consultants have demonstrated their expertise by leading major corporate initiatives, including:

• Industry's first cross-functional methodology that reliably measures the effects of CSR on corporate profitability and cash-flow
• Industry's first Supplier Code of Conduct at Levi Strauss
• Industry's first same-sex domestic partners benefits plan at Lotus Development Corp.
• White House Apparel Industry Partnership
• Authorship of the first books on stakeholder relations
• Pollution prevention, waste elimination, and life-cycle assessment
• Use of Social Network Analysis to engage key stakeholders and influences in accelerating innovation, solving costly, recurring operational problems, and furthering sustainability

Our clients include domestic and global corporations and government agencies.

For more information please visit, www.smithobrien.com and www.im21stcentury.com.

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