Sustainability strategy to scale your positive impact.

Our Approach

We leverage the market opportunities for advancing initiatives in social innovation and regenerative development—at speed and scale.

We work with your unique brand and your unique community, bringing you our team of experts in sustainability strategy, systems thinking, and strategic communications.

Conveying complex issues through compelling, evidence-based storytelling, we foster stakeholder engagement and cultivate shared purpose.

Our clients range from Fortune 500 companies scaling sustainability initiatives, to NGOs, to early-stage ventures innovating solutions to advance decarbonization, environmental justice, and the circular economy.

Services

Strategic Communications

Research and insights, market analysis, strategic messaging, and campaign design to drive the growth and value of your sustainability initiatives.
Early-Stage Ventures and Startups

Customer discovery, insights, audience segmentation, and competitive analysis to create winning investor pitches and stakeholder engagements that propel your venture.
Our pitch forums include Springboard Enterprises, Golden Seeds Venture Fund, and Rocky Mountain Venture Capital.
Leadership Communications

Leadership keynotes, TED talks, and presentations for industry summits to extend your leadership influence and the positive impact of your organization's purpose.
Stakeholder Engagements & Cross-Sector Partnerships

Stakeholder engagement plans, facilitating collaborative ideation, aligning purpose and goals, and forging strategic multisector partnerships to expand your reach and impact.
Creative Leadership

Bespoke team development programs to cultivate shared purpose, inclusive collaboration, and co-creative innovation across diverse talent.

Testimonials

Biodiversity / Soundscape Ecology

“This was a team effort, after all. I couldn't have done this [TEDGlobal Talk] without your help and support.”
Bernie Krause, PhD
President
Wild Sanctuary
Social Innovation / Media

“TJBauman has helped me hone my vision for BYkids’ future, strengthen my leadership, develop our board productivity, and hone our strategic messaging to effectively develop funders and partners. Dealing with the finest journalists, filmmakers, diplomats, and philanthropic leaders, it is rare for me to find someone with such deep empathy for global issues AND analytic prowess. Trisha is a rare combination.”
Holly Carter
Executive Director & Founder
BYkids
Finance / Data Science

“Working with TJBauman helped me a great deal, it particularly helped me to reconcile between leveraging my uniqueness to make a difference while conforming to the norms of the group in order to fit it.”
Hamid Benbrahim, MBA, PhD
Former Chief Data Scientist & Managing Director
TD Ameritrade
Social Justice

“TJBauman is a valued partner of InsightLA and especially ILA's Insight In Action program, which brings mindfulness meditation to marginalized communities, social justice and environmental activists, under-resourced schools and healthcare clinics. TJBauman has helped us to tell our story, extend our reach, build strategic partnerships, and strengthen our community engagement. Drawing from deep experience in social justice and sustainability, Trisha is a magnificent resource. Her insights, strategic thinking, and her gift with people offer an invaluable support to any organization seeking to create positive change across diverse communities.”
Trudy Goodman, PhD
Founder & Guiding Teacher
Former Executive Director, InsightLA
Sustainability

“Besides being an expert in sustainability, Trisha is a smart and disciplined advisor. TJBauman amplified the visibility of the work that we were doing in Paris [COP21 climate negotiations] throughout the social media universe, giving me enormous confidence that we were not just talking to the 50 people in the room at this important event but were actually reaching out internationally. It is really a privilege to work with Trisha. We became collaborators in the important work we are both doing.”
Allen Hershkowitz, PhD
Chairman & Founding Director
SandSI—Sport and Sustainability International
Former President, Green Sports Alliance
Former Senior Scientist, NRDC

Trisha Bauman is a sustainability strategist specializing in the market opportunities for advancing positive social impact and regenerative development. Clients range from Fortune 500 companies scaling sustainability initiatives, to NGOs, to early-stage ventures developing market solutions for social innovation, decarbonization, and the circular economy.

Trisha is on the Governing Board of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals, where she served several years as president and vice president, and is a Board Director at the United Nations Association of NYC. She teaches on the faculty at Columbia University’s M.S. in Strategic Communication and at Minneapolis College of Art and Design’s M.A. in Sustainable Design.

A certified mindfulness meditation teacher through the inaugural MMTCP program at UC-Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, Trisha has taught mindfulness in diverse communities around the world over many decades. She is recognized by the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA) as a Master ISMETA Educator/Therapist and Mentor.

Trisha has degrees from Bowdoin College (BA, magna cum laude, in Economics and in History) and from Columbia University (MS, in Strategic Communication with a concentration in Sustainable Development).

Principal & Founder

Trisha Bauman

Trisha is a frequent public speaker at events such as the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) World Conference, The Responsible Business Summit New York, and the Environmental Institute of Australia and New Zealand (EIANZ) Annual Conference.