Leadership
Sheri S. Soyka is the founder and President of Sustainable Lifestyles Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating individuals and organizations on how to set and reach sustainability goals that will benefit them and the environment. Ms. Soyka is nationally and internationally recognized for her work in developing environmental education curricula for children through adults using a collaborative approach that includes advisors from government agencies, other nonprofit and for profit organizations, educators, and other stakeholders.
She has made major contributions to a wide variety of environmental programs, ranging from national-scale environmental programs to small-scale local and community projects. On the national level, for example, Ms. Soyka has organized environmental learning conferences for more than 500 participants, served on the Board of Directors of the North American Association for Environmental Education, given lectures and presentations on environmental topics at universities and conferences, and co-authored the GreenSchools Investigations for Project Learning Tree. On the local level, Sheri and two other educators developed and implemented the first volunteer-run environmental education program for students at a local public school in Vienna, Virginia.
Peter A. Soyka is the Vice President of Operations for Sustainable Lifestyles Institute, and a prominent environmental management and strategy expert. With more than 27 years of environmental management experience, he has worked with a wide variety of private- and public-sector organizations focusing on improved, cost-effective environmental and sustainability performance. He brings a substantial track record of innovative thinking and success in translating new ideas into approaches, tools, and techniques that produce real results. Mr. Soyka also is widely recognized as a thought leader and developer of significant and influential sustainability concepts, frameworks, tools, and research findings. He is the author of two recent, critically acclaimed books on organizational sustainability, and of scores of published book chapters, peer-reviewed journal articles, original research studies, training and guidance documents, formal reports to the U.S. Congress, and other materials. Mr. Soyka has successfully designed and executed a number of other projects to drive sustainability thinking and practices into client organizations at a strategic level. Examples include formulating a comprehensive recommended ”greening” strategy on behalf of the senior management of the U.S. Postal Service; performing ground-breaking research to illuminate the similarities and differences in the corporate sustainability performance metrics value and used by corporate executives and investors; and developing and delivering courses on organizational sustainability to both mid-career federal and state government officials and nonprofit executives.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Soyka served in executive and director positions at several prominent, national-scale, publicly traded consulting/engineering firms. His experience includes oversight of all staff and operations (including full P&L responsibility) of a major regional office with 85 professional and support staff; and directing various aspects of operations, administration, and business development, including finance and budgeting; strategic planning; staff recruitment, development, and performance evaluation; and sales/marketing.
Scott Ankeny is the Vice President of Development for Sustainable Lifestyles Institute. For more than twenty years, Mr. Ankeny has been a thought leader, educator, and innovator in the fields of sustainability, green business practices, and behavioral economics. His professional interests include sustainability science, sustainable development, environmental science, and fostering sustainable behavior change; institutional design and human behavioral aspects of adaptive (learning-oriented) technology; and design of information systems for scientific assessment and decision support. Mr. Ankeny is the founder of Going Green Today.com (GGT), which is a Web 3.0 green coaching platform that draws upon and leverages these interests. Mr. Ankeny excels at identifying cultural indicators of values and barriers to environmental stewardship, and facilitated the design of GGT's data-based platform, which provides a personalized 90 Day Action Plan for participants to develop a more sustainable lifestyle. GGT promotes sustainability, health improvement, and money-saving strategies for individuals and communities through public education campaigns that stimulate large-scale behavioral change. Mr. Ankeny regularly works with municipalities, state governments, and large enterprise-level organizations to develop organizational sustainability and environmental governance action plans.
Testimonials
Sheri Soyka provides excellent results with every project she takes on. Her combined abilities and knowledge in writing, research, editing, pedagogy, education standards, and environmental education, along with her strong work ethic and dependability are why she is the perfect project person for our curriculum projects.
Senior Program Manager, Council for Environmental Education
Peter Soyka was able to produce a number of very thought-provoking questions that allowed our organization to examine certain environmental issues that we had not confronted. Peter came into the project very knowledgeable about the subject of Environmental Management Systems (EMS), and he was able to use this knowledge to help us create the framework that we will be using in this program.
Peter also performed an initial analysis of our overall environmental programs, and with little guiding direction, he was able to synthesize great amounts of information into several meaningful documents. These documents still help our organization better understand how environmental management fits into our business process.
Environmental Scientist, U.S. General Services Administration
Peter Soyka is incredibly bright, a quick learner, and very diligent with deep level of understanding about the subject matter that [we] asked him to work on. He is very customer oriented and was a pleasure to work with. He was able to reduce vast amounts of information into an understandable, clear presentation in a very short period of time.
Management Analyst, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Sheri S. Soyka is the founder and President of Sustainable Lifestyles Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating individuals and organizations on how to set and reach sustainability goals that will benefit them and the environment. Ms. Soyka is nationally and internationally recognized for her work in developing environmental education curricula for children through adults using a collaborative approach that includes advisors from government agencies, other nonprofit and for profit organizations, educators, and other stakeholders.
She has made major contributions to a wide variety of environmental programs, ranging from national-scale environmental programs to small-scale local and community projects. On the national level, for example, Ms. Soyka has organized environmental learning conferences for more than 500 participants, served on the Board of Directors of the North American Association for Environmental Education, given lectures and presentations on environmental topics at universities and conferences, and co-authored the GreenSchools Investigations for Project Learning Tree. On the local level, Sheri and two other educators developed and implemented the first volunteer-run environmental education program for students at a local public school in Vienna, Virginia.
Peter A. Soyka is the Vice President of Operations for Sustainable Lifestyles Institute, and a prominent environmental management and strategy expert. With more than 27 years of environmental management experience, he has worked with a wide variety of private- and public-sector organizations focusing on improved, cost-effective environmental and sustainability performance. He brings a substantial track record of innovative thinking and success in translating new ideas into approaches, tools, and techniques that produce real results. Mr. Soyka also is widely recognized as a thought leader and developer of significant and influential sustainability concepts, frameworks, tools, and research findings. He is the author of two recent, critically acclaimed books on organizational sustainability, and of scores of published book chapters, peer-reviewed journal articles, original research studies, training and guidance documents, formal reports to the U.S. Congress, and other materials. Mr. Soyka has successfully designed and executed a number of other projects to drive sustainability thinking and practices into client organizations at a strategic level. Examples include formulating a comprehensive recommended ”greening” strategy on behalf of the senior management of the U.S. Postal Service; performing ground-breaking research to illuminate the similarities and differences in the corporate sustainability performance metrics value and used by corporate executives and investors; and developing and delivering courses on organizational sustainability to both mid-career federal and state government officials and nonprofit executives.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Soyka served in executive and director positions at several prominent, national-scale, publicly traded consulting/engineering firms. His experience includes oversight of all staff and operations (including full P&L responsibility) of a major regional office with 85 professional and support staff; and directing various aspects of operations, administration, and business development, including finance and budgeting; strategic planning; staff recruitment, development, and performance evaluation; and sales/marketing.
Scott Ankeny is the Vice President of Development for Sustainable Lifestyles Institute. For more than twenty years, Mr. Ankeny has been a thought leader, educator, and innovator in the fields of sustainability, green business practices, and behavioral economics. His professional interests include sustainability science, sustainable development, environmental science, and fostering sustainable behavior change; institutional design and human behavioral aspects of adaptive (learning-oriented) technology; and design of information systems for scientific assessment and decision support. Mr. Ankeny is the founder of Going Green Today.com (GGT), which is a Web 3.0 green coaching platform that draws upon and leverages these interests. Mr. Ankeny excels at identifying cultural indicators of values and barriers to environmental stewardship, and facilitated the design of GGT's data-based platform, which provides a personalized 90 Day Action Plan for participants to develop a more sustainable lifestyle. GGT promotes sustainability, health improvement, and money-saving strategies for individuals and communities through public education campaigns that stimulate large-scale behavioral change. Mr. Ankeny regularly works with municipalities, state governments, and large enterprise-level organizations to develop organizational sustainability and environmental governance action plans.
Testimonials
Sheri Soyka provides excellent results with every project she takes on. Her combined abilities and knowledge in writing, research, editing, pedagogy, education standards, and environmental education, along with her strong work ethic and dependability are why she is the perfect project person for our curriculum projects.
Senior Program Manager, Council for Environmental Education
Peter Soyka was able to produce a number of very thought-provoking questions that allowed our organization to examine certain environmental issues that we had not confronted. Peter came into the project very knowledgeable about the subject of Environmental Management Systems (EMS), and he was able to use this knowledge to help us create the framework that we will be using in this program.
Peter also performed an initial analysis of our overall environmental programs, and with little guiding direction, he was able to synthesize great amounts of information into several meaningful documents. These documents still help our organization better understand how environmental management fits into our business process.
Environmental Scientist, U.S. General Services Administration
Peter Soyka is incredibly bright, a quick learner, and very diligent with deep level of understanding about the subject matter that [we] asked him to work on. He is very customer oriented and was a pleasure to work with. He was able to reduce vast amounts of information into an understandable, clear presentation in a very short period of time.
Management Analyst, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency