A former psychologist, turned corporate speechwriter, turned environmental consultant, Dr. Harvey Stone spent the past ten years helping corporations, municipalities and government agencies to implement a triple bottom line approach. This approach simultaneously addresses social, economic, and environmental problems. It also enables organizations to reduce their risks, lower their costs and improve their efficiency and effectiveness. Coupled with his insights into human behavior and corporate drivers, Stone’s experience led him to conclude that fiction was a dynamic method for communicating the inter-connected fragility of today’s world and the existence of viable solutions.
Beginning his career as a practicing psychologist in the 1970s and 1980s in Colorado, Stone also worked with more than 15,000 people in highly-intense personal growth training programs. He then founded a speechwriting company that serviced Apple, Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems, Visa and other corporate clients, before transitioning into the role of an environmental and Triple Bottom Line consultant to Bausch and Lomb, the US EPA and other organizations.
In the last fifteen years, Stone has helped to develop training programs for thought-leading organizations like The Natural Step and ZERI (Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives). He co-founded and co-managed a consulting company that assisted multi-national corporations in complying with US, European and Asian design and waste legislation for electronic products. He also hosted a weekly radio show for three years that focused on positive steps that countries, companies and communities were taking to move us towards a more sustainable world. In Q4, 2011, Stone will launch a new radio show that focuses on Triple Bottom Line implementations in the coming year.
In 2002, Stone was one of six U.S. representatives on the U.S.-Japan Sustainability Task Force that explored cross-cultural sustainability issues and solutions. In 2003, he was the only U.S. representative to speak at an E.U. stakeholder meeting in Torino, Italy, on system solutions. Additionally he has helped to found the Green Building Council of Santa Fe, and he conducted presentation training for a major U.S. political party.
A 1966 Brandeis University alumnus, Stone received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Union Graduate School. He served as an instructor in the M.B.A. program at the University of California at Berkeley from 1995 – 1999.
As a citizen, father and grandfather, Stone takes seriously the “melting down” threats to our national security and to our highly-fragile, inter-connected world. These threats include international terrorism, the changing climate and ultra-narrow, human self-interest. Melting Down is his first novel.