Over the last 22 years, he has given more than 1,700 presentations to corporate, government, university, and NGO audiences. He has authored six books: The Sustainability Advantage (2002), The Next Sustainability Wave (2005), The Sustainability Champion’s Guidebook (2009), The New Sustainability Advantage (2012),  Release 1 of the Future-Fit Business Benchmark (co-authored, 2016), and the Sustainability ROI Workbook (2017). He has published two white papers: “7 Bold Strokes to Save our World” (2020) and “The 21^st Century Sustainable Enterprise Force Field” (2021). His extensive Master Slide Decks and free, open-source spreadsheets, toolkits, and videos provide comprehensive capacity-building resources for sustainability champions.

Bob serves on the Future-Fit Foundation board, the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (SPLC) board, the Whitby Sustainability Advisory Committee, and the B Corp Standards Advisory Council. He previously served on the boards of Forum for the Future U.S. (3 years), The Natural Step (TNS) Canada (12 years), Learning for a Sustainable Future (3 years), and Durham Sustain Ability (6 years). He was also a citizen member of the Durham Region Roundtable on Climate Change (5 years).

For the last few years, Bob has focused on Sustainable Procurement and Net-Zero Procurement as market forces to incentivize the transition to more sustainable business models and to mobilize businesses in the race to net-zero GHGs. He co-developed the SPLC Navigator that scores how well an organization has integrated core sustainable procurement elements into its procurement system. He serves on the Canadian government’s Low Carbon Procurement Advisory Committee, is on the core faculty of the Canadian Business for Social Responsibility (CBSR) Sustainable Procurement Fellowship program, and is an Advisor to the Mission from MaRs – Net-Zero Procurement Mission. He teaches a 4-webinar ISSP course on Sustainable Procurement which provides guidance on how to use his free, open-source Sustainable Procurement Toolkit and Net-Zero Procurement Toolkit.

He is currently on the faculty of the Director’s College and serves on the Seneca College program advisory committees (PACs) for its Sustainable Business Management Certificate program and its Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) program. He previously served on PACs for sustainable business certificate programs at Algonquin College and Ryerson University. He was also on the core faculty for the Sustainable Enterprise Academy (SEA) and the Sustainability and Education Academy (SEdA) at York University.

He was one of five inaugural inductees into the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP) Hall of Fame in 2011, has received three Clean50 awards including a Lifetime Achievement award in 2023, and has earned six “Best for the World – Overall” and five “Best for the World – Community” awards since becoming a Certified B Corp in 2012. Sustainability Advantage was the first company to reach the highest Diamond tier of Canada’s Net-Zero Challenge in 2023. He is an ISSP Sustainability Excellence Professional, a Future-Fit Certified Professional and Accredited Partner, and received a PhD in sustainability from the University of Toronto in 2005.

Residents of Ontario, Bob and his wife are the proud parents of three adult children and the proud grandparents of three grandsons. His purpose is to ensure future generations have the opportunity for at least the quality of life that he has enjoyed.