Environmental Policy and Management Expert
Peter A. Soyka is a prominent environmental management and strategy expert and founder and President of Soyka & Company, LLC, a business strategy and sustainability consultancy. With more than 30 years of environmental policy and management experience, he has worked with a wide variety of private- and public-sector organizations focusing on improved, cost-effective environmental, sustainability, and business performance.
Mr. Soyka offers experience in strategic planning; research and analysis; operations management; environmental management; and environmental and EHS systems auditing, analysis, and improvement. He provides environmental/sustainability strategy and management consulting services to private and public sector clients focusing on improved environmental, organizational, and financial performance using objective, fact-based analysis. Mr. Soyka is particularly well-known for his cutting-edge analysis at the intersection of environment and finance.
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 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.
Prior to founding Soyka & Company in 2003, Mr. Soyka served in executive positions in two national- scale, publicly traded consulting/engineering firms. He is a talented and experienced program and project manager and has developed and overseen hundreds of contracts and projects, ranging from producing quick-turnaround “think pieces” of a few days duration to multi-year, multi-million dollar engagements.
Mr. Soyka is a graduate of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, where he earned his Master of Business Administration; Duke University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where he earned his Master of Environmental Management; and the University of Vermont, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts in Zoology and Environmental Studies.
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