Hedstrom Associates

Pat Daniel Ph.D., brings a diverse background that includes corporate, NGO, and consulting experience. For over seven years, she served as the Associate Director of Ceres, a national network of investors and environmental groups working with companies and investors to address sustainability challenges. She interfaced with many Ceres companies, investors, and stakeholder groups, and directed the annual Ceres Conference. She played a key role in the development and launch of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), and represented Ceres at the U.N. World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. As the chief operating officer, Dr. Daniel managed finance, operations, human resources, board relations, and strategic planning during a period when the organization more than doubled in size.

Prior to joining Ceres, Pat spent 11 years at Polaroid Corporation, where she served as worldwide training manager for Total Quality Management and corporate ethics and compliance. She led a re-engineering effort within product development and manufacturing to enhance and streamline design for the environment and product stewardship. She managed the company's environmental training and participated in the development of Polaroid's Ceres environmental report. As an internal consultant and coach, she advised executives and employees on organizational and team development for a variety of functions.

In over two decades of consulting experience, Dr. Daniel has supported strategic planning, organizational transformation, human systems design, and communications. Her writing and editing work has been published in academic, business, and popular publications, and she especially enjoys helping companies plan and write their sustainability reports.

She holds a B.A. from Rice University, a Ph.D. from Boston University, and was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at Brown University.