About
As Humanscale's Chief Sustainability Officer, Jane leads the company's efforts to create a net positive impact through both its products and operations. Collaborating closely with company executives as well as designers and engineers, Jane guides the development process to help create the most sustainable products possible. An industrial designer by trade, Jane spent over a decade working and leading design teams through the development of new products prior to her role as CSO. Her experience ranges from sporting goods to medical devices to furniture.
Jane often shares dialogue around sustainable product design and manufacturing at a variety of conferences and events globally, including Greenbuild, World Ocean Conference, and more. She recently applied her expertise as a curator for RECKONstruct, the US Pavilion at the XXII Triennale de Milano International Exhibition: Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival.
Jane's work has also been recognized internationally, including the prestigious Red Dot award and the GB&D Women in Sustainability Leadership Award. Under her leadership, Humanscale has been recognized as the first manufacturer to achieve the complete Living Product Challenge and is a founding member of the Next Wave Initiative.
Source of Climate Optimism
“I see the conversation shifting from the extent of the challenge to what we are going to do about it. People and companies are becoming more engaged, and now consider climate impacts in their everyday interactions. The expectations are also increasing. Doing a little less harm is no longer impressive. People are looking for net zero, or even beyond that to net positive impacts and removing GHG from the atmosphere.”
Favorite Resource
Biomimicry gives us a model for addressing the enormous challenges we face (like climate change) with solutions that support our ecosystems. The basic premise of learning from nature assumes that solutions are possible. We know that these solutions have been refined over millions of years to be very sophisticated. Nature has countless solutions for us to learn from, so if we're willing to look, we should be able to address the complex challenges leading to climate change.
