Pursuing sustainability as an organizational imperative requires a fundamentally different approach than the more traditional emphasis on EHS legal compliance, and therefore may impart a need for revised and retooled organizational structures and functions, and a redeployment of people to carry out a new (and generally more expansive) set of activities. Sustainability requires collaboration, so a starting point of our approach is to identify and bring together the "stove pipes" that exist and hinder creative problem solving in many organizations. GeoTrans helps senior managers and executives to prepare their organizations to effectively pursue sustainability by comparing and contrasting existing and prospective missions, major activities, stakeholders, performance goals, resources, and constraints. We typically evaluate the adequacy of current organizational structures to support a new direction or emphasis defined by a sustainability vision; examine lines of responsibility, reporting, and other communications; estimate manpower requirements and competencies; and suggest actions to fill gaps. By carefully and objectively evaluating how the organization must evolve to successfully accomplish its goals, our customers gain the following benefits:

• Understanding of current readiness to pursue sustainability
• Alternative organizational structure(s) that can improve effectiveness, productivity, communication, and morale
• Possibilities for consolidating and streamlining activities and functions that do not add value or promote sustainable business practices
• Specific recommended actions to create the conditions needed for sustainable thinking and behaviors to grow and flourish