Quaking Aspen, LLC

Rudy Ruggles
Collaborative Innovation Services, LLC

Quaking Aspen worked with Collaborative Innovation Services’ Rudy Ruggles to develop our groundbreaking Sustainable Innovation Workshop.

Rudy Ruggles is the President of Collaborative Innovation Services, LLC, a consultancy helping organizations use the tools and principles of sustainability to create innovative solutions to strategic and organizational challenges. His work combines his 20 years of professional experience working with clients in multiple industries with his expertise in environmentally and social responsible business practices, particularly as they apply to product design and development. He has earned a Certificate in Sustainable Design from MCAD and chaired the 2001 Product Development & Management Association’s annual conference.

Prior to Collaborative Innovation Services, Rudy worked with Monitor Executive Development and at the Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation. He has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern and did his undergraduate work at Georgetown University. Rudy has written several articles for major publications, including “Disruptive Innovation of Social Change” with Clayton Christensen for the Harvard Business Review (Dec. 2008), and has published two books: Knowledge Management Tools and The Knowledge Advantage. He is also a founding member of Net Impact Boston and the Weston Climate Group, and serves on the Weston Environmental Baseline Committee.

Quaking Aspen has developed a partnership with Natural Capitalism Solutions, the leading non-profit sustainability strategy firm founded by Hunter Lovins. NCS’s mission is to educate senior decision-makers in business, government and civil society about the principles of sustainability. This partnership allows Quaking Aspen to leverage NCS’s high-level corporate sustainability strategies, in turn providing NCS’s clients targeted implementations of our sustainable innovation tools.