Consulting

New Leaf provides four primary services to the community we serve:

We view these four services as the core building blocks to everything we do, and they are reassembled into different packages depending on the client. Our consulting clients, who make up the community we serve, include:

Our overall goal is to connect the initiatives and efforts happening around the world across various sectors. There is beauty in illuminating similar efforts around the world, despite the fact that the same issue may have to be approached very differently to each stakeholder. One examples of how New Leaf works to bring our four key services together for a university is through Sustainability Curriculum Design, as shown below.

Example: Island Sustainability Curriculum Development

Working alongside Penn State faculty from the Center for Sustainability and AESEDA (Alliance for Education, Sciences, Engineering and Development in Africa), New Leaf mentors developed course curriculum entitled “Understanding Sustainability from an Island Perspective.” The course will run as a summer program and focus largely on immersive learning opportunities for students in both State College and Jamaica. The class will teach undergraduate students (from incoming freshman to seniors) how to apply strategic sustainability concepts in a variety of scenarios and is built largely on core concepts embedded within the New Leaf structure. Using Caribbean islands as a frame, students will better understand the complex system dynamics of sustainability and how they can be extrapolated to the larger Earth system. The course, which has received recognition from Penn State as an innovative LEAP program for incoming freshman, will run in the summer of 2011 for six weeks and New Leaf allies will serve as guest lecturers and advisers throughout the course.