Speeches & Workshops

Interactive seminar at Columbia University, New York City, November 2007
Global Climate Change and Greenhouse Gases, Market Incentives, Risks and Lessons
Moderator

Rao Kolluru, DrPH, MBA
President, Society for Risk Analysis, Metro New York
Introduction, Seminar Objectives

Panel

Sashti Balasundaram
Columbia Students for Environmental Action
Aspirations, Actions
Geoffrey Heal, PhD
Professor, Columbia Business School
Corporate Responsibility/Initiatives and Climate Change
Thomas Prol, Esq.
Scarinci & Hollenbeck, LLC
Global Warming Legal Perspective: CA and NJ Models, 
Strategies for Compliance, including Carbon Trade
Fiona Cousins, PE
Principal, Arup
Down to Zero – Case Study, Europe-US Lessons
Kim Knowlton, DrPH.
NRDC & Columbia
Health Effects, Mitigation
Rae Zimmerman, PhD.
New York University
Infrastructure Impacts
Doug Blazey Esq.
Air & Waste Mgt Assn (AWMA)
AWMA Initiatives
Walter Mugdan
U.S. EPA
Environmental Planning & Protection


Speeches given in 2007

Nanjing University of Science & Technology, May 2007, China

  • Introduction - a Bit of History
  • Risk Assessment and Management
  • China, India, USA - New World Dynamics
  • Student Career Guidelines

Andhra/GITAM University, May 2007, India

  • Introduction - a Bit of History
  • Entrepreneuring, Social Entrepreneuring
  • Risk Assessment and Management
  • China, India, USA - New World Dynamics
  • Student Career Guidelines
Rao Kolluru Workshops
Creative Performance
  1. Reset Your Personal Odometer to Zero
    Engage the Beginner's Mind, See the New in the Familiar
  2. Adopt a "Peacock"
    Playful Experiments for Creative Performance
  3. Foster Triple Bottom Line: Profit, People, Planet
    Build a Wholesome Workplace for Fun and Profit
  4. Decode Your DNA
    Identify Core Competencies and Markets
  5. Practice Enlightened Self Interest
    Attract and Retain the Right Employees and Customers
  6. Recognize Pillars and Pitfalls of Professional Success
    Achieve Quantum Leaps in Performance
  7. Balance the Three Personae
    Sattva Knowledge, Rajas Action, and Tamas Inaction
  8. 59-Minute Course in Creative Thinking -- for Adults and Children
Environment and Human Health & Safety
  • Assessing and Managing Risks to the Environment, and Human Health & Safety
  • Developing and Implementing Effective Environmental Strategies
  • Designing Closed-loop Birth to Rebirth Product Lifecycles
 
Dr. Rao and his colleagues have presented many lectures, courses, and workshops in North America, Japan, China, and India at companies, universities, and research institutitions. They have consulted on more than one hundred projects related to the assessment and management of environmental/site-related human health and ecological risks, including financial strategies.
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