Beth Beloff is a sustainability business consultant to The Tagos Group, LLC. Beth has spent over 16 years as a thought leader in formulating the concept and practice of sustainable development. She is president and founder of the non-profit organization BRIDGES to Sustainability Institute, which is a think tank dedicated to developing innovative approaches to support the implementation of sustainability and provide educational outreach on sustainability practices. She is an expert in integrating sustainable development with other critical business aspects and, in particular, in how to measure sustainability performance. She has developed a set of approaches to support management and technical decision making with respect to sustainable development. These include collaboration with the Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI) through Golder Associates, Inc. on the development of the GEMI Metrics Navigator™ and development of the software, BRIDGESworks Metrics™, both dedicated to the sustainability planning process and the development of sustainability metrics. Prior to BRIDGES, Beth founded the Institute for Corporate Environmental Management in the business school at the University of Houston. She has given over 150 speeches on corporate sustainability to university and business audiences and has authored over 30 publications on sustainability, including Transforming Sustainability Strategy into Action: the Chemical Industry, published by Wiley-InterScience in 2005, in which she is principal author and editor. Beth has a BA degree from University of California at Berkeley, a master of architecture degree from UCLA, and an MBA from the University of Houston.