Good Company is a sustainability consulting firm that provides analysis, strategy and implementation services to help clients better their performance. Our clients share our mission of making sustainability work and value both critical and creative thinking for their operations, their projects and their new ventures. Since 2001, Good Company has helped over seventy organizations in the public and private sectors improve their triple bottom line. Typically our customers are focused on long-term management of large resources and those that serve that mission. We are proud of the work our clients do and we are proud of the work we do for them. We are humble enough to know that our work is never done and seek constantly to improve our methods to serve our mission. For more details on what Good Company does, see samples of our work or a full list of our services. Click here for information on employment, with us and within the sustainability world. Click here for information on contacting our team.

Our Team

Joshua Proudfoot has led Good Company’s market development and management consulting services as a co-founder and principal. Most of his work is in service of public infrastructure agencies including transportation authorities, ports, utilities, renewable energy and fuels developers, waste systems, as well as the engineering and construction firms that serve them. Mr. Proudfoot has assisted more than 40 organizations in the development of life-cycle environmental analytical tools and strategies and 30 organizations with market research and positioning for products in emerging green markets.Mr. Proudfoot currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors for three environmentally focused corporations. Cascade Sierra Solutions is a lending company that finances fuel efficiency and pollution control devices for the freight hauling industry. IB Roof is a North American “cool roof” membrane manufacturer whose products reduce the need for cooling in commercial and industrial buildings. Renova Integrated Environmental Solutions is an international renewable energy development company with active public-private development projects in El Salvador.

Joshua Skov, Principal and co-founder of Good Company, has more than a decade of experience with strategy and analytics for sustainability.  He has served executives and sustainability staff at over fifty corporate and government clients in many sectors, including energy, waste management, consumer products, food, municipal government and transportation.  Mr. Skov’s strategy work applies sustainability principles and frameworks for executive-level decision-making, helping clients to manage growing risks and exploit emerging opportunities.  He directs Good Company’s work supporting clients with custom analytics, including development of sustainability indicators and assessment, as well as advanced carbon footprinting for operations, products, technologies, supply chains, communities and infrastructure.Mr. Skov has brought his sustainability and climate change expertise to extensive volunteer work and professional service, as well as to university teaching. He is a member of Lane Transit District’s EmX Steering Committee, was a chair and founding member of the City of Eugene Sustainability Commission.  He has served in advisory roles for several local agencies and on the board of Oregon League of Conservation Voters.  Related to his expertise with greenhouse gas inventories, he has served on technical advisory panels for Oregon DEQ, ICLEI, World Resources Institute and the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies. He is a Fellow of the Center for Sustainable Business Practices at the University of Oregon.  He has degrees in economics from Yale and Berkeley.

Kelly Hoell, Associate, works primarily with government and business clients to provide technical and market research and business supply chain development. Mrs. Hoell has led the sustainability and greenhouse gas assessments and reporting for municipalities, multi-national food processors and regional food retail companies. Mrs. Hoell is the manager of Operation Climate Collaborative, a streamlined program designed to guide municipal governments through the process of measuring and reporting their greenhouse gas emissions.

David Ponder, Associate, offers technical and policy research, program development and stakeholder engagement in service of the utility and transportation industries. His recent work includes a comprehensive sustainability assessment for a municipal electric and water utility, including a life-cycle greenhouse gas inventory of their operations and generation portfolio. He is also conducting research for solar development on public highway right-of-way. Mr. Ponder was the former director of Montana Public Interest Research Group.

Justin Overdevest, Associate, provides our clients with market and technical research and analysis.  Recent work has included managing business and political relationships for a start-up firm developing public-private partnerships focused on waste recovery and renewable energy and water quality in Central America.  Additionally, Justin is providing international supply chain and climate risk management solutions for an international food processor’s corporate social responsibility program.  Before coming to Good Company, Mr. Overdevest served as a Peace Corps volunteer working on the border of the Dominican Republic and Haiti developing community-based projects including reforestation and solar power. He continued this work in the Andes of Peru by co-founding a non-profit organization that blended small business, health and environmental projects that benefited the watershed and community wellbeing. Following his international experience, Justin worked in rural Oregon managing large grants to promote rural entrepreneurship projects with a focus on environmental and social enterprises.  Mr. Overdevest earned dual master’s degrees in the Sustainable Business Practices MBA program and an MS in interdisciplinary studies at the University of Oregon. He is fluent in Spanish.

Jin Qiu (邱瑾), Associate and Business Manager, handles all invoicing, contracting and scheduling for our clients and manages Good Company’s business operations and business partnerships. Ms. Qiu graduated from the University of Oregon’s Public Administration graduate program (MPA). Ms. Qiu’s work experience includes budget and financial analysis at the UO Center for Applied Second Language Studies and ten years of chemical and occupational safety and health management at government agencies in China.

Tracy Sagal, Associate, provides our clients with market and technical research and analysis. Mrs. Sagal is also the lead associate for marketing and business development.  Recent work has included feasibility analyses for public and private entities in the areas of fleet fuel switching and carbon credit generation and sale for an airport, a water district and a desalination plant, a sustainability framework for a start-up company seeking socially responsible financing, and proprietary tool development to inventory greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation strategies.  Mrs. Sagal received her MBA from the Lundquist College of Business’ Center for Sustainable Business Practices at the University of Oregon.  She is fluent in Spanish.

Aaron Toneys, Associate, provides our clients with technical research, sustainability and greenhouse gas assessments and tool development. He is the principal developer of our proprietary greenhouse gas inventory calculator, called the Good Company Carbon Calculator (G3C), that streamlines the data collection and annual reporting process for corporate and community greenhouse gas inventories. Mr. Toneys focuses on clean technology and the materials and energy recovery industries.

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