Johnpaul Kusz

About Johnpaul Kusz

JohnPaul Kusz, BA, MFA, MBA, consultant/educator focusing on sustainable design and business strategies.President of JPKusz, Ltd, from 19••••20, providing business development sustainable strategies.Founder in of the Center for Sustainable Enterprise (CSE), at Stuart School of Business, IIT, Chicago, exploring sustainability at the enterprise level with partners in government, industry and other stakeholders focused on innovation at the product, business and systems level. Authored of over 45 articles on the potential of design to remediate environmental impacts, including “Green Products by Design,” for the US Congress, OTA.Developed products in areas of recreation, personal health and safety, medical imaging and surgery and resource recovery systems, receiving ten patents.Served on the US EPA Peer Review Group for its Product Life Cycle Assessment Project and invited technical expert to the Canadian Standards Association’s (CSA) Environmental Labeling, Design for the Environment Guidelines and The Strategic Advisory Group on the Environment (SAGE) the precursor group to the Environmental Management Standards. Member of: the US Contingent in the development of the ISO General Guidelines; the Industrial Designer\'s Society of America (IDSA), and a founding member of its Committee on Environmental Concerns; the International Society of Industrial Ecology (IS4IE).Fellow, Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA)Fellow, Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufacture and Commerce (RSA).Recipient: Product Development and Management Asociation PDMA Outstanding Corporate Innovator Award - l991.Recipient: Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA)/Business Week Design of the Decade Award – 1990, Regarded by many as “the undisputed authority on sustainability”, emphasizing the role of Design in improving the human condition and for leadership in establishing standards of practice now considered fundamental to responsible design and business practice.Specialties: Product, Business and Systems Development Consulting using expanded Total Asset Management™ (eTAM™) and Comprehensive Enterprise Modeling™ (CEM™).Program development and delivery on Sustainable Strategies in a Resource and Carbon Restricted World for Business and Community Organizations.Market exploration, assessment and development for new (safer, cleaner, greener) products and services.Environmental policy, response strategies and co-development.

Experience

1. President

   Jpkusz, Ltd

   Jan 1998 — Present

   Ltd, provides business strategy consulting that is dedicated to exploring collaborative and consensus-based solutions to mitigate or eliminate the risks associated with the unintended consequences of commerce.

Education

• University of Illinois Chicago

  MFA

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  BFA

• Dominican University

  MBA

• Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

  PhD Candidate

Skills

• Design Management
• Experience Design
• Business Strategy
• Product Development
• Sketching
• Rapid Prototyping
• Industrial Design
• Sustainability Consulting
• Interaction Design
• Product Design
• Environmental Issues
• Strategic Design
• Management
• Design Strategy
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Environmental Management
• Concept Design
• User Research
• Teaching
• Design Research
• Strategic Planning
• Qualitative Research
• Environmental Awareness
• Leadership
• Creative Problem Solving
• Program Management
• Sustainable Design
• Innovation Management
• Service Design
• Environmental
• User Experience
• Environmental Management Systems
• Ethnography
• User Experience Design
• Strategy
• User-Centered Design
• Environmental Policy
• Climate Change
• Sustainability
• Concept Generation