Steve Voien helps companies articulate their Sustainability and Human Rights stories in ways that are credible, compelling and aligned with global standards. He also manages Sustainability initiatives and helps companies understand and engage their stakeholders in productive ways.

Steve has project-managed, written, edited and developed GRI Indexes for 12+ Sustainability reports. He has also written and edited reports outlining a global mining company’s Human Rights Assessment program (the most recent to 2015 UNGP Reporting Framework), and edited a Progress Report on the Voluntary Principles on Security & Human Rights.

Steve’s clients appreciate his deep expertise in global and industry-specific standards, frameworks and requirements. They also value his perspective, critical thinking and listening skills, and his professional approach to delivering results that meet client needs and integrate CSR more deeply into performance and outcomes.

Recent project: For a $30 billion extractive project in Africa, Steve project-managed a team responsible for developing Sustainability/ESG reports for host government and lenders (Equator Principles).

Steve’s experience includes:

• Worked with 15+ Fortune 500 companies, IFC and USAID
• Launched CSR practices at two large communications-consulting firms
• Five years at the nonprofit Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), leading member consulting projects and directing the Global Resource Center
• Six years as a U.S. diplomat with on the ground environmental, human rights, and political-economic reporting responsibilities in Africa and the former Soviet Union

Steve has published two political-environmental novels (In a High and Lonely Place, HarperCollins; Black Leopard, Knopf) to excellent reviews in the New York Times, Washington Post and People magazine (“Page Turner of the Week”) among others. He lives near San Francisco with his family.