Matthew Egan Rochte is a sustainability consultant.  He brings triple-bottom-line operations experience with a commitment to growing sales and corporate profile through progressive business management.   Matthew sees opportunity where others see burdens and threats.

Summary: Matthew Rochte is a confident leader with a passion for sustainability and improving business through innovative green initiatives.  Matthew believes that a consistent, pervasive commitment to an ever-lower environmental impact can enhance both growth and profitability – “Green-washing” is for pretenders and followers.   He has a demonstrated record of operational results within manufacturing environments and business turnarounds.  Matthew is a comfortable communicator who leads through participatory planning and implementation.  He is experienced and effective in orchestrating change using systems thinking.  Matthew Rochte is committed to corporate social responsibility being driven by integrity and strong ethical principles.  As a team leader, Matthew challenges others to achieve their potential and as a team player is collaborative, supportive, and shares credit.

Areas of expertise:

• Sustainability and Quality
• Strategic Planning and Integration
• Board and Team Leadership
• Operations Management
• Change Management
• Entrepreneurial Approach
• Communications
• Systems Thinking

Specific capabilities and Career Highlights of Matthew Rochte:

Green Business Advocate

• Seven years of triple-bottom-line (People/Planet/Profit) manufacturing experience.
• Speaker and writer on Green Business Is Smart Business(tm): How businesses now operate in interconnected, complex, self-evolving systems where nothing is considered an externality; how green, smart business practices can, and are changing, the world for the better.
• Experienced in Good Manufacturing Practices finding methods to reduce, reuse, recycle, and repurpose everything from raw materials to reusable,interchangeable components to modular/reusable packaging.

Business Manager & Operator

• Effectively led and managed boards, staff, and R&D teams of 5 to 20 members.
• Created and launched start-up businesses and organizations; experienced in managing budgets and P&L.
• Navigated four manufacturing facility moves (local and national) with zero down time.
• Implemented continuous production improvement through training, documentation of procedures and policies, and workflow analysis.
• Harnessed employee insight with 1-on-1 coaching to improve performance, gain their unique understandings, and connect the corporate vision to their own.

Innovator & Integrator

• Challenges the status quo with innovative methods to reduce waste, increase productivity, and create something new.
• Used innovative solutions to turn around companies, products, and organizations.
• Experienced organizational spokesperson.
• Integrated thinker – synthesize diverse information and communicate common threads.
• Thought leadership in green business: began practicing, researching, and presenting on the subject in 1994.

Leader & Influencer

• Proven ability to establish strong working relationships using a collaborative leadership style of listening and honoring values and strengths. Shares ownership.
• Engages multiple stakeholder perspectives from frontline-to-boardroom.
• Integrity and ethics driven; well-versed in ethical issues from codes to complaints.
• Proven experience in developing and implementing effective strategic plans.
• Strong, calm coaching and leadership demeanor.
• Led, developed, and implemented five corporate branding efforts.

Career History

For more detail consult Matthew Rochte’s resume