Ryan McMullan, MESM, TRUE Advisor

Director of Sustainability Strategy | Manager of Environmental Performance | Bridge From Lean Thinking to Sustainability

With two decades of experience in the sustainability field, Ryan is a talented professional with a passion for helping companies move beyond regulatory compliance to forward-thinking sustainability programs that have a positive impact on the company and the world.

He believes that the tools and methods of Lean Thinking (based on “The Toyota Way”) can be harnessed to achieve bold environmental goals. In his time at Toyota, he participated in the planning of the 2050 Challenge, in which Toyota set challenging targets for reducing its environmental impact in the first half of the 21st century, and helped develop the plan to reach these goals through incremental annual improvements.

His experiences at Toyota and beyond have shown Ryan that corporations and other organizations that put sustainability at the forefront of their planning have the ability not only to do good in the world, but to improve their business through reduction in waste of all kinds, and through better relationships with increasingly socially aware consumers.

Ryan is an enthusiastic collaborator and skilled coordinator whose work has been recognized by the Environmental Leader Publication with inclusion in their 2017 Environmental Leader 50 and by Region 9 of the EPA with their Environmental Award for Outstanding Achievement. Among his many professional activities, Ryan was a founding board member of several organizations, including the TRUE Zero Waste group at GBCI and Rice University’s Center for the Study of Environment & Society.

Connect with Ryan on Twitter or LinkedIn, or request information about our services at ryan@leangreenway.com or 1-657-345-4270.

Education
  • BA, Ecology and Cognitive Sciences, 1998
    Rice University, Houston, TX
  • MSEM, Environmental Science and Management, 2005
    UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Affiliations
  • Sustainability Management Association – Endorsed Trainer
  • Environmental Leader Conference – Advisory Board Member
  • US Zero Waste Business Council – Advisory Board Member
  • International Society of Sustainability Professionals
  • Association for Manufacturing Excellence