Team

Stefan Doering

Stefan Doering has been innovating in environmental business and sustainability since 1987.  He also teaches and coaches green businesses in three major areas:  1) innovating powerful green business models, 2) crafting and implementing marketing and positioning strategies for bringing green to mainstream, and 3) creating a consistently profitable and sustainable business.

Key Business Sustainability Accomplishments:

  • Developed green intrapreneurship strategy for General Motors, later included in GM’s final bailout plan presented to Congress in December, 2008
  • Business coaching a variety of businesses with programs having reached almost 2,000 business innovators in 13 countries
  • Teaching landmark courses on green entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship at Columbia University’s Center for Environmental Research and Conservation
  • Teaching courses for small businesses at the Industrial and Technology Assistance Corporation (ITAC), a leading non-profit in NYC for small business development
  • Professor at Minnesota College of Art and Design, having taught Eco Design and Green Marketing
  • Certified Entrepreneur In Residence for New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) for clean technology companies
  • Certified facilitator and “green” advisor for the Kauffman Foundation, the world’s largest non-profit entrepreneurial training organization
  • Official Mentor and Sounding Board member for the Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center at Columbia University’s Business School
  • Pioneered green retailing, growing it to one of the largest green retail companies in the US, selling over 3,500 different products screening for their environmental impact
  • Guest speaker / panelist on topics ranging from how to start a green company to Corporate Sustainability to “greening” the music industry
  • Advisor and/or presenter at NYU/PolyTech’s ACRE, Green Spaces, Green Drinks NYC and Pratt Institute’s green incubators in New York City
  • Co-founder of Manhattan Chamber of Commerce’s Green Finance Subcommittee
  • In mid-90’s Director of the Board for the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment (BCUE), a large urban environmental education non-profit
  • In 1990, co-founded the first council for sustainable businesses in New York City
  • In 1986 launched One Earth, an environmental education non-profit for early adoption of intensive recycling programs in NYC

 

Will Corrente

Will Corrente has been creating and managing entrepreneurial endeavors for over 20 years.   He is an entrepreneur, consultant, speaker, connector and mentor to businesses at all levels of growth and experience.  His experience in corporate organizations as well as an entrepreneur makes him a valuable asset to the Shift Group team.  His areas of expertise include: start-up entrepreneurship, small business advisory, strategic alliances and business communication.

Key Business Highlights & Accomplishments:

  • Client Relationship Manager and Consulting with Smith Barney, Merrill Lynch, New York Life Insurance Main Stay Funds and Charles W. Cammack Associates Inc.  Areas of focus:  sales, relationship management, investment advisory, employee benefit and HR consulting.
  • Partner Broadband Consulting Group: telecommunications consultant to multi unit property developers
  • Founding Partner and creator of VIP- Very Important Paws the first luxury dog hotel, daycare, grooming, retail and training facility in West Palm Beach Florida – now with two locations and over 20 employees.
  • Managing Director of Corrente Consulting International Inc. consulting entrepreneurs on strategies to scale up business quickly, leverage relationships, and build networks of strategic partners, influencers and capital sources necessary to accelerate growth.
  • Past Job Readiness Instructor at The Lord’s Place (volunteer)
  • Frequent speaker/panelist/ moderator New York Entrepreneur Week
  • Entrepreneurship columnist: Bergen News and Press Journal
  • Host of weekly program: “Entrepreneur Connections” on www.WRPBITV.com
  • Board Member- West Palm 100 charitable organization
  • Board of Advisors of NYC start-ups: Do It In Person, Dating for a Cause, Kane and Couture
  • Frequent supporter and volunteer at local charities including:  Palm Beach County Boys and Girls Club, Humane Society of the Palm Beaches, The Lord’s Place, Young Friends of the Norton Museum, Ann Norton Sculpture Garden and the West Palm Beach Library Foundation.