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Our current team includes industry experience in electronics, food processing, packaging, buildings, Internet sales, sports equipment, and software. In addition to seasoned industry professionals, the team includes change management consulting experience and young talent with academic LCA credentials. Our programmer provides customized software solutions focused on our core methodologies.

EarthShift Principals & Directors

Lise Laurin
Lise Laurin founded EarthShift in 2000 to support businesses in their endeavor to reduce environmental impacts. She brings to this effort over 20 years in industry, with roles in manufacturing engineering, R&D, and marketing. For the last nine years, she has been working at various levels of capacity building within the areas of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Total Cost Assessment (TCA), providing software tools, training, and consulting. Lise chairs the AIChE’s TCA Roundtable. She is a member of the board of advisors of the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment, a member of the board of advisors to the US LCI Database Project, a Technical Advisory Group Member, CarbonFund.org, contributor to the UNEP SETAC Life Cycle Initiative, and a member of the IEEE, AIChE, and MRS. She began her professional life as a process engineer at Intel. She holds a BS in Physics from Yale University

Melissa Hamilton
Melissa Hamilton has been a Principal and Director of Earthshift since 2001. Under her guidance, EarthShift has grown into an industry leader in life cycle analysis and total cost assessment, two key methodologies integral to sustainable business practices. She guides a diverse and talented team of experts using innovative science and technology who work hand-in-hand with companies to make sustainability part of their infrastructure. Working with Fortune 500 companies, government bodies and institutional clients Melissa helps them to identify opportunities, define the scope and scale of projects, and design implementation strategies that achieve defined outcomes. She especially enjoys helping EarthShift staff engage in client projects, digging in to find pragmatic solutions while keeping the big picture in view. Prior to leading EarthShift, Melissa was an organizational development consultant working with well known businesses such as Ben & Jerry’s and Honda, providing her with a unique perspective on how businesses grow and evolve, and how best to assist them in the pursuit of sustainability.

Laurel McEwen (Training & Marketing Director)
With her education, a BS in Marine Biology and a MBA, combined with her career experience and her passion for the environment, Laurel offers an expertise knowledge in combining monetary and environmental profits for companies. She sees herself as a “financial realist” and strives towards developing methods to adequately measure all three pillars (environmental, financial & social) of sustainability.
Laurel develops and teaches many of our courses on LCA and SimaPro. She developed our Recycling course, the first of its kind to be offered to the LCA community. Laurel's understanding of system processes and her commitment to reuse and recycling in industry provide her with a unique perspective when dealing with recycling issues and LCA.