L O A D I N G

Strategies for Sustainability & Coaching for Impact

Helping people that do good,

do better.

VIEW CASE STUDIES

ABOUT

About Manifest & Doug Wein

Manifest is an independent consulting and coaching company, led by Doug Wein, an expert sustainability strategist and professional coach.  Manifest guides sustainability-minded businesses and professionals to clarify and achieve their most critical goals.

Doug Wein has provided strategic sustainability consulting to not-for-profits and Fortune 500 companies across a wide array of industries, including waste & recycling, retail, manufacturing, real estate, food & agriculture, and green building.  His consulting work focuses on strategic planning and implementation, organizational dynamics, and business development.   As a coach, Doug helps clients develop leadership skills, spread bold ideas, transform organizations, and create powerful positive change.  Doug has led strategy development in small teams and in groups of over 650 professionals at premier sustainability venues.

Doug has led people and organizations for over fifteen years.  He has an MBA from the Ross School of Business and an MS from the School of Natural Resources and Environment, having graduated from the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan.  His undergraduate degree in Psychology is from Pitzer College.  Outside of professional life, Doug is often inventing new culinary sauces to delight his wife, getting covered in sawdust, or exploring the backyard with his kids.

"Passion is only the beginning. Making real change in the world requires clarity of purpose, the ability to bring the right people together, and the willingness to take on new practices. To succeed, we need to have our eyes open, know where to focus, and make conscious choices on what needs to get done."
The Manifest approach

1.Ask the right questions

[put things front-and-center]

2.Target meaningful change

[clarify our purpose]

3.Get people on board

[the right ones to make a difference]

4.Weigh the options

[learn what we need to know]

5.Make the choice

[define our course forward]

6.Do the hard work

[for our purpose, and for ourselves]

“Thank you very much for all your great guidance and help! Extremely worthwhile going through this [strategic planning] process with your expert guidance and open-minded personality.”

“You’re a little voice inside my head, keeping me on track. You deliver the large scale perspective, and then break it down to make it doable, and give me the language to take it step-by-step.”

“What would I tell others who want to take on big things? ‘Doug is gifted at this work. He’s good. He will help you.'”

“It has provided a structured, critical-thinking approach to develop a 3-year plan for [our] program. We had been too close to the concepts and ideas and had become stagnant on where to take them next. You helped us analyze our previous approach and come up with something even better.”

“Of all the coaches I have worked with, Doug has been the best. He’s an active listener, and he has the rare ability to hear beyond words.”

“Doug’s personality, qualification, and facilitation skills matched the high power of our Board.”

More Testimonials

Case Studies

Strategic planning for sustainable financing

Conservation finance and advocacy

Case Studies, Coordinating our team, Planning the future, Transforming our organization

The challenge: A cutting-edge international conservation non-profit needs strategic planning guidance to succeed in its ambitious efforts

Results in the client’s words:

“Thanks to Manifest, we now have a clear picture of where we’re going… Manifest led our strategic development process skillfully and produced tools and insights that are invaluable to our staff.”
read more

Organizational alignment for renewable energy

Renewable energy development

Case Studies, Coordinating our team, Following through on big plans, Improving our leadership

The challenge: A leading US-based renewable wind and solar developer faces its biggest projects and highest pressure to-date, while its managers remain uncoordinated, overloaded, and territorial

Results in the client’s words:

“Manifest brought needed structure to our naturally chaotic business, and introduced organizational behavior techniques that kept us focused on what was important. [Manifest] guided our team during one of the toughest times I’ve had as a leader… and brought a constructive, thoughtful problem-solving approach.”
read more
More Case Studies

CONTACT