Charlaine Baartjes is a successful business owner, manager and growth leader who started EcoPartners and has been the managing partner since 2005. She has extensive sustainability consulting experience in the mining, waste, oil and lubrication, construction, bulk infrastructure, manufacturing, and land development industries. Having applied 25 years of resilience thinking in the Sustainability sector, Charlaine has worked in the fields of governance, environmental science, stakeholder engagement and business. She has a double masters, one in Business (MBA) and one in Science (MSc). During the past 16 years, she has completed more than 1,000 projects, some requiring multiple governmental authorizations. She navigates rapidly changing environments by guiding teams toward effective implementation of an agreed purpose. Her aim is to guide business toward true sustainability and resilience solutions, including environmental legal authorization applications, due diligence, resource economics, industrial analysis and strategies to market research.