K.J. McCorry, Founder

K.J. McCorry is the CEO of eco-officiency. She has been avid environmentalist for over 25 years cultivating sustainability within her own personal and professional lives.  For the past 12 years, K.J. has served as one of the leading efficiency and productivity consultants for companies, government agencies and non-profit organizations. Her work has been committed to streamlining processes to not only create efficiency but also sustainability. In order to create lasting change within organizations, K.J. has honed masterful interpersonal and communication skills to facilitate the change management process.

K.J. initially developed her communication and organizational skills as an intercultural trainer and as an operations manager.  She lived in Japan and Southeast Asia in the early 1990’s, training Japanese businesses in language and cross-cultural communication issues. Upon returning to the United States, she worked as a consultant for Prudential Intercultural , facilitating multi-day corporate intercultural seminars for Fortune 500 companies. K.J. also served as operations manager for LiveChai, Inc, a small natural foods manufacturing company based in Boulder, Colorado. She founded Officiency, Inc. in 1996, a nation-wide consulting company offering efficiency and productivity consulting services to organizations.

She was selected as a finalist for the 2008 Oppenheimer Funds Entrepreneur of the Year Award, who recognizes entrepreneurs who have successfully built businesses and positively impacted the community.

K.J. has served on multiple non-profit boards committed to social and environmental responsibility, she currently serves as co-President of CORE (Connected Organizations for a Responsible Economy); Director of International Society of Sustainability Professionals; Director of PassageWorks Institute and President of Sundance Homeowners Association. She has held positions including Director of Businesses for Social Responsibility - Colorado Chapter; Past President and founding member of P3: People, Planet Profits; and Treasurer for Extras for Education. 

K.J. is certified with the following programs:

• SCORE assessment tool
• Global Reporting Initiative
• International Association of Sustainability Professionals
• ISIS Method
• LEAD Fellow (graduate in 2010)

K.J. is an MBA graduate of the University of Denver, now ranked as one of the top business schools in business ethics according to the Wall Street Journal, 2007. Her undergraduate degree in Psychology is from Metropolitan State College in Denver.  She is based in Boulder, Colorado.

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