Aedi Group Team
Norman Beaulieu
Norman has dedicated much of his career to building solutions at the intersection of business and the social sector. He is a practitioner of combining ‘whole systems’ thinking with qualitative reasoning technology (that he co-developed), to address complex social and business challenges with scalable solutions.
To that end, Norman is the founder and managing director of Aedi Group, LLC, a Boston-based diversified holding company. Aedi Group is building a family of Aedi-branded companies that deliver innovative services and technology based solutions within specific sustainability sectors, such as; community development, green building, energy, health & wellness and agriculture. Most recently, Norman founded Village Corps, (www.villagecorps.com) a web-based system and service to better coordinate poverty reduction initiatives around the world.
Norman volunteers for his high school and university, enjoys gardening, sports and travel and values what time is left to reflect. He graduated cum laude from Wesleyan University and is an Africa Leadership Initiative Fellow at the Aspen Institute. Norman’s life joy is being with his wife, daughter and son with whom he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Georges Dyer
For over ten years, Georges Dyer has been engaged in solutions-based, business-driven, and whole-system approaches to sustainable development. For two years Mr. Dyer was the Head of Market Intelligence for the Institutional Equities Group at LaBranche Financial Services in New York. Prior to Wall Street, he was engaged with private equity deals working with eco-efficiency start-up companies and on residential and commercial real estate projects. He is a founder of Greenland Enterprises, a consultancy specializing in strategic leadership towards sustainability for accelerating the role businesses and other organizations play in sustainable development.
Mr. Dyer is also a Senior Fellow at Second Nature, where he has been developing the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment – a program of over 560 college and university presidents, representing over 4.7 million students, committing their institutions to pursuing climate neutrality. He is a Trustee of Stratleade Sustainability Education, and serves on the Advisory Board for Greenopolis. He holds a Master of Strategic Leadership toward Sustainability from Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, Sweden, and a B.A. in History and Environmental Studies from Dartmouth College. He is a member of SoL, The Society for Organizational Learning, participating in the SoL Sustainability Consortium's Carbon Reductions working group.
Archie Kasnet
Archie has 12 years experience in the real estate business as a contractor, entrepreneur, and research analyst. Having gained valuable experience as a building contractor, Archie co-founded Building Extranet in 2000, an online application to service the commercial real estate sector by streamlining the broker/owner/lender process. In 2004, while receiving his Masters’s in Strategic Leadership for Sustainability, he worked closely with Intrawest Corporation's commercial real estate development business and proposed strategic solutions to embed sustainability into their core operations through executive and employee engagement. Following his studies, Archie wrote a position paper on U.S. domestic energy security for Senator Joeseph Biden's presidential platform and was a contributing author to the paper titled “Healthy Solutions for the Low Carbon Economy” published through Harvard Medical School's Center for Health and the Global Environment. Most recently, he is consulting with Raymond Property Company on sustainable design criteria for a large commercial tower to be built in downtown Boston.
Archie created an independent study major around Environmental Studies and Latin American Studies with a concentration on sustainable development while attending Gettysburg College. He has lived abroad, published papers, and is dedicated to sharing the framework of strategic sustainable development.