Volant Strategies is one of few organizations with years of proven experience in sustainable resource management planning. We work collaboratively with executives and management teams to design and implement programs integrating resource management and sustainable business practices into core business operations. With our Roadmap to Sustainable Resource Management Planning, we offer a comprehensive planning framework with supporting  tools and templates to customize an approach best aligned with your business goals and strategic objectives.

Sharon Graugnard-Fall, Principal and founder, has been a business strategist, lobbyist and consultant to Executives and senior management teams for more than thirty years.  For the past eight years, she has led the development and implementation of sustainable resource management plans for complex organizations including hospital and healthcare systems – one of the most resource intensive, highly regulated and challenging organizational models. Sharon has served as a business advisor to the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s BetterBricks, commercial healthcare initiative since it’s inception in 2003.  Sharon has been involved in the business case development, program design and development, executive and organizational engagement and Strategic Resource Management Plan implementation.

Throughout Sharon’s career she has provided strategic planning and operations consulting for Fortune 500 companies, as well as industry start-ups with her own firm, as well as previous positions as Vice President of First Consulting Group, Vice President of The Jefferson Group and President of Preferred Health Management, among others.

David Ray is a Principal with Volant Strategies, with more than twenty-five years of expertise in marketing, communications, operations and strategic planning at the executive level. David is also a gifted writer, whose articles have appeared in Newsweek International.

David currently serves as a business advisor to BetterBricks/Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, developing business and marketing plans for the commercial sector focused on sustainability planning.  David recently served as the Interim Director of Strategic Partnerships at OMSI, where he worked closely with the OMSI Board and executives to develop corporate partnerships. He led the corporate strategy for OMSI’s Energy and Environment initiative by engaging executives at PGE, Pacific Power, SolarWorld, Vestas and Chevron.

Prior to Volant, David served as Vice President of Marketing for the Internet healthcare company, Salu, and as marketing communications director at MedicaLogic. Previously, David was an account planner for Microsoft for Wieden + Kennedy and as a Senior Consultant for Landor Associates, where his client portfolio included The American Red Cross, Xerox, SmithKline Beecham, Mellon Bank and KeyBank.