Sandi Stride is also receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award. Nearly a quarter-century ago Sandi founded Stride Associates and the EcoStride Group to help businesses improve their corporate sustainability. Nine years ago she established Sustainable Hamilton Burlington as a nonprofit social enterprise with similar goals, she was the executive director of Mohawk College’s Centre for Climate Change Management. In that role she organized two major climate change summits and successfully launched the Bay Area Climate Change Action Plan in partnership with the cities of Burlington and Hamilton.