Ariana Bain

Ariana has dedicated the past two decades to societal and personal transformation through sustainability. She founded Metabolic Consulting to transform the complexity of sustainability into concrete actions that create value, happy people, and thriving ecosystems for clients seeking sustainability as a mission and a strategy.

Her current focuses include profitable strategies for building a circular economy and training conscious business leaders and entrepreneurs.

Her previous projects have included partnering with energy and water utilities across New England to create sustainability solutions at scale, working with manufacturers to embed sustainability strategy into their core business, and designing food systems. She has been humbled to be a semi-finalist in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, publish articles in places such as Scenario Journal and the Journal of Industrial Ecology, and speak at schools and universities across the Northeast.

Ariana holds a Masters of Environmental Science in Industrial Ecology from Yale University, a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University, and is a Senior Fellow in the Environmental Leadership Program.