Donald Jantz, MEB, CPA, CMA, is the Principal of Strategic Sustainability Consulting and founder of the Sustainable Campus Collaborative (SCC), a Canadian non-profit advancing sustainability across post-secondary institutions through peer learning, capacity building, and cross-sector partnerships. He is also a Fellow of the Energy Futures Lab.
Over the past decade Donald has led sustainability initiatives at colleges, polytechnics, and universities across Canada, helping institutions move from initial benchmarking through to full strategy implementation — often without the support of a dedicated internal sustainability office. His work spans the complete sustainability reporting and planning lifecycle: AASHE STARS reports and benchmarking, GHG emission inventories aligned to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, multi-year sustainability strategies and action plans, and engagement programs that build durable cross-campus support across academic, operational, and administrative units. Institutional engagements include Lakeland College, Saskatchewan Polytechnic, and University College of the North — institutions ranging from small northern university colleges with significant Indigenous student populations to multi-campus applied-research polytechnics serving more than 14,000 students.
Donald has taught sustainability curriculum at the University of Calgary, facilitates cross-institutional learning sessions through SCC, and has convened practitioner networks linking Canadian, U.S., and international post-secondary institutions on shared sustainability challenges. He works from Calgary, Alberta. In his spare time you’ll find him backcountry skiing in the Rockies, camping the West Coast Trail with his family and traveling.