our business exists to shift the perspective on how the events industry approaches its environmental impacts.
marley finnegan, founder
believes doing best by the planet is simply what you do.
With 18 years experience in all facets of the large scale events industry, she has played vital roles in strategy, sales, planning, business development and partnerships for some of the nation’s highest performing event agencies.
Marley is a GRI Certified Sustainability Professional, Certified Sustainable Event Professional by the Events Industry Council and privately educated by the creator of MPI’s Sustainable Event Strategist Certification.
She is passionate about sustainability strategy as it relates to not only hospitality but also an expert in emissions measurement, reporting and sustainable food service. She is highly focused on food insecurity solutions at scale and consults with food service providers of all sizes around operationalizing food donation programming + reusables to suit healthy business models + proactively address forthcoming compliance and carbon market opportunities.
Her expertise in event emissions measurement, compliance and reporting futures led her to create #climatetech solution Purpose Net Zero, which simplifies the measurement + management of travel emissions footprints, accounting for 70-90% of event emissions.
Having worked in all aspects of the event life cycle - she’s intimately familiar with the process and views it from an emissions mitigating lens. She has created the PURPOSE SUSTAINABLE EVENT STRATEGY ACCREDITATION to help event teams scale sustainable event strategy, organization-wide.
Further, she believes that we must “heal our inner landscapes in order to heal our outer environments,” which is where her work at THE BLUEPRINT comes in. THE BLUEPRINT seeks the seekers looking to reconnect to their inner truth of infinite love and they tools they innately hold within.
A daily meditation practice, her child & a deep empathy for mother earth inspired Marley into entrepreneurship - and her PURPOSE.
woman owned
woman owned
we are a proud, woman-owned business enterprise, focused on conscious inclusion as one of our core values. see the rest of our values here.
purpose sustainability strategy: sustainable event guidance for events teams
what we do - is better.
The first step toward a more sustainable future starts with just that - a step. intentional, even if incremental, change is still change - a conscious, focused approach to sustainability strategy isn’t just to benefit the planet.
It’s to ensure the livelihood of future generations - and future profit.