Jean Cannon - Managing Director - Enviro Action

Jean Cannon is an environmental biologist with expert experience in management, quality assurance, government advisory and committee planning. She has spent more than 20 years helping businesses implement risk-based environmental management systems into their management and planning and is a widely experienced environmental management speaker. Her wide range of clients comprises aquaculture, agriculture, fishing, marinas, slipways, pest control, stock-feed manufacture, construction and car component manufacturer.

Jean is passionate about facilitating practical and cost-effective environment, quality and safety management solutions for all industries. She has worked with small and medium businesses to corporate entities.

In 2003, Jean developed and launched Enviro Action and ‘ISO 14001 in Action’ method of working with groups of businesses which was a feature of her 2006 session at the Australasian Aquaculture Conference.  Recently she has launched ‘Easy to be Green’ which has made her work more widely accessible with an on-line web based training environment.  Jean is also an extremely pragmatic business person who recognises that small business, in particular, is under a range of enormous pressures. Her unusually wide background as a business person, consultant, trainer, marine biologist, teacher, speaker, auditor and author bring an extensive knowledge base to this book

While she lives in Adelaide, Jean has very strong New Zealand connections and is a regular visitor.  Part of her mother’s family migrated to the South Island from Scotland and Jean is still in touch but most importantly, two of her children married New Zealanders and most of her grandchildren are Kiwis who live in Auckland and Wellington.

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