Jim Butcher is the founder of Entegra Partners LLC. He created Entegra Partners around two principles: first, uncertainties need not lead to paralysis but rather new strategic insights that help you navigate and excel in today’s times, and second, re-thinking our relationship to our global environment, with climate change being the most evident indicator, is integral to tomorrow’s successful business and organizational models. He is a widely experienced scenario and strategic planner, having started with the Global Business Network (GBN), the world’s leader in scenario planning, in its infancy in 1991 and has led over 120 scenario planning projects to date with Fortune 500 companies, governments and NGOs. He has led global projects with companies such as Intel, Cemex, Shell, Morgan Stanley, DuPont and BP, among many others (see our client list), which helped them to re-perceive the future and derive strategic implications to better navigate in the future.

A key element of Jim’s work is the environmental arena. From early days growing up on a ranch in Montana, to civil engineering in college and creating an energy retrofit business for commercial and residential real estate, he has been passionate about how to encompass environmental issues into today’s organizations. After graduate school, he led the Ford Foundation’s global environmental programs (10 field offices), where he developed NGO strategies to encompass better natural resource management into improving rural livelihoods, including helping to create early water trading markets in the U.S. In 1988, he joined the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), just as the UN Brundtland Report, Our Common Future, was published highlighting global environmental crises and he created BCG’s first environmental strategy practice group to emphasize that environmental issues were not just a risk but an opportunity for companies. After joining GBN in 1991, he created a separate focus area around environmental concerns, where he helped Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E – where the new concept “negawatt” was created by Amory Lovins to suggest the value of saving energy versus building more megawatt power plants), DuPont, Nissan, Cemex and other major multinationals become aware of new environmental risks and to create new, innovative strategies. In 1996, he led an effort to create the first sustainable U.S. National Energy Plan under the Clinton Administration White House. And, in 2005, he led and created Morgan Stanley’s first global Office of the Environment, which encompassed not only traditional internal, external and government relations roles but also created new business opportunities across the firm.

As CEO of Entegra Partners, he has worked with various organizations on innovative strategies. He has worked with BP to think about climate legislation directions and with Cemex to re-think new global realities and more sustainable approaches. Most recently Jim has been working with sustainable investment firms (private equity and venture capital) on both capital raising and new investment opportunities.