Loveland Llc

Consultation services specializing in sustainable forest strategies and system development for certification conformance. The company’s strength is innovation in process design and cost-effective plan execution. Steve Loveland was instrumental in reengineering a world-class private forest landowner assistance program at Georgia-Pacific. Steve also developed highly effective systems for chain of custody certification conformance while at Georgia-Pacific. He is skilled in training, facilitating and negotiating. His strong people skills enable him to communicate well with all levels in an organization. He is skilled at making technical presentations easily understood by non-technical people. His facilitation style helps build successful, empowered teams of motivated employees, and helps enhance the professional and personal growth of people, as well as organizational development. Steve has a noteworthy record of contributions to the 2009 Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) standard, the 2010 Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-US National Indicators and FSC-US Family Forest Indicators and the 2009 American Tree Farm System standard. He has a wide range of relevant experience in sustainable forestry work: As Director – Sustainable Forest Strategies at Georgia Pacific, Steve developed and executed a corporate Chain of Custody conformance system for several wood products business units in North America. As Vice President – Forest Management Assistance Program at Georgia Pacific, he provided leadership of a private forest landowner assistance program which grew by 50% to 1500 clients and 1.4 million acres during his tenure. He has, over the years, led very successful teams managing hundreds of thousands of acres of corporate timberlands in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida. He is a registered forester in South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama.