About

Erik Foley is a father, husband, and aging athlete with a love of sports, poetry, bad puns and great pastries.

Erik currently works as a Senior Consultant at Antea Group USA, an environmental health & safety and sustainability consultancy that serves 20% of the Fortune 100 and hundreds of other companies across technology, energy, consumer and industrial goods, and financial services. Erik specializes in providing strategic sustainability advisory services to C-suite, legal counsel, and investor relations, as well as coaching and mentoring of junior employees. Clients have included private equity, oil and gas, cosmetics, consumer goods, fast food, banks, office supply retailers and more.

Before joining Antea Group, Erik started the Center for the Business of Sustainability at Penn State's Smeal College of Business. He served as the founding director of the center while also developing and teaching courses in sustainability strategy, sustainable supply chain management, and social entrepreneurship.  In this capacity, he assembled a Sustainability Advisory Board of executives from IBM, Verizon, Walmart, Amazon, Interface, PepsiCo, Caterpillar, International Paper, and Hershey.  He was creator and faculty director of the Business Sustainability Strategy Graduate Certificate Program, and co-faculty director of Penn State Executive Programs' "Building a Sustainable Supply Chain" short course whose participants have included private companies and the US Department of Defense.

Erik was the chief editor and writer for Major Sustainability, a sustainable business/ESG education platform recognized by the United Nations in 2022, and in 2014 was the lead author of the "Sustainability Planning Guidebook for Teams" published by the Sustainability Institute.

Locally, Erik serves on the Board of Directors of Clearwater Conservancy, a land and water conservation organization in Central Pennsylvania, and the Centre County Solid Waste Advisory Committee. Erik also co-leads the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Committee for Clearwater Conservancy and is actively involved at his church with a primary focus on spiritual and leadership development for men and helping the financially disadvantaged.