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19h16"></path></svg></button></div></div></header><section class="navy-band relative flex min-h-[92vh] items-end overflow-hidden"><img src="/assets/tedx-stage-CFy3w2Tz.jpg" alt="Mike Dieterich speaking on stage about decarbonization" class="absolute inset-x-0 top-0 h-full w-full object-cover object-[72%_top]" loading="eager"/><div class="absolute inset-0 bg-gradient-to-t from-background via-background/60 to-background/20"></div><div class="absolute inset-0 bg-gradient-to-r from-background via-background/85 to-transparent md:via-background/70 md:to-65%"></div><div class="relative mx-auto w-full max-w-7xl px-6 pb-20 md:pb-28"><p class="mb-4 text-xs font-semibold uppercase tracking-widest text-primary md:text-sm"> STRATEGIST · AUTHOR · ADVISOR</p><h1 class="max-w-4xl text-4xl font-bold leading-[1.05] md:text-6xl lg:text-7xl">Turn ambition into measurable results.</h1><p class="mt-6 max-w-2xl text-lg text-foreground/80">I turn complex energy, infrastructure, and operational challenges into strategies that reduce costs, strengthen resilience, and accelerate decarbonization.</p><p class="mt-4 max-w-2xl text-base leading-relaxed text-foreground/75">Bring me in for a consequential decision, a leadership workshop, or ongoing strategic partnership.</p><div class="mt-8 flex flex-wrap gap-3"><a class="inline-flex items-center justify-center gap-2 cursor-pointer transition-colors focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-1 focus-visible:ring-ring disabled:pointer-events-none disabled:opacity-50 disabled:cursor-not-allowed [&_svg]:pointer-events-none [&_svg]:size-4 [&_svg]:shrink-0 bg-primary text-primary-foreground shadow hover:bg-primary/90 h-auto whitespace-normal rounded-full px-6 py-3 text-base font-semibold" href="/contact">Discuss Your Challenge</a><a class="inline-flex items-center justify-center gap-2 cursor-pointer transition-colors focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-1 focus-visible:ring-ring disabled:pointer-events-none disabled:opacity-50 disabled:cursor-not-allowed [&_svg]:pointer-events-none [&_svg]:size-4 [&_svg]:shrink-0 bg-primary text-primary-foreground shadow hover:bg-primary/90 h-auto whitespace-normal rounded-full px-6 py-3 text-base font-semibold" href="/speaking-services">Book Mike to Speak</a></div></div></section><section class="navy-band border-y border-border py-20 md:py-28"><div class="mx-auto max-w-7xl px-6"><p class="text-sm font-semibold uppercase tracking-widest text-primary">The Framework</p><h2 class="mt-3 text-xl font-bold sm:text-2xl md:text-[1.7rem] xl:text-5xl xl:whitespace-nowrap lg:text-4xl">Understand → Prioritize → Execute → Verify → Scale</h2><p class="mt-5 max-w-3xl text-lg text-foreground/75">A practical method for turning commitments into funded, measurable programs.</p></div></section><section class="navy-band border-y border-border py-20 md:py-28"><div class="mx-auto max-w-7xl px-6"><p class="text-sm font-semibold uppercase tracking-widest text-primary">Evidence</p><h2 class="mt-3 text-3xl font-bold md:text-5xl">Work that has been implemented.</h2><div class="mt-12 grid gap-6 md:grid-cols-3"><div class="rounded-2xl border border-border bg-card p-8"><h3 class="text-lg font-semibold">Global pharmaceutical operations</h3><p class="mt-3 leading-relaxed text-foreground/70">Built the pathway from enterprise carbon targets to plant-level energy, waste, and capital projects across a multi-site manufacturing footprint.</p></div><div class="rounded-2xl border border-border bg-card p-8"><h3 class="text-lg font-semibold">Public school portfolio</h3><p class="mt-3 leading-relaxed text-foreground/70">Benchmarked and modernized aging school facilities, turning utility data into a prioritized retrofit program with measured savings.</p></div><div class="rounded-2xl border border-border bg-card p-8"><h3 class="text-lg font-semibold">Post-disaster infrastructure</h3><p class="mt-3 leading-relaxed text-foreground/70">Advised rebuilding efforts after major hurricanes, embedding resilience and energy performance into reconstruction decisions.</p></div></div></div></section><section class="paper-band border-b border-border py-14 md:py-16"><div class="mx-auto max-w-7xl px-6"><h2 class="text-3xl font-bold md:text-4xl">Advisory and Leadership Experience</h2><ul class="mt-8 grid gap-x-10 sm:grid-cols-2 lg:grid-cols-3"><li class="flex items-center gap-4 border-b border-border py-5"><div class="min-w-0"><h3 class="font-semibold">Global Network for Zero</h3><p class="mt-1 text-sm leading-relaxed text-foreground/70">Advisor</p></div></li><li class="flex items-center gap-4 border-b border-border py-5"><div class="min-w-0"><h3 class="font-semibold">Work on Climate</h3><p class="mt-1 text-sm leading-relaxed text-foreground/70">Expert and Office Hours advisor</p></div></li><li class="flex items-center gap-4 border-b border-border py-5"><div class="min-w-0"><h3 class="font-semibold">Sustainova</h3><p class="mt-1 text-sm leading-relaxed text-foreground/70">Sustainability expert offering advisory and consultancy through Sustainova</p></div></li><li class="flex items-center gap-4 border-b border-border py-5"><img src="/__l5e/assets-v1/bedf32d0-2dc9-414c-b042-eb7cd332b0bb/tec.jpg" alt="The Explorers Club" loading="lazy" class="h-14 w-16 shrink-0 rounded-lg bg-logo-surface p-2 object-contain"/><div class="min-w-0"><h3 class="font-semibold">The Explorers Club</h3><p class="mt-1 text-sm leading-relaxed text-foreground/70">Sustainability Committee member</p></div></li><li class="flex items-center gap-4 border-b border-border py-5"><div class="min-w-0"><h3 class="font-semibold">Montgomery County, Maryland</h3><p class="mt-1 text-sm leading-relaxed text-foreground/70">Former Building Performance Improvement Board member</p></div></li><li class="flex items-center gap-4 border-b border-border py-5"><div class="min-w-0"><h3 class="font-semibold">Association of Energy Engineers National Capital Chapter</h3><p class="mt-1 text-sm leading-relaxed text-foreground/70">Former board member</p></div></li></ul><a class="inline-flex items-center justify-center gap-2 rounded-md text-sm font-medium cursor-pointer transition-colors focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-1 focus-visible:ring-ring disabled:pointer-events-none disabled:opacity-50 disabled:cursor-not-allowed [&_svg]:pointer-events-none [&_svg]:size-4 [&_svg]:shrink-0 text-primary underline-offset-4 hover:underline mt-6 h-auto whitespace-normal p-0 text-left" href="/about#advisory-leadership">View full advisory and leadership experience →</a></div></section><section class="paper-band py-20 md:py-28"><div class="mx-auto max-w-7xl px-6"><p class="text-sm font-semibold uppercase tracking-widest text-primary">Ways to Work With Mike</p><h2 class="mt-3 text-3xl font-bold md:text-5xl">From a focused decision to an ongoing partnership.</h2><div class="mt-12 grid gap-6 md:grid-cols-2"><div class="rounded-2xl border border-border bg-card p-8 transition-colors hover:border-primary/60"><h3 class="text-xl font-semibold">Executive Briefing</h3><p class="mt-3 leading-relaxed text-foreground/70">A focused conversation to help leadership understand a challenge, evaluate options, and identify the decisions ahead.</p></div><div class="rounded-2xl border border-border bg-card p-8 transition-colors hover:border-primary/60"><h3 class="text-xl font-semibold">Strategic Workshop</h3><p class="mt-3 leading-relaxed text-foreground/70">A working session that brings the relevant people together to examine dependencies, establish priorities, and agree on next steps.</p></div><div class="rounded-2xl border border-border bg-card p-8 transition-colors hover:border-primary/60"><h3 class="text-xl font-semibold">Strategic Roadmap</h3><p class="mt-3 leading-relaxed text-foreground/70">A plan connecting objectives with investments, responsibilities, dependencies, and an implementation sequence.</p></div><div class="rounded-2xl border border-border bg-card p-8 transition-colors hover:border-primary/60"><h3 class="text-xl font-semibold">Fractional Strategic Partnership</h3><p class="mt-3 leading-relaxed text-foreground/70">Ongoing senior guidance to help teams navigate decisions, coordinate implementation, and adjust as conditions change.</p></div></div><a class="mt-10 inline-flex text-sm font-semibold text-primary hover:underline" href="/advisory-services">Explore Advisory Services →</a></div></section><section class="border-b border-border bg-card py-14 md:py-16"><div class="mx-auto max-w-7xl px-6"><h2 class="text-center text-2xl font-bold text-foreground md:text-3xl">Selected organizations and platforms</h2><div class="mt-8 grid items-center gap-x-8 gap-y-6 grid-cols-2 sm:grid-cols-4 md:grid-cols-6"><div class="flex h-14 items-center justify-center"><img src="/__l5e/assets-v1/68710432-8bb1-4d42-9e68-9948807c144f/logo-amazon.png" alt="Amazon" class="max-h-12 max-w-full object-contain" loading="lazy"/></div><div class="flex h-14 items-center 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object-contain" loading="lazy"/></div><div class="flex h-14 items-center justify-center"><img src="/__l5e/assets-v1/898e66aa-4a8b-4b4f-bfef-25687f4a3408/logo-dcps.jpg" alt="DC Public Schools" class="max-h-12 max-w-full object-contain" loading="lazy"/></div><div class="flex h-14 items-center justify-center"><img src="/__l5e/assets-v1/ef61fb7e-8dad-4ab1-b3ce-df8fbfc180c1/wonderful.jpg" alt="The Wonderful Company" class="max-h-12 max-w-full object-contain" loading="lazy"/></div><div class="flex h-14 items-center justify-center"><img src="/__l5e/assets-v1/36f88c43-14c1-4dcc-a09a-3f8bd80a9349/triangle_2.jpg" alt="Triangle Digital" class="max-h-12 max-w-full object-contain" loading="lazy"/></div><div class="flex h-14 items-center justify-center"><img src="/__l5e/assets-v1/27549f7b-216e-4e14-a93f-f03b44bab4d5/algeria.jpg" alt="Ministry of Energy, Algeria" class="max-h-12 max-w-full object-contain" loading="lazy"/></div><div class="flex h-14 items-center justify-center"><img src="/__l5e/assets-v1/1f82bfe5-bf8c-43fc-92ec-d7f2c9d3a222/cmaa.jpg" alt="CMAA" class="max-h-12 max-w-full object-contain" loading="lazy"/></div><div class="flex h-14 items-center justify-center"><img src="/__l5e/assets-v1/bedf32d0-2dc9-414c-b042-eb7cd332b0bb/tec.jpg" alt="The Explorers Club" class="max-h-12 max-w-full object-contain" loading="lazy"/></div></div></div></section><section class="paper-band py-20 md:py-28"><div class="mx-auto grid max-w-7xl items-center gap-12 px-6 lg:grid-cols-[1fr_1.2fr]"><img src="/__l5e/assets-v1/60b99035-0803-45c3-8805-69d7f7615264/book-cover.png" alt="Decarbonization That Works: From Targets to Results, by Mike Dieterich, published by Routledge" class="mx-auto w-full max-w-sm"/><div><p class="text-sm font-semibold uppercase tracking-widest text-primary">The Book · Coming in 2026</p><h2 class="mt-3 text-3xl font-bold md:text-5xl">Decarbonization That Works</h2><p class="mt-5 text-lg leading-relaxed text-foreground/75">The framework behind every engagement: how leaders decide what matters, fund the right work, prove it worked, and scale it across the organization.</p><div class="mt-8 flex flex-wrap gap-3"><a class="rounded-full bg-primary px-6 py-3 font-semibold text-primary-foreground transition hover:opacity-90" href="/book">Preorder the Book</a></div></div></div></section><section class="navy-band border-y border-border py-20 md:py-28"><div class="mx-auto grid max-w-7xl items-center gap-12 px-6 lg:grid-cols-2"><div class="aspect-video w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-border shadow-2xl"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nZCRGDyTVY4" title="A Zero Energy, Water, Waste Future | Mike Dieterich | TEDxHerndon" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowFullScreen="" class="h-full w-full"></iframe></div><div><p class="text-sm font-semibold uppercase tracking-widest text-primary">Speaking</p><h2 class="mt-3 text-3xl font-bold md:text-5xl">Sessions that leave the room with decisions.</h2><ul class="mt-6 space-y-3"><li class="rounded-xl border border-border bg-card px-5 py-4">Decarbonization That Works: From Targets to Results</li><li class="rounded-xl border border-border bg-card px-5 py-4">The Implementation Gap: Why Climate Strategies Stall and Succeed </li><li class="rounded-xl border border-border bg-card px-5 py-4">Optimization: The Cheapest Ton of Carbon Is the One You Never Emit</li></ul><a class="mt-8 inline-flex rounded-full bg-primary px-6 py-3 font-semibold text-primary-foreground transition hover:opacity-90" href="/speaking-services">Book Mike to Speak</a></div></div></section><section class="navy-band border-t border-border py-20 md:py-28"><div class="mx-auto max-w-4xl px-6 text-center"><h2 class="text-3xl font-bold leading-snug md:text-5xl">Let's discuss what your organization needs to move forward.</h2><div class="mt-9 flex justify-center"><a class="rounded-full bg-primary px-8 py-3 font-semibold 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