Earlier Books

In addition to his latest book, Navigating Sustainable Growth (July 2025), Gib Hedstrom has written several other books about sustainability which can be found below.

Sustainability: What It Is and How to Measure It

This two-part book was published by De Gruyter in 2018. Part 1 was an update of the small 2017 book. Part 2 detailed the ESG Navigator corporate benchmarking and strategic planning platform. (At the time, the platform was called the Corporate Sustainability Scorecard.)

Since this book was published, ESG Navigator has evolved considerably. It was endorsed by The Conference Board in 2020 and over 150 major corporations input benchmarking data. The scoring system has been fine-tuned and since 2023 has consisted of 100 KPIs (we refer to as Key Sustainability Indicators or KSIs).

Sustainability: What It Is and How to Measure It

Sustainability: A Guide for Boards and C-Suites

This 100-page book, published in 2017, captured Gib's experience participating as an outside advisor in dozens of board meetings at major companies. This included meeting with outside directors in executive session as the CEO and company management left the room.

The book is available on Amazon.

The Environmental, Health, and Safety Auditor's Handbook & Environmental Auditing: Fundamentals and Techniques

Gib led the development of environmental, health, and safety (EHS) auditing in the 1980s - initially in the U.S. and then globally. He oversaw Arthur D. Little's auditing practice involving several thousand audits across the globe and wrote the initial EHS auditing standards, still largely intact today.

With Arthur D. Little colleagues, Gib wrote the widely-read foundational books on the then emerging field of EHS auditing.