Bob Simmons has played a crucial role in the creation of Learning for Living. Meeting frequently throughout 1998 over coffee at Prufrock's with founder Dorcas McDonald, he worked to develop the organization's vision and explore how they could best realize this vision.

Bob grew up in the hardwood forests of Illinois, where he learned to love nature. Receiving his undergraduate and master's degrees at Bradley University and Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville as a theoretical physicist, he worked for the Environmental Protection Agency for 22 years as Senior Policy Advisor or Director of several new programs including Environmental Noise Control, Pollution Prevention and the Analytic Center. He was awarded EPA's highest national honor, the Gold Medal for Exceptional Service.

Bob has worked as a sustainable policy advisor to the American Institute of Architects and served as chairperson to their Strategic Advisory Group on the Environment (SAGE). An initiator of the "Greening of the White House" Project, he served as chairman of the White House policy group incorporating "Cultural Change and the Human Factor." He also served as the sustainable policy advisor for the Earth Centre, World Headquarters for the Earth Council, being created in Costa Rica.

Currently, as Founder and Principal of the Continued Success Foundation© in Boulder, Bob is a sustainable policy and program advisor, speaker, researcher, vision-master and team-builder. His passion is helping individuals and organizations create visions and programs which include our long-term future as a global society.

Bob is a member of the Board of Directors for Rock the Planet, an educational non-profit focusing on young people. He is a visiting fellow with the Center for Values and Social Policy at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and provides vision support for the Golden, Colorado Field Office of the U.S. Department of Energy, the Collage Children's Museum, and Bridging the Gap. Bob is writing a book based on several years of research, titled Continued Success, Creating a Sustainable Future©. Through his life's work, he hopes to do his part to help human beings get along better with one another and with the planet. He lives in Boulder with his wife, Sarah, and two Ainu dogs, Ramat and Pirka.

© 2002 Robert A. Simmons, Continued Success Foundation