Brian Dinning is a natural entrepreneur at heart who has successfully pursued many differing career avenues exercising his professional strengths.
Born into a coal mining family, Brian was raised in the world of business proceedings. However, as thankful as he was to his family for their diligent work, he also carried a heavy burden knowing that the family business was leaving a significant fossil fuel and carbon footprint. In order to help curb some of these effects, he began working on Section 29 tax credit projects to brainstorm alternate fuel options, work on clean coal technology projects, and research more about carbon sequestration. As technology has progressed, Brian has only become more immersed in researching alternative resources that are more climate-aware.
Eventually, Brian Dinning convinced his family to sell their mining interests to a large U.S. steel company utilizing a sustainably and vertically-integrated structure. Afterward, his family acquired two organic farms (apples and maple syrup) and focused their efforts on a new solar project. Brian felt a newfound sense of accomplishment in being able to steer his family’s profession towards a more sustainable future. Alongside this success came a newfound mission and responsibility to influence more businesses in the fight against climate change, which has only become more attainable through the implementation of emerging technologies.
In 1984, Brian Dinning traveled to South Africa to visit his uncle, who was a missionary for 40 years. During this time, the country was under Apartheid, which was a system that involved racial segregation. This experience deeply affected him and changed his life.
From 1992 to 1994, Brian Dinning was asked to research and write a legal treatise on the taxation of joint ventures and partnerships involving tax-exempt organizations, which was written by Michael Sanders, a professor at Georgetown. He was very honored to work on various social impact projects, corporate governance, environmental projects, and social ventures between for-profit and nonprofit organizations.
In 1994, Brian Dinning worked with CoorTek and John Deere on various projects in Africa, such as rural electrification and solar energy water pumping. He then transitioned into collective and social impact projects, which include charitable joint ventures. His extensive experience in microenterprise, social entrepreneurship, and microfinance makes him an ideal candidate for these types of projects.
Brian Dinning is a consultant to numerous businesses and has used his status as a tax lawyer to defend and introduce environmentally-friendly initiatives to the larger scene. His profession has allowed him to hold numerous judicial titles, serve as a lobbyist, and speak in front of the U.S. State Department, U.S. Commercial Department, USAID, USTDA, UNESCO, and the World Heritage Group at United Nations. As he has progressed in his career, Brian Dinning’s passion for uncovering additional technologies that support conservation efforts has never ceased. He is just as active in the world of sustainability as he was the day he first convinced his family to reverse their negative effects on the environment.
More than ever before, businesses are equipped with the technology necessary to introduce sustainability into every level of their inner workings, from corporate culture to their team-building exercises to their financial goals to their activity with the supply chain. By offering his consulting services to countless businesses and nonprofits, Brian has established himself as a visionary problem-solver who can help re-structure businesses in order to help them attain their sustainability goals.
In Brian Dinning’s opinion, entrepreneurs must create companies based on sound business principles, visions, and strategies, acting on a solid business plan that attracts more investment dollars and allows them to scale their businesses without making the environment suffer. On his own time, Brian continues to enhance his own ongoing education in order to best serve his clients, including his unceasing journey to understanding the developing technologies that will help propel this mission even further.
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