Breanna Rose Writer // Facilitator // Strategist
Owner & Principal, BR Strategies Consulting Practice

Breanna has a decade of experience building network-based initiatives across Hawai‘i and with international platforms to advance sustainability, climate action, and well-being. Her consulting practice is in the service of communities,ʻāina (land), and social transformation through a values-based approach grounded in connection and relationships.

She previously served as the Director of Operations & Partnerships for Hawaiʻi Green Growth, a network of over 150 leaders from government, business, academic, nonprofit, and community organizations committed to working together to advance sustainability across Hawaiʻi. Breanna helped grow the network over the course of a decade, including with the launch of Hawaiʻi’s Aloha+ Challenge: He Nohona ʻAeʻoia and 2030 sustainability goals, the development of an open-data dashboard to measure progress, and partnerships across sectors to catalyze action. The network is now recognized by the United Nations as one of the world’s first Local2030 Hubs for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Breanna has worked with partners through diverse collaborations, including the Pledge to Our Keiki and Volunteer Month Hawaiʻi, 2016 IUCN World Conservation Congress, Aloha Connects Innovation, Local2030 Islands Network, UN Environment Programme UNEA-4 regional consultation, and the City & County of Honolulu’s Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan and Ola Resilience Strategy. She serves as Board President for nonprofit organizations Kanu Hawaiʻi, Zero Waste Hawaiʻi and is on the Board of Directors for the Hoʻāla Foundation for Education, which supports Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in schools and organizations.

Breanna was recognized by the Obama Foundation as one of two hundred emerging leaders for its inaugural Asia Pacific Leaders program and was named by Pacific Business News as one of “40 Under 40” business and community leaders in 2020. She has a Bachelor’s degree in English & Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco and a Master’s degree in Leadership for Sustainability from the University of Vermont.

Born and raised on Maui, Breanna is committed to lifelong work to ensure a thriving Hawaiʻi and island earth for generations to come.