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Frank J. Priznar is the founder and president of PRIZIM Inc. a sustainability services firm headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD near Washington, DC. Throughout his 30+year career he has served as a research scientist, state natural resource agency program manager, and a trusted management advisor. Since 1996, he has worked with the US Department of the Interior and its Bureaus and Offices on sustainability policy and environmental program management. For their partnership with the National Park Service, PRIZIM Inc. became the first non-governmental entity to earn the Department of the Interior Environmental Achievement Award. Priznar has worked in more than 200 parks, refuges, and reservations throughout the world. His work has taken him from Alaska to Africa, from boardrooms to boiler rooms, and from stunning mountain peaks to pristine lake fronts and sacred cultural sites. He has held leadership positions in several nonprofit environmental organizations, where his responsibilities centered on administration, ethics, professional credentials, and education. Priznar received a Bachelor of Arts in Special Studies from the State University of New York at Fredonia, and a Master of Science in Water Resources Management from the Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He is an author and contributor to more than 20 books and articles on environmental auditing, environmental management systems, impact mitigation, ethics, sustainability and American environmental leadership.