Erin has supported over 30 environmental projects in a variety of roles to help build opportunities for resilient and abundant operations sustainably on Earth. Erin is a LEED AP with a specialty in Building Design and Construction and a Certified Biomimicry Professional, and she is a biomimicry instructor for adult learners. She develops holistic methodologies to drive innovation and ecosystem regeneration and conservation. She has experience in biomimicry, living building challenge, the natural step, and LEED.

On the show, Ms. Leitch discussed how biomimicry enters into design thinking especially, and how this can meaningfully firm operations. She enumerated multiple examples, including carpeting companies building carpet tiles that are replaceable within the pattern and without needing the correct tile for the place. Additionally, she discussed how the principles of the Scotch pine tree’s double helix fibrous structure in its trunk can be applied to a water bottle – the same structure that allows the tree to be stronger without needing more material allows the water bottle to be light and use less plastic, yet remain every bit as strong.