For Immediate Publication -
Santa Barbara, Calif. (August 2023) —
Kristen Hazard, founder, and CEO of Wildnote (San Luis Obispo, Calif.) and developer of the company’s groundbreaking environmental compliance reporting software, received this year's Pacific Coast Business Times Spirit of Small Business "Green Business Award". Wildnote was one of six central coast small businesses to be honored. Read the full article here where Hazard describes the perils and joys of being a small business owner on the central coast.
Wildnote is a pioneering SaaS company that develops customizable software to replace manual processes, helping environmental consulting businesses reduce the cost and time spent meeting regulatory compliance reporting requirements while better protecting the environment. "It's all about radical efficiency," says Hazard. She is passionate about bringing these efficiencies and more to the environmental consulting industry.
The Wildnote mission is to help protect natural resources by automating the process of environmental compliance. The Wildnote product is a cloud and mobile technology platform for environmental consultants that supports a broad array of disciplines, including wetland delineation, biological monitoring, construction compliance, cultural resource management, and ecological restoration. Wildnote customers include global environmental engineering and consulting firms, regional environmental specialists, and mitigation banks. Wildnote is based in San Luis Obispo, CA.
Pacific Coast Business Times, the weekly business journal of record serving Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo counties, created the Spirit of Small Business Awards in 2003 to honor small business leaders along the Central Coast. They partnered with the U.S. Small Business Administration to show off the region’s best and brightest, and over the years, have given out 174 awards to small business advocates, pioneers, families and people changing not just their worlds but the world.