Gayle Schueller is 3M's Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer. Schueller started in 3M's corporate laboratory as a product development engineer and has over 29 years of technical and business leadership experience.

3M has long been known as an innovative company. Who hasn’t used the firm’s Post-it notes, applied Scotch tape to a ripped page, or seen city buses wrapped with its perforated Scotchcal graphic film, which covers windows with images while allowing drivers and passengers to see out?

But these days innovation is about more than just cool properties or great functionality. Schueller, says if the firm is to continue its run of innovative products, it has to invent new products and redesign old ones with an eye toward reducing their environmental impact. A materials scientist with a PhD from the University of Virginia, Schueller is leading the effort to turn that goal into reality.

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