March 2026 The Shift e-newsletter
FREE Webinar: Communicating LCA | Authentic Sustainability Messaging | Designing Life Cycle Assessment Results
Communicating Life Cycle Assessment: Making Complex Data Clear, Visual, and Actionable
DATE: Thursday, March 26th, 2026
TIME: 1pm - 2pm EST
PRESENTER:
Tess Konnovitch, Scientific Marketing Manager
EarthShift Global
Description:
Life Cycle Assessment is rigorous, detailed, and deeply important work. But when results are buried in dense tables or scattered across hundred-page reports, critical insights can be missed.
In our March 2026 Brown Bag Webinar, EarthShift Global's Scientific Marketing Manager Tess Konnovitch will share practical strategies for simplifying and visualizing complex LCA data so it resonates with decision-makers without sacrificing technical credibility. The session will explore how to present multiple impact categories clearly within a single, cohesive view; when to use dashboards versus detailed breakdowns; and how to structure visuals so patterns, trade-offs, and drivers are immediately visible.
Tess will also walk through workflow strategies that improve both clarity and efficiency — including Excel-linked templates, standardized chart structures, refining default software exports, and designing slides with strong visual hierarchy and accessibility in mind. Beyond charts, the discussion will cover framing results with intentional headlines, highlighting key findings, and using plain, precise language to ensure insights are understood by technical and non-technical audiences alike.
You’ve done the work. Now let’s make sure it lands — clearly, confidently, and in a way that moves decisions forward.
About the Speakers:
Tess Konnovitch, Scientific Marketing Manager
Tess Konnovitch is the Scientific Marketing Manager at EarthShift Global, where she leads strategic communication of life cycle assessment (LCA) insights across global audiences. She joined EarthShift Global in 2022 as a Data Visualization Specialist and was promoted into marketing leadership, blending scientific rigor, visual design, and clear messaging to ensure complex sustainability analyses resonate with decision-makers.
Tess holds a B.S. in Environmental Science and Biology from La Salle University and a M.S. in Computational Biology from Rutgers University, where her research focused on how organisms to ecosystems respond to human-driven environmental change such as warming and eutrophication. Her background bridges ecology, quantitative analysis, and communication — allowing her to translate dense technical data into meaningful, accessible insight.
From Data to Decision: Designing Life Cycle Assessment Results for Impact
Author: Tess Konnovitch, Scientific Marketing Manager & Gianni Guglielmi, Engineer and Life Cycle Analyst
Life Cycle Assessment generates an extraordinary amount of information.
Multiple impact categories. Multiple scenarios. Sensitivity analyses. Trade-offs across climate change, water use, eutrophication, toxicity, and resource depletion. Often hundreds of pages of outputs.
But data volume does not automatically create clarity.
Too often, LCA findings are presented exactly as they are exported — dense tables, default software graphs, and page after page of impact category breakdowns. While technically accurate, these outputs can obscure the most important insights: What changed? What drives impact? What trade-offs matter? What decision should be made differently?
Revisiting a Community Resource on LCA Data Visualization
Authors: Tess Konnovitch, Scientific Marketing Manager & Gianni Guglielmi, Engineer and Life Cycle Analyst
This month, we’re highlighting the importance of communicating life cycle assessment results clearly and effectively.
As part of this theme, we’re revisiting our guidance document published in 2024 on effective ways to visualize life cycle results. Developed by EarthShift Global’s Tess Konnovitch in collaboration with Gianni Guglielmi, the document shares practical strategies for selecting visualizations, framing results, and presenting LCA insights with clarity.
Access the document by clicking the button below, or join our upcoming March 2026 Brown Bag Webinar to learn more!
Upcoming Training
EarthShift Global offers a range of expert-led trainings designed to strengthen practical LCA skills — from foundational concepts to advanced interpretation and communication techniques.
Introduction to Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
April 8 & 15 | 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET
A two-part course introducing the core principles of life cycle assessment, including goal and scope definition, system boundaries, inventory analysis, impact assessment, and interpretation.
Data Visualization in Life Cycle Assessment
April 14 | 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET
Explore strategies for presenting LCA results clearly and effectively, including chart selection, communicating uncertainty, and creating professional-quality visualizations using Excel, R, RawGraphs, and Adobe tools.
Interpretation: Insights & Claims from Your LCA
May 12 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET
This course focuses on the interpretation phase of LCA, including sensitivity analysis, uncertainty analysis, and deriving robust conclusions from study results.
View our full training calendar to explore upcoming courses and register.
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