Our Team

We are a small and enthusiastic team focused on projects that positively impact the environment and the climate through policy and behavior change. We value continual learning, independence, and creativity. 

We care about each other and the work we do, enjoy sharing our experiences and extracurricular passions with one another, and value the unique perspectives we each bring to the table. We enjoy a challenge, strive to be anti-racist, and value an intersectional approach to our work and lives beyond work.

David Stitzhal (he/him)

Co-owner & Lead Consultant

Eun-Sook Goidel (she/her)

Senior Project Manager

Adam Ellner (he/him)

Project Manager & Outreach Specialist

Laurel Stitzhal (she/her)

Co-owner, Business Manager & Project Consultant

Apollo

Chief Happiness Officer

Adam brings expertise and enthusiasm for recycling, composting, and hazardous waste management to his outreach and technical assistance on behalf of multiple cities. With an eye toward creative ways to engage community members and achieve project goals, Adam also supports projects related to food waste, water quality, transportation, and behavior change in multifamily and commercial settings.

The team loves Adam’s humor, his masterful ping pong game, and his top-notch word play, not to mention his readiness to jump in and get things done.

Adam is a graduate of the interdisciplinary Earth Systems program at Stanford University, where he earned his B.S. and M.S. While on campus, Adam also worked directly for Peninsula Sanitary Service, Stanford’s waste hauler, to improve waste management operations in the university’s cafés, academic buildings, and stadiums. His passion for waste reduction and diversion was enriched early on by his time as a Recycle Corps intern with WM in 2015, where Adam engaged in hundreds of conversations with Puget Sound residents and businesses.

When not working, you can probably find Adam bicycling on a rural or mountain road just about anywhere in the region, that is, if he’s not home baking bread.

Eun-Sook is an extraordinary trainer, skilled at conveying complex technical and procedural requirements and translating them into readily actionable recommendations. Eun-Sook has unparalleled expertise as a leader in environmental procurement. She has worked on projects at the local and national level for over 20 years and played a pivotal role in developing the first Executive Orders for environmentally preferable purchasing.

Eun-Sook works hand in hand with cities, states, and federal agencies as well as with collectors, processors, specifiers, and manufacturers. She brings a life-cycle perspective to all of her work, ensuring that purchasing choices reflect holistic, multi-attribute considerations. Her penchant for research and her track record, in developing innovative tools and resources, consistently drives innovation in management practices for carpet, paper, electronics and other commodities. Her work with the National Park Service and the Federal Network for Sustainability are particularly noteworthy.

The team appreciates Eun-Sook’s independence (as she usually works solo), as well as her laser focus and dedication to getting the job done right with unimaginable efficiency.

Eun-Sook earned her B.A. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia, and her M.A. in International Economics & International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

Beyond the workday, Eun-Sook takes great pleasure each week creating striking flower arrangements for a local nursing home on Bainbridge Island. Her dog Parker – also a volunteer – supervises.

David started his environmental career standing knee-deep in garbage when he designed and implemented what is arguably one of the nation’s first waste stream sorts in the late 1980’s. He was hooked, and a career was launched. The solid waste field quickly called on many aspects of his peripatetic academic experience, from biology to anthropology to city planning.

David founded Full Circle Environmental, Inc. in 1993. He currently serves on the Boards of UPSTREAM and the National Stewardship Action Council. Over the years, David has created a vast network of relationships with an array of talented colleagues across the U.S. He excels at bringing people and organizations together to achieve program and policy goals. David has helped lay the groundwork for conservation programs setting the trend for the nation, including pharmaceutical take-back, electronics product stewardship, and commercial sector recycling assistance. David is known for a creative and results-oriented approach that has led to a number of award-winning projects.

The team gets a kick out of “Stitz’s” stories of lore about the world of solid waste, told over homespun cocktails and served alongside his never-ending puns. His enthusiasm is infectious, as is his commitment to helping others grow and achieve their goals.

He earned his double major B.A. in Psychology and Sociology/Anthropology from Swarthmore College, and a Masters in Regional Planning from Cornell University.

Bursting out of the office “Stitz” loves to go on long runs along Lake Washington where he has befriended a caramel crow who often swoops in to say hello.

Stitz’s caramel crow friend

A founding member of Full Circle, Laurel has long kept things running smoothly behind the scenes. Whether focused on day-to-day operations, long term business planning, proposal writing, or project strategy and implementation, Laurel approaches work with a thoughtful, process-oriented eye. Laurel has a unique perspective, working both on the front-end and back-end of Full Circle. Her knowledge of the company’s inner-workings is unmatched, and usefully informs her work as a Project Consultant.

As a Project Consultant, Laurel dives headfirst into outreach, data collection, research, and public engagement. Whether providing technical assistance to a multi-family property or outreach to a dry cleaner reticent to convert from PERC to a less harmful dry cleaning process, Laurel thrives on building rapport, making a plan, and changing behavior. Laurel also manages and coordinates the invaluable and talented crew of professionals who help meet the company’s needs in bookkeeping, accounting, human resources, website, and IT support.

The team enjoys Laurel’s penchant for dress-up ping pong and her quirky insights from left field that crack things open and release potential.

Laurel earned her B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology from Swarthmore College. She earned her M.Ed. in Counseling from Seattle University. In her role at Full Circle, Laurel draws on myriad management skills honed during years as Regional Manager for Open Adoption and Family Services.

Outside of work, Laurel’s passion is hiking and backpacking in the Cascade Mountains where you’ll either find her swimming in an alpine tarn (regardless of the temperature) or with binoculars in hand (Laurel is an avid bird-nerd).