Speakers

The speakers we book are Sustainable Business Leaders, Impact Investors, and published authors.

They rock the house.  Find out more about each of our speakers and their exciting books and projects below.

 

UPCOMING SPEAKERS

 

MARCH 16th | HAZEL HENDERSON | Author of Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy, founder of Ethical Markets

Hazel Henderson is a futurist and an economic iconoclast. In recent years she has worked in television, and she is the author of several books including Building A Win-Win World, Beyond Globalization, Planetary Citizenship (with Daisaku Ikeda), and Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy.Hazel Henderson is the founder of Ethical Markets Media, LLC and the creator and co-executive Producer of its TV series. She is a world renowned evolutionary economist, a globally syndicated columnist, consultant on sustainable development, and the author of several award-winning books on the new economy. She has been Regent's Lecturer at the University of California (Santa Barbara) and held the Horace Albright Chair in Conservation at the University of California (Berkeley). She has also been a traveling lecturer and panelist. Recently, she has served on the boards of such publications as Futures Research Quarterly, The State of the Future Report, and E/The Environmental Magazine (US), Resurgence, Foresight and Futures (UK).

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FEBRUARY 10th NYC: CARY KROSINSKY | author of Evolutions in Sustainable Investing

Cary Krosinsky is Senior Vice President for Trucost Inc. in North America and a member of the Management team. Trucost has become the recognized global leader in providing environmental data and analysis for the Newsweek Green Rankings, as well as supply chain analysis for organizations such as Sprint, Puma and the City of London. Mr. Krosinsky also co-edited and authored the book "Sustainable Investing: the Art of Long Term Performance," and a second book, "Evolutions in Sustainable Investing," is forthcoming in late 2011. He teaches sustainability and investing at Columbia University's Earth Institute, as well as an MBA course at the University of Maryland Smith School of Business. He was a member of the Expert Group that helped create the United Nation's Principles for Responsible Investment, and has a background in management, computer programming and data analysis.

 

JANUARY 13th | PETER FUSARO | founder of Wall Street Green Summit

Peter C. Fusaro is a best selling author, keynote speaker and thought leader on emerging energy and environmental financial markets. He is Chairman of Global Change Associates, an energy and environmental consultancy in New York since 1991 and is the best selling author of What Went Wrong at Enron as well as 15 other books on energy and the environmental financial markets. Peter has been on the forefront of energy and environmental change for over 36 years and has worked for over 20 years on climate change issues and with companies worldwide. He holds the annual Wall Street Green Summit each spring and is advisor to 8 cleantech software and hardware companies in the US and UK. In 2009, Peter launched the Global Change Foundation focused on environmental education and projects and held its first Green Jobs Summit in March 2010. The foundation also runs the Green Salon where artists perform and environmental experts speak.

Peter graduated with an MA in international relations from Tufts University and a BA from Carnegie-Mellon University. He is an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He is on the Advisory Board of the ERB Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan as well as on the Board of Trustees of the UN’s Energy & Water Institute of New York.

 

 

DECEMBER 16th | DIANA AYTON-SHENKER | founder of Fast Forward Fund

Diana Ayton-Shenker is the founder of the Fast Forward Fund, a Sr. Fellow at Bard College’s Globalization and International Affairs (BGIA) Program, and a professor of “Global Social Entrepreneurship & Strategic Philanthropy” at BGIA. She has previously taught at the American University (Paris), Lewis & Clark Law School, and Hunter College, where she directed the first undergraduate human rights program in the U.S. She is the founder of Global Momenta, an international consulting firm specializing in effective partnerships and leaderships for human rights, sustainable development, art & culture. Ms. Ayton-Shenker holds an LLM from the Univ. of Essex Law School , and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.

 

 

NOVEMBER 14th | JOE SIBILIA | author of Street Smart Sustainability, founder of CSRWire and Meadowbrook Lane Capital

Joe Sibilia is founder and CEO of Meadowbrook Lane Capital (MBLC), described by the Wall Street Journal as a "socially responsible investment bank" specializing in turning values into valuation. He is also the CEO of www.CSRwire.com, the social responsibility newswire service that distributes and archives corporate social responsibility/sustainability news to journalists, analysts, investors, activists, academics, public relations and investor relations professionals worldwide. Through MLBC, Joe has worked with a number of Socially Responsible Companies and has been widely recognized for his work in attempting to take Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream private, while successfully preserving many of the founders' social initiatives, and advancing the connection between good corporate citizenship and increased share value. Throughout his career, Joe has purchased and sold nineteen of his own companies.

 

OCTOBER 11th | JED EMERSON | author of Impact Investing, founder of Blended Value

Jed Emerson is Executive Vice-President of ImpactAssets, a nonprofit financial services firm creating impact investing products to bridge the asset owner/impact fund market; a Senior Fellow with the Center for Social Investing at Heidelberg University (Germany); and a Senior Advisor to The Sterling Group (a multi-family office based in Hong Kong pursuing a sustainable/impact investing strategy for its clients). He has held faculty appointments at Harvard, Stanford and Oxford Business schools. He is internationally recognized as a thought leader, originated the concept of Blended Value and has presented his work at the World Economic Forum, CGI and other events around the world. His various papers/research may be found at www.blendedvalue.org and he has a new book to be released September 2011 entitled, Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference.

 

SEPTEMBER 12th | CAROL SANFORD | author of The Responsible Business, founder of Interoctave

Carol Sanford is a published author, consultant and speaker who has been a leader in the sustainability movement for more than 30 years, where she has been spearheading major consulting change efforts in both Fortune 500 and new-economy businesses. Her client list includes long-term relationships with Colgate Europe and Africa and DuPont Canada, US, Asia and Europe. She also works with new-economy companies like Intel, Agilent and leaders of corporate responsibility such as Seventh Generation. Carol has published dozens of works in 10 languages, and is the author of the hot new title, The Responsible Business: Reimagining Sustainability and Success (March 2011), Jossey-Bass, Publisher. Carol holds undergraduate degrees from UC Berkeley in Economics and Public Law and graduate degree from California State University, San Jose in Urban Planning.

 

AUGUST 8th | STEFAN DOERING  |  Founder, Best Coaches, Inc.

Stefan Doering has been innovating in environmental business and sustainability since 1987. Among his long list of business sustainability accomplishments include developing a green intrapreneurship strategy for General Motors that was included in their final bailout plan presented to Congress in December, 2008, providing business coaching with programs that reached almost 2,000 business innovators in 13 countries, teaching landmark courses on green entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship at Columbia University’s Center for Environmental Research and Conservation and at the Industrial and Technology Assistance Corporation (ITAC), a leading non-profit in NYC for small business development. He pioneered green retailing in New York City, growing his venture to one of the largest green retail companies in the US, selling over 3,500 different products screening for their environmental impact. He is a Co-founder of Manhattan Chamber of Commerce’s Green Finance Subcommitte, is an advisor to many of New York City's leading sustainability initiatives, and has been spearheading some of New Yorks' first and most impactful green projects for over two decades.

 

JULY 11th | DOUG COHEN | co-author of 'The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook'

Douglas Cohen, Chair, National Youth Initiatives, US Partnership, Education for Sustainable Development; and Founder, The Leadership Center,  practices Social Architecture focused on sustainability as a driver of large scale change. He is a practitioner of collaborative, cross-sector solution seeking, addressing key social equity and economic justice and spiritual dimensions of the Sustainability Era using the tools of human systems thinking and self-organizing social learning and change processes.  Since 2004, Doug has been in a civil society pioneering social change organization, the US Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development [USPESD]. He is Chair, Resource Council – National Youth Initiatives and co-developer of the Green Jobs for At-Risk Youth Initiative, and serves on the Executive Committee of USPESD. Doug is on the Advisory Council for the Institute for Sustainable Enterprise at FDU and the leadership team for the Coalition for One Voice in New York City.

 

JUNE 13th | JACQUIE OTTMAN | author of 'The New Rules of Green Marketing', founder of J. Ottman Consulting

Jacquelyn Ottman. Since founding J. Ottman Consulting, Inc. in 1989, Jacquelyn Ottman and her colleagues have helped over 60 Fortune 500 businesses, the Energy Star® label and other organizations learn how to seize opportunities by pro-actively addressing consumers’ environmental concerns. With unmatched experience in the field of green marketing, Ottman has helped clients develop concepts for exciting new products as well as strategies for reaching green consumers with credibility and impact. Jacquelyn’s book, Green Marketing: Opportunity for Innovation is called “the definitive text on the subject” by the American Marketing Association. She’s a sought-after speaker at conferences in North America, South America, Europe and Asia and at corporate forums run by IBM, 3M, Philips Electronics and GE, to name a few. The principal organizer and driving spirit behind the Design:Green eco-design educational initiative, she sits on the Advisory Boards of the Centre for Sustainable Design (UK), the Center for Small Business and the Environment, and the NYC chapter of O2, of which she is a past co-chairman.

 

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