Vision: Mobilizing business leadership for a sustainable world. Action: Ceres was formed 25 years ago after the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Their mission was to bring environmentalists and capitalists together to forge a new sustainable business model, one that would help protect the planet, weaving social challenges and investor decision- making into the capital markets to help build a thriving global economy. www.Ceres.org
Vision: For all businesses to operate within the framework of a mission and vision – tied to their core values, which include the betterment of humanity. Action: To positively affect gender balance across all organizations worldwide by 2020. Cofounded 5050×2020.com, which encourages leaders to adopt a more conscious way of thinking about leadership and its positive effects on business. www.SVN.com
Vision: Promoting a world where all capital is invested for optimal social, environmental and financial impact. Action: Freundlich has impacted the investing ecosystem by providing products and thought leadership that has enabled philanthropists, asset owners and their wealth advisors to make investments with positive social, environmental and financial returns. www.ImpactAssets.org
Vision: A world that delivers quality and inclusion to the majority. Action: The biggest exclusion in the world is the lack of access to quality products and services – healthcare, education, basic services and housing. Arregui believes this is a market failure, and he’s invested in innovative business models that eradicate exclusion by serving the majority of the population with quality. He hopes many will follow, thus creating new industries and helping to eradicate exclusion. www.Ignia.com.mx
Vision: A world where little girls know they can grow up to be a leader if they have a mind to. Action: As the immediate past Chair of the Women’s YPO Network (WYN) Carol gave a powerful organization a voice it never knew it had. Her team forged unity across nationalities, religions, industries and boundaries and became a beacon for advancing women in leadership positions. WYN provides role models for both sexes. www.TatonkaCapital.com
Vision: To inspire business to assume responsibility for the whole of society. Action: The academy is a nonprofit think tank and action incubator that assists those in business who share their values. They explore the roles and responsibilities of business in relation to critical moral, environmental and social issues of our day. www.WorldBusiness.org
Vision: Inspiring leaders to become successful in new ways by igniting their purpose and leveraging their gifts for greater impact. Action: Helping CEOs redefine their understanding of wealth, from being about financial accumulation to abundance in relationships, health, fun, emotional well-being, career satisfaction, impact, and intellectual and spiritual growth. www.MissionWealth.com
Vision: To develop a global network of areas on land and sea that can help safeguard the living systems that underpin life on earth. Action: Earle is the recipient of more than a hundred national and international honors. She was the first female chief scientist of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and has devoted her life to safeguarding oceans. She was named Time’s first Hero For The Planet in 1998. www.OceanElders.org
Vision: Affordable clean water and electricity. Action: The 17-year-old developed a device that purifies dirty water and seperately extracts energy from the waste to create clean energy. Lam hopes her device can be scaled up to industrial size to benefit more people and potentially save millions of lives around the world. www.GoogleScienceFair.com
Vision: To use entertainment to inform, inspire, spark and accelerate positive social change. Action: Uses film, television and digital entertainment to tell high quality, socially relevant and commercially viable stories. Invests in content distribution platforms that allow them to expand their reach. Creates social action campaigns to move content off- screen and into the community. www.ParticipantMedia.com
