Vision: A world where profit is put alongside people and planet. Action: Helped establish the B Team, a global group of leaders chosen for the work they’re doing to advance the cause of better business. Seeing the bigger picture of business and its effects on the world is crucial for survival and success. Author of Heart to Start – how business is about more than just profit. www.DerekHandley.org
Vision: To channel the energy of her generation for educational equality. Action: Recruited 11,000 Teach For America corps members—all outstanding college graduates and professionals of all academic disciplines— for a two-year teaching commitment in the nation’s highest- need urban and rural regions www.TeachForAll.org
Vision: To stop climate change by making it easy and profitable for people and organizations to eliminate their carbon footprint. Action: Showing organizations that carbon neutral can be profitable. Since inception, they’ve converted 360 facilities in three countries. They’ve been profitable every year and have eliminated the equivalent emissions of two power plants. Two down, 50,000 to go. www.CarbonLighthouse.com
Vision: To help people understand their potential, develop an identity, and recognize the value of knowledge and how it applies to their lives each day. Action: Graham teaches identity development and leadership to people all over the world – from youth to executives. He has written 11 books to share these messages. Graham wants to transform people from followers to leaders. www.StedmanGraham.com
Vision: Invest in girls and young women to help them realize their ambitions and discover new possibilities. Action: Established Fierce Capital, which develops and invests in early- stage start-up companies, including firms that are female-led or female- focused. www.TZoneFoundation.org
Vision: Eliminating racial discrimination by showing similarities rather than differences. Action: In 1968, Elliot needed to explain Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination to her class. Her innovative approach to highlight different racial perspectives made her pupils feel what it was like to belong to another race. It’s still used to foster greater empathy today. www.JaneElliot.com
Vision: Long-term business sustainability and a deeper understanding of true profits are key. Action: Realizing that farming practices around the world basically require the same skills, regardless of the produce, Overton combined salmon farming practice in Scotland with plant oil farming in Rwanda to help rural African farmers become self-sufficient and earn more than the national average income. www.Aquascot.com
Vision: To raise awareness around the environment and sexual slavery. Action: An active member of the World Future Council, Hannah speaks on policy solutions that serve the interests of future generations. This includes awareness around climate change, renewable energy and nuclear abolition. She’s been arrested numerous times for protesting. www.dhlovelife.com
Vision: Making higher education affordable for everyone. Action: Manages social-investment funds that invest in the education of students. In exchange, each student commits to pay a fixed percentage of income for 120 months after graduation. Students and investors are brought together in a win-win partnership. www.Lumni.net
Vision: To create the most affordable and cleanest energy house in the world. Action: Created a zero energy house that guarantees no energy bills for 10 years. Goswick has engaged NASA scientists to create new technologies that change the performance of homes – changing them from energy eaters to energy generators. www.TheZeroEnergyHome.com
