Vision: To transform the industrial chemical industry and remove toxic chemicals from the environment. Action: Worked for years in a predominantly male industry to replace harmful chemicals with non-toxic ones. Proved that alternative products without toxins can do the job equally well. Her aerospace paint PreKote has reduced the amount of toxins reaching us by 3 million pounds. www.pantheonchemical.com
Vision: A world where technology is a powerful enabler for social change. Action: Leading a worldwide network of individuals and organizations that share a conviction to work together to develop and exchange new solutions to our most urgent social challenges. Masisak believes NGOs and nonprofits around the world can be more effective through the appropriate use of technology. www.TechSoupGlobal.org
Vision: Using the power of markets and entrepreneurship to build peace and reconciliation in the aftermath of conflict. Action: Building peace involved promoting employment and higher profitability in countries with conflict. By founding luxury fashion brand Maiyet, he pioneered a new luxury by celebrating rare and artisanal skills from unexpected places. www.Maiyet.com
Vision: Safe and attractive baby products that don’t contain toxic chemicals. Action: Manufactures products that could challenge mass consumer goods at a similar price point and moving away from the perception that health and eco products should attract a premium. Challenging the attitudes of parents who assume that everything on a store shelf is safe. www.TheHonestCompany.com
Vision: A world where investors ask themselves a different question: not “What is the risk and return?”, but “What is the risk, return and impact?” Action: Created the world’s first social investment financial institution. They established a unique organization with a new way of investing – seeking both a social impact and financial return. www.BigSocietyCapital.com
Vision: A world where the capital markets can be used for financial gain while promoting social equity and environmental sustainability. Action: Provides products and services that fulfill the financial, social and sustainability goals of investors. He has purposely surrounded himself with committed people who work to move corporations toward sustainability. www.TrilliumInvest.com
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
