L. Hunter Lovins
President of Natural Capitalism SolutionsL. Hunter Lovins is President of Natural Capitalism Solutions. NCS helps companies, communities and countries implement more regenerative practices profitably.
A professor of sustainable business management at Bard MBA, and Fordham University, Hunter was named a Master at the De Tao Academy in Shanghai. She sits on the boards of Directors of Change Finance and Simpliphi Power. A founding mentor of the Unreasonable Institute, she teaches entrepreneuring and coaches social enterprises around the world. She is the Chief Impact Officer of Change Finance, an impact investing firm, and Regenerative officer of the Colorado Regenerative Recovery Coalition.
A consultant to scores of industries and governments worldwide, including International Finance Corporation, Unilever, Walmart, the United Nations and Royal Dutch Shell, as well as sustainability champions Interface, Patagonia and Clif Bar, she has briefed heads of state, leaders of the numerous local governments, the Pentagon, and officials in about 30 countries, as well as the UN, and the US Congress.
Hunter has worked with community groups, local economic development agencies and municipal governments from Maori villages in New Zealand to eco-tourist offerings in Jamaica, to cities like Los Angeles and Denver. She has advised the Energy Minister in Afghanistan, and many other agency heads around the world. She has worked with local business groups and small NGO’s in developing and over-developed countries. She created the Economic Renewal Project and helped write many of its manuals on sustainable community economic development, including LASER: Local Action for Sustainable Economic Renewal.
Hunter has written 16 books, including the recently released A Finer Future: Creating an Economy in Service to Life. which won a Nautilus Award. She has won dozens of awards, including the European Sustainability Pioneer award, and the Right Livelihood Award. Time Magazine recognized her as a Millennium Hero for the Planet, and Newsweek called her the Green Business Icon.
Facilitator
Robert Valli, Ph.D.
President of Sierra Nevada University, IMA-Long Island Board Member, Former Dean at LIU-Post, Ph.D., Cambridge University, Stanford GSB Alumni Bord of Directors, B.A. CAL, Berkeley, CS FirstBoston, Silicon Valley Entrepreneur, Married to a Therapist, Loses every argument with his wife!Dr. Valli is the new President at Sierra Nevada University in Incline Village, Nevada, on the shores of beautiful Lake Tahoe (Aka, “Income Village…where Billionaires displace Millionaires”…the joys of a Tax-free State!). Rob is the former Dean at the College of Management at Long Island University. Rob has served on the IMA- Long Island Board of Directors since 2016.
Dr. Valli has passed through the gates of three of the top five ranked universities in the World: Berkeley (BA ’82); Stanford Graduate School of Business (SEP ’95); and, Cambridge University (Ph.D. ’09). Dr. Valli’s professional background in investment banking; technology ventures in the Silicon Valley, policy development at the Kauffman Foundation and academic domain focus on emerging innovation ecosystems is unique in both perspective and relevance.
Dr. Valli’s Ph. D. thesis, Building Investment Readiness for University Spin-Outs through Partnerships & Alliances, underscores his scholarly pursuit of new enterprise development. Stewarding cross-campus innovation, outreach and professional development demands academic leaders who possess a vision-to-action-skill-set to catapult three pillars of interdisciplinary education: research, teaching and application.
As the former Director for Advancing Innovation at the $2.8 Billion Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Dr. Valli’s exposure to the Silicon Valley and the ‘Cambridge Phenomenon’ offers evidence-based experience that spans across the globe. Kauffman’s renowned platform for all-things-entrepreneurial, offered a lens by which to observe the interchange of academia and industry. This experience has resulted in a significant international network enabling a demonstrative degree of tacit knowledge necessary to propel university innovation and enterprise towards commercialization.
Throughout the past decade, Dr. Valli has forged long-term relations throughout the globe as a lecturer and adviser to a number of entrepreneurs, companies, universities and government policy-makers. He has overseen hundreds worldwide student-consulting engagements spanning Asia, South America, Europe, the Middle East and South Africa. Dr. Valli hosted The Global Commission for Advancing Innovation at King’s College (Cambridge) gathering philanthropists, investors and Chief Scientists from the EU, USA and Israel. In summation, Dr. Valli’s global prowess offers a vantage point to observe best practices in innovation, entrepreneurship and higher education.
A forthcoming book entitled Clusternomics is underway. Dr. Valli’s academic focus on entrepreneurship and technology management at Berkeley, Stanford, Cambridge and Illinois serves University leaders, innovators and investors striving to commercialize ideas toward sustainable enterprise. As a lecturer, Dr. Valli inspires student-efficacy, interdisciplinary interaction and public/private collaboration under the over-arching theme of building investability in ways that engender positive outputs for the sake of humanity.
Location: Evening Teleconference
When: Tuesday, November 10th, 2020
Login time: 5:45pm to 6pm
Networking Session: 6pm to 7pm
Program Presentation with Q&A: 7pm to 8pm
Where: Live Webinar
CPE Credits: 1.0
Price: Free - Members, $10 Non-members
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