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The Age of Impact: Integrating the Triple Bottom Line in EVERYTHING with Geoff Davis

How far and how deep should we be integrating the principles of impact into society? How about everywhere. The requirements of the Decade of Action put the onus for transformational change “on all sectors of society to mobilize…on three levels: global action to secure greater leadership, more resources and smarter solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals; local action embedding the needed transitions in the policies, budgets, institutions and regulatory frameworks of governments, cities and local authorities; and people action, including by youth, civil society, the media, the private sector, unions, academia and other stakeholders, to generate an unstoppable movement pushing for the required transformations.”

In this live fireside chat and audience Q&A, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes veteran impact investor, entrepreneur and Sorenson Impact Center CEO Geoff Davis to discuss a great transition underway: transforming their long legacy of extractive capitalism into a new Age of Impact, and how the new era of the triple bottom line is moving rapidly toward expressing itself in all decisions at all levels of society.

Featured Guest

GEOFF DAVIS is an entrepreneur turned social entrepreneur and impact investor. He has founded, co-founded or advised more than 20 start-ups and investment funds, sat on 21 boards of directors and impacted about 75 million people on their path out of poverty. He is currently CEO of the Sorenson Impact Center at the David Eccles Business School, University of Utah. The Sorenson Impact Center believes that profound social impact is contingent on leveraging four cohesive strategies: data science, community engagement, innovative finance, and storytelling.

In addition to his role at Sorenson Impact, he is currently Chairman of the board of Align17 (a UBS-sponsored impact investing platform for institutional and high net worth investors); an investment committee member of the MIT SOLVE fund; a Senior Advisor at Cicero Group; a board member of Summit Series Social Impact Fellows; and a board member at Arctaris Impact Capital. Previously, he was the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Cicero Impact Capital. Prior to that, Geoff led the Perpetual Education Fund which started 50,000 small businesses a year and gave 20,000 higher education loans annually in over 100 emerging markets. Prior to that he was CEO of Unitus, a global pioneer in microfinance, and a founding board member of Kiva.org, a pioneering p2p lending platform. Earlier in his career he worked with Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus and helped launch the Grameen Foundation.

Geoff has been recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young, an Entrepreneurial Thought Leader by Stanford University, among others. He earned a master’s degree from Harvard Kennedy School and a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University.

Host

LAURIE LANE-ZUCKER is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network, a 27,000 member global network of entrepreneurs, investors and scholars. Impact Entrepreneur is a cornerstone field building, research and educational player in the social impact space, and a consulting company that works with blended value companies, impact investors and academic institutions. For 30 years, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability, social enterprise and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization, Orion Society, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank, the Triad Institute, and Hotfrog, a Founding B Corporation, GIIRS Pioneer Company, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange.

Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact, having published, edited and written the introductions for celebrated works by Wendell Berry, Terry Tempest Williams, Barry Lopez and David James Duncan. He is the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing, and is the co-founder of the Place-Based Education movement, having coined the term with Dr. John Elder, and published, edited and written the foreword for the first book on that growing pedagogy. His current writing projects include two chapters (both co-written) for a forthcoming textbook, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications by World Scientific Publishing. Laurie is also a lifelong student of world wisdom traditions and is the former Executive Director of Seven Pillars House of Wisdom, a nonprofit organization founded by Pir Zia Inayat Khan focused on advancing wisdom in service of social and environmental healing.

Impact Entrepreneur’s Luminarias Webinar Series features reflective conversations with the leading lights in impact investing and entrepreneurship.

Time: 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM EST