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ASBN Live: Resilient Leadership: Tools to Manage Stress, Anxiety and Uncertainty in Yourself and Your Team to Be a More Effective Leader

American Sustainable Business Network invites you to join us Wednesday, January 26th at 1pm ET for Resilient Leadership: Tools to Manage Stress, Anxiety and Uncertainty in Yourself and Your Team to Be a More Effective Leader, an interactive [] webinar with Bonnie Coberly and Valentina Roldan, Senior Advisors with Jumpscale.

In these uncertain times, leaders and their teams are reporting higher levels of stress and burnout than ever before. Resilience is needed now more than ever. How can you stay grounded and resourced to lead effectively? What tools can you use to support your team members who are struggling? Bonnie and Valentina will walk you through some key ways to support your nervous system (and the body’s stress response), how to audit and manage your daily energy to accomplish what’s needed, and how to work on your inner belief systems that may be getting in the way.

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Power Surge Conference: Clean Energy Innovation

The Skytop Strategies team is dedicated to crafting thought provoking agendas that are diverse, not only in areas of thought and experience, but in the broad range of attending speakers.

Just Transition: How to Get to Net-Zero While Building an Economy That Works for All
Moderator: David Levine, Co-founder & President, American Sustainable Business Council

Fireside Chat
Climate and Energy Policy Advocacy: A Holistic and Historical Approach to Advancing Change
Discussant: Richard Lawton, Executive Director, New Jersey Sustainable Business Council

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2021 ASBC – SVC Spring Conference

This virtual conference, building on the success of the premier virtual event in 2020, exists to facilitate meaningful peer-to-peer conversations and action around shared interests for the 1,000+ members of ASBC-SVC: businesses, entrepreneurs, impact investors, policy makers, and capacity-builders working to create an economy that works for all.

AGENDA & SPEAKERS

Conference programming is under development and the sessions below are subject to change.The conference will feature a blend of main stage, small group breakout, and peer-to-peer networking sessions.

Note: All times below are indicated in Eastern Time (ET).

Day 1 – Monday, April 19

10:00-10:30am Coffee with friends

10:55am-12pm Mainstage Session

10:55-11am Musical performance by Taína Asili

11am-12pm Climate & Racial Justice: The Nexus of the NEXT Economy with Ibrahim Al-Husseini (FullCycle), Xiuhtezcatl Martinez (Earth Guardians). Moderator: Seungah Jeong (MPOWERD).

1-2pm Small Group Breakouts

Climate Positive Business: How Businesses Hit Bold Climate Goals and Go Net Zero with David Jaber (Climate Positive Consulting), Elysa Hammond (Clif Bar), Carolina Miranda (Cultivating Capital)

How Business Leaders Can Become Film Producers for Impact! Learn How Impactful Business Leaders Have Invested in Film Storytelling That Inspires Stakeholder-Action with Greg Hemmings (Hemmings House) and Lisa Hrabluk (Wicked Ideas / Hemmings House)

High ROI: Inclusive Talent Development Strategies for the Investment Field with James Benedict (Left Tackle Capital), Deborah Frieze (Boston Impact Initiative), Lauren Grattan (Mission Driven Finance).

Compassion as a Business Practice with Carson D. Kelly (Benevolently and Compassion 2.0), Scott Shute (LinkedIn and author of “”Full Body Yes”), and Monica Worline (EnlivenWork, Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, CompassionLab, Co-author “”Awakening Compassion at Work”).

Addressing the racial wealth gap through models of employee equity ownership in businesses with Todd Leverette (Democracy at Work Institute)

2:30-3:30pm Small Group Breakouts

Making Impact Measurement Manageable with Adam Garfunkel (Junxion), Mike Rowlands (Junxion), Garth Yule (Junxion).

Towards a More Inclusive, Democratic, and Sustainable Capital Marketplace: Expanding Opportunities for Grassroots Investors to Invest for Community Impact with Ken Linge, Executive Director of the National Coalition for Community Capital (NC3)), Brian Beckon (NC3 Founding Board Member and Managing Attorney at Cutting Edge Counsel), Chris Miller (NC3 Board Chair and Economic Development Consultant), Janice Shade (NC3 Founding Board Member and Founder of The Initiative for Local Capital), Kathleen Minogue (Founder and CEO of Crowdfund Better), and Bill Huston (former NC3 Board Member and Crowdfunding Consultant).

How angels and private investment can be done alongside government for deep impact with Drew Tulchin (Upspring Associates).

4-5pm Peer Networking

Day 2 – Tuesday, April 20

10:00-10:30am Coffee with friends

10:55am-12pm Mainstage Session

10:55-11am Musical performance by Taína Asili

11am-12 pm How Impact Business Leaders Can Meaningfully Advance Racial Justice with Rose Yee (Green Retirement), Diana Marie Lee (Sweet Livity), Nikki Pieratos (NDN Fund), and Anasa Troutman (The BIG We).

1-2pm Small Group Breakouts

Sustained Change for a New Economy: The Work of Building Diverse, Equitable & Inclusive Communities Continues with Diane J. Johnson (Mmapeu Consulting).

How are investors, businesses and young people advancing clean energy policies – and how can you be part of the movement? with Johanna Neumann (Environment America Campaign for 100% Renewable Energy), Dan Xie (CALPIRG), Andrea Ranger (Green Century Capital Management).

Transforming Ownership for Social Equity

Every Dollar a Vote: How to Make the Most of Where You Spend, Invest, and Bank

2:30-3:30pm Small Group Breakouts

Restorative Investing for Racial Justice: Learning more about the Tanka Bar Investment with Aner Ben-Ami (Candide Group), Dawn Sherman (Tanka Bar), Laina Greene (Angels of Impact).

Low-Hanging Fruit To Have More Impact – And Help Your Team Do the Same with Nell Derick Debevoise (Inspiring Capital).

Managing Your Harshest Critic: That Person You See in the Mirror with Flip Brown (Business Culture Consultants and the Wholistic Work network) and Amy Hall (EILEEN FISHER and Impactorum, LLC).

How Can Business, Philanthropy & Investors Promote Climate Justice? with Mike Lapham (Responsible Wealth/United for a Fair Economy), Karen Brown Stovell (Forward Ever), and others TBA.

4-5pm Peer Networking

Day 3 – Wednesday, April 21

10:00-10:30am Coffee with friends

10:55am-12pm Mainstage Session

10:55-11am Musical performance by Taína Asili

11am-12pm Building Back Better: What Comes Next

1-2pm Small Group Breakouts

Reconnection, Regeneration, and Healthy Ecosystems are DOA without action.. Get in on the act with the New Living Planet Working Group! with Sierra Flanigan (Living Lab), Annarie Lyles (Bio-Gist Ventures), Janet M Morgan (Sequent Management Group)

Crowdfunding for Investors & Entrepreneurs with Jenny Kassan (Opportunity Main Street and CrowdFund Main Street),Samson Williams (Crowdfunding Professional Association),Arno Hesse (Investibule and Slow Money Northern California), Sharmi Albrechtsen (SmartGurlz, Inc – check out the Wefunder campaign), Adie Akuffo-Afful (Wefunder).

The Impact Spectrum: From Steward Ownership to IPO with Jason Jones (co-founder, Vital Farms), Matt Mroczek (VP Finance, OGC), Nancy Rosenzweig (Principal, Values Aligned Capital), Peter Koehler (Capital Strategy Advisor, AOA).

2:15-5:30pm ASBC Working Group Discussions

4-5pm Closing Session

Day 4 – Wednesday, April 22 (Open to the public)

11am-12pm Centering Climate Justice in Climate Action with Dr. Ellonda Williams (B Lab), Kevin Lee (Dr. Bronner’s), Valerie Red-Horse Mohl (East Bay Community Foundation & ASBC’s Race & Equity Leadership Team) and moderator: Diandra Marizet (Intersectional Environmentalist).

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The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream

American monopolies dominate, control, and consume most of the energy of our entire economic system–but we’ve broken the hold of behemoths like these before, author Thom Hartmann says, and we can do it again.

In this webinar presentation, Thom Hartmann and David Korten will share how monopolies threaten our systems and economy, and the damage that they have done to so many industries and individuals, pulling from Thom’s new book The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream. They will explore America’s long history of trust busting, taking us from the birth of the nation as a revolt against monopoly, to the largely successful efforts of both Presidents Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt and other like-minded leaders to restrain corporations’ monopolistic urges, to the massive changes in the rules of business starting during the Reagan years. Join Hartmann and Korten as they explore the current challenges we face, and what common sense measures we might engage in to retake control from monopolistsand favor businesses dedicated to the wellbeing of the communities they serve.

In the book’s forward, Ralph Nader writes, “This is the most important, dynamic book about the cancers of monopoly by giant corporations written in our generation.”

Thom Hartmannis a four-time Project Censored-award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of 30 books in print and the #1 progressive talk show host in America for more than a decade. Thom has co-written and been featured in 6 documentaries with Leonardo DiCaprio, and his book The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, about the end of the age of oil, is an international bestseller and used as a textbook in many schools and colleges. A former psychotherapist and entrepreneur, Thom and his wife Louise live in Portland, Oregon with a small menagerie of cats, dogs, ducks & geese.

David Kortenis co-founder of YES! Magazine, president of the Living Economies Forum, and a member of the Club of Rome. He writes a regular column for YES! and is the author of numerous books including Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth, Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, and the international best-seller, When Corporations Rule the World. He holds MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the Stanford Business School, has served as a Harvard Business School professor, and has thirty years of experience as a development professional in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

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A Briefing on the Biden Climate Plan with Tom Steyer

A growing number of private sector companies, business leaders and business associations are leading in addressing the climate crisis through innovations in their supply chains, reducing overall energy usage, shifting to renewables, changing the mix of their investments, and engaging on policy.ASBC convenes this triple bottom-line community.

To address climate change more impactfully, we need a comprehensive plan with a comprehensive set of policies at the national level.

Tom Steyer,Co-Chair of the Biden for President Campaign’sClimate Engagement Advisory Council, will present Vice President Joe Biden’s newly released Climate Plan to create 10 million new jobs, ensure transformative business development, and spur technological innovation that will fortify the nation in the face of an ever-worsening climate crisis.

He will be joined by business leaders to offer thoughts on the business role and responsibility in addressing climate change and the opportunity for public / private partnership.

Co-Sponsors:

1% for the planet

1worker1vote

American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA)

American Renewable Energy Institute

CABA

ClimateXChange

Connecticut Sustainable Business Council

Elected Officials to Protect America

National Small Business Network

National Stewardship Action Council

New Jersey Sustainable Business Council

New York Sustainable Business Council

North Carolina Business Council

Organic Trade Association

Outdoor Industry Association

Social Venture Circle

South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce

Sustainable Furnishings Council

United States Green Chamber of Commerce

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Developing Sustainable, Systems-based Business Strategy for the Post Covid19 World?

The American Sustainable Business Council is excited to host a webinar on “Developing sustainable, systems based business strategy for the post Covid19 world?” featuring Dr Sally Uren OBE; Chief Executive, Forum for the Future on July 16th at 1PM ET.

COVID-19 has shaken the start of the new decade, yet is likely only the first in a series of shocks that could take us by surprise in the coming years. What might those other shocks/openings be? And can we be better prepared moving forward? Join Sally Uren, CEO of international sustainability non-profit Forum for the Future to hear their analysis of the dynamic areas we are seeing shaping the coming decade, and to explore points for preparation and intervention as the world rebuilds after COVID-19.

This webinar is relevant for anyone interested in using the potential of applied futures for sustainability planning, particularly for sustainability professionals or those with a focus on innovation and/or strategy. It is not industry-specific. Attendees can benefit from Forum’s futures and system change expertise to help navigate the rapidly changing context and to plan for a post-COVID-19 world.

Forum for the Future is a leading international sustainability non-profit. For over 24 years Forum for the Future has been working in partnership with business, governments and civil society to accelerate the shift toward a sustainable future.

Climate change, poverty, malnutrition, civil unrest: the world today is facing complex challenges because our fundamental systems are no longer fit for purpose.

Forum for the Future specializes in addressing critical global challenges by catalyzing change in key systems, from food to apparel, energy to shipping. They do this by convening transformational collaborations to drive change, by partnering with organizations to help them lead by example, and by building a global community of pioneers and change makers.

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State and Local Recommendations for Reopening the Economy

Join us for this webinar to hear state and local policy recommendations for reopening the Economy, a collaborative effort of over 60 organizations to chart a responsible and sustainable pathway for the reopening of local and state economies in the wake of COVID 19.

We believe that this moment provides state and local governments an opportunity not only to continue leading the way through this crisis but also in solving the structural problems the federal government has too long neglected.

We will offer suggested best practice opportunities to provide a blueprint for what state and local leaders can do immediately across a range of issues, including Finance, Mobility, Environment and Energy, Food System, Communications systems, Land use, housing, Well-being, Health, and safety and Education. Most of our suggested policies effectively provide not only economic stimulus but lasting social, environmental, and public benefit. Many should attract support across party lines. Some cost little or nothing.

Speakers include
David Levine, President, ASBC
Michael Shuman, Director, Local Economies Program, Neighborhood Associates Corporation
Chasity Wells-Armstrong, Mayor, Kankakee, IL
Nicola Williams, Founder & President, The Williams Agency
Paul Evans, OR State Representative, Co-Chair EOPA Leadership Council
Derek Peebles, Executive Director, American Independent Business Alliance
Jaimie Cloud, President, The Cloud Institute
Bob Rossi, Executive Director, NY Sustainable Business Council
Debbie Berkowitz, Worker Safety and Health Program Director, National Employment
Law Project
Theodora Skeadas, Executive Director, Cambridge Local First
Richard Lawton, Executive Director, NJ Sustainable Business Council
Thomas Oppel, Exec. VP, ASBC

**All registrants will receive the Recommendations Report

Cosponsors: Mayors Innovation Project, Elected Officials to Protect America & the collaborators of the State & Local Recommendations for Reopening the Economy initiative

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Zero Waste Energy Summit

Designed For: CEOs, Federal & State Policymakers, Mayors, Municipalities, Heads of Corporate Sustainability, Heads of Corporate Energy, Academia, Impact & ESG Investors.

This meeting will accelerate public-private partnerships by bridging the gap between policymakers, corporations and municipalities.

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Webinar Reminder: Capturing Methane Emissions

As we work hard to advance a renewable energy economy, there is a opportunity to address the existing infrastructure. There is a hole in the hydrocarbon emissions control bucket that has significant environmental and economic impacts that need attention.

The oil and gas industry routinely flares and engineers releases of unexpectedly large amounts of methane gas, a major greenhouse gas culprit, despite emergent regulations. Yet the business opportunities from capturing those emissions and turning them into value could be worth tens of billions of dollars a year. Such business-led, market-driven methane abatement would also create large and rapid environmental benefits. Join industry and regulatory experts in a 90 minute webinar addressing the basis for this issue and paths forward to address it.

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Business, Policy and Purpose Conference

24 Sessions

over three days.

Covering topics, including:

Clean Water
Climate
Clean Energy
Indigenous Voices
Partnership
Innovation

Storytelling
Impact
Investing
Regenerative Ag
Equity
Advocacy

Plus daily networking opportunities, both virtual and in-person, across the country.