Environmental & Sustainability Keynote Speakers

Alex is climbing’s transcendent, breakout star, inspiring millions around the world with his free solo, rope-less style of climbing. He’s the only person ever to free solo Yosemite’s 3,000-foot El Capitan, as documented in the Academy Award–winning film Free Solo

Fee Range: $75,000–$156,000
Travels From: NV

Peter Zeihan is a geopolitical strategist who specializes in global energy, demographic and security. He analyzes the realities of geography and populations to deepen the understanding of how global politics impact markets and economic trends. Zeihan’s worldview marries the realities of geography and populations to a deep understanding of how global politics impact markets and economic trends, helping industry leaders navigate today’s complex mix of geopolitical risks and opportunities. With a keen eye toward what will drive tomorrow’s headlines, his irreverent approach transforms topics that are normally dense and heavy into accessible.

Fee Range: $40,000–$80,000
Travels From: CO

A founding member of the Conscious Capitalism movement, Raj Sisodia is FW Olin Distinguished Professor of Global Business and Whole Foods Market Research Scholar in Conscious Capitalism at Babson College. He is also the Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Conscious Capitalism Inc. Raj has published ten books and over 100 academic articles. His books include Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family, Firms of Endearment: How World Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose and Shakti Leadership: Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business.

Fee: $32,000
Travels From: MA

Van Jones is the Founder of Dream Corps. He is a social entrepreneur, a CNN political commentator, Emmy Award-winning producer, and a three-time New York Times best-selling author. Jones was the main advocate for the Green Jobs Act. Signed into law by George W. Bush in 2007, the Green Jobs Act was the first piece of federal legislation to codify the term "green jobs." A Yale-educated attorney, Jones has won numerous awards, including the World Economic Forum’s “Young Global Leader” designation, Rolling Stone’s 2012 “12 Leaders Who Get Things Done”, TIME’s 2009 “100 Most Influential People in The World”, the 2010 NAACP Image Award, a 2017 WEBBY Special Achievement Award, a 2019 Lumiere Award and a 2020 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Interactive Program.

Fee Range: $43,000–$63,000
Travels From: CA

Tim Sanders is the Vice President of Customer Insights at Upwork, driving their customer-centric approach to help businesses solve their talent gap problems. As a strategic consulting for leading global brands, government agencies, and trade associations, he has helped individuals and organizations tackle marketing innovation, sales performance, talent management, leadership development, and organizational culture. He’s served on advisory boards for several startups, including the social reading website Goodreads, which was purchased by Amazon. Today, his mission is to bring all of his life experiences and his unconventional, disruptive – yet inspired strategies and perspectives to thousands of people every year, helping them to boost their leadership effectiveness, human connection, and business performance.

Fee Range: Inquire
Travels From: NV

• Iconic environmental activist and consumer advocate • Real-life inspiration for Oscar-Winning film Erin Brockovich • New York Times Bestselling Author • President, Brockovich Research & Consulting

Fee Range: $25,000–$32,000
Travels From: CA

Jack Andraka (Stanford B.S/B.A in Electrical Engineering with Honors and Anthropology with Honors) is a National Geographic Emerging Explorer who speaks to audiences of youths and adults all across the globe about his personal story, research, and his ideas for STEM education reform and fostering innovation and creativity. His journey began at age fifteen when, after losing a close family friend to pancreatic cancer, he invented an inexpensive early detection method for pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancer that costs 3 cents and takes 5 minutes to run. Now completing his MS in Electrical Engineering at Stanford, Andraka conducts research on nanorobots, inexpensive biosensors, disease diagnostics, and global health interventions while serving as faculty at the Stanford Anesthesiology Summer Institute. Outside of research, Jack has worked on combining anthropology, engineering, and big data to address pressing global health challenges, particularly in the monitoring of environmental contaminants and disease outbreaks.

Fee Range: $7,000–$19,000
Travels From: CA

British polar explorer Felicity Aston MBE is an author, speaker and student research scientist. In 2012 she became the first woman to ski alone across Antarctica. It was a journey of 1744km that took 59 days to complete and which gave her a place in the book of Guinness World Records. Felicity regularly shares her expedition experiences with a variety of audiences around the world, from corporate conferences and executive training, to theatre tours, festival events and after-dinner talks. The measure of a good talk is the ability to completely engage the audience no matter whether it is a small group of executives, a conference of several hundred, or a public lecture in a theatre. Felicity does just that, expertly blending memorable stories from her expeditions with though-provoking messages that prompt new thinking. She crafts each talk to accommodate any time frame and to ensure that her presentations are always poignantly relevant to everyone in the room.

Fee Range: $6,000–$15,000
Travels From: Intl

Nikolas Badminton is the Chief Futurist of the Futurist Think Tank. He is world-renowned futurist speaker, a Fellow of The RSA (FRSA), a media personality, and has worked with over 400 of the world’s most impactful companies to establish strategic foresight capabilities, identify trends shaping our world, help anticipate unforeseen risks, and design equitable futures for all. In his new book – ‘Facing Our Futures’ – he challenges short-term thinking and provides executives and organizations with the foundations for futures design and the tools to ignite curiosity, create a framework for futures exploration, and shift their mindset from what is to WHAT IF…

Fee Range: $20,000–$25,000
Travels From: Intl

Fee Range: $75,000–$125,000
Travels From: NY

Fee: $8,000
Travels From: NY

Dan Buettner is a New York Times best-selling author as well as an internationally recognized researcher and explorer who founded Blue Zones®–a brand that compiles the world’s best practices in health, happiness, and longevity and helps people live longer and better.

Fee Range: $75,000–$125,000
Travels From: MN

Fee Range: $17,000–$25,000
Travels From: NC

A renown global futurist, social scientist, author and global advisor to the Fortune 100, James Canton has been forecasting the leading innovations and trends that have shaped our world for 25 years. Canton speaks on a broad range of topics such as trends in innovation, financial services, health care, population, life sciences, energy, security, workforce, climate change and globalization. He is the CEO and Chairman of the Institute for Global Futures, a San Francisco based Think Tank. He has advised three White Houses, over ten nations, and over 100 companies worldwide. He was on the founding advisory board of Singularity University, was a Apple Computer executive and has appeared on CNN, CNBC, Fox and NBC. He is the author of Future Smart, Technofutures and The Extreme Future

Fee Range: $10,000–$20,000
Travels From: CA

Since their inception, Zipcar, GoLoco and Buzzcar have been seen as disruptive and innovative: they used technology and marketing to change the way people own and use cars; they changed the ways cities are lived in and built; they changed prejudices about the incompatibility of environmentalism and capitalism. Innovator Robin Chase helps individuals, companies and government understand where to look for innovation and how to enable it. She explores how rethinking “excess capacity” can be combined with technology and platforms for participation to unlock innovation, new profit centers and ultimately lead us to a sustainable planet. In 2009, Robin was honored by TIME magazine as one of the year's 100 Most Influential People. She has been frequently featured in the major media including Today, The New York Times, National Public Radio, Newsweek and TIME magazines, as well as several books on entrepreneurship.

Fee Range: $18,000–$30,000
Travels From: MA

Fee Range: $20,000–$32,000
Travels From: MA

- Philippe Cousteau is an Emmy-nominated host and executive producer of Xploration Awesome Planet on Fox and Hulu. - Philippe is the co-founder of SeaWeed Naturals, a first-of-its-kind wellness lifestyle brand, that is creating products that bring customers the established benefits of the cannabis plant, combined with the effects of marine botanicals. - He hosted two seasons of The Aquatic World of Philippe Cousteau on GreatBigStory.com. - He also starred in Caribbean Pirate Treasure on the Travel Channel alongside his wife Ashlan. - Has hosted several award-winning shows as a special correspondent for CNN, including Going Green and Expedition Sumatra. - His book, Oceans for Dummies, is a comprehensive guide to some of the most incredible, bizarre, and fascinating creatures in the ocean. - Philippe is also the author of the children’s books Follow the Moon Home, Going Blue, and Make a Splash. - He founded EarthEcho International, a leading environmental education organization dedicated to inspiring youth to take action for a sustainable planet.

Fee Range: $18,000–$28,000
Travels From: CA

Dyer is a multi-sport athlete, artist, drone pilot, and filmmaker on a mission to help more people feel belonging in the outdoors while advocating for wildlife.

Fee Range: $10,000–$15,000
Travels From: ID

Fee Range: $4,000–$8,000
Travels From: CA

Fee Range: Inquire
Travels From: TX

John Izzo has been a pioneer on creating successful businesses and emerging work trends for over twenty-five years. John’s passion for helping organizations activate purpose with employees and customers has inspired him to write his 8th book released in March 2018, The Purpose Revolution-How Leaders Create Engagement in an Age of Social Good. John Izzo is a pioneer in the Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability movements and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia where he is a co-founder of The Men’s Initiative which is dedicated to creating a more equitable, compassionate and sustainable world through enhancing the wellbeing and integrity of men.”

Fee Range: $10,000–$17,000
Travels From: Intl

Fee Range: $30,000–$55,000
Travels From: MA

Fee Range: $15,000–$25,000
Travels From: Intl

Considered the greatest diver in history, Greg Louganis is the only male to win gold medals on both 3 meter springboard and 10 meter platform in consecutive Olympic Games (1984, 1988). A trained actor, dancer, model and spokesman, Greg's wide repertoire of skills keeps him in demand and in the public eye.

Fee Range: $25,000–$44,000
Travels From: CA