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Professor Tensie Whelan, Founding Director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business and Former President of the Rainforest Alliance, will share the results of her team's research and work with companies on how sustainability is driving innovation, consumer preferences and improved financial performance. She has planned a combination lecture and interactive exercise that you won't want to miss!

The program will be introduced by Bruce Buchanan, C.W. Nichols Professor of Business Ethics and Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern.

Agenda:
6:30pm – 7:00pm | Welcome Reception
7:00pm – 8:00pm |  Lecture & Interactive Exercise
8:00pm – 9:00pm | Networking Reception

Tensie Whelan (NYU ‘80), Clinical Professor for Business and Society, is the Director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, where she brings 25 years of experience working on local, national and international sustainability issues to engage businesses in proactive and innovative mainstreaming of sustainability.

As President of the Rainforest Alliance, she built the organization from a $4.5 million to $50 million budget, transforming the engagement of business with sustainability, recruiting 5,000 companies in more than 60 countries to work with Rainforest Alliance.

Tensie has been recognized by Ethisphere as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics and was a Citi Fellow in Leadership and Ethics at NYU Stern. She has served on numerous nonprofit and advisory boards, and was most recently appointed to the board of Emerald SPAC, and as an Advisor to the Future Economy Project for Harvard Business Review.

Tensie holds a B.A. from New York University, an M.A. from American University, and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Owner President Management (OPM) Program. She was awarded the Stern Faculty Excellence Award in 2020.