The Caring Economy with Toby Usnik

Brian Boles, a Baltimore native, serves as a Senior Development Officer at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School working to raise money for the school and helping to integrate the school into the Baltimore community through social impact work.  Prior to joining the Carey Business School, he served as the Director of Major and Corporate Gifts at Catholic Charities of Baltimore. Brian also se...

Michael Frazier is the executive vice president and deputy director for external affairs for the 9/11 Memorial & Museum . He oversees strategic marketing, social media, mobile, and web and digital communications. As part of managing media and marketing, Frazier also cultivates and maintains content partnerships with technology companies, including Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft. He is also the...

St Vincent-born Edris Nicholls got her start in the hair business as a teenager in New York, learning her first tricks of the trade in a Koch-era after-school program. After paying her dues at uptown salons like Warren Tricomi, the stylist set out on her own in 2003, opening Edris Salon on one of the last deserted strips of the Meatpacking district. Known for her uptown/downtown aesthetic and her...

Beata Gutman is an entrepreneur, executive producer, and pioneer in impact ventures & investments. She is CEO & founder, Grasshopper , a global venture-building and advisory firm; partner in Grasshopper Film, an Academy Award-winning film distribution company; executive producer for Grasshopper Productions. Over two decades, Ms. Gutman has driven economic development in emerging markets ar...

Chief Financial Officer and CEO of AJW Leasing of the AJW Group Ian joined AJW in 2011 after eleven years in investment banking, having financed several billion dollars' worth of aircraft, rail, marine and infrastructure assets across the globe. As Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer of AJW Group, he is responsible for the group's overall financial strategy, planning, analysis and corporat...

Crystal Barnes is Senior Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility and ESG Strategy & Reporting at ViacomCBS . In this role, Barnes is responsible for ViacomCBS’ social responsibility program including employee engagement, global giving and cross-portfolio campaigns and partnerships. Her work spans the areas of philanthropy, volunteering, cause marketing, disaster relief and pro bono i...

Mark Patricof is a serial entrepreneur and media executive with extensive leadership and operational experience in the finance, entertainment, technology, and sports industries. A seasoned investment banker, he has advised and invested in a wide range of leading traditional and digital media and entertainment companies and transactions. He previously served as Managing Director and Co-Head of the...

Andrew Zobler is the Founder & CEO of the Sydell Group , a hospitality company founded in 2005, known for creating and managing unique hotels deeply rooted in their location and architecture. A pioneer in the hospitality sphere, Zobler's core expertise is an ability to identify and collaborate with original talent within the world of design, food & beverage, and retail and bring them toget...

Jo Grover has  15-years of experience as a cognitive therapist. In addition, she is a board-certified coach, a published member of the International Coaching Federation, and a fellow at the Harvard Institute of Coaching.  She has received her undergraduate degree in communications from Syracuse University and a master's degree in social work from New York University. Jo's greatest streng...

Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Musings, Susan Rockefeller is a documentary-filmmaker and environmentalist who has long used the power of storytelling to raise awareness and engage a global audience in issues that impact us all. Her award-winning films including Food For Thought, Food For Life, Striking a Chord, Making the Crooked Straight, Running Madness, and Mission of Mermaids have aired on HBO...

Maurice A. Jones was appointed CEO and President of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) in September of 2016. LISC is one of the country’s largest organizations supporting projects to revitalize communities and catalyze economic opportunity for residents. Prior to joining LISC, Maurice was the Secretary of Commerce and Trade for the Commonwealth of Virginia where his primary job was t...

Vanessa Barboni Hallik is the founder and CEO of Another Tomorrow, an end-to-end sustainable apparel company and platform for discovery and action committed to transparency and a circular economy. She is also an investor in early-stage companies with strong ESG commitments and the potential to catalyze positive change. Vanessa serves on the Advisory Boards for Harvard's Carr Center for Human Right...

Marie-Claire Daveu began her career as a technical advisor to the cabinet of Prime Minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, before becoming Principal Private Secretary to Serge Lepeltier, Minister of Ecology and Sustainability. In 2005, she became Director of Sustainable Development for the Sanofi-Aventis Group. From 2007 to 2012, she served as Chief of Staff to French politician, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morize...

Claus Stig Pedersen-Head of Global Sustainability, Novozymes Claus leads sustainability in Novozymes to help our customers make their businesses better for the world using Novozymes’ biological solutions. Sustainability is front and center of Novozymes’ purpose and strategy. Novozymes works closely with its customers and partners to drive innovative solutions that enable better lives for people wi...

Karin Raguin; Vice-President of Global Talent LVMH Karin began her own career in human relations – employee training and reconversion – and those formative years left an indelible impression on how she viewed Human Resources. Karin learned the importance of combatting discrimination and witnessed the strength that some people gain from their fragile situations. Karin has always had a taste for ris...

Pam Matthews is a proven industry leader with four decades of experience in the entertainment business. She began her career at age fifteen as a runner for Mid South Concerts in Memphis. Today, she serves the live entertainment industry as Executive Director of one of its most influential trade organizations. Matthews toured as an accountant for KISS and Ozzy Osbourne in the early 80s and was part...

Sam Donaldson was a news reporter based in Washington from February 1961 to October 2013, and was employed by ABC News from 1967 to 2013. He covered every presidential election during that time beginning in 1964, with the campaign of Barry Goldwater. He covered the war in Vietnam and the First Gulf War, he was ABC’s Watergate Correspondent, was Chief White House Correspondent covering presidents C...

Ms. Ronna Chao is Chairman of Novetex Textiles Limited, a textile industry market leader with operations across Hong Kong, China, and Asia. Since joining the family-run business in 2010, she has spearheaded initiatives that challenge and improve industry standards and practices, including The Billie System, an innovative upcycling process that endeavors to lessen environmental impact. As the CEO o...

Supriya Singh Corporate Social Responsibility globally, Tata Communications Supriya Singh heads Corporate Social Responsibility globally for Tata Communications and its subsidiaries. She has spent the last 13 years of her life in academia, and in improving the life chances of youth, women, and children. She has worked extensively with organizations like TERI, Going to School, Institute of Peace an...

Hervé Duteil, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility & Sustainable Finance,  BNP Paribas Hervé P. Duteil  has spent most of his career with BNP Paribas in New York.  For over 20 years, he specialized in trading derivatives and managing capital market activities, spanning across commodity, currency, fixed income and electronic markets.  In 2014, he was appointed Region...

Laura Zelenko is Senior Executive Editor overseeing talent, diversity, training, and standards across Bloomberg's global newsroom. As part of her role, Laura set out a comprehensive initiative to improve gender representation on every platform, including a tracking system for sourcing and a media training program for women executives. Within the newsroom, she works with managers to make meaningful...

Art Bilger, Founder & CEO , is a venture capitalist who started WorkingNation in 2016 to bring attention to structural unemployment issues, the future of work, the skills gap, and achievable solutions. Art has been an investor in, and director of, various private companies, including Akamai Technologies, where he served as Vice Chairman. He was also president and COO of New World Communic...

Damon Jones leads efforts to to ensure the world’s largest consumer goods company is recognized as one of the most trusted brands in the world. He leads a global organization responsible for P&G’s image and reputation and that of it’s nearly 100 brands. P&G’s global communications discipline includes brand and corporate communications, digital and social media, stakeholder engagement, issu...

Sally Susman, Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Pfizer As Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Pfizer, Sally Susman directs the company’s communications, public affairs, philanthropic and patient engagement activities around the world. Currently, Susman serves on the board of WPP, the UK-based global advertising and marketing company, and as...

This Week's Guest Bio: Joe Evangelisti is head of Worldwide Corporate Communications and Media Relations for JPMorgan Chase. In this role, he serves as chief communications officer, lead spokesman, and head of internal communications for the firm. He also oversees the company’s vast art and archives collection. Evangelisti joined J.P. Morgan in 1986 as a member of J.P. Morgan's internal communicat...