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In 2006, a twelve-year-old boy walked out of a movie theater, having just watched Al Gore’s documentary about climate change, and felt what he later described as too much pent-up anger and motivation to try to do something. That boy was Taylor Francis. What he did, almost immediately, was contact the organizers of Al Gore’s […]
There is a version of the climate transition that lives in policy papers and another that lives in laboratories. But the version that determines whether anything actually scales sits somewhere in between, in the fragile space where early-stage companies try to become real businesses. Emily Kirsch has built her career in that space. As the
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In 2009, Dawn Lippert founded something designed to solve a specific problem in climate finance: how to move promising technologies out of pilot stages and into real-world deployment. The nonprofit investor focused on scaling climate technologies with deep local impact did not fit neatly into the existing taxonomy of philanthropic organizations, venture funds, or government
Not everyone who studies the molecular structure of organic compounds ends up managing one of the most consequential climate investment platforms in the world. But then, not everyone is Carmichael Roberts. Carmichael earned his Bachelor of Science and PhD in organic chemistry from Duke University, then completed a postdoctoral National Science Foundation fellowship at Harvard
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There is a particular kind of investor who is not interested in what is already legible to the market. Joshua Posamentier is that kind of investor. As Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Congruent Ventures, he has built a firm focused on early-stage investing across the climate, energy, and efficiency landscape in North America, a segment
Some people arrive at a career gradually, finding their way through successive approximations until the work finally matches the person. Others seem to have known from the beginning exactly what they were building toward, even if the building itself took decades. Joel Citron belongs to the second kind. Joel is the Chief Technology and Information
There is a filmmaker in Alex Zarfati who has never been willing to settle. Not for one genre, not for one format, and not for one definition of what a story is supposed to look like when it reaches the screen. Over the course of a career that has moved through documentary film, reality television,
There is a moment, somewhere in the evolution of any creative field, when someone decides that the tools themselves deserve to be rethought. Not just used better, but fundamentally reconceived. That moment, in the world of cinematic storytelling, belongs to people like Bouha Kazmi. Bouha is the Co-Founder, Director, and AI Creative Director at OneDay
The best creative leaders are not always the most visible ones. Some of them work at the intersection of places that most people treat as opposites: the analytical and the artistic, the systematic and the spontaneous, the world of business objectives and the world of compelling storytelling. Elias H. has spent more than 20 years
There is a particular quality that separates leaders who merely manage institutions from those who genuinely transform them. It is something harder to name than ambition and more durable than enthusiasm. It is the willingness to look at something already good and ask, with complete sincerity, how it could become great. Sarah Mangelsdorf brought that
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There is a particular kind of courage involved in leaving behind what is already excellent in pursuit of something that could become extraordinary. Professor Ananya Mukherjee made that kind of decision when she left Canada for India, trading the security of an established position at one of the world’s top-ranked universities for the challenge of
Some leaders are recruited. Some are appointed. And some, in the way that feels almost inevitable in hindsight, come home. Linda Livingstone first arrived at Baylor University in 1991, a young academic beginning what would become a distinguished career in business education. She joined Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business, earned tenure, and served as Associate
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