Speaker Series

BSC hosts multiple speaker series and events to connect industry thought leaders innovating in sustainable business to our NC State campus community and local business community.

BSC Conversation Series

The BSC Conversation Series provides a forum for students and community members across NC to engage with business leaders and change makers.

Our goal is to provide insight into how these leaders are transforming the way business operates to benefit people, the planet, and the bottom line.

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Featured BSC Conversation Speakers

Ron Jarvis

VP of Sustainability, Home Depot

Claus Stig Pederson

VP of Sustainability, Novozymes

John Replogle

CEO, Seventh Generation

Kirsten Saenz Tobey

Co-founder, Revolution Foods

Francine Petersen, Jessica Thomas and Nancy Cassill

Francine Petersen Espinoza

Associate Professor of Marketing, European School of Management and Technology

Andrew Winston

Founder, Winston Eco-Strategies

1,400+ sustainability leaders

Our 2017-18 Speaker Series engaged with 1,400+ sustainability leaders on campus and within our community.

VF Speaker Series

Purpose Driven Business Speaker Series Featuring Roian Atwood

The Purpose Driven Business Speakers Series is hosted by VF Corp. and the NC State Poole College of Management Business Sustainability Collaborative. The series is designed to provide a forum for NC State students and other community members to learn from business leaders and changemakers about how they are transforming the way that business operates to benefit people, the planet and the bottom line. Our next speaker in the series will be Roian Atwood, Director of Sustainability for Wrangler and Lee jeans with a talk on “Wrangler’s Journey into Science and Conservation.”

Purpose Driven Business Speaker Series Featuring Letitia Webster

We were proud to kick off our first installment of the Purpose Driven Speaker Series with the wonderful Letitia Webster, Global Vice President of Sustainability & Responsibility at VF Corp. Ms. Webster shared how VF created an enterprise-wide Purpose to transform the Fortune 250’s trajectory and role in society. Ms. Webster also shared how she, in partnership with the VF CEO, led the process to develop a Purpose for VF and it’s brands, how they rolled it out to VF’s 70,000 global employees and how they have begun to integrate it into the business and activate it across the brand portfolio.