Date and Time
February 10-February 12, 2025
7:45 am-11:30 am
MST
Location
Phoenix
Join BSR at GreenBiz 25 to connect with peers and master the skills essential to face your company’s unique challenges. More than 300 speakers will explore emerging trends, share best practices, and insights.
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Scheduled Speakers
- Lara Birkes, Managing Director, Climate and Nature, BSR
- Climate and Nature Integration 101: In Conversation with Helen Crowley / April 24, 2025 / Blog
- Integrating Climate and Nature: A Dual Approach to Business Resilience / December 5, 2024 / Blog
- Kelly Gallo, Director, Technology Sectors, BSR
- A Business Guide to Responsible and Sustainable AI / March 27, 2024 / Insights+
- Sustainable from the Start: Embedding ESG into High-Growth Business Strategy / August 30, 2021 / Blog
- Business Prepares for Its Curtain Call at the Global Climate Action Summit / September 4, 2018 / Blog
- Global Climate Action Summit Update—Will We See You There? / July 16, 2018 / Blog
- The Global Climate Action Summit: How Business Can Turn Up Climate Ambition / June 7, 2018 / Blog
- Jarrid Green, Director, Inclusive Business, BSR
- New Research Reveals Strong Support for Social Justice by US Workers and Consumers, Challenging Business to Take Action / October 1, 2024 / News
- Exclusive: How Can Companies Engage on Social Justice Issues in Such Partisan Times? A New Guide Aims to Help / March 1, 2024 / News
- BSR Puts Spotlight on How Companies Engage on Social Issues with New Guide / March 1, 2024 / News
- Corporate diversity in the crosshairs after US Supreme Court ruling / June 30, 2023 / News
- The US Supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action: A Business Response / June 15, 2023 / Blog
Lara Birkes
Managing Director, Climate and Nature, BSR
San Francisco
Lara is responsible for leading BSR's Climate and Nature team globally and driving the organization’s work with Member companies' impact consulting, grants, and collaborative initiatives.
Lara is a sustainability and policy professional with over fifteen years of experience managing partnerships, sustainability initiatives and policy engagement with companies, international organizations, governments, and NGOs.
Prior to BSR, Lara was Global Head of Sustainability at Sonder, joining in 2020 to establish the corporate responsibility function, implementing policies to engrain responsible business practices across the company pre to post IPO.
She also serves on the Advisory Board of EQX Biome, a start-up working to mobilize financial markets to protect the world’s remaining biodiversity hotspots. In 2024 Lara started hosting a web series & podcast called Nature IS to raise awareness of the critical need for protection, conservation, and regeneration of biodiversity.
Lara holds a B.S. degree in International Business & Management from the University of Montana, a M.A. degree in International Trade Policy from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California and is a World Economic Forum Global Leadership Fellow.
Recent Insights From Lara Birkes
Kelly Gallo
Director, Technology Sectors, BSR
San Francisco
Kelly helps technology companies achieve their sustainability goals, with a focus on supporting high-growth companies in embedding resilient and inclusive practices that both support business strategy while addressing societal and environmental impacts. Through BSR’s Sustainability Management service offerings, Kelly works with members to prioritize material sustainability issues, develop issue-specific strategies, set ambitious yet realistic goals, and communicate sustainability initiatives to key stakeholders.
Prior to BSR, Kelly spent more than six years consulting on energy efficiency, sustainability, and renewable energy for California’s utilities and public-sector clients. She has also served as a Board Member for the US National Committee for UN Women, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter and Spark, a non-profit that seeks to advance gender equality by engaging the next generation in accessible forms of philanthropy.
Kelly holds a MA in International Relations from San Francisco State University and a BA in Global Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Recent Insights From Kelly Gallo
Jarrid Green
Director, Inclusive Business, BSR
Washington, D.C.
Jarrid is a director for BSR’s Inclusive Business Practice.
He supports leaders of global companies in their efforts to build inclusive organizations; navigate emerging industry and policy trends/flashpoints; and achieve strategic community and social impact. Jarrid also partners with philanthropic organizations including foundations and nonprofit intermediaries to identify opportunities to harness business influence for greater societal good.
Prior to joining BSR, Jarrid worked at Freedman Consulting, where he developed and managed strategic philanthropic initiatives, including donor coalitions and nonprofit initiatives focused on racial and civic justice issues, climate/sustainability impacts, and public health. Jarrid has also served in senior research and project management capacities at The Democracy Collaborative and The Center for Social Inclusion, where he led, supported, and published policy research and case studies focused on opportunities to dismantle structural racial inequities within community and economic development fields and practices.
Jarrid received his MBA in Sustainability from Bard College where he served as an inaugural member of the program’s Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Advisory Board and provided advisory support and instruction to first- and second-year MBA students in his role as a part-time faculty member for the college’s experiential-learning, sustainability consulting course, NYCLab.
Jarrid holds a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Maryland. He is also an alum of the Council of Urban Professional Fellowship Institute.