Ann Goodman, Ph.D., an internationally recognized expert on business and sustainability, as an executive, social entrepreneur, communicator, and educator, is President of Telesys, a sustainability strategy firm based in NYC, and blogs at anngoodman.com.
She is co-founder of the Women's Network for a Sustainable Future (WNSF), which she launched and until recently led for almost a decade as its first executive director.
WNSF, founded in 2002, is an international nonprofit organization that advances sustainability through the commitment, talent and leadership of businesswomen. Under Dr. Goodman's leadership, WNSF distinguished itself as the premier sustainability organization for women in business, growing from a handful of women executives at its base in NYC to Atlanta, Washington, D.C., California and the Pacific Northwest. Notably, she forged an ongoing sustainability alliance and exchange with businesswomen in China. She also created the annual Businesswomen's Sustainability Leadership Summit, now going into its ninth year, along with a West Coast counterpart focusing on clean technologies, which attract the most senior women executives from corporations and government, including the White House.
Recently Dr. Goodman was awarded the prestigious University of Chicago Social Service Award, as well as fellowships from the Leader to Leader Institute and the Clean Tech Incubator at New York University- Polytechnic Institute, along with a professional certificate from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
In academia, Dr. Goodman is currently an adjunct faculty member of the Sustainability MBA Program at Bard College. She has also held positions at New York University, Bard College and the University of Paris (economics faculty, Dauphine), developing curricula on business and sustainability-related topics. At Renmin University in Beijing, she served as senior fellow and advisor. In other academic forums, she currently serves on the Advisory Council of the San Francisco-based Presidio Graduate School in Sustainability Management, the Baruch College (CUNY/City University of New York) Sustainability Advisory Committee; the Columbia University Business School Alumni Sustainability Advisory Committee.
Over nearly two decades, Dr. Goodman has advised for-profit, nonprofit and government clients on environmental and social responsibility.
A former full-time journalist, Dr. Goodman has reported extensively on sustainability and business for major international media, including Fortune, the Economist group, the Business Week group, Fast Company and Information Week. She has also spoken on these topics to a wide range of international audiences (including the EC, UNEP, OECD, the Arthur Page Society, the Chinese Association of Women Entrepreneurs/CAWE, Renmin/ People's University, and the University of International Business & Economics in Beijing). She has worked as a regular commentator for Marketplace, the premiere daily business program broadcast nationally on US public radio.
During her longtime professional journalism career, Dr. Goodman was awarded two prestigious environmental fellowships and elected to the Board of the Society of Environmental Journalists, the first business journalist to serve.
Her current work is distributed as a regular column on Greenbiz.com, the leading business sustainability website, where her recent White House interviews can be viewed, along with reporting from China (www.greenbiz.com/bio/ann-goodman) and on her blog, anngoodman.com.
In service to the community, local to global, Dr. Goodman currently serves on, among others: The Advisory Board of the Katerva Challenge; the Advisory Council of the National Environmental Education Foundation's (NEEF) Business Sustainability Education Roundtable; the Steering Committee of the Resource Innovation Group's Climate Ethics Campaign; the Steering Committee of Green Festival New York. Among her extensive past service, Dr. Goodman was appointed to the Planning Committee of the National Summit of the US President's Council on Sustainable Development in 1998 and 1999.
She earned her B.A., M.A. and doctorate at the University of Chicago and was awarded a French Government Fellowship for doctoral research in Paris. She speaks French and Spanish, is proficient in German and is learning Mandarin.
