SPEAKING
“Your talk was so energizing… you did a wonderful job balancing tangible facts, with action to be taken….with great humor along the way. Thanks again for such an inspiring message.”
– Todd Spaletto, President, The North Face

A New and Inspiring Vision for Business in a Fundamentally Changed World.
Andrew Winston is a globally recognized and engaging speaker on the overlap of business and society. He has an unusual ability to speak the language of business while sharing deep knowledge of the world’s biggest environmental and social trends and challenges. Andrew has appeared hundreds of times in dozens of countries, speaking to audiences of all sizes: from a small meeting of a Board of Directors, to annual gatherings of the top few hundred execs of giant multinationals, to industry conferences in front of thousands of people.
Andrew relies on his real-world business experience and natural comfort on stage to bring a relaxed and humorous style to his presentations. His visuals grab the audience, with no boring 5-bullet-point slides. Andrew’s talks inspire leaders to find a better, more profitable way of doing business as they help build a thriving world.
“Andrew has a preternatural ability to perform, please, and above all leave everyone cheering. His insight into the industry is incomparable…”
– Jigar Shah, CEO, The Carbon War Room
Keynote Clips
Andrew’s talks generally range from 20 minutes to an hour or more. Here are two shorter examples to demonstrate his style both on stage and in today’s all-virtual events.
COVID, Climate, and the Clean Economy: Gigatrends Changing the World and Business
Andrew’s TED Talk:
“Andrew continues to play a key role in helping organizations reorder their priorities and take on new and important challenges…Where market incentives and governance do not seem fully up to the task, Andrew Winston has stepped into this void with new ideas that are certain to play a role of increasing importance in the decades ahead.”
– Harold Shapiro, President Emeritus, Princeton University
Speaking Clients
These are just a handful of clients that Andrew works with:
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SAMPLE SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Corporations (Executive Teams and Employee Events)
Industry Associations (Annual Meetings and Events)
- 3M
- Accenture
- Applied Materials
- Bank of America
- BASF
- Bayer
- BC Hydro
- Black & Veatch
- Boeing
- Clorox
- Cisco
- Constellation Energy
- CSX
- Dean Foods
- Deloitte
- Ebay
- Georgia Power/Southern Company
- Hitachi
- Hormel
- HP
- International Paper
- Infosys
- John Hancock
- Johnson Controls
- Johnson Diversey
- Johnson & Johnson
- Jones Lang LaSalle
- Kohler
- Marriott
- Merck
- MillerCoors
- McDonald’s
- Navistar
- Office Depot
- Proctor & Gamble
- Siemens
- Spectra Energy
- Timken
- Unilever
- Wal-Mart
- Waste Management
- Wrigley
- Xerox
- American Chemistry Council (ACC)
- American Forest & Paper Association
- American Gas Association (AGA)
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- American Society for Healthcare Engineering
- American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE)
- Association of Equipment Manufacturers
- Consumer Specialties Products Association
- Cotton Board
- Executive Briefing Conference
- Food Marketing Institute
- Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI)
- Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA)
- International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC)
- International Facility Management Association (IFMA)
- Institute of Internal Auditors
- International Sanitary Service Association
- Material Handling Industry Association of America
- National Association of Environmental Managers (NAEM)
- National Association of HomeBuilders (NAHB)
- National Milk Producers’ Federation
- Outdoor Retailer/Outdoor Industry Association (OIA)
- SEMI (Semiconductor industry)
- Society for Information Management (SIM)
- Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI)
- U.S. Sand & Gravel Association
Business Organizations
Conferences
NGOs
Universities
- CommonWealth Club
- Corporate Leadership Center
- Greater Washington Board of Trade
- International Chamber of Commerce Russia
- Iowa Association of Business & Industry
- Kansas City Area Development Council
- Seattle Chamber of Commerce
- US Green Building Council (USGBC)
- World Affairs Council
- Young President’s Organization
- Built Green
- Clinton Global Initiatives
- Financial Times Global Investment Series
- HSM World Innovation Forum
- Interop
- SAP Sapphire
- Sustainable Brands
- Sustainable Operations Summit
- Vantage Point Venture Partners Conference
- WestCoastGreen
- Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)
- Climate Works
- Conservation International
- WWF, U.S. and China
Government
- Army National Guard
- ARPA-E
- Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- United Nations
- Colorado State University
- Columbia Business School
- Duke University
- Duquesne
- Harvard Business School
- Penn State
- UNC Kenan-Flagler B-School
- Univ. of Toronto, Rotman School of Business
- University of Illinois
- Wharton Alumni Club
- William & Mary
- Yale
ABOUT ANDREW
Andrew Winston advises some of the world’s leading companies on how companies can navigate and profit from the world’s biggest environmental and social challenges. He is also a globally recognized speaker and writer on business strategy and mega trends.
Andrew is the author of The Big Pivot, co-wrote the international bestseller Green to Gold, and has authored more than 200 articles on strategy for the print and online editions of Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review. For more about Andrew, see [About].
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