The Presidio Network » Guest Lecturers

Guest Lecturers are an integral part of the Presidio classroom experience. They provide new perspectives and valuable real-world experience from a range of corporations, consulting firms, small businesses and nonprofits. Below is a list of recent guest presenters in the MBA in Sustainable Management program.

Janine Benyus | www.biomimicry.net
Author, Biomimicry

Chip Conley | www.jdvhospitality.com
Founder/CEO, Joie de Vivre Hospitality

Bob Doppelt | www.bobdoppelt.com
Author, Leading Change Toward Sustainability: A Change-Management Guide for Business, Government and Civil Society

Robert J. Fisher | www.gapinc.com
Board Chairman, Gap Inc.

David Gustashaw | www.interfaceinc.com
Vice President of Engineering, Interface, Inc.

Randy Hayes | www.ran.org
Founder, Rain Forest Action Network

Eliot Hoffman and Gail Horvath | www.newvoiceofbusiness.org
Founders of Just Desserts
Founders of New Voice of Business

Walter Link, M.B.A.
Chair of the Global Academy
Co-founder of EMPRESA and Europe's Social Venture Network

Eric Leenson | www.progressive-asset.com
President and CEO, Progressive Asset Management

Richard McCline, Ph.D.
Co-Director of the Ohrenschall Entrepreneurship Center and professor at San Francisco State University

Dick Norgaard, Ph.D.
Professor at UC Berkeley in the Energy and Resources Group and the Agriculture and Resource Economics Department

Andrew Smith | www.atdynamics.com
CEO, Advanced Transit Dynamics

Greg Steltenpohl | www.adinaworld.com
Founder of Odwalla
Co-founder of Adina World Beat Beverages

Paul Terry | www.paulterry.com
Founder & Principal, Paul Terry & Associates
Named "Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year" by Inc. Magazine

Dr. John Todd | www.toddecological.com
Founder and Senior Partner, John Todd Ecological Design

Lynn Upshaw | www.brandbuilding.com
A leading independent brand consultant. Author of Building Brand Identity and The Masterbrand Mandate.

Sissell Waage, Ph.D.
Editor of Ants, Galileo, and Gandhi: Designing the Future of Business Through Nature, Genius and Compassion


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Chip Conley, CEO, Joie de Vivre Hospitality, guest lectures regularly in the Managerial Marketing course on sustainable marketing practices.