Alex Heath is Edelman’s US Head of Social Impact & Sustainability, where he focuses on the role of business in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Prior to Edelman, Alex served in the Peace Corps working on youth development and safe migration in rural northeast Thailand, led strategic partnerships and created issue-based messaging for MTV International’s global anti-human trafficking campaign out of Bangkok, and developed programming for non-profit organizations in Nicaragua and the US. For the last decade plus, he has worked closely with businesses across almost every sector, including many Fortune 500 companies, to create, evolve, and execute their sustainable impact strategies and communications.
Adam Braun is the Co-Founder & CEO of Clarasight. After beginning his career at Bain & Co, he was the Founder & CEO of Pencils of Promise, the award-winning organization that has built nearly 600 schools around the world and then became Founder & CEO of MissionU which was acquired by WeWork in 2018. In recent years he has been named to Business Insider's 40 Under 40 and Wired Magazine’s “50 People Who Are Changing the World." His book "The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change" debuted at #2 on the New York Times Bestseller list and went on to become a #1 national bestseller.