Catalyst Talks

Jed Emerson, originator of the concepts of Blended Value and Total Portfolio Management, has extensive experience leading, staffing and advising funds, firms, social ventures and foundations pursuing financial performance with social/environmental impact.

He is the Author of The Purpose of Capital: Elements of Impact, Financial Flows and Natural Being.

In addition to his writing, Jed currently focuses on working with families exploring how to ensure a long term legacy by managing their full net worth for impact. He also advises investment firms on the implications of an impact investing framework for their practice. He is an internationally recognized Thought Leader in impact investing, social entrepreneurship and strategic philanthropy. Emerson has played founder roles with some of the nation’s leading venture philanthropy, community venture capital and social enterprises.

Emerson holds master degrees in both business and social work administration, has written over thirty articles/papers and co-edited multiple books on topics as diverse as sustainable investing, performance metrics and measurement, impact investing and sustainable hedge fund investing. He works with foundations, investment funds, individuals, social enterprises and businesses to assist those who seek to maximize the total value of their investing and entrepreneurship to attain their personal and professional visions.

Where you can find Jed Emerson:

Jed Emerson, originator of the concepts of Blended Value and Total Portfolio Management, has extensive experience leading, staffing and advising funds, firms, social ventures and foundations pursuing financial performance with social/environmental impact.

He is the Author of The Purpose of Capital: Elements of Impact, Financial Flows and Natural Being.

In addition to his writing, Jed currently focuses on working with families exploring how to ensure a long term legacy by managing their full net worth for impact. He also advises investment firms on the implications of an impact investing framework for their practice. He is an internationally recognized Thought Leader in impact investing, social entrepreneurship and strategic philanthropy. Emerson has played founder roles with some of the nation’s leading venture philanthropy, community venture capital and social enterprises.

Emerson holds master degrees in both business and social work administration, has written over thirty articles/papers and co-edited multiple books on topics as diverse as sustainable investing, performance metrics and measurement, impact investing and sustainable hedge fund investing. He works with foundations, investment funds, individuals, social enterprises and businesses to assist those who seek to maximize the total value of their investing and entrepreneurship to attain their personal and professional visions.

Where you can find Jed Emmerson:

The book: “The Purpose of Capital: Elements of Impact, Financial Flows and Natural Being”

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @Blendedvalue

Simon Taylor is a co-founder of Global Witness (www.globalwitness.org), together with two others, Charmian Gooch, and Patrick Alley.  Simon met Charmian and Patrick whilst working at the Environmental Investigations Agency (EIA).  Global Witness is a UK and US based Non-Governmental organisation, that campaigns to end environmental and human rights abuses driven by the exploitation of natural resources and corruption in the global political and economic system.

Having worked on Global Witness’ first campaign to investigate and shut down revenue streams to the genocidal Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, Simon then began Global Witness’ oil and corruption campaign in 1999.  This started a global effort at exposing malfeasance in the oil, gas and mining industries, and a call for their transparency and accountability - some of the most corrupt industries on the planet – for their operations extracting oil, gas and minerals.  Revenue streams for many countries dependent on natural resources often make up the bulk of national income, and yet frequently efforts to access natural resources drive conflict, instability, and resultant revenue streams are looted.  This work helped Global Witness shape and conceive the Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Campaign (www.pwyp.org), which Simon was the co-founder of in 2002, together with George Soros and other NGOs.  Today, PWYP is a global  movement consisting of more than 1000 organisations spread across more than 50 countries, all aligned around holding companies and governments to account in their extraction of natural resources.

In 2002, the UK Government responded to PWYP, and launched the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, or  EITI.  This is a multi-stakeholder initiative, that places civil society in the central role of holding governments and companies to account for the revenue streams developed from extraction.  Simon now serves as an international civil society board member of the EITI. (See www.eiti.org)

In recent years, Simon has also increasingly focussed on seeking enhanced accountability for companies and their executives for serious acts of corruption.  To give one example:  Simon is a co-complainant to the Milan Public Prosecutor’s office, about a corrupt deal obtained in Nigeria by the international oil companies Shell and Eni.  This led to a criminal investigation by the prosecutor, and both companies, together with a number of their senior executives, are on trial in Milan for international Corruption.  The trial is drawing to a close at time of writing (late 2020).  All those accused, and both companies, deny any wrong-doing.

Simon is increasingly also focussed on the mechanisms by which the fossil fuel industry has corrupted and co-opted global politics to such an extent that it has been able to prevent appropriate action to address the climate crisis. Global Witness is substantially advancing its focus from sectoral reform, to seeking means by which it is shut down, and its decline is responsibly and equitably managed, taking into account the needs of workers, but at a pace determined by scientific understanding of the climate crisis.

Where you can find Simon Taylor:

https://www.globalwitness.org/en/

https://eiti.org/

Peter Bonaker is a social scientist, author of Sacred Shield: Shamanic Protection for the World Today. He’s a teacher and practitioner of Shamanic energy medicine, he lives in Denver Colorado and teaches his methods of shamanic healing and protection throughout the world.

Peter experienced an extreme trauma and near-death experience at the age of 16.  He worked for 30 years as an educator at all levels in public education, from pre-kindergarten through to the 12th grade. He taught post-graduate students as an adjunct professor at the University of Denver for 10 years and also, oddly enough, worked as a licensed building contractor (still today).  Simultaneously during this last period, he began his studies and teaching in the field of shamanic healing.

Along the way on the shamanic part of this journey, he became curious about how a certain number of people presented repeatedly, exactly the same definite pattern reflecting the presence of what he came to know and describe as a very dark energetic form.  The pattern never deviated and is quite unusual in contrast to the standard teachings in the shamanic field.  This dark energetic form knows no boundaries of any kind that can be consistently determined.  In the shamanic field, he has had the opportunity to work with individuals throughout the entire world.  There appear to be no economic, geographical, ethnic, gender or other types of borders or boundaries that this dark energetic form refused to cross.  Any and all individuals appear to be equally available, particularly when they might happen to be especially vulnerable for one reason or another. .

In 2008, Peter was invited to become an assistant teacher which led quickly to becoming a senior faculty member of the healing Light Body School and part of the Four Winds faculty.  He taught for the next eleven years a Jungian oriented class called Walking with Protection, on through to many of the other master classes, including one he developed referred to Advanced Shamanic Skills.  Both his shamanic practice and that class resulted in authoring the book ‘Sacred Shield: Shamanic Protection for the World Today’.

Find Peter:

https://www.peterbonakerphd.com/

The Book: https://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Shield-Shamanic-Protection-World-ebook/dp/B088HJ274D

Stephanie Trager is a Transformational Coach, Soul Catalyst and Business Alchemist, licensed attorney and fierce seeker and speaker of truth. She’s also a leadership consultant helping change agents speak their truth, live on purpose & create deeper meaningful impact in their lives, their businesses and the world. She spent decades studying with Indigenous cultures to hone her intuitive gifts as an empath and has been initiated into the shamanic lineage of Q’ero Shamans from Peru. For 20 years she’s been a transformational and business coach, purpose mentor and soul catalyst bringing deep expertise in personal wellness, business, law, higher purpose, social impact, plus sustainability and corporate responsibility to infuse higher consciousness and co-creation at the highest frequency of manifestation. She’s the founder of Intentional Paradigms and also Trager Law PLLC, which helps thought leaders scale their genius and ripple their impact focusing on responsible business impact. Stephanie was co-founder of a Corporate Responsibility Law Firm in the 90s, and spent decades in off the beaten path experiences and on the front lines of environmental activism. She leverages a former career in corporate litigation at Davis Polk and is a board member of the non-profit Dream Change. Stephanie operates in a multidimensional capacity and knows we can create a thriving economy based reciprocity, social and environmental justice and spiritual fulfillment. It begins with our personal growth.

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Stephanie Trager is a Transformational Coach, Soul Catalyst and Business Alchemist, licensed attorney and fierce seeker and speaker of truth. She’s also a leadership consultant helping change agents speak their truth, live on purpose & create deeper meaningful impact in their lives, their businesses and the world. She spent decades studying with Indigenous cultures to hone her intuitive gifts as an empath and has been initiated into the shamanic lineage of Q’ero Shamans from Peru. For 20 years she’s been a transformational and business coach, purpose mentor and soul catalyst bringing deep expertise in personal wellness, business, law, higher purpose, social impact, plus sustainability and corporate responsibility to infuse higher consciousness and co-creation at the highest frequency of manifestation. She’s the founder of Intentional Paradigms and also Trager Law PLLC, which helps thought leaders scale their genius and ripple their impact focusing on responsible business impact. Stephanie was co-founder of a Corporate Responsibility Law Firm in the 90s, and spent decades in off the beaten path experiences and on the front lines of environmental activism. She leverages a former career in corporate litigation at Davis Polk and is a board member of the non-profit Dream Change. Stephanie operates in a multidimensional capacity and knows we can create a thriving economy based reciprocity, social and environmental justice and spiritual fulfillment. It begins with our personal growth.

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Stephanie Trager is a Transformational Coach, Soul Catalyst and Business Alchemist, licensed attorney and fierce seeker and speaker of truth. She’s also a leadership consultant helping change agents speak their truth, live on purpose & create deeper meaningful impact in their lives, their businesses and the world. She spent decades studying with Indigenous cultures to hone her intuitive gifts as an empath and has been initiated into the shamanic lineage of Q’ero Shamans from Peru. For 20 years she’s been a transformational and business coach, purpose mentor and soul catalyst bringing deep expertise in personal wellness, business, law, higher purpose, social impact, plus sustainability and corporate responsibility to infuse higher consciousness and co-creation at the highest frequency of manifestation. She’s the founder of Intentional Paradigms and also Trager Law PLLC, which helps thought leaders scale their genius and ripple their impact focusing on responsible business impact. Stephanie was co-founder of a Corporate Responsibility Law Firm in the 90s, and spent decades in off the beaten path experiences and on the front lines of environmental activism. She leverages a former career in corporate litigation at Davis Polk and is a board member of the non-profit Dream Change. Stephanie operates in a multidimensional capacity and knows we can create a thriving economy based reciprocity, social and environmental justice and spiritual fulfillment. It begins with our personal growth.

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Stephanie Trager is a Transformational Coach, Soul Catalyst and Business Alchemist, licensed attorney and fierce seeker and speaker of truth. She’s also a leadership consultant helping change agents speak their truth, live on purpose & create deeper meaningful impact in their lives, their businesses and the world. She spent decades studying with Indigenous cultures to hone her intuitive gifts as an empath and has been initiated into the shamanic lineage of Q’ero Shamans from Peru. For 20 years she’s been a transformational and business coach, purpose mentor and soul catalyst bringing deep expertise in personal wellness, business, law, higher purpose, social impact, plus sustainability and corporate responsibility to infuse higher consciousness and co-creation at the highest frequency of manifestation. She’s the founder of Intentional Paradigms and also Trager Law PLLC, which helps thought leaders scale their genius and ripple their impact focusing on responsible business impact. Stephanie was co-founder of a Corporate Responsibility Law Firm in the 90s, and spent decades in off the beaten path experiences and on the front lines of environmental activism. She leverages a former career in corporate litigation at Davis Polk and is a board member of the non-profit Dream Change. Stephanie operates in a multidimensional capacity and knows we can create a thriving economy based reciprocity, social and environmental justice and spiritual fulfillment. It begins with our personal growth. >>> Join the community by hopping on the email list here: www.stephanietrager.com

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Stephanie Trager is a Transformational Coach, Soul Catalyst and Business Alchemist, licensed attorney and fierce seeker and speaker of truth. She helps change agents speak their truth, live on purpose & create deeper meaningful impact in their lives, their businesses and the world. She spent decades studying with Indigenous cultures to hone her intuitive gifts as an empath and has been initiated into the shamanic lineage of Q’ero Shamans from Peru. For 20 years she’s been a transformational and business coach, purpose mentor and soul catalyst bringing deep expertise in personal wellness, business, law, higher purpose, social impact, plus sustainability and corporate responsibility to infuse higher consciousness and co-creation at the highest frequency of manifestation. She’s the founder of Intentional Paradigms and also Trager Law PLLC, which helps thought leaders scale their genius and ripple their impact focusing on responsible business impact. Stephanie was co-founder of a Corporate Responsibility Law Firm in the 90s, and spent decades in off the beaten path experiences and on the front lines of environmental activism. She leverages a former career in corporate litigation at Davis Polk and is a board member of the non-profit Dream Change. Stephanie operates in a multidimensional capacity and knows we can create a thriving economy based reciprocity, social and environmental justice and spiritual fulfillment. It begins with our personal growth.

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Stephanie Trager is a Transformational Coach, Soul Catalyst and Business Alchemist, licensed attorney and fierce seeker and speaker of truth. She helps change agents speak their truth, live on purpose & create deeper meaningful impact in their lives, their businesses and the world. She spent decades studying with Indigenous cultures to hone her intuitive gifts as an empath and has been initiated into the shamanic lineage of Q’ero Shamans from Peru. For 20 years she’s been a transformational and business coach, purpose mentor and soul catalyst bringing deep expertise in personal wellness, business, law, higher purpose, social impact, plus sustainability and corporate responsibility to infuse higher consciousness and co-creation at the highest frequency of manifestation. She’s the founder of Intentional Paradigms and also Trager Law PLLC, which helps thought leaders scale their genius and ripple their impact focusing on responsible business impact. Stephanie was co-founder of a Corporate Responsibility Law Firm in the 90s, and spent decades in off the beaten path experiences and on the front lines of environmental activism. She leverages a former career in corporate litigation at Davis Polk and is a board member of the non-profit Dream Change. Stephanie operates in a multidimensional capacity and knows we can create a thriving economy based reciprocity, social and environmental justice and spiritual fulfillment. It begins with our personal growth.

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www.stephanietrager.com

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