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Partners in Business Ethics Symposium
Panelists & Participants
Kathryn Wendell
Kathryn Wendell recently became the executive director for the Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Wendell is an experienced leader and an accomplished strategist in sustainability and social entrepreneurship. Her career in sustainability has spanned the for-profit world (Chevron and Levi Strauss), the public sector (World Bank and Peace Corps), and higher education (Stanford University). Prior to joining Leeds, she was a director at Stanford’s Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies—known as Stanford Seed—which enables social entrepreneurs in Africa and Asia to grow and scale their businesses.
Currently, she serves on the board of the Kennebunkport Climate Initiative, a national nonprofit working to empower youth voices for climate action. She helped to launch the organization, collaborating with senior executives in Silicon Valley, New England and across the nation to advance its mission.
While she’s new to Leeds School of Business, Wendell already is a Boulder resident; her husband, Mike McGehee, is a professor in the College of Engineering and Applied Science. Wendell is a firm believer that the engineering and business disciplines have much to learn from one another as they try to solve problems related to clean energy and the environment.
When she’s not in the mountains, Wendell enjoys travel—she has lived, worked or studied in more than 80 countries—which has given her a great network, but also a worldly perspective that’s crucial to solving the kinds of challenges confronting the business world.