American Sustainable Business Network (ASBN) Conference

The American Sustainable Business Network (f/k/a Social Venture Circle, f/k/a Social Venture Network) been organizing conferences for 36 years. It is a convening that exists to inform, connect, and mobilize business leaders and investors to transform the public and private sectors toward a sustainable economy that is stakeholder-driven, regenerative, just, and prosperous.

ASBN has had hundreds of luminaries speak in that time, from Gloria Steinem to LeVar Burton, George Soros, and everyone in between, and some of our headlining speakers have included: Anand Giridharadas; Ryan Gellert; Robert Reich; Muhammad Yunus; Dolores Huerta; Dr. Jane Goodall; Seth Goldman; Raffi; Maxine Waters; Cenk Uygur; Brenda Mallory; David Crosby; Jeffrey Hollender; Secretary Haaland; Judy Wicks; David Bronner; Alan Murray; Sadhguru; Ram Dass; Ben Cohen; Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr.; Van Jones; Eileen Fisher and more CEOs and business leaders from member companies and other elected and administration officials.

Since starting at ASBN in 2021, I have been responsible for the Conference’s Strategy; Event Positioning; Planning; Creating and Managing Budgets; Securing venues, vendors, volunteers; Contract negotiation; Program & agenda creation; Recruiting & onboarding speakers; Creating run-of-shows; Décor; Directing A/V; Managing event supply inventory; Organizing event staff & volunteers pre and during event; Promotional Communications; Ticketing strategy; Creating and selling sponsorship packages; On-Site Coordination; Serving as VIP point person; Post-event reporting. I’ve also moderated main stage sessions and MC’d.

The conference offers daily engaging main stage sessions, action-oriented breakout workshops, deep dives, local excursions, film screenings, live music, and facilitated and freeform networking. I’m proud to say that since taking ownership of the ASBN Conference, speakers have been:

  • 56% female

  • 50% BIPOC

  • Plus, I created a Local Track with speakers & projects featured from the region we host the event in

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